Job Title: Lecturer in Professional Cookery (HE)
Location: Birmingham
Salary: £36,333 – £40,745 per annum – AC2
Job type: Permanent, Full-time
University College Birmingham works in partnership with the University of Warwick – Ranked eighth in the 2023 Guardian League Tables and 10th in the UK in the QS World University rankings 2023.
The Role:
The Birmingham College of Food is currently looking to recruit a highly skilled lecturer in Professional Cookery. In this role, you will share and inspire students with your experiences in managing and operating culinary businesses. You will inspire our students in our state-of-the-art facilities, which includes the innovation suite, sensory rooms and professional skills kitchens. You will also work with within our team to continuously improve the student experience and advance the culinary provision within the school.
Essential requirements for this role include:
- Experience of teaching or training students or employees within a professional setting
- Exceptional cookery skills and subject knowledge.
- High levels of organisational and administrative skills.
- Undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline
This would be a highly creative role, in which you would demonstrate the ability to teach at under-graduate level. Contributing to the development of the provision with a particular focus on contemporary practical skills, which will enable students to progress into successful careers in the sector.
Benefits:
- Generous allocation of annual leave
- 38 days’ paid leave per year
- 12 Bank Holidays & Concessionary Days
- Excellent Teachers’ Pension Scheme
- Employer Contributions – 23.6%
- Subsidised private healthcare provided by Aviva including a Digital GP Service.
- Employee Assistance Programme inclusive of counselling services, financial wellbeing support and bereavement support
- Annual health MOTs with our Registered Nurse
- Excellent staff development opportunities including professional qualification sponsorship
- A variety of salary sacrifice schemes including car, technology and cycle.
- Heavily-subsidised on-site car parking in central Birmingham
- Free on-site gym membership
Extra Information:
All applicants for employment at the University will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of the principles of Safeguarding and the PREVENT agenda in the context of further and higher education.
Closing Date – Friday 30th June 2023 at midday.
Interview Dates – TBC.
UCB is an equal opportunities employer.
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