We’re looking to recruit a Bus and Coach Development Coach to join our supportive team and help train our employed learners.
Job overview
Your primary focus will be to deliver quality coaching and development to employed learners within the automotive sector. You will be responsible for the management of the learner’s journey from induction through to their End Point Assessment, making sure that all training and development is completed in line with individual learning plans and ensuring excellent progress is made and recorded.
As a Development Coach, you will act as the main point of contact for the learner, mentor and employer, ensuring all required documentation is completed to a high standard and providing key information and updates to each party in a timely manner. You will be tasked with ensuring all learners are ready for their End Point Assessments by the planned date and effectively challenge learners to achieve distinction status where appropriate.
The position is based in the North of England and travel to our GTG centre at Wolverhampton will be required once per month.
Hours
This is a full-time position: Monday – Friday 8am – 4.30pm
Who are we looking for?
Our ideal candidate will be an outgoing and positive person who forms strong relationships quickly. They will also have a good standard of IT skills and be consistently effective with administrative tasks and general time management. We are also looking for someone committed to Arnold Clarks standards of equality and diversity, and able to display excellent levels of customer service and quality assurance. And of course, an excellent communicator!
Day-to-day duties
- To act as the main point of contact for learners, mentors and employers throughout the programme of learning.
- To deliver quality coaching, support and IAG to meet employer and learner needs. This includes coaching mentors to deliver appropriate training to the apprentice.
- To ensure relevant workplace supervisors and mentors are familiar with the assessment / monitoring / off the job process and escalate issues where relevant.
- To facilitate recruitment and induction sessions, ensuring learners understand the programme, its necessary requirements and to ascertain relevant RPL and APL that may apply and progressing next steps.
- Identify and review barriers to learning and appropriately plan to overcome these, ensuring relevant delivery is adapted to meet learner needs.
- To conduct highly effective learner milestone reviews which accurately capture the progress of leaners against the skills, knowledge and behaviours relevant to the standard.
- To carry out high quality milestone reviews with learners, incorporating support, views and feedback from mentors and employers and setting SMART targets which aid progress.
- To plan and co-ordinate learning experiences for learners in order to enable them to progress and pass their End Point Assessment within agreed timescales and in line with their individual learning plan.
Essential skills
- Minimum of three years recent industry relevant working experience or three years industry relevant teaching and assessment.
- Minimum of three years recent apprenticeship learning and assessment experience.
- Good knowledge of current safeguarding and prevent requirements.
- Good knowledge of the apprenticeship standards and end point assessments.
- Level 3 Assessor award.
- Maths and English at equivalent of Functional skills level 2 or above.
Would be nice, but not essential
- Level 3 teaching qualification.
What we can offer you
One of the best employee packages in the industry, including: generous discounts at Arnold Clark motorstores and garages; private healthcare’ life assurance; and Space, our fantastic employee wellbeing portal.
We can also offer a company car, an excellent company pension scheme, and, if you don’t have it already, your level 3 teaching qualification.
Employment within the Arnold Clark Group is offered subject to satisfactory reference and disclosure check.