Vocational Assessors and Internal Verifiers

Job description

Part Time and Term Time / Variable hours per week (2.5 -10hrs) / Permanent

Are you passionate about supporting Leicester residents to develop skills and qualifications to achieve their potential?

Leicester Adult Education offers a large and diverse programme of further education qualification courses as well as extensive community-based provision. We have an enthusiastic student community, taught, and supported by well qualified, dedicated staff.

If you're dedicated to lifelong learning and want to help learners achieve their potential, this is the opportunity for you! Join our professional, highly skilled and experienced team who support learners to achieve their vocational qualifications which include Business Administration, Counselling, Customer Service, Interpersonal Skills, Personal Development for Employment, Safeguarding Adults and Children along with Supporting Teaching and Learning (STL).

Based at the Adult Education College in the Skills for Work team, as an assessor, you'll be required to travel around the city visiting schools across the city to assess the practical element of the qualifications.

This is a part-time, term-time and permanent position. Due to the nature of vocational qualifications hours will vary from 2.5 - 10 hours per week, over 40 weeks per year.

What you'll be doing

You'll ensure that assessment and internal quality assurance processes reflect current good practice and meets the needs of service and Awarding Body expectations. You'll work collaboratively with assessors, learners, employers, and management. You'll ensure that learners receive a high-quality, supportive learning experience, enabling them to achieve their full potential and successfully complete their qualifications. building. You'll monitor learning and provide training on workplace practice either on a one-to-one basis or within a classroom setting.

What you'll need

In addition to excellent communication, interpersonal and administrative skills, you'll demonstrate previous experience of assessing vocational qualifications in particular Teaching Assistant competencies within a workplace environment and have the relevant occupational experience that comes with it.

You'll have a good understanding of complex learning needs, support requirements and the impact that this has on learners' progress. Able to work on your own initiative and unsupervised, you'll have excellent organisation and record keeping skills. You'll be able to relate to a range and variety of people to establish a good rapport with adult learners.

You must have Assessor Awards D32/D33, A1 or CAVA, Verification Qualifications D34, V1 or L4 IQA Award, a relevant subject qualification minimum Level 3 and a minimum English GCSE (or equivalent). Teaching qualification minimum level 3 or a willingness to work towards.

What we can offer you

As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You'll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working. We'll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from a number of flexible benefits, including discounts on city buses and trains. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.

Join us

We're committed to recruiting a diverse and highly-talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That's why we've designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We'll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, take a look at the 'our approach to recruitment' page.

For an informal conversation about the role please contact Jez Stretton on 0116 454 4261