Vocational Assessor

**JOB PURPOSE**
Are you looking for a career where you can change lives? Are you an aspiring or qualified teacher or assessor looking for a new challenge? In this role you will have an outstanding opportunity to positively enhance learners’ lives through teaching and assessing within the prison estate.

You will be an inspiring and resilient practitioner with a desire to make a difference and will work alongside prison instructors.

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**
To deliver a high quality curriculum in industries vocational areas and to carry out all tasks associated with teaching including but not limited to:

- To deliver industry recognised qualifications within prison industries including but not limited to Warehousing, Manufacturing Operations and Customer Service.
- Organisational and administrative work.
- Preparation, assessment and marking.
- Developing and maintaining a full course file including comprehensive scheme of learning and lesson planning.
- Developing and completing ILPs and contextual statements to monitor individual learner progress in prison industries.
- Accurately completing registers, learner enrolments and completions.
- Participation in all team meetings and continued professional development.
- Developing positive learner experience on all courses.
- Manage learner behaviour and challenge negative behaviour appropriately, following college and prison processes.
- Enriching learning through additional projects and broader activity beyond the qualification delivery.
- Differentiation of learning to meet individual learners’ needs including the provision of additional support for learners with LDD needs.
- To actively market and promote Offender Learning and recruit learners to courses.
- To contribute to Weston College Prison Education and the prison’s administration as required.
- To participate in staff appraisal and related activities and undertake staff development and training arising from this or from the needs of Weston College Prison Education.
- To complete evaluation and course reviews including monitoring and review of achievement and retention data specific to your course delivery.
- To assist with the capture of student data relating to retention rates, examination and other assessment results, student progress and student satisfaction surveys.
- To work effectively in partnership with the prison service and all other internal and external partners.
- To engage employers in through the gate activity to employ learners and to support course delivery of the curriculum.
- To contribute to Weston College Prison Education quality assurance processes by monitoring, reviewing and evaluating all aspects of courses, and by implementing resulting actions for improvement.
- To comply with any awarding body requirements in relation to External Quality Assurance within the curriculum area.
- To participate fully in all Weston College publicity and public relations events including open events as requested.
- To implement good practice in respect of Weston College Prison Education Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety, Child Protection and Data Protection policies.
- To fulfil all security requirements of the Prison with regard to prisoners, equipment and professional conduct.
- To undertake other duties as may be reasonably required commensurate associated with the role as instructed by your line Manager

**Salary**: £23,960.00-£28,560.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Sick pay
- Store discounts
- Wellness programmes

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

Reference ID: SBREQ000161