Teacher of Hair and Beauty

The Canterbury Academy, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 8QA

17 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  15 May 2026 at 12:16pm

• Date listed

  28 April 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: 26,822.00 - 45,352.00

Teacher of Hair and Beauty job summary

Job Role: Teacher of Hair and Beauty

Reporting to: Head of Hair and Beauty

Salary: Teacher’s Main Scale / Unqualified Teacher’s Pay Scale equivalent

Contract Hours: 0.6 FTE (Part-Time, 3 days per week)

Qualification focus: City & Guilds level 1 hairdressing/beauty and Level 2 Technical Award in Hair and Beauty Studies.

Are you looking for a new challenge?

Do you:

• Love teaching and instilling students with a love of hair and beauty?
• Want to be part of a department with excellent facilities?
• Enjoy working within a strong and supportive team of practical learning professionals?
• Want to be part of an exciting new commercial venture with both salons?

We are seeking to appoint Hair and/ or Beauty teacher to join our fantastic and supportive Practical Faculty.

We currently have a thriving and popular Hair and Beauty department, that offers Level 1 and 2 City and Guilds qualifications in Hair, Beauty. We are hoping to recruit passionate and driven teacher who will inspire and motivate students within this dynamic industry and could also develop the commercial opportunities we can offer here within the academy and develop career opportunities for our students.

Purpose of Role:

To deliver a high-quality Hair & Beauty curriculum to Key Stage 3 & 4 (Year 9-11) learners, as possibly to our Sixth Form Level 3 students.

The successful candidate will have a good understanding of the range of content within the City & Guilds courses Level 1 and Level 2, this includes the evolution of the industry, pH of products, cosmetic ingredients, and anatomy of hair, skin and nails. You will guide students in the design of different hair styling techniques, and historical looks from different eras to produce a final professional image.

Specific Duties:

• To teach Hair and/ or Beauty to groups of students from all abilities across years 9-11 (KS3 and KS4).
• To ensure that all lessons are planned with clear aims and objectives.
• To ensure that all lessons are delivered in line with the departmental schemes of work and school policies.
• To consider the differing abilities of students and differentiate work accordingly.
• To encourage all students to be actively engaged in their own learning and in reviewing their progress against targets.
• To ensure that all students are known by name and that the classroom atmosphere is always positive.
• To encourage and foster intellectual curiosity.
• To deal with inappropriate behaviour quickly and effectively according to the school behaviour policy.
• To check that all subject matter is effectively communicated and understood by all groups of students.
• To set appropriate tasks and challenges for homework according to the published timetable and ensure that it is regularly marked with constructive feedback.
• To keep careful records of student progress in line with departmental and school policy.
• Liaise with Head of Department regularly.
• Keeping clear records of work and student attendance registers.
• Attending meetings and workshops as required.

If you would like to be part of our successful department that has amazing facilities such as purpose-built hair and beauty salons, we would love to hear from you. We welcome applications from all industry experience levels, keen to take on their first position or an experienced teacher keen to take on ownership of a course with development opportunities in the future.

Applications will be assessed in order of receipt and interviews may occur at any stage after applications are received. Please apply as soon as possible.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About The Canterbury Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1984 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Canterbury Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-canterbury-academy

The Canterbury Academy creates ‘a wealth of opportunity’ and allows us to offer 'as much as possible, as often as possible, for as many as possible'. Our simple aim is to ‘improve the life chances of children and to help in the community’.

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