Trainer Assessor
| Posting date: | 20 November 2025 |
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| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 20 December 2025 |
| Location: | leicestershire, LE3 8RA |
| Company: | Leicestershire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6538 |
Summary
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield. Alternative base at Coalville, Wigston, Loughborough, Hinckley, Market Harborough, or Melton would be considered on appointment.
Worker Category: Hybrid worker.
Salary: £28,605 to £31,029 per annum (pro-rata for part-time).
Working Hours: 14.8 hours per week, based on 0.4 FTE.
Contract Type: Fixed term for 12 months.
Closing Date: 30th November 2025.
Interview Date(s): w/c 8th December 2025.
Do you have strong vocational payroll experience and a passion for developing others?
Join us to deliver our successful Payroll Administrator and Payroll Assistant Manager apprenticeship programmes, supporting learners to achieve in a growing industry.
About the Role
This post plays a central role in delivering high-quality apprenticeship provision within the Adult Learning Service, with a clear focus on payroll. You will design and develop sector-relevant learning resources, ensuring materials reflect current payroll practice and meet apprenticeship standards. You will deliver training to cohorts of apprentices through a blend of face-to-face and online sessions, creating an engaging learning environment that supports progression for all learners.
Alongside group delivery, you will provide individual coaching and assessment, guiding apprentices through their on-programme learning and the development of their portfolios. You will carry out formative assessment, offer clear and constructive feedback, and maintain accurate records across all aspects of the learner journey.
The role involves regular liaison with employers and workplace mentors to review progress, address emerging needs and ensure full employer involvement throughout the programme. You will also support learners in preparing for end-point assessment and contribute to maintaining the high standards expected within the service.
A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.
For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders, please see our policy statement.
About You
To apply for this post, you must:
- Substantial and recent vocational payroll experience relevant to the apprenticeship standards
- Experience of teaching, training or coaching others
- Strong ICT and ILT skills
- A relevant Level 3 vocational qualification, or significant occupational experience
- Excellent organisational and record-keeping skills, with the ability to track progress effectively
- Clear and confident communication skills, with the ability to engage learners and employers
The following is also desirable:
- A teaching qualification at Level 3 or above. Applicants who do not hold this are encouraged to start this within the probationary period. The post holder may be eligible to take this course in-house with a funded place on our Award in Education and Training.
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.
In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Leanne Brindley, Learning Development and Delivery Coordinator
Telephone: 0116 305 3947
Email: leanne.brindley@leics.gov.uk
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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