Hospitality and Catering Chef Educator

2 weeks ago

Hitchin, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom North Hertfordshire College Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Hospitality and Catering Chef Lecturer to join our team at North Hertfordshire College. As a key member of our faculty, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality teaching and learning experiences to our students, ensuring they achieve their full potential and gain the skills and knowledge required to succeed in the hospitality and catering industry.

Key Responsibilities
  • Deliver and assess hospitality and catering courses from level 1 to level 3, utilizing a range of teaching and learning strategies to engage learners of varying abilities and ages.
  • Contribute to the development and formative assessment of learners, ensuring learning meets individual needs and promotes academic and personal growth.
  • Maintain a safe learning environment, supporting learners in understanding how to keep themselves and others safe, and notifying management of any risks.
  • Promote the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, mutual respect, and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.
  • Develop and deliver enrichment and enhancement activities, including accompanying students on external visits and residential trips.
  • Undertake effective progress reviews and set SMART targets with learners to monitor progress and support development and achievement.
  • Provide students with academic and pastoral support to help them achieve their goals.
  • Mark and assess students' work, providing feedback that supports students to improve.
  • Support progress and achievement of all students on your course.
  • Champion our Maths and English strategy and embed the development of these in your teaching.
  • Support learners to undertake practical assessments, providing the relevant paperwork and record keeping complying with awarding body and end-point assessment requirements.
  • Ensure full compliance with quality processes, support learner progress, and meet Awarding Body, SFA, and Ofsted requirements.
  • Liaise with learner support functions, external agencies, and parents/carers to ensure that learners make good or better progress.
  • Undertake, and support programme colleagues with the administration of delivery.
  • Use and analyse programme data to support effective course management.
  • Deliver IAG to support students' decision making and high rates of progression.
  • Comply with agreed learner retention, attendance, and success measure processes.
  • Participate in, and drive your own, development activity, including achievement of the Award in Education and Training (AET) and/or Diploma in Education and Training (DET) and assessors' qualification.
Requirements
  • A wide experience at different levels in the hospitality and catering industry, with suitable and relevant industry experience in front-of-house roles, back-of-house roles, or both.
  • Ability to plan and deliver outstanding catering and hospitality training programmes and workshops.
  • Teacher or coach with demonstrable experience of supporting outstanding teaching and learning and relevant industry experience.
  • A passion for catering and hospitality training and skills.
  • Ability to inspire and engage students to achieve their full potential and a passion for teaching and learning.
  • Organised with an ability to work towards challenging targets and manage time effectively, including budgets and sales targets.
  • Highly effective communication and presentation skills, both written and verbal.
  • The necessary skills to observe learners, providing support and guidance to enable them to gain the required qualifications.
  • The experience to know when and how to make interventions to ensure that learner progress is successful and sustainable.
  • High ethical and professional standards with the ability to engage effectively with internal and external clients.
  • An ability to identify and lead with commercial opportunities that increase income.
  • Relevant occupational competence through qualifications and job experience are essential.
  • Recommended GCSE A*-C or equivalent in maths and English.
  • A degree or equivalent industry-based qualification at Level 3 or above.
  • Assessment verification qualifications desirable but essential to have a willingness to work towards.
  • A sound knowledge of a range of IT applications, including online portfolio systems.
  • Hold, or be working towards, a relevant teaching qualification such as the Award in Education and Training (AET) or Diploma in Education and Training (DET).
What We Offer
  • Contributory pension scheme.
  • For a full outline of benefits, click here.

This job description is intended as a general guide to the duties attached to the post and is not an inflexible specification. It may, therefore, be altered from time to time to reflect the changing needs of the service, always in consultation with the post holder.

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