Vocation Coach in Health and Social Care

May 13, 2022 | Comments Off on Vocation Coach in Health and Social Care

We are on the look out for someone that is experienced within the Health and Social care sector that wants to work for a well established Training Provider covering Merseyside.

This is a challenging role supporting learning, development and assessment needs, planning and delivering high quality vocational learning, training, coaching and mentoring to support learning and timely achievement of award. The role requires collaborative working with other vocational coach's to ensure that all learners experience an active and productive learning experience within timely achievement reporting concerns and problems that hinder progress and achievement with Internal Verifiers, as soon as they arise.

The post holder will undertake assigned duties and responsibilities effectively and efficiently, ensuring that all actions are discharged within the regulatory and legislative requirements and:
* with full regard to the safeguarding, confidentiality, equality and diversity, bullying and harassment and health, safety and wellbeing and British Fundamental Value requirements
* in the spirit of the vision and mission and strategic objectives
* to achieve individual objectives assigned through the periodic planning and performance appraisal processes
* actively participate in both company and professional development and opportunities
within agreed and timely manor
* subject to policies and procedures

To carry out effective and appropriate:
- Initial Advice and Guidance to ensure learners are fully informed of courses on offer
- Induction to ensure learners are familiar with the process of learning for whichever programme/s they opt to engage with
- Initial literacy and numeracy assessment to ensure learners are appropriately assessed and offered relevant learning opportunities or signposting if relevant
- Completing Health and safety reviews of new placements and monitoring compliance
- Carrying out a one to one session with the learner to establish individual learning plan
- plans as necessary to meet learner and employer needs
- Providing learners with supported learning, coaching and assessing with feedback that motivates, challenges and supports them to improve
- Supporting company in developing stimulating vocational learning opportunities that meets awarding body criteria and learners needs
- Planning and carrying out effective reviews which identify learner progress and enable effective planning to succeed, referring to relevant personnel where additional needs are
identified
- Working collaboratively with other vocational coach's within the learning and assessment process in a way which learners find interesting and relevant to their vocational programme
- Actively promote the ethos of British Fundamental Values, Safeguarding, Equality and Diversity, Bullying and Harassment and Health, Safety and Wellbeing throughout the learning journey
- Updating and recording of appropriate sector CPD by undertaking regular staff development and appropriate learning activities
- Embed Assessment Cycle into all learning activities

To agree programme delivery targets with your line manager
following all the requirements
To achieve the following:
- regular contact with learners
- timely achievement and completion of learners on programme
- provision of accurate information on progress and achievement
- appropriate amendments to learning to suit learners needs, in line with assessment methods
- positive feedback from learners and employers
- positive results from quality sampling

The person:
- Health and Social Care qualification
- Assessor Qualification
- Maths, English, IT qualification
- Working within a community setting
- Conducting initial assessments and formal reviews
- Independent working
- Team work
- Managing administrative tasks
- Managing a team
- Must have driving licence and own vehicle