Health and Social Care Assessor

East Surrey College / John Ruskin College; Redhill; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job description

Health and Social Care Assessor

College location: East Surrey College (Redhill)

Salary: £24.25 /hour (£20.82/hour + £3.44/hour as payment for annual leave)

Hours: Flexible on days (100 hours between January and April 2025)

We are currently seeking to appoint an organised and knowledgeable Health and Social Care Assessor to join our professional Service Industries department.

This role involves visiting learners to assess them in the workplace and onsite at the College on BTEC Level 3 specification. The post holder will hold a specific caseload of work with key responsibility for managing and maximising students' learning journey.

Your duties will include:

• Managing communication with the employers of work-based students/apprentices through to the relevant End Point Assessment and ensuring all records comply with the required standard
• Carrying out the relevant administration for all work-based students/apprentices, maintaining accurate reports and documentation
• Monitoring and tracking student progress
• Timely completion of key apprenticeship sign-up documents to the appropriate standard
• Completing reviews regularly and according to guidance, and ensuring these are recorded appropriately
• Liaising with lecturing staff on all students' work-based learning progress and target setting
• Carrying out placement observations to the BTEC specification requirement

This role may also contain responsibilities for assessing practical demonstration of skills in the workplace.

The successful candidate must have:

• Work experience in a related role
• An Assessing qualification
• Previous Assessing experience (ideally within FE)
• Previous experience teaching/tutoring Health and Social Care in the FE sector
• A Childcare/Health and Social Care qualification at a minimum of Level 3 (though a degree would be strongly preferred)
• Minimum Maths & English GCSE or Level 2 equivalent

If this sounds like you and you will enjoy working in a forward-thinking, friendly, fast-paced, changing environment with state-of-the-art facilities, we would love to hear from you. In return, we offer a competitive salary, as well as staff benefits such as a choice of two excellent pension schemes, a brilliant holiday package, free onsite parking and access to our fully equipped gym along with discounted in-house Spa and Salon treats.

Closing Date: Monday 9th December 2024

*Applications will however be shortlisted on a rolling basis and we reserve the right to interview and appoint before this closing date. We therefore encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity to avoid disappointment. As much as we would love to respond to all applicants, due to the sheer volume of applications we receive we are unable to respond to all unsuccessful candidates. If you have not heard from us within 14 days of sending your CV, unfortunately you have not been selected for the position.

Please refer to the attached Job Description, Person Specification and Competency Framework and apply using the button below.

Orbital South Colleges Group are committed to Equal Opportunities, encouraging applications from all sectors of the community to reflect our diverse student population. We are also committed to PREVENT and Safeguarding the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Both College Campuses are smoke-free zones.

As part of our pre-employment checks, successful candidates will be required to complete an enhanced DBS, references will be taken and evidence of all qualifications and awards will also be required before commencement of employment. Failure to do so may lead to offers being withdrawn.

Applicants must be eligible to work in the UK as we do not sponsor work permits, and work permits from other organisations are unacceptable as proof of right to work in the UK.