Residential Childcare Development Coach - Dovetail & Slate : Job Details

What are the biggest struggles within the Care sector at the moment? More often than not it is down to having the time to effectively deliver a comprehensive training programme to new and existing staff. If you want to be a part of the solution and are passionate about developing the next generation of Care superstars please read on!

Working for a leading and independently owned provider of training, you'll be representing a quality focused organisation who genuinely want to make an impact on peoples lives, and who have heavily invested in employee welfare and resources to ensure you have all the tools needed to provide an outstanding learner journey. You'll also benefit from this investment as every employee has their own journey and development plan from day 1, which includes access to a suite of fully funded qualifications and mentorship to enhance your own practice. Being a fast paced and expanding organisation you will have the opportunity for career progression led entirely by you and your own aspirations.

Job title: Residential Childcare Assessor

Location: Reading, Basingstoke, Winchester, Horsham

Job type: Permanent, full time

Salary: £35-37k (Dependent on skills & qualifications)

The role

As a Residential Childcare Apprenticeship Trainer, you will be working with a caseload of apprentices within Residential Children's Services, supporting, coaching and mentoring them through their apprenticeship qualification up to Level 5 Management. As this is a hybrid role, you will have the flexibility of working from home and facilitating 121 training sessions in the workplace. Whilst working from home, you will be supporting your learners over Microsoft Teams whilst prepping them for your face-to-face visits.

You will be delivering the full apprenticeship standard which will include Functional Skills, however there is a huge amount of support internally to help with this, along with a suite of modern technologies which will save a lot of time on admin!

The best part, you are only responsible for supporting and developing learners, meaning that all of the typical tasks which take up a huge amount of time are managed by a different team!

Package

• Up to £37,000 starting salary (depending on experience)
• Extensive bonus scheme (£10K OTE) based on individual performance (paid quarterly)
• Company share incentive scheme (another bonus based on company performance)
• CPD, Career progression and Development
• 36 days annual leave (including Bank Holidays)
• Additional day off for your Birthday
• Options to purchase additional annual leave if needed
• Employee Financial Wellbeing plan
• TOTUM Pro discount card providing savings across many high street retailers.

About you

To be successful in this role, you will be able to demonstrate:

• Solid occupational competence in a Management role within the Residential Childcare sector (Minimum 2 years)
• Hold a minimum Level 5 Residential Childrens related qualification
• Functional Skills L2
• Ideally hold either a recognised Assessors qualification (A1, TAQA, CAVA etc) OR a recognised teacher qualification.

Important Notice

Dovetail and Slate is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, applicants and clients to share this commitment.

This role may involve work with under 18's or vulnerable adults. Any appointment will be made subject to strict vetting and screening checks and receipt of a satisfactory enhanced DBS check. Dovetail and Slate ltd acts as an Employment Agency (perm) and an Employment Business (temp/contract).

Because education matters. Dovetail and Slate Limited acts as an Employment Agency.

Because education matters. Dovetail and Slate Limited (11351060) acts as an Employment Agency.