Job Introduction
Would you like to join an employee-owned organisation that has topped the UK ‘Best Companies to Work For’ lists for 15 years, as well as been rated ‘World Class’ for its respect and support of colleagues, and ‘Climate Positive’ for its environmental achievements?
Now is your chance! We have an opportunity for an Early Years Assessor to join our Training Academy of Excellence.
This is a field based position for someone who holds a minimum level 3 qualification in Early Years as well as a Level 3 Certificate in Assessing Vocational Achievement. The successful candidate must hold both qualifications.
We are seeking a candidate with experience and an enthusiasm for supporting learners to grow and flourish in their chosen field, coupled with an ability to successfully self-manage their workload and a desire to consistently strive for excellence.
Main Responsibility
- You will travel across our nurseries to assess your learners, ensuring the guidance you offer and the tasks you set during your visits enable your learners to fulfil their course requirements. You will identify gaps in their knowledge, according to the assessment framework, and provide appropriate opportunities to support growth within these areas, taking into consideration each individual's preferred learning style
- You will successfully use an e-portfolio system to manage learners progress. You will work with a Functional Skills Tutor in instances when learners need to achieve Maths and English qualifications alongside their early years course. You will attend regular standardisation meetings
- As required, you will deliver training to learners at our Head Office in Newport Pagnell, or at other locations. You will contribute towards the review and evaluation of the training courses offered by the Academy
- You will respectfully engage with your learners, colleagues, nursery teams and relevant external professionals, in order to effectively support your learners and their studies, and to ensure our Academy of Excellence maintains an outstanding reputation not only across our partnership but also externally too
The Ideal Candidate
As a knowledgeable and experienced Assessor, you are passionate about empowering learners to achieve and excel. You are self-motivated, able to prioritise your own workload, have a keen eye for detail and are able to nurture and inspire those around you.
Package Description
- 25 days annual leave
- Potential for an annual tax-free cash bonus as an employee-owner
- Annual awards dinner, staff conferences and nursery achievement celebrations
- 50% childcare discount from day one
- Company car/car allowance
- Unlimited recommend a friend scheme (up to £1000 per recommendation)
About the Company
Fun is an essential ingredient in all Childbase Partnership nurseries where the care and education opportunities for each and every child are as extraordinary as our colleagues who provide them.
As an employee-owned business, each and every one of our colleagues is empowered and encouraged to contribute towards the success of our future partnership through the sharing of ideas, opinions, experience and expertise. If we all contribute, we all benefit; we truly believe that.
Our Diversity Forum ensures our policy and practice is wholly inclusive and that discrimination, in all its forms, has no place within our company. Employee inclusivity, happiness and well-being is central to decision making across our partnership and as such, we invest in award-winning training, mentoring and career development programmes, in addition to offering a range of colleague perks and rewards. Your well-being, happiness and success is important to us.
We are a ‘climate positive’ business which means we save more greenhouse gas emissions than we generate, and we are committed to achieving net zero emissions by 2030. For every new colleague we welcome to our partnership we plant a tree in a Madagascan rainforest. How amazing is that?
The Important Bits:
Successful applicants will need to provide ‘right to work in the UK’ documentation, undertake a DBS check and provide satisfactory references, prior to commencing employment with us. If your application is successful, our Recruitment and Compliance Team will be there to support you through our onboarding process, every step of the way.
