Essential Skills Assessor
| Posting date: | 19 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £24,500 to £27,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 May 2024 |
| Location: | Cardiff, Cardiff County |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | ITEC Skills & Employment |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
Looking for a new career opportunity?
Itec is one of the most vocationally diverse employee-owned independent training providers. Apply today to join our employee ownership team and be part of shaping the future and people's lives by visiting https://www.itecskills.ac.uk/work-with-us.
At Itec, our employees have access to several great benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, a health care scheme, 35 hours of working week, discounts for retail and gym membership, a bonus scheme, life insurance, employee of the month awards, length of service recognition, and much more.
Essential Skills Assessor
We are seeking a dedicated and experienced Essential Skills Assessor to join our team. As an Essential Skills Assessor, you will play a pivotal role in assessing the essential skills of learners, including literacy, numeracy, and digital skills. Your assessments will help identify areas for improvement and support learners in achieving their educational and professional goals.
Salary Banding: £24,500 to £27,000
Base: Itec House. Hybrid Working
Contract type: Full-time, permanent.
Hours of work: Monday to Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
What are the core responsibilities of this role?
• Responsible for providing literacy, numeracy, and digital literacy support within workshops or one to one setting with learners to ensuring timely achievement of Essential Skills qualifications and skills development, improving on skills in all areas and achieving the full Framework requirements as well as meeting their full potential for skills attainment.
• Responsible for registering, arranging, conducting, and invigilating controlled tasks with learners undertaking their Essential Skills Qualification in line with award body requirements.
• Accountable for supporting and fully engaging learners and employers in the qualification and skills development.
• Deliver training programmes to assigned learners/clients ensuring the highest possible standards are achieved.
• Covering a regional area, travelling to visit learners in workplace to undertake assessments.
• Responsible for contributing to the planning, monitoring, and achievement of agreed performance targets.
• Develop learning materials to support the delivery requirements.
What skills and experience are we looking for in potential applicants?
Essential criteria
• Experience of Work Based Learning and Award Body practices.
• Experience of delivering Essential Skills Qualifications
• Full driving licence with use of own vehicle
Desirable criteria
• Assessor Qualification Award
• Qualified or with the potential and willingness to work towards
• TAQA Qualification or equivalent qualification
• City & Guilds 9300 Level 2 in supporting Adults and Young People in Essential Skills
• L3 Essential Skills Practitioner Certificate
This role is subject to a DBS check. The cost of the DBS check will be met by the company.
Itec operates as an equal opportunities employer, and we welcome all applications regardless of gender, marital status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, race, colour, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, disability, age, political opinions, or trade union membership.
Itec reserves the right to close this vacancy sooner if a large number of suitable applications are received. Therefore, we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post.
Should you not hear from us two weeks after your application, unfortunately, you have been unsuccessful.
Itec is one of the most vocationally diverse employee-owned independent training providers. Apply today to join our employee ownership team and be part of shaping the future and people's lives by visiting https://www.itecskills.ac.uk/work-with-us.
At Itec, our employees have access to several great benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, a health care scheme, 35 hours of working week, discounts for retail and gym membership, a bonus scheme, life insurance, employee of the month awards, length of service recognition, and much more.
Essential Skills Assessor
We are seeking a dedicated and experienced Essential Skills Assessor to join our team. As an Essential Skills Assessor, you will play a pivotal role in assessing the essential skills of learners, including literacy, numeracy, and digital skills. Your assessments will help identify areas for improvement and support learners in achieving their educational and professional goals.
Salary Banding: £24,500 to £27,000
Base: Itec House. Hybrid Working
Contract type: Full-time, permanent.
Hours of work: Monday to Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
What are the core responsibilities of this role?
• Responsible for providing literacy, numeracy, and digital literacy support within workshops or one to one setting with learners to ensuring timely achievement of Essential Skills qualifications and skills development, improving on skills in all areas and achieving the full Framework requirements as well as meeting their full potential for skills attainment.
• Responsible for registering, arranging, conducting, and invigilating controlled tasks with learners undertaking their Essential Skills Qualification in line with award body requirements.
• Accountable for supporting and fully engaging learners and employers in the qualification and skills development.
• Deliver training programmes to assigned learners/clients ensuring the highest possible standards are achieved.
• Covering a regional area, travelling to visit learners in workplace to undertake assessments.
• Responsible for contributing to the planning, monitoring, and achievement of agreed performance targets.
• Develop learning materials to support the delivery requirements.
What skills and experience are we looking for in potential applicants?
Essential criteria
• Experience of Work Based Learning and Award Body practices.
• Experience of delivering Essential Skills Qualifications
• Full driving licence with use of own vehicle
Desirable criteria
• Assessor Qualification Award
• Qualified or with the potential and willingness to work towards
• TAQA Qualification or equivalent qualification
• City & Guilds 9300 Level 2 in supporting Adults and Young People in Essential Skills
• L3 Essential Skills Practitioner Certificate
This role is subject to a DBS check. The cost of the DBS check will be met by the company.
Itec operates as an equal opportunities employer, and we welcome all applications regardless of gender, marital status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, race, colour, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, disability, age, political opinions, or trade union membership.
Itec reserves the right to close this vacancy sooner if a large number of suitable applications are received. Therefore, we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post.
Should you not hear from us two weeks after your application, unfortunately, you have been unsuccessful.
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