Do you have a good understanding of the barriers faced by people with a learning disability and how best they can learn new skills that will support them to secure paid employment?
Do you have a sound understanding of education programmes and delivery models?
Do you have a sound understanding and working knowledge of the Ofsted Education Inspection Framework?
Do you have experience of supporting teams to improve their performance and quality of delivery?
Can you positively motivate and influence people to embrace change and achieve agreed targets?
If you can answer yes to these questions and class yourself as an excellent communicator with good coaching, mentoring and presentation skills who has clear and reliable judgements that supports best practice we would love to hear from you.
As a result of growth and expansion in our Quality team, Mencap have an exciting opportunity for a Learning Frameworks Practice Advisor (LFPA), working specifically across the Lifestyles and Work directorate on a national level.
This is a full time permanent contract (37.5 hrs per week) and is a home based position with extensive national travel.
This is a fantastic opportunity to work with dedicated teams, committed to ensuring that people with a learning disability have the best possible chances to make progress and achieve good life outcomes.
The successful LFPA will be supporting Programme Managers and Programme Leads to embed our Quality Framework in order to standardise best practice across our employment programmes, including our Three Ships.
We are looking for dynamic individuals with experience of Quality Assurance procedures, particularly around the Ofsted Education Inspection Framework who also have a good understanding of how people with a learning disability can learn and make progress into employment. You will support teams to make improvements to their practice through effective coaching and mentoring.
As a LFPA you will be responsible for supporting the quality development and improvement of our ‘Three Ships’ programmes; Supported Internships, Traineeships and Apprenticeships as well as our other programmes, Employ Me and Me Time.
The LFPA will be working nationally, across programmes:
- Supporting Programme Manager/Leads to embed Mencap’s Quality Framework, Carrying out observations of teaching and learning, together with checking learner files to support Self-Assessment.
- Supporting managers and teams to achieve identified improvements and meet a range of compliance requirements.
- Conducting best practice coaching, mentoring and workshop sessions.
- Acting as internal verifier for externally moderated courses.
Job ID: 31524
At Mencap, we value a diverse and inclusive workplace and we intentionally plan for the success of our colleagues in everything we do. We welcome applications from everyone, so come as you are and join us. Together we are Mencap!