Freelance / Casual Tutor / Assessor (Health and Social Care / Early Years)
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Summary
One to One Support Services is seeking an experienced and innovative freelance trainer and assessor in Health and Social Care. The role involves delivering training, assessing staff, designing lesson plans, and contributing to IQA processes. The role requires travel to external venues, requires access to a vehicle and full driving license. This is a great opportunity to work with an established training provider.
- Deliver teaching and learning on a range of training courses with mixed ability learners from entry level up to Level 5 in a range of subjects.
- Ensure the on and off the job training is monitored and learner progress is recorded and documented.
- Regularly review learner progress with learners and Line Managers as and when required.
- To attend Training Academy meetings if required and provide IQA feedback in a timely manner.
Post: Freelance Health & Social Care Tutor/Assessor & IQA
One to One Support Services is at the cutting edge of domiciliary care and also have a Training Academy in which they provide City and Guilds courses in Health and Social Care, Apprenticeship training and short courses. Courses are delivered primarily at the Main Headquarters at Devonshire Court, but training is also delivered externally on a national scale.
We have a good reputation for working with businesses to deliver qualifications in Health & Social Care and are continually enhancing and adding to our courses and qualifications. We are also proud to be a Signature recognised centre for delivering British Sign Language and various other sensory impairment training courses.
Due to continued expansion we are seeking to employ an experienced and innovative trainer in Health and Social Care. The role will include assessing staff against qualification standards, delivering training sessions to support knowledge and understanding, and delivering Health Care awareness courses to our wider customer base. Additional tasks will involve designing and producing lesson plans and short courses.
The post will report to the Training Academy Manager and will work closely with the Senior Management Team. Access to a vehicle and full driving licence is required to meet the needs of the post. Hours of work would be required to meet the needs of the business, for example. Some delivery maybe outside of the standard 8.30 – 5.00pm working days Mon- Friday.
Key Responsibilities
- To deliver teaching and learner on a range of training courses with mixed ability learners from entry level up to Level 5 in a range of subjects.
- To deliver training in a timely manner ensuring high levels of learner satisfaction, retention and success.
- To ensure the on and off the job training is monitored and learner progress is recorded and documented.
- To regularly review learner progress with learners and Line Managers as and when required.
- To attend Training Academy meetings if required and provide IQA feedback in a timely manner.
- To contribute to the preparation and involvement of external quality assurance and inspections.
- To ensure you remain up to date with relevant legislation and changes to training delivery and content.
- To attend and participate in jobs fairs/relevant events to promote the Training Academy and training opportunities.
- Excellent presentation and communication skills when delivering training and any other events required.
- Analyse data post course completion and produce an action plan to improve the delivery/contents of training.
- To promote and model good practice in equality, diversity, safeguarding, health and safety and British Values into the apprenticeship/training programme.
- To ensure compliance with funding rules and to meet timescales to ensure deadlines are met within allocated timeframes to receive funding streams and generate income for the Training Academy.
- To identify and assess learners needs and put in place robust learning plans, with realistic and challenging goals.
- Maintain up to date knowledge of Ofsted expectations, subject knowledge and specialist areas.
- Tutors are expected to promote the courses that are in the portfolio of the company and especially those that are their own area of expertise. The Training Academy as a whole will have agreed set performance goals that will be regularly reviewed with the Managing Director.
- To participate in standardisation, mandatory and other relevant meetings as and when required.
- To ensure the course delivery and documentation is of high standards that meet the criteria for the examining board and contractor requirement.
- Tutors will be measured against quality of course delivery, leaner participation, course completion, pass rates and learner feedback. This will be taken into consideration for supervisions, probations and appraisals. There will be direct tutor observation of delivery internally and potentially externally.
- To provide and produce an IQA report for each assessment requested by the Training Academy/ Melanie Ulyatt.
- To assess learner files at 3 months along with an interim check.
- To check portals for tenders and bids and alert the Managing Director of any relevant tenders for care and training opportunities.
- Once instruction and approval has been confirmed by the Managing Director, completion of an expression of interest and completion of the tender.
