Work Based Assessor in Health & Social Care - Adults

This role involves being responsible for the recruitment, retention and completion of a standardised caseload of learners that have chosen to enrol on Health & Social Care, work based learning qualifications.

The Assessor is responsible for delivery of training, assessment and quality assurance of learners’ work. The assessor will be overseeing learners’ knowledge and practical competence in the workplace setting.

Examples of this could include - in residential homes for the elderly, Individuals with learning disabilities/Autism/mental health. Adult shared living placements, Adult community support work, Primary care, general Practice and NHS clinical environments.

The assessor will be expected to recruit for and deliver a variety of Health & Social care Adults, work based learning qualifications.

On a daily basis the role involves meeting with learners and employers within different workplace settings, with some remote working but with some travel expected, working independently and as a team to ensure compliance with qualification requirements. The assessor requires the skills to plan visits in a logical manner with due regard to restricting travelling, in order to make the best use of time as well as providing resources and support to meet the individual needs of each and every learner in the language of their choice.

The assessor will be representing the Health & Social Care team of assessors within Busnes@GLLM and will be expected to promote the courses offered, to encourage recruitment. The ability to teach small group workshop sessions in Health & Social Care would be beneficial, however the majority of the delivery in this area is done on a 1-1 basis.