Academy Trainer/assessor

Salary & Benefits: Salary **£36,607 - £45,759** per annum dependant on experience, annual bonus, attractive pension scheme (Up to 10% company contribution), life assurance cover of 4 times pensionable salary and 25 days annual leave, bank holidays, plus a wellness day and development opportunities in line with the Academy Trainer / Assesor progression plan. We also offer a fantastic flexible benefits package, where you can choose from benefits such as health cash plan scheme, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, life assurance flex and partner cover. Colleagues also have access to a retail savings scheme, online GP service, cycle to work scheme, gym membership discounts and many more

Location: Bradford with hybrid working, you will be required to travel to sites around the Yorkshire Water Networks.

Work type: Permanent. 37 hours per week, Monday - Friday.

We have an exciting opportunity for a **Academy Trainer / Assessor** to join the **People Change** team at Yorkshire Water and be a part of helping Yorkshire Water to provide the best service to our customers. **Could this be you?**

**What we do**:
Everyone has an idea of what a water company does. Here in Yorkshire, we make sure that over 5.4 million people living in the region and the millions of people who visit our region each year, can rely on our services, and have clean and safe drinking water on tap and that their wastewater is taken away. But for us, it’s so much more than this.

We look after communities, protect the environment, and plan to look after Yorkshire’s water, today, tomorrow 24/7, 365 days a year. We provide essential water and wastewater services to every corner of the Yorkshire region, and play a key role in the region’s health, wellbeing, and prosperity.

New environmental legislation, unprecedented levels of investment and changing expectations from customers means that this is an exciting time to discover opportunities within the water industry. People Change are a key part of how we plan to meet the changing expectations of customers and regulators.

The role of Academy Trainer is to provide an agile, flexible, holistic, and responsive learning support service to ensure the ongoing, competent and safe delivery of Yorkshire Water services to our operational and corporate function colleagues. The Academy trainer will establish and build on relationships with all stakeholders to ensure their learning is relevant and adds value to Yorkshire Water colleagues and supports our Big Ambition, whilst continuing to build on their own technical and H&S expertise to support the delivery of the Academies in-house, learning and development portfolio. As a trainer/coach of others, adherence to (learning delivery, assessment and YW wide) policies, procedures is paramount along with positive demonstration of YW values and behaviours.

**Where you fit in**:
As our **Academy Trainer / Assessor** you will
- Understand the structure of YW, the H&S/Capability requirements for each of our business units and ensure this is reflected in learning and development delivery.
- Proactively contribute and reactively inform learning product development and delivery through maintaining current, regulatory, relevant and YW related knowledge.
- Work proactively with the Academy Hub to deliver the Academy learning schedule across the Yorkshire Region at any of our Academy Locations* (please note from time to time these sites may not be YW, but will be within the Yorkshire region)
- Complete the learning and development cycle requirements for learning development (LNA, design, development and evaluation) within area of expertise, supporting others as and when required at different stages of the process.
- Provide an agile and flexible service along with other colleagues to respond to a 24/7 business, - with some out of hours delivery required when needed.
- To undertake assessment activity for accredited and non-accredited learning in line with external or accrediting body requirements - prioritising learning delivery and reliable assessment processes. This would include making and evidencing assessment decisions, participating in all internal and external quality assurance activities and meeting with accrediting body external quality assurers as and when needed.
- Consistently review the validity, authenticity and sufficiency of all evidence submitted or observed as part of the assessment process, responding to any challenges/appeals via the learner complaints procedure.
- Adopt a holistic approach to the assessment process as required by the awarding body.
- To deliver other vocationally relevant learning as needed by the business
- Support and fully endorse the policy and practice of Yorkshire water with regard to equality, diversity and inclusion.

**What skills & qualifications you will need**:

- Ability to work flexibly day to day, providing high quality, customer service and responding to the needs of a large organisation
- Knowledge of