Beauty Therapy Lecturer

About The Role

Bring your backstage expertise into the classroom – Join us as a Lecturer of Beauty Therapy and Theatrical Media Hair and Make‑Up. Are you ready to take your beauty or make‑up career in a new direction? At EKC Canterbury College, you can share your professional expertise, inspire emerging talent, and shape the next generation of beauty and creative industry professionals. No two days are the same, and full teaching support and development are provided as you transition into education.

• Teach, train and assess learners in Beauty Therapy and Theatrical Media Hair & Make‑Up
• Deliver practical, hands‑on sessions in salons, studios and classrooms
• Support and mentor students to help them build confidence and professional skills
• Lead on courses or study programmes, helping shape what and how students learn
• Design, deliver and evaluate engaging learning experiences that reflect real industry practice

Hours per week: 22.5

Salary per year: £21,958 up to £24,056

Whether you’re a salon professional, freelance artist or creative industry specialist, this is your chance to turn your passion into a teaching career. Full support and training are provided through our Teacher Academy, including digital skills development, so you don’t need prior teaching experience or qualifications – just the enthusiasm to share your expertise.

Alongside our priority of excellent student experience, we also focus on our employees.

Check out our benefits when working for the East Kent Colleges Group.

You’ll be a highly organised and creative educator, with the ability to plan and deliver engaging, innovative lessons that inspire learners. You’ll have strong interpersonal skills, a positive and empathetic approach, and the confidence to manage a classroom effectively. Tracking student progress and using this to plan targeted support and interventions will be a key part of your role.

Ideally, you’ll have experience teaching or delivering training in the workplace, although this isn’t essential as full training will be provided. You’ll be able to teach across Level 1 to Level 3 programmes and motivate learners to achieve and succeed in their studies.

You will hold a Level 3 qualification in Beauty Therapy and / or Theatrical Media Hair and Make‑Up.

• No need to update your CV – simply complete our short online application form
• Save your progress and return at any time
• All applicants will be contacted after the closing date

For an informal discussion or any queries, please email .

Please note that there are two salary scale points for our Lecturer positions. All candidates will start at the introductory salary scale point unless certain criteria are met. Lecturers will normally move up to the highest salary scale once one full academic year of teaching for our group is complete. (Lecturers must be in post by 1st September in any given year to qualify and this is subject to approval).

Therefore, internal applicants in the same role may qualify for the higher salary scale, although should seek clarification.

East Kent Colleges Group is an Ofsted Outstanding rated provider. It is proud to be the first General Further Education college organisation in the country to have received the Outstanding grade against each of the strands under the new Ofsted inspection framework. An inclusive provider, our colleagues place our students and the communities we serve at the heart of everything they do across EKC Group and this is illustrated in our ‘Strong’ skills grading by Ofsted.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and we ensure that all staff are aware of their responsibilities for upholding these principles. As a designated establishment, we are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore have an obligation to carry out checks to ensure that staff are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults.

These checks include conviction/caution self‑declaration, Enhanced DBS check and obtaining sufficient referencing. It is a criminal offence to apply for a post which involves…