Associate Lecturer - Hair, Beauty Health and Early Years

Associate Lecturer – Hair, Beauty Health and Early Years Beauty Therapy.

Are you inspirational, self-motivated, and innovative? Do you possess industry or teaching experience within the beauty sector. Do you enjoy working with a range of young people and adults, to transform their lives and careers? We are looking for individuals to develop learners skills utilising their own experiences and knowledge of the sector and industry.

If the answer is yes to the above, then you need to apply for this amazing opportunity to work at Bridgwater and Taunton College. Our energetic, experienced, and dynamic team of Beauty specialists across both our Bridgwater and Taunton Campuses are ready to support and welcome you to the team. We are looking to invest in and support the successful candidate to progress into the Further Education sector. We are looking to work with vibrant and inclusive individuals to build their teaching, learning and assessment skills in delivering and assessing our learners in this dynamic industry.

As a lecturer in the Hair, Beauty, Health and Early Years team you will be involved in the delivery of outstanding Teaching, Learning and Assessment across a range of programmes. Whilst the role of Beauty lecturer focuses primarily on teaching, learning and assessment and associated administrative tasks such as preparation and delivery of agreed Plans of Learning, marking and working within the Quality Framework for associated Awarding Organisations will also be included.

You may be involved in wider team activities such as new student interviews, open evenings, tasters and advice sessions. You can expect to be involved with our learners journey at BTC right through from induction to end of course activities, supporting Course Leaders with quality systems such as Self-Assessment monitoring, internal moderation/verification, standardisation activities. You may also support learners as a personal tutor.

You are expected to undertake CPD as appropriate to your role to ensure that learners benefit with up-to-date industry skills and practice to enable them to progress into meaningful and relevant employment or higher education.

BTC offer a range of fantastic employee benefits including:

Generous pension scheme

Competitive holiday entitlement

Dedicated CPD days

2 wellbeing days

2-week Christmas closure

Opportunities for hybrid working

On-site discounted gym

Free parking

BTC Extra discount package, this includes top retailers, supermarkets, holidays, entertainment packages and much more!

BTC is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds and communities. We are also a disability confident employer and we ll do all we can to help with your application. Please let us know if you need to request reasonable adjustments. We encourage everyone to apply who wishes to and we believe that everyone should have an equal opportunity.

Bridgwater & Taunton College are proposing to merge with Strode College in August 2025 to form a stronger College Group to continue to serve its learners, employers, and the wider Somerset Community.

Applicants who apply for a role at Bridgwater & Taunton College and who start their employment after 31 July 2025 will be contracted under the newly merged organisation to be known as UCS College Group (University Centre Somerset College Group).

To view the full details of this role please download the Job Specification (pdf) document under \’Attachments\’. Click apply.