Vehicle Skills Assessor

SaluteMyJob; West Oxfordshire; Remote; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A specialized training provider in the UK seeks a Motor Vehicle Skills Assessor to coach and support vehicle mechanic apprentices. The role involves monitoring learner progress and ensuring compliance with educational standards. Candidates should have substantial experience in the vehicle mechanics field and relevant qualifications. The position is full-time and remote, with a 12-month contract.

Responsibilities

• Support, motivate and coach learners through their apprenticeship programme.
• Monitor and review learners in line with customer expectations.
• Ensure all documentation is completed to the correct standard.

Skills

Vehicle mechanic experience

Understanding of work-based learning programmes

Previous experience in the defence sector

Education

Relevant industry related qualification (Vehicle Mechanic minimum of Level 3)

Maths and English – GCSE grade C or above (or equivalent)

Job description

As an Motor Vehicle Skills assessor, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will play a vital role in the security of the nation whilst supporting the equipment used by the British Army. This includes the fleet management of over 50,000 vehicles, ranging from quad bikes and generators to main battle tanks and weapons from pistols to cannons.

Day-to-day, you’ll visit vehicle mechanic learners within their workplace using your vocational experience and knowledge to deliver learning, coach, assess and support them to achieve their apprenticeship, as well as:

• Support, motivate and coach all learners through their apprenticeship programme, ensuring all components of the apprenticeship programme are completed in a timely manner whilst meeting awarding organisation, ESFA and Ofsted requirements.
• Monitor and review learners in line with the customers’ expectations.
• Ensure all required documentation is completed to the correct standard and within agreed timelines.
• Provide portfolio building advice and guidance to learners based on the requirements of their programme.
• Effectively record, plan and track individual learner progress in accordance with agreed paperwork and reporting processes.

This role is full time working 37 hours per week, offered on a 12-Month Fixed-Term contract and is fully remote. There is a requirement to travel to our sites in Southampton, Portsmouth, Thorney Island, Tidworth, Chichester, Aldershot, Windsor, Sandhurst, Bovington, Bulford.

Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Essential experience of the Motor Vehicle Skills Assessor:

• Considerable experience in the vehicle mechanic field
• Good understanding of work-based learning programmes
• Previous experience in the defence sector, ideally within the army arena (desired not essential)

Qualifications for the Motor Vehicle Skills Assessor:

• Relevant industry related qualification (Vehicle Mechanic minimum of Level 3)
• Maths and English – GCSE grade C or above (or equivalent)

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.