Health & Social Care Skills Coach

We have exciting opportunity for a Skills Coach to join our growing team, supporting learners through accredited level 2, 3, 4 and 5 Apprenticeships in Health and Social Care. You will be using a variety of teaching and assessing techniques to achieve high levels of retention and timely achievement of apprenticeships.

If you are passionate about supporting apprentices to reach their full potential, have a focus on quality and have experience in delivering Health and Social Care Standards up to and including Level 5 Leader in Adult Care, we would love to hear from you.

**What will the job entail?**
- Undertaking high quality teaching sessions, both face-to-face and online.
- Regularly assessing work and providing constructive feedback.
- Supporting, and advising, learners with portfolio building.
- Providing feedback to learners and employers in line with regulatory and organisational requirements to ensure successful achievement.
- Being an inspirational mentor, understanding learners’ goals and ambitions, assessing their strengths, and teaching them to use them effectively.
- Supporting learners to through to End Point Assessment, meeting retention and completion targets.
- Effective management of the e-portfolio system.
- Taking responsibility to ensure safeguarding, PREVENT, British Values, Health, Safety and Wellbeing and equality, diversity and inclusion are promoted and monitored continually with all learners.
- Providing meaningful feedback to senior managers on learner progression and End Point Assessment readiness.
- Having knowledge of and commitment to Richmond’s Quality Improvement Plan and ongoing standardisation activities relating to OFSTED compliance and governance.
- Ensuring learners’ learning programmes/journeys align with the context of their employment, cultural, diversity and inclusion challenges as well as their learning needs and styles.
- Utilising learner feedback, progression and performance data to enhance teaching and learning.
- Receiving and acting on feedback from internal and external Quality Assurers.
- Maintaining effective working relationships with the End Point Assessment Organisations and other external bodies as required so as to contribute to the improvement of programmes and working practices.
- Planning Schemes of Work and assessment.

**Requirements**:

- D32/33 qualified or equivalent.
- Experienced and suitably qualified in teaching and/or training and assessment.
- Experience of learning delivery in a work-based environment.
- Occupational experience in the care sector.
- Able and willing to travel to meet employers and apprentices.
- English/Maths GCSE or equivalent Key Skills/Functional Skills.
- Understanding of health and safety/equal opportunities requirements.
- Understanding of safeguarding and the impact on role.

**About Richmond**

In partnership with its sister company, Think, Richmond is investing in new training services and expand alliances with employers in health and other target sectors.

We inspire employers to think differently about workforce development and talent acquisition, providing advice, guidance and quality training and development programmes that meet organisational goals and requirements.

Focussing on building workforce capacity and resilience, we enjoy working in close collaboration with our clients to identify key learning requirements, tailoring bespoke training packages that would be best met with apprenticeships and other training programmes.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £24,500.00-£30,000.00 per year

**Benefits**
- Company events
- Company pension
- Company away days and events
- Employee discount
- Hybrid remote

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

At Richmond we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share in this commitment.