Trainer Assessor: Residential Childcare - Derby (Acorn-0528)


Company:	Acorn Training LTD
Salary:	£27,000 to £32,000 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Derby, DE1 1RS
Working pattern:	Hybrid - 3 days remote
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	3 Sept 2026
Closing date:	3 Oct 2026

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Summary

We reserve the right to close this advertisement at any time if we receive suitable applications for the role.

To deliver high-quality teaching, coaching, and assessment that supports learners to successfully complete their Level 4 & 5 Residential Childcare apprenticeship standards or employer-based qualifications. The role will ensure all learners receive a stimulating, inclusive, and supportive learning journey, aligned to regulatory requirements and organisational values.

Key Responsibilities and Key Performance Indicators

- Responsible for an agreed caseload of apprentices and employer-based learners, providing them with high-quality training, coaching, mentoring and assessment

- Ensure that assessment of learners’ starting points is used in planning and sequencing their training regarding knowledge, skills, behaviours, English and maths development

- Develop individual training plans, in collaboration with employers, which provide support to learners to meet the content of, and effectively prepare them for, the final assessment/end point assessment

- Ensure that all learners and employers are provided with a comprehensive induction programme

- Develop and implement effective training and learning strategies and activities

- Provide training, coaching and assessment ensuring training meets standards set by Acorn Training and Awarding Organisations (AO), including complying with the relevant AO and Acorn Training quality assurance processes

- Ensure that off-the-job training is effectively planned and tracked as part of the individual apprentices’ training plan

- Actively support and encourage the continuous development of learners’ English, maths, and digital skills

- Ensure all learners have access to pastoral support

- Organise and plan assessment opportunities and regular review meetings with learners and their employer to set and review targets and progress

- Provide information, advice and guidance to learners and employers throughout their programme, ensuring that all learners are aware of Guidance and Wellbeing available to them to support their progress.

- Effectively manage timescales and be clear in setting and agreeing objectives and deadlines, monitoring training and assessment outcomes and achievement

- Carry out employer health and safety risk assessment reviews, where necessary

- Maintain an electronic diary of sessions and visits to the learners in their workplaces, ensuring visits and interactions are planned in advance, adhering to the lone working policy

Key Performance Indicators

- The progress made by learners over time, as measured by their performance, skills development, and achievement of specific learning outcomes from their starting point

- The quality of feedback provided to learners, including its effectiveness in guiding their development and continuous improvement

- The standard and quality of teaching, learning and assessment practice, in both 1:1 and group delivered sessions

- The timeliness and level of learner achievement, including improved performance, increased knowledge retention, and enhanced skills acquisition.

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