Early Years Assessor (National)

Job Description

Job Title: Early Years Assessor / Development Coach

Based: Hybrid – Various locations across England

Salary: £27,402 – £31,672 DOE including Car Allowance (subject to terms and conditions)

Hours: Full time / 35 hours per week

Start Date: May 2025

** This vacancy is fixed term until May 2026 **

About the company

Busy Bees Education and Training is a national Ofsted ‘Good’ training provider based in Burntwood, Staffordshire and is an established provider of apprenticeships across predominantly the Early Years sector. We are dedicated to nurturing the next generation of childcare professionals through driving quality apprenticeship schemes. Our mission is to deliver excellence in training and support, ensuring our apprentices are well-equipped to provide exceptional childcare services.

About the role

As a Development Coach, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality teaching, learning, and support to apprentices throughout their apprenticeship, providing tailored coaching, guidance, and mentoring to help them develop their skills, meet their learning objectives, and ultimately achieve their qualifications all in a timely manner. You will collaborate with colleagues and stakeholders to deliver an exceptional service to learners and clients whilst maintaining standards and regulatory requirements. You will manage your own diary to ensure you are delivering against your KPIs, using a mixture of assessment methods including scheduled face to face visits and online appointments.

Key Responsibilities

• All learners on caseload can be evidenced ‘in learning’ on OneFile with SMART targets, stretched and challenged progression
• Manage your own caseload ensuring timely completion, reducing end dates being extended and forecasting capacities
• Develop and maintain Stakeholder relationships supporting business growth, communications and workforce planning
• Utilise systems to track individual learners performance and data supporting individual performance and succession data
• Support all learners who have enhancement funding ensuring evidence of validity
• Ensure all learner reviews are completed and signed by all parties (learner, assessor & employer) and reflect the whole programme every 12 weeks
• All new learners in your area are inducted and start learning within 4 weeks of allocation
• All learners requiring Core Skills complete these within the adequate timescales
• All learners in your area are serviced giving the best economies of scale/utilisation of staff and return on investment
• Work as part of a multi-dynamic team, utilising other department qualities, information and data supporting annual self-assessment, quality improvement plan for Scotland provision, FIPS management and paperwork relating to learners apprenticeships
• All learners are compliant within current ESFA, Awarding Body & OFSTED

Key Skills and Experience

• Current and relevant vocational level 3 qualification recognised by Ofsted
• Experience of your vocational area of expertise at ideally level 5 (e.g. Early Years; Management)
• Experience of working in high demand environments, to targets and tight deadlines
• Assessors Qualification / TAQA / A1 or willing to work towards
• Teaching Qualification, Level 3 or willing to work towards
• GCSEs English and Maths (C or above or equivalent)
• Previous experience of funded provision and compliance in the Apprenticeships sector (ESFA)
• Previous experience of ensuring quality for learners (Ofsted)
• Valid full UK driving licence.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday, plus Bank Holidays
• 1 extra day off to celebrate your Birthday
• Access to our generous employee discount scheme
• 35% discount on Childcare fees with Busy Bees Nurseries
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Financial Support via Salary Finance
• Menopause Support from Peppy
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
• Enhanced family friendly leave and much more...

We reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

At Busy Bees Education and Training we are fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect our staff team and clients to share this commitment too. As part of our recruitment process, rigorous checks will be made, including Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks and references, to ensure the suitability of candidates to work with children. It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in a regulated activity relevant to children.

To review our safeguarding policy please click the link https://busybeestraining.co.uk/terms-and-policies