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Assessor coach (level 4)

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Coaching and assessing vocational learners, usually on a one-to-one basis, in a range of learning environments.

• Knowledge, skills and behaviours:
  View knowledge, skills and behaviours

  Knowledge

  • Procedures for planning coaching and assessment
  • K1 sources of and how to access up-to-date and valid IAG
  • K2 relevant forms of assessment to identify individual needs
  • K3 how to agree individual programmes that inspire and challenge learners to achieve current work-related knowledge and skills
  • K4 additional support for learners available through workplace and provider-based colleagues
  • Effective coaching practice
  • K5 strategies for inspiring learners, increasing their resilience in overcoming barriers and obstacles, and in raising concerns
  • K6 maths and English underpinning vocational skills and how to access additional support
  • K7 effective practice in giving feedback to guide progress and achievement
  • K8 ways of supporting the learner’s well-being
  • K9 current and emerging technologies that could safely and effectively support learner autonomy and the Assessor-Coach role
  • K10 administrative procedures for recording, storing and sharing information that is legally compliant
  • Effective vocational assessment
  • K11 the effective use of active listening, assertiveness and questioning skills to support retention, progress and achievement
  • K12 the quality and safety requirements of assessment and procedures for reporting concerns
  • Ways to support quality improvement
  • K13 Internal and External quality procedures and the role of peer review
  • K14 organisational and legislative requirements for reporting concerns about quality and safeguarding
  • K15 how to maintain occupational currency and ways to improve coaching and professional practice

  Skills

  • Plan coaching and assessment
  • S1 facilitate access to relevant, current information advice and guidance (IAG)
  • S2 apply or reference relevant initial and diagnostic assessment
  • S3 agree a programme of development and assessment, setting realistic but challenging goals that meet learners’ and employers’ needs
  • S4 liaise with employers, colleagues and others to support learners’ development
  • Deliver coaching support
  • S5 anticipate and overcome barriers to progress and inspire achievement, ensuring that learning is inclusive and supports diversity
  • S6 highlight learners’ mathematics and English needs, and signposts to appropriate support
  • S7 give timely feedback on progress towards mastery of relevant skills and knowledge
  • S8 provide access to pastoral support and guidance
  • S9 promote the safe and effective use of digital and mobile technologies to support learners and the Assessor-Coach role
  • S10 agree and record targets and progress, complying with quality, confidentiality and data protection requirements
  • Assess learners
  • S11 use effective listening, assertiveness and questioning to support learners’ to engage with their learning plans and with assessment criteria and processes
  • S12 comply with awarding organisation requirements and local quality and safety guidelines
  • Support quality improvement
  • S13 support peer review and quality assurance procedures
  • S14 report concerns about quality and safeguarding through appropriate channels
  • S15 maintain the currency of their own knowledge and skills, with reference to workplace practice and feedback from others

  Behaviours

  • Inspire, motivate and raise learners’ aspirations through their passion for the sector
  • Operate at all times to ethical and legal standards and within professional boundaries
  • Model and encourage mutual respect, displaying a deep understanding of equality and diversity, with and between learners, colleagues and appropriate agencies
  • Be resilient and adaptable when dealing with challenge and change, maintaining focus and self-control
  • Value the importance of maths, English and ICT skills in the learners’ future economic and social well-being
  • Evaluate and improve their own professional practice in relation to the Professional Standards for Teachers and Educators in the Education and Training Sector
• Apprenticeship category (sector): Education and early years
• Qualification level: 4; Equal to higher national certificate (HNC)
• Course duration: 15 months
• Maximum funding: £7,000 ; Maximum government funding for ; apprenticeship training and assessment costs.
• Job titles include:
  • Assessor
  • Coach

View more information about Assessor coach (level 4) from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.