SVQ Assessor - North Lanarkshire

Are you an experienced Health and Social Care SVQ Assessor? Do you want to join an award winning, friendly and experienced team? If so, then we have the perfect role for you!

We've got a great opportunity for a motivated and experienced SVQ Assessor to join us covering SVQ assessment across Scotland on a part-time, permanent basis. (3 days per week)

Location: Any of our Scotland offices (Elgin, Peterhead, Aberdeen, Dundee, Airdrie, Glasgow, Dumbarton, Irvine, Galashiels) with our hybrid working model.

What you'll be doing

• Play a key role in qualifying our social care workforce through our Training Academy.
• Support our experienced SVQ Assessor team within our long-established Qualifications Scotland Approved Centre.
• Assess Social Services and Healthcare qualifications at SCQF Levels 6 and 7, plus Core Skills, Business & Administration and PDA in Supervision awards where applicable.
• Manage your own workload, using eportfolio, MS Teams and face-to-face support to assess candidates effectively.
• Guide candidates from induction through to successful award completion.
• Enable learners to achieve Qualifications Scotland standards, agreed deadlines and organisational KPIs.
• Help maintain Cornerstone's excellent reputation as a trusted Qualifications Scotland provider.

To be an amazing Assessor we'll need you to bring ;

• Experience of assessing candidates across different SCQF levels working in health & social care
• Extensive health and social care experience
• Confident use of technology (eportfolios, MS teams, Microsoft suite)
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Excellent organisational, planning and time management skills
• Ability to work flexibly to meet the individual needs of candidates and assessors
• Strong interpersonal, networking and facilitation skills
• An in-depth knowledge of Health and Social Care Standards, SSSC Codes of Practice, SSSC Registration requirements.
• An SVQ qualification in assessment i.e.L&D9DI A1 or D33
• An SVQ (or equivalent) qualification in social care at SCQF 7 or above

About us

Cornerstone is one of Scotland's largest charities with over 45 years' experience providing great care and support for adults and children with various support needs across Scotland.

We operate over 18 local authorities in Scotland and provide a wide range of services to over 2,000 individuals each year. Our focus is to encourage social inclusion, reduce loneliness, and improve health, independence and wellbeing by working closely with the people we support and their families, setting personal goals with them, and ensuring they receive the care and support they need to live the best life possible.

It's an exciting time to join us as we deliver our new strategic plan , Improving Lives Together , built around the following organisational priorities:

• The Foundation – Digital innovation: empowering everything we do
• Pillar 1 – Voices of the people we support at the heart of all decisions
• Pillar 2 – People: leadership, workforce and culture
• Pillar 3 – Financial sustainability: building for the future
• The Roof – Quality: evidence based improvement

What are you waiting for? Apply today! We'd love to hear from you.

Have any questions? If you'd like to find out more, please contact Fiona MacLean on View email address on myjobscotland.gov.uk

The successful candidate will be required to go through a standard Disclosure check through Disclosure Scotland. This is a rewarding role which will allow you to draw on your experience of the Social Care sector to provide professional assessment and support to candidates, enabling them to realise their potential.

Please note - If you have spent more than 12 months out with the UK (excluding France, Germany. Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania or Spain) within the last 10 years while over the age of 18, you will be asked to provide a criminal record certificate from the relevant government/police authority as part of our pre-employment checks.