Industry Placement Assessor in Early Years and Healthcare

Location: Tresham College - Kettering Campus, Northamptonshire

Benefits: People's Pension, Retail and leisure discounts, excellent professional and personal development opportunities, accessing college courses.

Please not that previous applicants are advised not to reapply

About the role: The Bedford College Group are currently seeking an Industry Placement Assessor in Early Years and Healthcare at our Kettering Campus, Northamptonshire

As an Industry Placement Assessor in Early Years and Healthcare, you will play a key role in the success of our students through:

• Implementing The Bedford College Group Work Experience policy
• Sourcing and ensuring high quality industry placement provision for students within the Health, Care and Early Years Department.
• Establishing and maintaining positive and effective relationships with industry providers, employers and stakeholders.
• Supporting curriculum with establishing and presenting Employer Advisory Boards.
• Working collaboratively with the Business Development and the Careers teams to ensure the careers plan is delivered with positive outcomes.
• Working with the curriculum to ensure that work/industry placement dates, duration, employer and contacts are logged centrally on Grofar.
• Organising and effectively plan visits to employers (placement settings) for observation and assessment purposes for all students as required.
• Contacting and liaising with employers to ensure mutually suitable dates and times for observations, that are adhered to.
• Liaising with awarding body moderators when appropriate to ensure mutually suitable dates and times for observations, that are adhered to.
• Collaborating with Centre Managers and Interval Verifiers, fully informing them of planned observation visits, outcomes of observations and communication and planned visits with awarding body moderators and any concerns.
• Supporting and guide students to achieve success and realise their full potential in their placement and placement assessments.
• Supporting and guide students in placement settings and in timetables class session as required or appropriate.
• Providing written and detailed observation evidence in accordance with college policy and awarding body requirements.
• Maintaining completion of all duties in a timely manner and manage own schedule to be time efficient and effective.
• Contributing pro-actively to developments in innovative observation, assessment processes and best practice industry work placement tasks.

About you:

Ideal candidates will have:

• Level 3/4 relevant qualification in Early Years or equivalent
• Assessors’ qualification or willingness to work towards
• Relevant qualification for the subject applying to teach
• English and mathematics or similar at GCSE grade A-C or equivalent Industry experience of subject sector applying to teach
• Experience of meeting deadlines
• Experience of monitoring and recording data and taking appropriate actions
• Keeping up to date with developments in subject specialism and sharing expertise with colleagues
• Evidence of high performance in previous roles/jobs
• Experience of working effectively with people from diverse backgrounds
• Evidence of understanding how to promote equality and diversity within the job role
• Ability to effectively research, develop and implement new learning materials to engage students in learning
• Ability to extend students learning experience by developing and implementing appropriate vocational opportunities.

• Responsibility for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults and for raising any concerns
• Willingness to travel to and work at all locations where we provide a service

Successful candidates must also be able to demonstrate alignment to our organisational values:

• Student centred - At our heart is always doing what is best for our students. We consider students in all of our decision making to create positive outcomes and memorable experiences for every student.
• Educational excellence - We promote educational excellence by delivering programmes that challenge our students to achieve their ambitions.
• Teamwork - We are one team who by working together can achieve great things, respecting the opinion and valuing the contribution each of us makes.
• Continuous improvement - We challenge ourselves to always do better by trying new things, sharing knowledge, reflecting on best practice and learning from others.
• Caring - We care about the wellbeing of our staff, our students, our community and wider society, creating an environment built on trust where we listen, engage and support each other.
• Inclusive - We celebrate differences and diversity, recognising that we can learn from each other.

Further details of the safeguarding requirements and essential criteria for the post can found within the Job Description.

The Bedford College Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to thorough vetting process which includes, an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide. The Bedford College Group's policy on Employment of Ex-Offenders is attached to this vacancy.

Candidates who are barred from working with children are reminded it is a criminal offence to apply for this post.

About Us

The Bedford College Group aims to deliver world-class skills and education to the communities we serve. The Bedford College Group is comprised of Bedford College, Shuttleworth College, The Bedford Sixth Form, Tresham College and the National College of Motorsport.