Health Assessor

at  Telford College

About the role
Join our dynamic health and social care department as a Health Care Assessor, where you’ll play a vital role in delivering high-quality teaching, learning, and assessment. This exciting opportunity involves working closely with health care apprentices, assessing BTEC students during their work placements, and supporting our innovative health care support worker academy and pre-employment courses.
As part of a growing and well-established team, you’ll benefit from our strong connections with the NHS and the broader health and social care sector, collaborating with colleagues from the Integrated Care System.
Join us in shaping the future of health care education and making a meaningful impact in the lives of our students!

Key Responsibilities

• Course Design Wizard: Collaborate to create innovative health and social care courses, including apprenticeships.
• Team Success Advocate: Work together to ensure every student achieves their goals.
• On-Site Assessment Guru: Evaluate student performance in real-world workplace settings.
• Stakeholder Liaison: Engage with key partners like the NHS and DWP to enhance learning experiences.
• Resource Creator: Prepare engaging Schemes of Work, workbooks, and training packages that elevate training and assessment.
• Induction Specialist: Enroll and induct candidates with precision, ensuring all details are spot-on.
• Skills Assessment Pro: Conduct functional skills assessments and provide tailored support for learner success.
• Progress Monitor: Keep a pulse on learner progress, ensuring deadlines are met and achievements celebrated.
• Internal Quality Assurance Champion: Present candidates’ work for IQA and undertake verification activities as needed.
• Safety and Standards Guardian: Uphold Health and Safety rules and ensure compliance with Ofqual and Awarding Organisation standards.

Skills, knowledge and expertise

QUALIFICATIONS AND TRAINING

• Vocational competency in training and assessment within the sector.
• Level 2 qualification (GCSE A* – C, or equivalent) in Maths and English or a willingness to attain these qualifications with the support of the College in the first year of employment
• Hold an Assessors qualification (A1 or equivalent) or be willing to work towards.
• Vocationally experienced within health and social care.

SKILLS AND EXPERTISE

• Vocational Training Expertise: Demonstrated competency in training and assessment within the health and social care sector.
• Maths & English Proficiency: Level 2 qualification (GCSE A* – C or equivalent) in Maths and English, or a commitment to achieve these with our support in your first year.
• Assessor Qualification: Hold an Assessors qualification (A1 or equivalent) or be eager to pursue one.
• Real-World Experience: Bring your valuable vocational experience in health and social care to the team.
  How to Apply
  We look forward to receiving your application and knowing more about your qualifications, skills, personal qualities and experience that you would bring to the role and to Telford College. Please take time to review the job description.
  Please complete the online application form with details of your full employment history (since leaving school, including education, employment and voluntary work) including reasons for any gaps in employment. This should also include a statement of the personal qualities and experience you believe are relevant to your suitability for the post and how this meets the job description and person specification requirements. Your application form will be re-produced in a standard format by the system (without personal identifiers) to assist us in our anonymised shortlisting process.
  Under Section 7 of SVGA 2006 it is an offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. . Under KCSIE (keeping children safe in education) guidance the college is committed to all pre-employment safeguarding checks, including online checks and candidate history. Therefore, please note upon clicking to apply you agree for these checks to be completed.

• Course Design Wizard: Collaborate to create innovative health and social care courses, including apprenticeships.
• Team Success Advocate: Work together to ensure every student achieves their goals.
• On-Site Assessment Guru: Evaluate student performance in real-world workplace settings.
• Stakeholder Liaison: Engage with key partners like the NHS and DWP to enhance learning experiences.
• Resource Creator: Prepare engaging Schemes of Work, workbooks, and training packages that elevate training and assessment.
• Induction Specialist: Enroll and induct candidates with precision, ensuring all details are spot-on.
• Skills Assessment Pro: Conduct functional skills assessments and provide tailored support for learner success.
• Progress Monitor: Keep a pulse on learner progress, ensuring deadlines are met and achievements celebrated.
• Internal Quality Assurance Champion: Present candidates’ work for IQA and undertake verification activities as needed.
• Safety and Standards Guardian: Uphold Health and Safety rules and ensure compliance with Ofqual and Awarding Organisation standards