One of the UK’s largest and most successful social care charities, Community Integrated Care, is looking for a talented and ambitious Assessor and Internal Verifier to join its award-winning Communications team.
What is the deal for you!
- Flexibility! You can work from home. There will be a requirement to travel to visit candidates and attend team meetings nationally, across Scotland and England.
- Competitive Salary: £ 24000 - £27000 per annum (dependent upon experience) plus a £3000 annual car allowance
- Pension: contributory pension scheme
- Benefits: Life Assurance benefit, retail discounts, holiday discounts, cycle to work scheme and travel discounts through our benefits app
- Best Lives Possible: You'll be working for an award-winning charity who is passionate about ensuring our colleagues and the people we support lead the best lives possible
- Development: We'll work with you to develop your career or to learn and experience new things. We're passionate about developing our people!
- Support: We've got a great Employee Assistance Programme and wellbeing partner and a number of other fantastic wellbeing support initiatives for colleagues.
This role is ideal for someone who can assess and verify candidates working towards SVQ or MA awards, evaluating candidate skills and knowledge as they progress through their learning journey, and determining whether SQA standards have been met. As an internal verifier the role supports other assessors to understand and apply standards, checking assessment approaches prior to verification by SQA.
Lead and direct effective inspection activity across the charity to provide ongoing and robust scrutiny of the provision of health and social care in all services to ensure a high standard of service delivery that enables the people we support to lead the best life possible for all people supported by Community Integrated Care.
Day to day
- Demonstrate continuous professional development within social care and assessment and maintain records to support your learning.
- Contribute to the alignment of the Community Integrated Care learning offering and SVQs to maximise the learner experience and create efficiencies.
- Induct candidates onto their qualifications to ensure they are able to make a confident start to their learning.
- Review candidate progress, give feedback and provide support to help the learner progress.
- Identify qualifications required by colleagues to best meet their development needs and SSSC requirements.
- To update all relevant internal and external databases to ensure activity is accurately recorded and compliant with all organisation and regulatory requirements.
- Operate within agreed protocols to ensure the SQA centre can function at a high standard and provide a high quality service for our colleagues.
- Provide relevant data and insight to support reporting for the SQA Centre so we know how we are performing.
- Contribute ideas to the development of systems to improve the quality and efficiency of the centre.
- Organise and attend regular standardisation meetings to review quality and compliance.
- Develop and maintain excellent working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders to facilitate an enjoyable and productive working environment.
- Develop programmes of learning
- Induct candidates onto their qualifications
- Create and use audit trails
- Review candidate progress and provide support, feedback and guidance
- Holistically plan assessments in accordance with awarding bodies requirements and procedures
- Assess and evaluate candidates to determine competency
- Organise and attend regular standardisation meetings
- Lead on development activities to improve qualification delivery and quality
- Support the preparation for and attend external verification meetings
- Provide data for reports and statistical information
- Follow SQA centre policies and procedures
- Ensure all income streams are maximised
- Work to complete learners within agreed timescales
- Maintain a portfolio of learners in line with agreed centre protocol
- Keep accurate records using the charity and centre systems.
About the charity
Community Integrated Care delivers specialist care and support to almost 4000 people across England and Scotland. Our mission is to campaign for a better social care sector, built on fair funding and fair pay for our frontline carers, and to enable people to lead The Best Life Possible.
Our ideal candidate is.
- SVQ Vocational Qualification SCQF Level 7 minimum, ideally SCQF 9 or equivalent
- SVQ Qualification in Assessment (D23 & D33 or A1 or L&D 9DiLevel 3)
- PDA External/Internal Verifier award for SVQ or willingness to work towards
- Demonstrable experience in Health and Social Care
- Sound knowledge of how an SQA centre operational knowledge desirable
Skills and experience
- Strong organisational skills to independently manage a portfolio of learners
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to adapt to different audiences
- Creative, with the ability to support candidates to overcome barriers to learning and progress
- Confident in the use of online tools including Microsoft Teams, other Microsoft packages and digital systems.
- Valid UK driving license and access to your own car.
- Able adapt to new technologies and embrace process changes
- Ability to embrace change and continuous development
- You’ll have the passion to inspire learners
- Must be able to work effectively as part of a team and support the development of the SQA centre
We welcome applications from candidates who have training in quality improvement methodology or experience using quality improvement tools
Please read the job description carefully to fully understand the role and its requirements.
Community Integrated Care is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity