Catering & Travel & Tourism Lecturer

We are seeking a motivated and skilled Catering & Travel & Tourism Lecturer to join our Service Industries department at our Hammersmith campus.

You will be responsible for delivering high-quality teaching, learning and assessment across Catering, and Travel & Tourism programmes, supporting learners to achieve their full potential. The role involves classroom, practical and industry-based delivery, learner support, assessment, and contribution to curriculum development, ensuring provision remains current, industry-relevant and aligned with awarding body requirements.

Where appropriate, you may also take responsibility for leading a study programme or course, including curriculum design, quality assurance and learner outcomes.

• Deliver engaging and effective teaching, training and assessment across Catering, Hospitality and Travel & Tourism programmes.
• Plan and deliver engaging theoretical, practical and industry-focused sessions that develop learners' knowledge, skills, confidence and employability.
• Prepare lesson plans, schemes of work and high-quality teaching and learning materials in line with College and awarding body requirements.
• Deliver practical catering sessions, where required, ensuring high standards of food preparation, presentation, service and professional practice.
• Support learners to develop industry-relevant skills in areas such as food preparation, culinary techniques, customer service, hospitality operations, travel, tourism and destination knowledge.
• Act as a Personal Tutor, providing academic and pastoral support and delivering the College tutorial programme.
• Monitor learner attendance, progress, behaviour and achievement, taking appropriate action where required.
• Integrate English and Maths into vocational teaching and support delivery of GCSE and/or Functional Skills where required.
• Act as an internal assessor and internal verifier, where required.
• Promote employability and professional skills, including communication, teamwork, customer service, problem-solving and professional standards.
• Contribute to practical activities, enrichment, events, educational visits, industry projects and other experiences that enhance learner development.
• Contribute to learner recruitment activities, including open evenings, interviews, taster sessions and course promotion.
• Support work experience, industry engagement activities, external visits and employer partnerships across the catering, hospitality, travel and tourism sectors.
• Develop and maintain effective links with employers, hotels, restaurants, tourism organisations, travel companies, airlines, visitor attractions and other relevant industry partners.
• Promote high standards of health and safety, food hygiene, safeguarding, equality, diversity and inclusion.
• Ensure practical learning environments are maintained to appropriate professional, food safety and health and safety standards.
• Contribute to quality improvement processes, including self-assessment, course review, learner feedback and evaluation.
• Maintain up-to-date vocational and industry knowledge and meet minimum occupational competence requirements.
• Support learners in preparing for progression into employment, apprenticeships, higher education or further study within the catering, hospitality, travel and tourism sectors.

In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education All employment offers are subject employment checks. These include (some of which are dependent on the role and the individual):
Enhanced DBS including Children's Barred List check, DfE teaching/management Barred List check, on-line searches, overseas criminal record check, evidence of identity and Right to Work in the UK, satisfactory…