Teaching Assessor – Business Skills
Salary: £32,116 - £37,800
Location: Home-based with travel across the UK
Contract Type: Full Time, Permanent
The Role
As a Business Skills Teaching Assessor, you will assess and evaluate apprenticeship learners' competence and knowledge, working closely with learners and employers to guide them through their qualification journey.
You will deliver Team Leader L3, Operational Manager L5, Business Administration L3 and Customer Service L2/3 Apprenticeship standards across Levy and Non-Levy paying employers, providing an integrated programme of learning, training, coaching and assessment to meet awarding body and end-point assessment standards.
You must hold a teaching qualification to Level 5 or equivalent, with experience in administration and management, and in embedding inclusive practices for disadvantaged, SEND and vulnerable learners in line with the Ofsted Education Inspection Framework, including maths and English delivery. This is a peripatetic, home-based role combining 1:1 face-to-face and remote visits with group teaching sessions, and will require travel as provision is geographically assigned by sector competence.
Key Responsibilities
- Engage with employers and learners to deliver quality teaching and learning programmes, meeting KPIs for starts, progression, timely achievement and retention in line with quality and compliance targets.
- Deliver qualifications across a range of awards where occupationally competent, in accordance with the Quality Assurance process.
- Effectively maintain a caseload of learners at agreed and specified levels.
- Individualise programmes to meet employer needs, ensuring learners develop new skills, knowledge and behaviours that add value.
- Use the electronic portfolio system to record learner interventions, reviews, uploaded work and 6 hours per week of off-the-job training, maintaining accurate and timely data.
- Maintain learner records in line with contract and funding rule requirements, as well as the Ofsted Inspection Framework.
- Ensure learners and apprentices are kept safe from the dangers of radicalisation and extremism, in accordance with the Prevent duty.
- Promote fundamental British Values and raise awareness of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and the nine protected characteristics, in line with the Ofsted Inspection Framework.
- Identify and, where appropriate, address learner issues, providing focused learner support and additional learning support where required.
- Develop and use a range of techniques and resources tailored to individual learner needs, supporting learners through to successful achievement and completion of their qualifications.
- Work with your line manager to maintain and improve the quality of delivery across all programmes, including success rates, observations of learning, performance management and Principal Verifier visits.
- Take an active part in team and standardisation meetings.
- Take an active role in preparing for and participating in Ofsted inspections, striving to achieve and maintain strong standards and maintaining your own continuous professional development and occupational competence.
- Be accountable for sourcing an agreed number of learner starts each month, as agreed and monitored with your manager, as part of the KPI measures of this role.
- Identify new opportunities and refer learners for further progression, maximising direct delivery opportunities and maintaining caseloads.
Skills & Experience
- Level 5 qualification in Leadership and Management (or equivalent), plus a Level 4 teaching qualification and D32/33/A1 or equivalent assessment qualification
- Level 2 or equivalent in Functional Skills Maths, English and ICT
- Minimum of 2 years' experience in the specialist sectors relevant to this role, with a strong track record of delivering Apprenticeship standards, training, assessment and End Point Assessment
- Experience delivering Maths and English, and embedding inclusive practices for disadvantaged, SEND and vulnerable learners in line with the Ofsted Education Inspection Framework
- Demonstrable, up-to-date occupational competence and a track record of successfully achieving targets
- Knowledge of Government funding streams and relevant quality/compliance frameworks (e.g. Education Inspection Framework, Matrix)
- Strong self-management, project planning and record-keeping, with the ability to meet time, cost and quality targets
- Competent IT user (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) with working knowledge of relevant legislation, data protection and information security
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with both internal and external stakeholders
- Customer and employer focused, with excellent customer service skills and understanding of client needs and barriers
- Able to work independently and as part of a team, using initiative and a proactive approach to Health & Safety
- Commitment to safeguarding and Equal Opportunities; willingness to travel and undertake CPD; role requires an enhanced DBS check
