Curriculum Area Manager - Hair & Beauty

Curriculum Area Manager - Hair & Beauty (Barnstaple)

Hours

Contract Type

Contract Type Permanent

Location

Location Barnstaple

Closing Date

Closing Date 25/07/2026

Are you a passionate Hair & Beauty professional with leadership experience and a flair for helping others shine? Do you love developing people, building industry connections, and creating exceptional learning experiences? If you're ready to take the next step in your career and make a real impact, this could be the perfect opportunity for you.

This is much more than managing a curriculum...

You’ll be leading the future of Hair & Beauty education, inspiring both staff and learners to achieve outstanding results while ensuring our programmes remain innovative, industry-focused, and aligned with the latest professional trends.

From commercial salon experiences and industry partnerships to curriculum development and learner success, you’ll be at the heart of a thriving and ambitious department.

You’ll manage and support a talented team of teaching professionals, helping them deliver exceptional learning experiences and achieve ambitious outcomes. You’ll recruit, coach, develop and motivate staff while creating a positive culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.

Take the lead in shaping and developing our Hair & Beauty curriculum, ensuring programmes remain relevant, engaging and reflective of current industry practice. You’ll help ensure that specialist salons, treatment rooms, equipment and resources provide an outstanding environment for learning.

Develop strong relationships with salons, spas, barbers, beauty businesses, self-employed practitioners and wider industry partners. These connections will help create exciting opportunities for work experience, enrichment activities, guest speakers and progression routes for learners.

You’ll work closely with staff to monitor progress, celebrate achievements and provide interventions where needed, ensuring every learner has the support and encouragement to achieve their goals.

Bring the Industry into the Classroom

Oversee commercial salon activity to ensure learners gain valuable real-world experience in client consultations, customer service, professional standards, retail opportunities and working within realistic commercial expectations.

• Recent teaching and tutoring experience.
• Experience leading and delivering a curriculum area.
• Experience teaching and/or leading Hair and Beauty programmes.
• Experience managing and developing teams.
• A strong understanding of current Hair & Beauty industry practice and progression routes.

• A relevant degree or higher‑level professional qualification in Hairdressing, Barbering, Beauty Therapy, or a related discipline.
• A recognised teaching qualification.

• An excellent communicator.
• Highly organised and able to prioritise effectively.
• Passionate about developing learners and staff.
• Positive, proactive and solutions‑focused.
• Able to inspire confidence, ambition and professionalism in others.

• Lead an exciting and growing curriculum area
• Make a genuine difference to learners' lives and futures
• Work with specialist facilities and industry‑standard environments
• Build strong links across the Hair & Beauty sector
• Be part of a supportive leadership team with ambitious plans for the future
• Help shape the next generation of hairdressers, barbers and beauty professionals

If you’re an experienced Hair & Beauty professional with the vision to lead, the passion to inspire and the drive to make a difference, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today and help shape the future of Hair & Beauty education.

Your next chapter could be the one that changes someone else’s future.