Hospitality and Catering Lecturer / Assessor
Job Reference: H&CL/06.2026
Salary: This is a part time role with an actual salary of up to £24,474.75 per annum, and a full-time equivalent salary of up to £32,633 per annum dependent on skills and experience.
Working Hours: 24.75 hours per week over 4 days, 52 weeks per year.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Lecturer to join our Hospitality and Catering department.
The purpose of the role is To be responsible for teaching and assessing qualifications at Levels 1, 2 and 3 Hospitality and Catering and assisting with the development of the Construction curriculum.
The successful applicant must have:
- Level 1, Level 2, Level 3 qualification in Catering
- Up to date knowledge of the Hospitality and Catering Curriculum
- Knowledge of assessment and tracking procedures
- Previous teaching experience at an appropriate level
- Appropriate industrial experience industry including working with meat, fish, game, pastry, chocolate and sugar and styles of service: ie: A la Carte, commercial and banqueting.
The roles main duties include:
- Teaching, assessing and as appropriate, internally verifying Hospitality and Catering courses.
- Supporting the development and expansion of the Hospitality and Catering Curriculum.
- Ensuring that the Hospitality and Catering Curriculum is fully up to standard and to assist with the further development of the department.
- Assisting in the Marketing of the College provision through attendance at Careers Conventions, Open Days and other promotional events.
- Providing vocational support and guidance to learners. To track and target individual student progress.
- Carrying out administrative duties associated with teaching, including maintenance of registers, schemes of work, assessments, reports, course records and course evaluations to a good standard and within established deadlines.
- Assisting in the development of Curriculum support materials.
- Being a Course Leader for at least one of the programmes.
- Ensuring safe working practices are observed by yourself and others (including students) for whom you are responsible.
- Providing such returns or reports as may from time to time be required by the Head of Curriculum or College.
- Assist in the recruitment of students, including interviews and enrolments.
- Assisting with programmes of work experience and/or industrial commercial liaison, including the organisation and monitoring of work experience placements.
This role requires you to engage in regulatory activity in the FE sector. The full definition of regulatory activity is set out in the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 as amended by the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012. Regulated activity includes teaching, instructing, caring for or supervising children if the person is unsupervised.
Fancy a 4-day working week*?
Grantham College operate a 4-day working week. Staff benefit from working a full-time contract over four days. You will work core hours of Monday to Thursday, working a Friday morning once a month
Grantham College experience positive benefits from the 4-day week, including improvement to staff wellbeing and morale. We have also seen benefits in terms of reduced staff turnover leading to greater consistency of performance for our students and apprentices. The number of staff sickness absence days has reduced alongside the energy usage for the college and therefore its carbon emissions. We have also seen improvements in key quality indicators such as student attendance and retention and we are confident this will feed through into improved achievement rates and more positive outcomes for our students.
What we offer you in return:
- An excellent pension scheme :
- Teachers’ Pension: Employer Contribution 28.68%
- A continued professional development programme of up to £750 per academic year
- In addition to the 8 Bank Holidays a year, a generous annual leave allowance of:
- 7.4 Weeks for Academic employees,
- Generous occupational sick pay scheme after one years service
- Family friendly policies, including up to 5 paid occasions for time off for dependants within a 12 month period, after the first year of service
- Up to Five college closure days in December in addition to annual leave
The closing date for all applications will be Sunday 12 July 2026.
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Please note that due to the volume of applications we receive we will only be able to contact candidates who have been selected for interview. You are welcome to download a full application pack and return your completed application to [email protected]
Please note that we do not accept CV’s by way of application or online application via other websites, you must complete a Grantham College application form. Grantham College are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. This employment offer is subject to a self-funded satisfactory enhanced DBS check. The successful applicant will have a deduction of £61.50 taken from payroll. We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
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