Job Description

Responsible to: Early Years & Teaching Team Leader

Hours: Full time

Salary: £27,194 to £30,299 p.a. depending on qualifications and experience.

Location: Based in Nottingham with travel in and around the area.

Background

Access Training is a well-established leading training organisation working in and around the East Midlands. We provide a range of employment related training including Full Time Programmes, Apprenticeships, Adult Learning Loans, Employability and work experience opportunities for adults and young people from diverse backgrounds, that will enhance individuals’ employment potential and qualifications. In our most recent Ofsted inspection we retained our “Good” rating and we are continuously developing and improving our provision.

Main Purpose

Engage with employers to support learners throughout their training in Early Years & Teaching by reviewing and assessing their progress and ensuring they attend appropriate off the job training.

To meet the needs of learners from a wide range of backgrounds, ensuring they maximise their potential and achieve the skills, knowledge and competence required to succeed in their role and achieve a relevant qualification.

To raise the achievement of all learners, reinforcing the company’s high expectations of learners regardless of their level and results. To ensure that they have stretching targets which maintain their motivation, are focused on the challenges ahead and to encourage lifelong learning.

To challenge all practices and procedures within own role and throughout the organisation, to contribute to and ensure continuous improvement and quality.

Main Responsibilities

• To plan and deliver high quality training to learners, in corroboration with employers, that identifies individual learning needs, preferred approaches and prior skills and knowledge, to ensure maximum impact. This will include online group workplace sessions, 1:1 coaching, in-house training and ensuring that delivery plans are updated as necessary.
• To be responsible for a given caseload of learners in terms of progression and achievement in accordance with all contractual requirements.
• To review and record learners’ progress in the workplace and off the job, discussing and setting targets with the learner, the employer and others included in the learning process. To ensure the learners’ progress is in line with the other components of their Apprenticeship and delivery plan.
• To complete the necessary paperwork to both the company standards and those required in our contractual obligations with the funding agencies. To keep accurate records of assessments, planning Internal Quality Assurance and other documentation required by awarding bodies.
• To work with learners in conjunction with the English and Maths Trainers towards the achievement of Maths and English qualifications.
• To make good and effective use of ICT demonstrating active learning including use of an e-portfolio efficiently and effectively throughout the learner journey.
• To work to the quality standards and process requirements by Access Training and Awarding Bodies, attending standardisation meetings when required.
• Ensure all aspects of Equality & Diversity within the Early Years & Teaching Apprenticeships are delivered and keep up to date by attending any training and updates of Early Years & Teaching legislation.