Summary of changes affecting NVQs and national training structures

Summary of changes affecting NVQs and national training structures

NVQs in the UK are now going to be replaced with QCF (Qualifications and Credit Framework) awards, certificates and diplomas. As of 2010 this transition is in now progress.

This is a key point - Some awards persist in NVQ format while others have changed to their new formats!

Responsibility for NVQs, which existed primarily with QCA (the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority), is now split, largely managed by QCA's replacement agency, QCDA (Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency), and by OfQual (Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation) with industry sector development responsibilities flowing down to industry bodies via the UK Government Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), and the Sector Skills Councils (SSCs).

Background

• The (QCA) Qualifications and Curriculum Authority was set up under the Education Act 1997 to develop and regulate the national curriculum, assessments in schools and qualifications.
  
• In 2007 the UK Government established the independent exams regulator, Ofqual, which took responsibility for most of QCA's regulatory functions. QCA subsequently became QCDA (Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency), although QCA remained a legal entity through to at least 2009.
  
• The change of UK Government in May 2010 raised possibilities of wider reviews and further bigger changes, which are still currently ongoing.
  

Below is a Summary of the broader changes affecting UK workplace qualifications:
Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency - QCDA

• The Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency (QCDA) effectively replaced the QCA (Qualifications and Curriculum Agency/Authority).

• Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency - QCDA is responsible for developing the curriculum (subjects/criteria for a learning qualification), improving and delivering assessments, and reviewing and reforming qualifications.

QCF - qualifications and credit framework agency

• The QCF is the curremnt UK framework for creating and accrediting qualifications in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

• The QCF was first formed in 2008 after 2 years of tests. It was initially operated by the then QCA (Qualifications and Curriculum Agency/Authority), and jointly implemented by the QCA (now QCDA - Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency), the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) and Ofqual (Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation).

• The QCF is regulated (in England) by Ofqual (Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation).

• The meaningful words within the QCF name are qualifications and framework. This highlights themov3e towards 'credits' in recent national qualifications strategies, where learners can attain smaller steps more easily than the traditional larger 'units' traditionally associated with NVQs.

• The QCF aims to "...give a wider range of learners the opportunity to get the qualifications they need, in a way that suits them... QCF qualifications are designed with the help of employers so learners can be assured that they're gaining skills that employers are looking for..."

• The QCF also seeks, obviously, to "...help learners achieve skills and qualifications that meet industry needs, and to enable work-based training to be nationally recognised..."

• More significantly as just mentioned, compared to previous systems, the QCF aims to allow and recognise smaller steps of learning than typically have existed in qualifications, and to enable learners to build up qualifications 'bit by bit'.

• The LSC (Learning Skills Council) is, until the LSC ceases and passes its responsibilities elsewhere, responsible for implementing funding, planning and performance measures to support QCF qualifications (in England), and for delivering the 'QCF Service Layer', which stores learners' achievement data from awarding organisations.

• The European Qualifications Framework (EQF) was referenced in creating the QCF. The EQF links European countries' qualifications systems to each other and makes it easier to cross-reference qualifications between countries.

• "Vocational and work-related qualifications are changing to become more responsive to the specific demands of employers and learners. They will be more relevant to employers' needs and more accessible to a wider range of learners. An essential tool in this reform of vocational qualifications is the Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF).

• Qualifications and units in the QCF [aim to] reflect the skills that employers want, because employers are [invited and able to become] involved in designing them. The QCF gives you [employers] clarity, choice and confidence in the vocational qualifications system so that you can take a leading role in developing qualifications that are right for your industry.

• The QCF and the larger reform [surrounding NVQs and wider training and development in the UK] are central to the National Skills Strategy 'Skills for growth', which focuses on helping people achieve skills that match the demands of modern work and opens up new opportunities and choices for both learners and employers...

• [The Qualifications and Credit Agency (QCF) guidance refers people to the webpage www.qcda.gov.uk/qcf for case studies examples and further information about the Qualifications and Credit Framework, and goes on to say:
  

"Employer influence is [suggested as being] the key to QCF qualifications...."

