The main purpose of the role is to maintain a high standard of delivery practice and developmental feedback, ensuring agreed key performance indicators are achieved.
Main duties and Responsibilities:
- To provide appropriate ongoing information, advice & guidance to learners and employers within remit of own role and area of expertise.
- To complete skills scans prior to commencing learning and at key milestones during the learner journey. Appropriately plan, sequence and evidence learning to ensure that knowledge, skills and behaviours are embedded and built on throughout the qualification and prepares the learner sufficiently for end point assessment.
- To be responsible for and effectively manage a caseload/cohort of learners, ensuring key performance targets are achieved and learners complete their programme of learning and/or qualification(s) within agreed timescales.
- To ensure each month that the learner has been engaged with learner and is making sufficient progress to ensure that they are supported to meet key milestones and achieve timely.
- Engaged in learning is defined for the purpose of your job role as;
- Attending a teaching and learning session and work towards the related training plan and knowledge, skills and behaviours.
- Completing an assessment with you as the skills coach where detailed and constructive feedback has been provided.
- Completed an observation where detailed and constructive feedback has been provided.
- Assessing and providing detailed and constructive feedback to any submitted learner work.
- Work in partnership with the employer and learner to review learner progress every 8 to 10 weeks and set SMART objectives.
- To liaise with the learner and employer to ensure that the learners’ training and development needs are met. For apprenticeship learners, at least the minimum off-the-job training is delivered throughout the practical training period of the apprenticeship programme.
- To provide learner progress updates to the learner’s manager to promote effective communication and positive working relationships.
- To effectively plan and carry out holistic assessment and sign off units and/or areas of competence on an ongoing basis as knowledge, skills and behaviours are demonstrated.
- For learners that have been identified as having additional learning support needs, plan and adapt delivery following the cognassist individual learning plan to help individuals perform at their best in education and work.
- Provide learners with developmental constructive feedback, ongoing throughout the learner journey to stretch and challenge all learner to achieve and celebrate their accomplishments
- Support learners to engage with technology (e-portfolio, Zoom, teams, emails, skype), ensure learners have been provided with sufficient support/teaching/guidance to enable them to fully access the course content and resources and maximise learner experience.
- To assess work submitted by the learner in a timely manner (maximum of 5 working days) and provide detailed and constructive feedback to the learner on achievements and areas for further development. Ensure feedback links and references prior learning to support the learner to understand where prior learning links with new knowledge, skills, and behaviours.
Skills
- Occupational comptence in Childrens resisential home only is a must and if you have experince in Adult care as well would be an added benefit
- Assessors award
- Teaching qualification
- Experience of working as an assessor
Why work as a Skills Coach for TRN (Train)?
- Generous quarterly bonus scheme.
- Flexible contracts: We offer zero-hour, part-time and Full-time permanent contracts
- Investment in your growth: We invest in you! Upskill with a Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training teaching qualification.
- SET Membership: Be part of the Society for Education and Training (SET) community.
- Birthday Perk: Enjoy your special day with a day off!
- Extra Leave: After 2 years of fantastic service, savour an additional 3 days of Annual Leave.
- Death in service 4 x salary
- Private Health insurance & discount scheme
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £28,000.00-£32,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Company pension
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Private medical insurance
- Work from home
Application question(s):
- Do you hold a teaching qualification?
- Do you hold and Assessor award?
Experience:
- Working in Children's Residential settings/Homes: 2 years (required)
- Woking as an assessor: 2 years (required)
Work Location: Remote
