Job Description
Skills Coach (Leadership and Management- Health and Social Care ) – maternity cover (0.6 post) until June 2024.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join the Apprenticeship Unit at Manchester Metropolitan University as a temporary skills coach in leadership and management. We are recruiting for a 0.6 part time post until June 2024. This is to cover the current postholders maternity leave. You will support apprentices on our Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship programmes.
About the role:
You will be part of a fast growing, highly motivated, proactive team, engaging with a wide range of employers, apprentices and academic colleagues from across different faculties. You will act as the point of contact for apprentices and employers, providing information, advice and guidance, coaching and support. You will monitor progress against the apprenticeship standard and prepare apprentices for End Point Assessment. You will maintain strong employer relationships, ensuring apprentices make excellent progress in their skills development in the workplace and employers facilitate competence against the apprenticeship standard. You will also deliver skills workshops to apprentices so that they are able to translate KSBs in to the workplace and provide robust examples of workplace application.
Typically, you will:
- Conduct reviews with a caseload of apprentices and their line managers both in person in the workplace and on-line or by telephone, building productive relationships with both apprentice and employer and identifying any emerging issues at an early stage, providing interventions where required.
- Provide the first point of contact for both apprentices and for managers and mentors in the workplace keeping them informed of learner progress.
- Coach the learners in developing the skills and behaviours required by the apprenticeship standard and help them to evidence their competence in an e-portfolio.
- Conduct Skills Workshops, to prepare the apprentice for the End Point Assessment.
- Provide ongoing pastoral support to apprentices as their Personal Tutor, referring to Student Services where necessary.
- Liaise with academic teams and support students with their assignments, in particular the workplace projects.
- Monitor and manage apprentices at risk and provide suitable regular intervention.
- Represent the University in the workplace and provide information, advice and guidance.
The ideal candidate should have:
- experience of teaching/assessing apprentices
- experience of leadership and management roles in a health and social care setting
- experience of developing positive and successful relationships with employers
- a clean driving licence, be able to drive and also travel by public transport when required
If you would like to join our people and share our ambition, we would love to hear from you.
Manchester Metropolitan University is committed to supporting the rights, responsibilities, dignity, health and wellbeing of staff and students through our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion. We promote applications from all sections of the community, irrespective of background, belief or identity, recognising the benefits that a diverse organisation can bring and particularly encourage applications from groups which are underrepresented in the University workforce. We recognise the benefits and importance of an environment that supports flexible working and are open to conversations about this throughout the application process
Manchester Metropolitan University is committed to supporting the rights, responsibilities, dignity, health and wellbeing of staff and students through our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.
We promote applications from all sections of the community, irrespective of background, belief or identity, recognising the benefits that a diverse organisation can bring and particularly encourage applications from groups which are underrepresented in the University workforce.
We recognise the benefits and importance of an environment that supports flexible working and are open to conversations about this throughout the application process.
