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Curriculum Team Leader - Catering and Hospitality

RNN Group • Full-time • Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom • £41,165 / year • 7h ago

Curriculum Team Leader – Catering and Hospitality

Hours; Full time (37 hours each week, all year round)

Duration; Permanent

Salary; £41,165 FTE per annum plus benefits

Location; Rotherham College, Rotherham

Turn Your Passion for Catering into a Regional Centre of Excellence

Are you an experienced culinary professional and educator ready to make your mark?

At Rotherham College, we are looking for an inspiring, innovative Curriculum Team Leader to take the reins of our Catering & Hospitality department. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of culinary education in our region—leading an established team, building industry partnerships, and turning our department into a premier Centre of Excellence.

Whether you’re stepping up in your educational leadership career or looking for a high-impact role where your industry knowledge directly shapes young talent, we want to hear from you.

What You’ll Do

As Curriculum Team Leader, you’ll balance hands-on teaching with team leadership, bridging classroom learning, work-based apprenticeships, and commercial operations.

· Lead & Inspire: Guide, support, and mentor a team of Lecturers, Technicians, and Onsite Assessors.

· Teach & Deliver: Deliver approx. 828 teaching hours per year across all qualification levels (including preparation, marking, and learner target-setting).

· Manage & Measure: Oversee course performance, student attendance, retention, and achievement alongside your Curriculum Manager.

· Bridge industry & Classrooms: Leverage your commercial contacts to shape a modern curriculum and secure high-value work placement opportunities for students.

· Run Commercial Learning: Oversee real-world training environments that prepare students for modern industry standards.

You won't be doing this alone. You’ll join a supportive, forward-thinking team of education professionals dedicated to high-quality practical and digital learning. You'll also receive continuous professional development support and a competitive benefits package.

Who We’re Looking For?

We are seeking a collaborative leader who combines strong culinary credentials with exceptional teaching standards:

Industry Expertise: A solid background in Catering & Hospitality, plus hands-on experience running a commercial environment.

Teaching & Assessment: Proven experience teaching, assessing, and verifying across various qualification levels. A formal teaching qualification is required (an Assessor’s Award is ideal!) as well as a vocationally relevant qualification at Level 3 or above.

Leadership Experience: A track record of working in an educational setting, driving high-quality learning outcomes, and motivating a team.

Networker & Innovator: Ability to collaborate with local industry professionals to keep our study programmes relevant, exciting, and career-focused.

You will be able to lead your team successfully, working collaboratively with colleagues in this area and across other subjects. You will have good contacts with industry professionals and can work with them effectively to shape our future curriculum as well as providing excellent opportunities for our students to gain first-hand experience in this area.

Department Info

Your line manager will be the Curriculum Manager and you will regularly report on your objectives to update them on a range of KPI’s including (but not limited to) student recruitment, retention, anticipated achievement, attendance and punctuality.

You will also liaise with all staff that teach on your programme(s), monitoring performance indicators and provide day to day leadership, guidance and support to Lecturers & Programme Leaders in your teams through informal methods and regular team meetings.

Our excellent benefits and rewards package:

- Access to teachers pensions scheme

- Up to 50 days annual leave per year including closure during Christmas period

- Access to our gyms, restaurants and salons

- Staff health & wellbeing and benefits schemes including in-house Occupational Health service

- Extensive wellbeing support through a digital Wellbeing Hub that offers a broad range of support for physical, mental, and financial wellbeing.

- Full, part time and flexible working hours available in many roles

- Free Parking available at all of our sites

- Fantastic career development opportunities including funding for teacher training, apprenticeships and various other industry recognised qualifications

- New FE teachers can also apply for grants of up to £6,000 in STEM subjects (conditions apply) through the teacher retention initiative

- Recruitment Referral Scheme for all employees, worth £200 per referral made

What is the RNN Group?

RNN Group’s main goal is to be an ‘outstanding’ education and training provider and this is at the heart of everything that we do. To help us achieve this we are looking to recruit highly motivated, innovative and dynamic individuals to join our existing teams. To be a part of the team at RNN Group we will expect you to be committed to our values too;

· We are Inclusive,

· We have Integrity,

· We Deliver,

· We are One Team.

We are OFSTED ‘Good’ (November 2022)

We celebrate diversity and are proud to be recognised as Investors in Diversity for our commitment to the FREDIE (Fairness, Respect, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Engagement) model, fostering a supportive environment for all. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of background, proudly participating in the Disability Confident Scheme, and provide reasonable adjustments.

The RNN Group is proud to be part of the South Yorkshire Institute of Technology (SYIoT).

As a newly designated Defence Technical Excellence College, RNN Group is proud to support the UK’s defence sector by developing the next generation of highly skilled technical talent.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, vulnerable adults and young people. All new employees will be required undertake a DBS check and other associated checks in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education Guidance.

The Group’s core operating hours are 8.30am-5.00pm (9pm on a Tuesday and Thursday during term time). You may be expected to work at any time during these hours to ensure business needs are met.

All candidates must have the legal right to work in the UK.

Closing date: Monday 10th August 2026 – if you are shortlisted for this post, you will be contacted within a week of the closing date.