[Employers are presented with the following benefits - to employers:]

* have more say on what qualifications are designed - QCF qualifications are developed in response to employers' needs
* have a more appropriately skilled workforce - all QCF qualifications must be approved as robust and fit for purpose
* attract and retain employees by being able to offer nationally recognised qualifications that support progression through your business
* benefit from a more flexible qualifications system - you can shape training around your business needs using relevant QCF units
* understand qualifications more easily - all QCF qualifications have straightforward titles that tell you how long each one takes to complete, its difficulty and its subject matter, so you'll have a better idea of employees' skills.

[Employers are also informed that there are different ways to be involved with the QCF, depending on training needs and existing qualifications situation, and that the relevant SSC - Sector Skills Council is the best contact point by which to achieve this.]

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Childcare Assessor / Tutor - WHITSTABLE - FOLKESTONE

Vacancy from Fusion People on EAT Jobs

CHILDCARE ASSESSOR/TUTOR
NEGOTIABLE SALARY
WHITSTABLE - FOLKESTONE AREAS

The role involves the planning and delivery of assessment for Childcare NVQ's Level2/3.
Delivery of apprenticeships.
Teaching and Assessing of childcare qualifications.
Working with a caseload of learners.
You must have a proven track record of working successfully with completion deadlines.

Essential requirements;
- NVQ Level 3 in Childcare or equivalent
- Vocational competence within Childcare
- D32/33/A1 qualification or equivalent
- PTTLS
- Proven track record in training and assessment delivery
- Competent in use of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- Full driving licence and the use of a car

Person Specification;
- Professional
- Excellent communication skills
- Commercially aware
- Enthusiastic

We are committed to promoting equal opportunity to people of all ages in the workplace and operates as both an employment agency and employment business.

To apply, please click HERE

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Retail NVQ Assessor - Reading, Hemel Hempstead & Watford

Vacancy from Alderwood Education on EAT Jobs

Retail NVQ Assessor - Reading, Hemel Hempstead & Watford - Up to 22,000

Do you have experience within the Retail Industry?
Are you a qualified NVQ Assessor?

A specialist private training provider is looking to grow their team of NVQ Assessors delivering qualifications within the Retail and Customer Service industries. This rewarding role will allow you to draw on your experience of the retail industry to provide professional assessment and support to learners in their workplace, enabling them to realise their career potential. An assessing qualification is essential.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Visiting learners in the workplace and assessing / tutoring them in their NVQ qualifications
- Maintaining documentation on learners' records
- Liasing with Learners, Verifiers and Management
- Creating learner portfolios to agreed standards

This role will suit an excellent communicator who has experience of the retail industry and is looking to work with and support learners. It is essential that you are able to work independently, managing your own time and travelling within the Reading, Hemel Hempstead and Watford regions to visit different workplaces. For this reason you must also have a valid driving license and access to a car.

You will receive an excellent salary and benefits package, including:

- Starting salary of 18,000 to 22,000 (depending on experience and qualifications)
- 20 days holiday Christmas closedown (increases after 1 year service)
- 35p mileage
- Laptop
- Mobile phone
- Childcare voucher package
- Discount voucher package

- Contributory pension scheme (3%)

To apply for this position please click HERE

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Hospitality Tutor/Assessor - North London

Vacancy from Fusion People on EAT Jobs

FANTASTIC OPPORTUNITY
Hospitality Tutor/Assessor - North London

Competitive basic salary of 21,000 - 22,000 OTE of up to 30k,
25 days holiday, company mobile, company laptop

Do you have a proven track record in front of house and/or Hospitality sales?
Are you looking for a training and development role?
Are you competent to assist work based learners to gain qualifications within a Hospitality sales function?

Duties:

- Managing caseload of 40 work based learners at Hospitality facilities
- Assessing learners to achieve in a Hospitality sales function.
- Delivering NVQ’S, technical certificates and key skills.
- Engaging employers to undertake more assessments/qualifications.

Requirements:

- NVQ Level 3 in Hospitality or equivalent
- Relevant degree or equivalent
- Proven ability in managing people through training programmes
- Full driving licence/vehicle
- IT literate

Desirable:

- A1 Award would be a benefit; however if you do not hold this qualification then training will be provided

We are committed to promoting equal opportunity to people of all ages in the workplace and operates as both an employment agency and employment business

To apply please click HERE

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Freelance Health & Social Care Assessors & Verifiers required in Birmingham

V Selective Recruitment are currently recruiting qualified Freelance Assessors and Verifiers for our client - A well established college in Birmingham. The role will involve working in the Birmingham / West Midlands region.

