Skills for Life and Work - BTEC Standards Verifier - Welsh

Pearson; Greater London; Remote; GBP 32,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is recruiting Welsh-speaking Standards Verifiers to sample assessment and internal verification decisions across Skills for Life and Work qualifications. Roles involve home-based sampling with occasional centre visits for Childcare, Art & Design and Dental Technology, and require Welsh fluency and strong communication skills.

Successful SVs will complete online standardisation and then sector-specific training.

Qualifications

• Fluent in Welsh and able to communicate clearly in Welsh and English.
• Strong communication, written, verbal and IT skills.
• Customer-focused approach with ability to work with centr es and learners.

Responsibilities

• Undertake sampling of learner work within defined parameters to ensure national standards.
• Provide sampling-related support and development to centres.
• Produce reports for centres and Pearson on sampling outcomes and actions.
• Apply sanctions where national standards are not met.
• Produce targeted actions for centres to improve standards.
• Support centres to deliver qualifications and implement actions.
• Report back to Pearson and centres following SV activity as per SLAs.
• Provide source materials for standardisation of assessors and verifiers.
• Carry out any other tasks assigned by Pearson.

Skills

Welsh language

Communication

Teamwork

Education

Teaching experience (personal & employability programmes)

Job description

Skills for Life and Work - Standards Verifier - Welsh

We are currently recruiting Welsh speaking Standards Verifiers to work across a range of our Welsh Personal and Workskills qualifications.

Please see below all our key Principal Sector Areas. Please note that if your sector is not listed, please enquire if there are vacancies within your chosen sector:

RQF Principal Sector Areas:

Personal and Workskills

5 qual levels for Skills for Life and Work: Entry 1, Entry 2, Entry 3, Level 1, Level 2

• Skills for Life: 30 units (e.g., Mental Health, Financial Literacy, Everyday Law)
• Skills for Work: 19 units (e.g., Customer Service, Enterprise, Digital Skills)
• Combined Route: 49 units / Flexible mix of both
• Workskills and Personal, Growth, and Wellbeing qualifications are also available in the wider suite of qualifications

Purpose

We are looking to recruit Welsh speaking BTEC practitioners for the below roles:

Skills for Life and Work Standards Verifier (SV).

To undertake sampling of assessment and internal verification decisions for units from a range of programmes within a Principal Subject Area (PSA) in order to confirm that national standards have been achieved and upheld across centres.

Responsibilities

• Undertake sampling of learner work within defined parameters and rules to establish that assessment outcomes and internal verification processes meet national standards.
• Provide sampling-related support and development to centres.
• Produce reports for centres and Pearson on: the sampling undertaken, outcomes reached and support provided.
• Apply appropriate sanctions where it is deemed that flawed assessment or internal verification decisions or processes mean that national standards are not met.
• Produce targeted actions for centres to assist with remedial action where national standards are not being upheld.
• Support centres to effectively deliver qualifications and to understand and implement identified actions.
• Report back to Pearson and centres following SV activity as per service-level agreements.
• Provide source materials for the standardisation of centre assessors, internal verifiers and lead internal verifiers as requested.
• Carry out any other tasks assigned to you by Pearson.

Experience/qualifications needed

• Experience of delivering and assessing Vocational qualifications (Eg, BTEC QCF, BTEC NQF, Higher Nationals, Work Based Learning etc).
• A commitment to quality assurance.
• Good working knowledge of the specifications for the subject area you will specialise in.
• You will hold a minimum of one year's full time teaching experience of personal and employability programmes and working with learners at entry levels, within the last 8 years.

Competencies required

• Excellent communication, written, verbal, IT and interpersonal skills.
• A good working knowledge of the specifications that comprise the area of expertise for the role.
• A customer-focused approach.
• Fluent in Welsh
• The ability to meet deadlines.
• Develop and monitor clear action plans.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team.

Training

You will be required to complete an Online Standardisation exercise and then if successful, you will be required to attend face to face sector specific training for the RQF sector(s) you have been appointed for.

Additional information

Most SVs normally carry out sampling from home, however for our Childcare, Art & Design and Dental Technology qualifications centre visits will be required.

Please note that to be considered for the role of Standards Verifier for the Dental Technology QCF programme, you need to be registered with the General Dental Council.

About Pearson

We value the power of inclusive culture and embed diversity and inclusion in everything we do. Pearson promotes a company culture where differences are embraced as strengths, opportunities are equal and accessible, consideration and respect are the norm. Through our talent, we believe that diversity and inclusion make us a more innovative and vibrant company. People are at the centre of our company. We are committed to a sustainable environment and workplace ecosystem where talent can an learn, grow, and thrive. We provide content, assessment and digital services to learners, educational institutions, employers, governments and other partners globally. We are the UK's largest awarding body and offer qualifications that are globally recognised and benchmarked, with educational excellence rooted in a range of General and Vocational courses

Application Information

We have a number of opportunities available for teaching professionals to join our growing teams of examiners, moderators and verifiers.

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