About the Application Process
We will decide who to invite for interview based on the information provided in completed applications. Therefore, you should use the Application Form to demonstrate your suitability for the post. Please note that we will only accept curriculum vitae from disabled applicants whose disability makes it difficult for them to complete an application form. All applicants, however, need to show us how they meet the person specification.
Support for Completing the Application
If you require further information or assistance in completing your application form please contact the office. One to One Support Services will endeavour to provide facilities where appropriate to assist a disabled person to help them undertake the job, if appointed. You are therefore encouraged to identify any requirements in your application in order to assist us in meeting our obligations under the Disability Discrimination Act. If you would like help completing your application, please contact us before the closing date and we will be glad to help you.
Format and Interviews
Only applicants who have demonstrated that they meet the essential criteria in accordance with the person specifications will be short listed for interview. Under the Disability Discrimination Act, One to One Support Services must be prepared to make reasonable adjustments to meet the needs of disabled applicants and employees. This is included in our Equal Opportunities Policy. If short listed you will be invited to attend an interview. For some posts, particularly where they are of a special nature or where there are a large number of applications, applicants may be requested to undertake written exercises or tests or to prepare a submission for presentation as part of the interview process. If this is the case you will be informed in the letter inviting you to interview. Interview panel members will ask you questions and make notes. You will have the opportunity to ask questions about the job and the terms and conditions of service.
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
For successful applicants only: For appropriate positions it is our policy to obtain disclosures from the Disclosure and Barring Service. This process is initiated only once an applicant has been given a conditional offer. Candidates are expected to pay the full cost for their DBS. Unless you are already on the updated DBS services with a transferable check. The successful candidate will be required to disclose any convictions, cautions or ones pending. Under the terms of the Rehabilitation Of Offenders Act 1974. Any individual disclosure made or details of convictions/cautions by the DBS will not automatically bar you from consideration for the appointment to the post under application. Further details of this process will be provided to you if you are successful at interview. For the majority of posts within the company an Enhanced Disclosure will be required as staff often have access to vulnerable children and adults. These posts are exempt from the rehabilitation of offenders act 1974.
Medical Questionnaire & Declaration of Health
You will be required to complete a medical questionnaire and health declaration form should you be offered a post. This information is confidential.
References
All offers of employment are subject to receipt of two satisfactory written references. Please provide the names, addresses and telephone numbers of two referees, one of whom should be your present or most recent employer or an academic referee if more appropriate. Referees will not be contacted without your prior permission. Family members will not be considered as a suitable referee. One or both referees must have known you personally for at least 2 years.
Equal Opportunities Monitoring Information
One to One Support Services recruits and selects employees by using job-related criteria (the person specification). To ensure that this process is fair, we need to find out how you found out about this vacancy. Also, we would like information about your age, gender, marital status, ethnic origin, and disability and religious belief. We then compare, anonymously, who applies, who we shortlist, and who we appoint, with information about the labour market. Please complete the enclosed Equal opportunities monitoring information form and return it with your application. Please note that this information is separated from the application form before short listing and interviewing.
Meeting the Person Specification
This section of the Application form is particularly important. When completing your application you must show how you meet the person specification rather than the job description. The person specification is divided into what the successful applicant must have (the essential criteria) and what it would be helpful for them to have (the desirable criteria). If you do not provide evidence of how you meet, at least, the essential criteria, it is unlikely you will be short listed.
Your Right to Work in the United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom all employers are required by law to check that their employees have the right to work in the UK. The British Government's website states that "You must check that a job applicant is allowed to work for you in the UK before you employ them." Therefore please confirm by ticking the box below that you have the right to work in the UK.
Evidence of Skills and Experience
Experience, skills, abilities and knowledge that you have gained outside paid work are useful and valid, so please tell us about them if you feel they will help you to do the job. For example, if the person specification asks for “experience of organising events” you may not have gained this experience through paid work. However, you may have developed your organisational skills through involvement in a club or social group. Whichever way you have gained the experience, skills, abilities, or knowledge mentioned in the person specification, you should tell us about it. Remember, we can only decide to invite you for interview based on the information provided in your application. The successful candidate will be asked to produce prior to commencing employment: A) Qualification certificates (Originals) B) A birth certificate / Passport C) Driving License (Where applicable) Any false declarations or the production of fraudulent documents will automatically result in the offer of appointment being withdrawn.