Quality Assurer

Arnold Clark; Wolverhampton; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

33 days leave

Company car

Employee discounts

Private healthcare

Workplace pension

Training and progression

Job summary

Arnold Clark is seeking an experienced Quality Assurer to join the team in Wolverhampton. The role spans across automotive programmes, ensuring learning and assessment practices meet internal and external requirements.

Working with the quality team, you will be integral to the organisation’s quality cycle, ensuring processes and interventions are efficient, effective and contribute to continuous improvement. The position is full-time with standard Monday–Friday hours.

Qualifications

• IQA award (D34, V1, IQA or TAQA Level 4) is required.
• Assessor award (D32, D33, TAQA or equivalent) is required.
• Level 3 qualifications in both trade and teaching are required.
• At least three years’ internal quality assurance experience and five years’ assessment/teaching/coaching experience.

Responsibilities

• Maintain records of quality assurance, assessment, intervention, registration and certification.
• Organise and facilitate standardisation activities to support improvement of the learning journey.
• Ensure all assessment documentation is complete, up-to-date and legible.
• Conduct observations of coaches undertaking learning, assessment and coaching in the workplace.
• Conduct teaching and learning observations of tutors delivering core delivery.
• Interview learners, mentors and employers to monitor quality of learning process and journey.
• Disseminate information and feedback from interventions within agreed timescales.
• Support quality interventions to impact curriculum improvement and sequencing.
• Ensure timely achievement of qualifications and analyze data related to teaching and learning quality.

Skills

IQA award

Assessor award

Education

Level 3 qualifications in trade and teaching

Job description

We are looking for an experienced Quality Assurer to join our team at GTG Wolverhampton.

We Offer

• 33 days’ annual leave
• Company car
• Generous employee discounts
• Private healthcare
• Workplace pension
• Opportunities for training and progression
• …and much more

Hours

Full time: Monday – Friday 8am – 5pm

About The Role

Working across our Automotive programmes, you’ll play a vital role in ensuring our learning and assessment practices meet all internal and external requirements.

Drawing upon your expertise, working closely with the quality team, you will be an integral part of the organisation’s quality cycle, ensuring processes, practices and interventions are efficient and highly effective.

Day-to-day duties

• Maintain appropriate records of quality assurance, assessment, intervention, registration, and certification activities in line with internal and external requirements.
• To organise and facilitate standardisation activities to support the continuous improvement of the learning journey.
• Ensure all assessment documentation, maintained by coaches and tutors, is complete, up-to-date and legible.
• Conduct observations of coaches undertaking learning, assessment, and coaching in the workplace.
• Conduct teaching and learning observations of tutors carrying out core delivery.
• Conduct learner, mentor and employer interviews to monitor and analyse the quality of the learning and assessment process and the learner journey.
• Disseminate information and feedback resulting from intervention activities within agreed timescales.
• Completion of interim and summative sampling reports in line with organisational quality assurance policies and procedures.
• Work with appropriate colleagues to ensure quality interventions impact curriculum improvement and sequencing.
• Work with appropriate colleagues to ensure the timely achievement of qualifications.
• Analyse and utilise data relevant to the quality of teaching, learning, assessment, progress, and achievement.
• Support commercial course assurance activities.
• Follow internal policies, operating procedures and documentation relevant to quality assurance practices.
• Work with operational Managers and delivery staff to ensure identified development needs are addressed.
• Support with Training/CPD activities to ensure all practitioners have the opportunity to develop their skills.
• Participate in GTG’s employee review and professional development activities.
• Value diversity and promote equality internally and externally.

Essential Skills

• Recognised IQA award (D34, V1, IQA or TAQA Level 4) and assessor award (D32, D33, TAQA or equivalent).
• Level 3 qualifications in both trade and teaching.
• At least three years’ recent internal quality assurance experience and five years’ assessment, teaching and coaching experience.
• Strong knowledge of automotive vocational programmes, apprenticeship standards, compliance, verification, auditing and reporting.
• Understanding of the Ofsted Education Inspection Framework, safeguarding, Prevent, and teaching and assessment techniques for adult and younger learners.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with good IT and administrative skills.
• A positive, proactive and professional team approach, with a commitment to confidentiality, equality, diversity, customer service and continuous quality improvement.

Our Culture

Arnold Clark is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strive to create an environment where collaboration, unique perspectives and multiple approaches are celebrated. We care about our employees and our communities, we nurture talent and encourage ambition, and we are passionate about people who take pride in their work. Our employees are at the heart of everything we do – diverse in our make-up, united in our goals.

To find out more about Life at Arnold Clark , visit our website.

Employment within the Arnold Clark Group is offered subject to satisfactory reference and disclosure check.