We are seeking both Assessors and Verifiers to work on part-time / freelance basis to support their NVQ delivery in the following areas:

. Health & Social Care NVQ 2
. Health & Social Care NVQ 3 (Adults)
. Health & Social Care NVQ 4 (Adults)

Experience of delivering the Registered Manager Award (Adult) would also be advantageous.

* Assessors must hold the A1 or equivalent and have experience of Assessing Health & Social Care
* Verifiers must hold the V1 or equivalent, and have the relevant expereince

As an Freelance NVQ Assessor, you will be required to do workplace assessing along with teaching of the underpinning knowledge. An Assessor A1 qualification is essential for this post. Main duties include . plan and deliver NVQ training programmes and workshops, observe candidates in their workplace, examine candidates' portfolios of evidence, question candidates to assess how they would deal with non-standard situations, provide feedback, offer advice if the standards are not met, sign off the NVQ when all the requirements have been met and keep records of candidates' progress. Successful applicants are required to provide an enhanced disclosure. Disclosure expense met by applicant/employer.

Remuneration / Pay is Negotiable

To apply, please click on the following link: Freelance Health & Social Care Assessors & Verifiers

Assessor vacancy in London (ITQ, Bus Admin, Team Leading, Customer Services)

Assessor (ITQ, Bus Admin, Team Leading, Customer Services)required in London!

Permanent position: £22000 to £24000 per annum

Locations: London, Essex, Kent

Vacancy from Indigo 21 Ltd

A dynamic and award winning training provider who developed a broad experience in the delivery of business solutions, improvement processes and NVQ programmes is looking for a NVQ Assessor to join their growing team.

The proactive role needs:

•Supporting learners throughout the program in all areas
•Initial Assessments – identifying areas of improvement
•Delivery of ITQ, Business Admin, Customer Service, Team Leading and Management programmes
•Portfolio construction
•Assisting with program development including Schemes of Work
•Using engaging and interactive tools to accompany learning
•Ensuring candidates complete the program in agreed timescales

About you:

•D32/33 or A1 Assessor qualification is needed
•Must have previous experience as a Assessor or Equivalent
•Must be qualified to deliver ITQ, Business Admin, Customer Service, Team Leading and Management up to Level 3
•Must be commercially aware
•Must have a proven track record of success
•Must be enthusiastic, motivated and with a natural ability to motivate and inspire individual learning and progression
•Excellent communication, presentation and organisational skills are required

If you believe you have the right attributes for this position and can visualise the huge potential of this important role, then submit your CV

To apply please click HERE

Freelance NVQ Assessor in East London (Customer Service & Business Admin)

Vacancy from Alderwood Education

As a Freelance NVQ assessor, you will hold the A1 Award (or equivalent) and ideally hold, or be working towards the V1 Award, and be occupationally competent to deliver Business Admin and/or Customer Service. You must also hold PTLLS or similar

Freelance NVQ Assessor working for a training provider. You will be working with learners involved in the London 2012 games in East London. All learners will be based in or around the Olympic Village in Stratford, East London

Delivery for the apprenticeship is anticipated at circa 4-6 mths (2-3 mths if NVQ only) Level 2 & 3.

Your CV and industry experience must show strong experience relevant to Customer Service and/or Business administration

Remuneration will likely to be on a per portfolio/milestone basis - based on your experience

To apply for this position, candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK

To apply for this role please click HERE

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Freelance NVQ Assessors - More Opportunities out there... What are the benfits?

What with the changes to funding and general uncertainty, you may have noticed that more and more organisations are going down the Freelance / Self Employed Assessor route when hiring NVQ Assessors.
Hiring in this way ensures that Training Providers can pay for work done / per portfolio, and they only need to consider if they will require the Assessor short term. Yes there is less stability for NVQ Assessors who go down this route, but if you can get regular work then this can be more lucrative. Plus lets be honest having a 'Permanent' role as an NVQ Assessor is not always as secure as it sounds - If the funding / learners dry up then most organisations have to let their Assessors go!

