Work Based Assessor - Term Time Only + 4 Weeks (Fixed Term until July 2027)
2 days ago
Westhoughton
Description • To undertake assessment, delivery and internal verification for learners completing work placements and accredited units for qualifications, • To support with all aspects of the learner journey, initial assessment, information advice and guidance, enrolment, learning, assessment, review of progress and progression to further learning or employment, • To liaise and communicate with employers of learners' progress against individual targets and learning plans, • To maintain all quality assurance standards in relation to work based learning and in line with Gatsby Benchmarks, including attendance at meetings in relation to role and responsibilities, • To co-operate with the department's leadership team with regard to the annual review of teaching, learning & assessment, • To maintain CPD in subject specialist knowledge and skills to maintain quality learning and assessment, including a total communication approach and use of Virtual Learning Environments, • Must have own transport with business insurance. Key Responsibilities • Assessment and monitoring progress of learners according to college and national standards, policies and procedures, • Plan and deliver a strategy of placement visits/contacts to ensure that learners are supported, making progress and are achieving their work experience placements, • Monitor health, safety and safeguarding procedures in the work experience placements; maintain records and act on causes for concern with the relevant line manager, • Ensure effective liaison with employers to ensure that they are fully informed, all training opportunities identified, and learners are appropriately supported. This includes provision of documentation for recording progress, • Attend health and safety meetings held in the college, reporting work-based placement concerns and actions where appropriate, • Review and track all learners undertaking work-based practice, identifying and using appropriate assessment methods required to meet bork based attitudes, skills and behaviours, • Set and review targets in line with the college timetable for all learners undertaking work experience. Record these on the college Promonitor system, • Identify learners at risk of not achieving, in line with college procedures for attendance and safeguarding. Document and report to line manager, • Keep appropriate records and documentation in line with college expected standards; this includes, but not exclusively, records of attendance, recoding on ILP, planning documents, • To participate in the internal verification process of work-based learning assessments, • Assist with the promotion and marketing of relevant study programme, highlighting work placement opportunities and benefits to the learner, • Ensure continuous development and improvement of professional knowledge, including maintaining industry development; attend updates with vocational awarding bodies; develop Virtual Learning Environment skills, • Ensure skills specific to working environment are maintained and updated; this includes, but not exclusively, CPD relating to people with additional needs, to include total communication approach and working with individuals with SEND and autism, • Any other duties, of a similar level of responsibility, as may be required. Skills, Knowledge and ExpertiseQualificationsEssential Criteria • Minimum L3 qualification in work-based assessing, • Assessor qualification (D34/33/A1), • Maths and English Level 2/C/4 How Identified: Application. Desirable Criteria • Internal Verification qualification (D34/V1) How Identified: Application. Experience Essential Criteria • Experience of supporting learners with additional needs and ability to be adaptable towards the requirements of different needs, • Experience of assessing people in the workplace, • Experience of finding quality work experience placements for learners with SEND, • Experience of communicating effectively with a wide range of stakeholders, employers and work placement teams, • Ability to work independently using own initiative whilst visiting work placements, remote working and college-based activity, • A passion and ability to inspire and motivate learners to progress onto further study or employment. How Identified: Application and interview. Desirable Criteria • Experience of using technology for learning, such as VLE platforms How Identified: Application and interview. Specialist KnowledgeEssential Criteria • Knowledge and understanding of the needs of people with additional learning requirements, • Knowledge of Health and Safety in the workplace, including safeguarding vulnerable adults and young people. How Identified: Application and interview Desirable Criteria • Experience of working with people requiring a total communication approach in the workplace IT Skills Essential Criteria • Ability to use Microsoft applications, • Ability to use technology to upload, track and record learners' progress. How Identified: Application form. Desirable Criteria • Ability to use Promonitor systems How Identified: Application form. JBRP1_UKTJ