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- Location: Cardiff, Cardiff, CF11 8TT
- Subject: Internal Quality Assurer
- Hours: Full Time
- Contract: Permanent
- Salary Type: Annually
- Salary Range: £30,000 - £35,000
- Language: English
- Closing Date: 17 May, 2024 11:49 AM
Internal Quality Assurer (IQA) Health and Social Care
Itec Training Solutions Limited
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Itec is one of the most vocationally diverse employee-owned independent training providers. Apply today to join our employee ownership team and be part of shaping the future and people's lives by visiting https://www.itecskills.ac.uk/work-with-us.
At Itec, our employees have access to several great benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, a health care scheme, 35 hours of working week, discounts for retail and gym membership, a bonus scheme, life insurance, employee of the month awards, length of service recognition, and much more.
Internal Quality Assurer (IQA): Health and Social Care
At Itec, we are recruiting an IQA in health and social care to develop a team of assessors to improve the quality of delivery across all learning programmes, ensuring high-quality teaching, learning, and assessment for all learners. Responsible for ensuring the company’s internal quality assurance processes are rigorous and lead to continuous improvement, improved learner satisfaction, and success rates across the team.
Salary Banding: £30,000 to £35,000
Location: Itec House, Cardiff, with opportunities for hybrid working.
Contract type: full-time, permanent.
Working hours: Monday to Friday 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
What are the core responsibilities of this role?
• Responsible for developing a team of assessors to improve the quality of delivery across all learning programmes.
• To sample and verify activities to improve the progression and achievement of learners.
• Responsible for ensuring that all IQA activities continually meet the needs of the learners and exceed the requirements of awarding organizations, the Welsh Government, Estyn, and Itec
• Manage an ongoing cycle of standardisation meetings for assessors to ensure best practice is shared across all sectors.
• Manage delivery models and other resources to embed a consistent and standardised approach to delivery.
• Accountable for ensuring literacy and numeracy are embedded throughout the learning programme.
• Accountable for ensuing Assessors embed the cross-cutting themes of Safeguarding/Prevent, ESDGC, Wales the Language and Culture, Equality & Diversity and Health & Safety/Well-being
• Responsible for completing IQA reports clearly, well written, and with sufficient detail to support and improve performance.
• Participate in or manage EQA visits.
• Accountable for coaching and developing assessors, ensuring they are ‘excellent’ in their grading.
• Ensure assessors are supported, trained, and developed with particular focus on those who are unqualified and those who have been graded ‘adequate or unsatisfactory’.
• Ensure all staff are aware of developments in their occupational sector by way of self-study, research, and CPD logs and records maintained.
• Support the Quality Assurance Manager by identifying improvements to the IQA strategy through a process of review to improve delivery and success rates.
What skills and experience are we looking for in potential applicants?
Essential
• Assessor and IQA qualification
• Relevant occupational competence (health and social care)
• Experience in delivering training and support.
• Full driving licence with use of own vehicle
Desirable
• Experience and a proven track record of leading a team of IQAs.
• Experience of co-ordinating EQA visits
• Been actively involved in an Estyn inspection.
This role is subject to a DBS check. The cost of the DBS check will be met by the company.
Itec operates as an equal opportunity’s employer, and we welcome all applications regardless of gender, marital status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, race, colour, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, disability, age, political opinions, or trade union membership.
Itec reserves the right to close this vacancy sooner if a large number of suitable applications are received. Therefore, we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post.
Should you not hear from us two weeks after your application, unfortunately, you have been unsuccessful.
Itec is one of the most vocationally diverse employee-owned independent training providers. Apply today to join our employee ownership team and be part of shaping the future and people's lives by visiting https://www.itecskills.ac.uk/work-with-us.
At Itec, our employees have access to several great benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, a health care scheme, 35 hours of working week, discounts for retail and gym membership, a bonus scheme, life insurance, employee of the month awards, length of service recognition, and much more.
Internal Quality Assurer (IQA): Health and Social Care
At Itec, we are recruiting an IQA in health and social care to develop a team of assessors to improve the quality of delivery across all learning programmes, ensuring high-quality teaching, learning, and assessment for all learners. Responsible for ensuring the company’s internal quality assurance processes are rigorous and lead to continuous improvement, improved learner satisfaction, and success rates across the team.
Salary Banding: £30,000 to £35,000
Location: Itec House, Cardiff, with opportunities for hybrid working.
Contract type: full-time, permanent.
Working hours: Monday to Friday 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
What are the core responsibilities of this role?
• Responsible for developing a team of assessors to improve the quality of delivery across all learning programmes.
• To sample and verify activities to improve the progression and achievement of learners.
• Responsible for ensuring that all IQA activities continually meet the needs of the learners and exceed the requirements of awarding organizations, the Welsh Government, Estyn, and Itec
• Manage an ongoing cycle of standardisation meetings for assessors to ensure best practice is shared across all sectors.
• Manage delivery models and other resources to embed a consistent and standardised approach to delivery.
• Accountable for ensuring literacy and numeracy are embedded throughout the learning programme.
• Accountable for ensuing Assessors embed the cross-cutting themes of Safeguarding/Prevent, ESDGC, Wales the Language and Culture, Equality & Diversity and Health & Safety/Well-being
• Responsible for completing IQA reports clearly, well written, and with sufficient detail to support and improve performance.
• Participate in or manage EQA visits.
• Accountable for coaching and developing assessors, ensuring they are ‘excellent’ in their grading.
• Ensure assessors are supported, trained, and developed with particular focus on those who are unqualified and those who have been graded ‘adequate or unsatisfactory’.
• Ensure all staff are aware of developments in their occupational sector by way of self-study, research, and CPD logs and records maintained.
• Support the Quality Assurance Manager by identifying improvements to the IQA strategy through a process of review to improve delivery and success rates.
What skills and experience are we looking for in potential applicants?
Essential
• Assessor and IQA qualification
• Relevant occupational competence (health and social care)
• Experience in delivering training and support.
• Full driving licence with use of own vehicle
Desirable
• Experience and a proven track record of leading a team of IQAs.
• Experience of co-ordinating EQA visits
• Been actively involved in an Estyn inspection.
This role is subject to a DBS check. The cost of the DBS check will be met by the company.
Itec operates as an equal opportunity’s employer, and we welcome all applications regardless of gender, marital status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, race, colour, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, disability, age, political opinions, or trade union membership.
Itec reserves the right to close this vacancy sooner if a large number of suitable applications are received. Therefore, we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post.
Should you not hear from us two weeks after your application, unfortunately, you have been unsuccessful.