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Job Title
Assessor - Automotive
Ref No.
ME2425097
Department
Business Centre
Reporting to
Apprenticeship Delivery Manager
Location
Northampton, Booth Lane Campus
Salary
In the range of £26,511 - £31,668 per annum (Dependent on skills, experience and qualifications)
Hours
37 hours per week, 52 Weeks per year
Contract Type
Permanent
Role Purpose
To be responsible for a caseload of apprentices completing their apprenticeships within the relevant timescale, guiding them through their apprenticeship from sign-up to End Point Assessment through the provision of high-quality progress reviews, support, advice, and guidance. To ensure compliance with government funding regulations and quality assurance processes. To engage with employers to ensure apprentices have opportunities to develop the skills, knowledge, and behaviours required for employment and successful completion of their apprenticeship.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
1. To facilitate the full cycle of apprenticeship activity including recruitment; sign-up, and end-point assessments, ensuring timely and high-quality outcomes for apprentices. To ensure apprentices and employers are fully aware of the cycle of apprenticeship activity and that employers are aware of the opportunities the apprentice will require to achieve high grades.
2. To ensure apprentices make a successful transition from sign-up to starting their apprenticeship, ensuring required documentation is accurate, signed and fulfils funding regulations.
3. To guide and support apprentices through the creation and development of their portfolios, and the process of recording their achievement. To assess submitted work, providing feedback that enables apprentices to improve the quality of their submissions, supports the preparation for their End Point Assessments, and enables them to understand the standards required to achieve high grades.
4. To carry out internal quality assurance processes for relevant apprenticeships (those with qualifications), ensuring portfolios are ready for external assessment/have been signed off appropriately. To report to, and liaise with, the relevant Lead Internal Quality Assurer, ensuring that assessments are available, accurate and meet the required standards.
5. To facilitate apprentice reviews, in accordance with apprentice need and government funding requirements, enabling apprentices to reflect and self-evaluate their learning, including as they progress towards End Point Assessments. To set, monitor and review targets agreed with apprentices that support their learning, progression, and achievement. To ensure that Assessor/Trainer and apprentice feedback, and the status of the apprentices’ progress is updated using the relevant database/system, on a regularly and iterative basis.
6. To monitor the progress of apprentices, acting on information gained from reviews and assessments to make effective interventions that support improvement, progression, and timely achievement.
7. To provide coaching or mentoring, or deliver training to individuals or groups of apprentices, as appropriate, for the development of knowledge, skills and behaviours required by employers.
8. To promote the importance/integral nature of English and maths within the workplace, ensuring apprentices receive support to improve their English and maths skills as required.
9. To have an overview of the wellbeing of apprentices within the caseload. To ensure the early identification and referral of apprentices with additional learning needs. To ensure the health and safety of apprentices is regularly reviewed within the workplace, and any concerns are managed promptly in accordance with College and workplace protocols.
10. To liaise with employers on a regular basis to ensure that apprentices have opportunities to develop appropriate work-based knowledge, skills, and behaviours necessary for their apprenticeship and future employment.
11. To contribute to meetings reviewing apprenticeship progress, regularly updating the Apprentice Delivery Manager.
12. To carry out examination invigilation duties as required.