Anyone currently working as a Freelance NVQ Assessor? What are your thoughts?

Apprenticeship / NVQ Assessor in London

Vacancy from Morello Recruitment Solutions

Apprenticeship / NVQ Assessor in London

NVQ Assessor/IV/Trainer (Business Admin, Customer Service, Retail, Team Leading, Management, Sales)
Covering Central & South London - £23-28k pa plus travel expenses

This role offers an excellent opportunity for an experienced NVQ Assessor who is keen to move onto Internal Verifying and develop their career with this successful training provider.

Our client, a quality driven organisation that provide training services including apprenticeships, NVQ’s and bespoke training, need a Training Co-ordinator who can train, assess and support a caseload of learners on these programmes.

Our client is based in West London but this role involves travel to South & Central London and occasionally West London to a range of employer premises to coach and assess learners and to conduct formal progress reviews. In addition, the post also has responsibility for delivering training to groups at their main centre and at employer sites.

As an NVQ Assessor, you will hold the A1 Award (or equivalent) and ideally either hold, be working towards or be willing to work towards the V1 Award, and be occupationally competent to deliver Business Administration, Customer Service, Team Leading and Management qualifications. You must also either hold or be prepared to achieve the PTLLS qualification.

Your performance will be measured against KPIs covering learner recruitment, retention, progress and achievement. It is essential that you have a positive and “can-do” attitude and be able to take on a challenging role in a changing environment.

Our client is offering a salary ranging from £23000 to £28000pa with travel expenses paid at 32p per mile or public transport costs reimbursed.

A CRB will be required for this position and our client will take this up upon appointment.

To apply, please click on the following link - APPLY

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V Selective Recruitment seeking Hospitality NVQ Assessor in London

Hospitality NVQ Assessor Vacancy

Location: London
Salary: £21,000 - £23,000(Negotiable)
Immediate Start Available!

Overview:

Our Training Provider client is looking for NVQ Assessors to join their company in a role covering the London area. Applicants must already hold an Assessing qualification (A1, D32, D33) and have recent relevant Assessing experience. The role will be a combination of home based and field based.

To be considered for this role you must be experienced in the Hospitality Industry e.g. Front of House, Reception, Bar, Restaurant, General Manager, Chef etc and be prepared to travel in a field based role throughout the London area to meet with your learners.

Purpose of Role:

To support, assess and train approximately 45 - 50 learners. Learners will be hospitality staff working in the industry whose employer has agreed to work jointly with the company to enable these staff to obtain their NVQ professional qualification, funded by government skills programmes such as Apprenticeships or Train to Gain.

You will be responsible for guiding their learners through the NVQ qualification, assessing their vocational competence against the NVQ national standards, ensuring the learner understands the technical knowledge needed to undertake their job role and to deliver on a one-to one basis any shortgages in this knowledge.

Applicants must have practical hospitality vocational work experience in the sector they will be assessing and training, preferably with an appropriate hospitality vocational or management qualification.

Experience of Assessing Customer Service and / or Team Leading NVQs would also be beneficial.

Principal duties:

• Undertake NVQ assessments of their learners to the national NVQ standard and to record all assessment decisions to meet the company and the Awarding Body (City & Guilds) requirements.
• Deliver, supervise and mark learning activities, projects, and tests with learners on a 1 : 1 basis on employers premises.
• Frequent visits to the learner at their work place and in addition to NVQ training and assessment also:-
• Provide Information, Advice and Guidance to their learners on career progression and opportunities in the hospitality industry
• Record all the activities relating to the learners training and assessment and all other aspects.
• Sign-up and induct new learners using prescribed documentation and procedures
• Maintain learners records and activities
• Maintain the caseload of learners, replacing those who complete their qualification or leave early by engaging any other eligible employees on sites with current learners onto the companies programme.
• Respond to leads
• Promote the company

To apply please email ryan@v-selective.co.uk or phone 07838128907

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STARTING SALARY £21K - £23K (Negotiable depending upon experience) + Company Phone + Expenses (Mileage etc)