Opportunities for Associates, Consultants and Presenters
Sharing Advice, Guidance and Good Practice
Excellence in Learning provides a wide range of workshops, consultancy advisory and staff development/CPD services to the learning community. All are designed to help Learning Providers and the related infrastructure organisations to improve quality, success and where applicable, inspection results. This includes all aspects of organisational and people development from needs analysis to change management and performance improvement. Our support services include elements on what needs to be achieved - but major on explaining and demonstrating the practical steps and stages needed to achieve the given improvement goal.
With demand for our services growing exponentially we are keen to hear from those interested in developing and delivering good practice training sessions in the areas outlined below. Opportunities and work level are scaled to match applicant requirements and expected business levels. Rates and remuneration are very competitive and enhanced significantly where the applicant can offer suitable previously developed material.
Excellence in Learning and our parent organisation National Training Resources also work in partnership with infrastructure organisations to help cascade information on the latest initatives within the sector and has the resource and capacity to help coordinate, organise and market dissemination conferences, nationally or locally, to groups of all sizes.
After the LSC
- Impact on the Learning and Skills Sector
- Arrangements for Funding Pre and Post 19 Learning
Observation of Teaching Training and Learning
- Scoping and Setting Standards - including Peer Review
- Basic Observation and Recording Techniques
- Making Judgements
- Improving Feedback - Handling Problems
- Action and Improvement Planning
- OTL as a staff development tool
Data:
- Explaining QSR Calculations and balancing Official Quarterly Data to Internal Reports
- Understanding and Using the Data on the Provider Gateway
- Optimising Data Returns
- Using the PFR
- Use of Data within JCP Provision
- Use of Data within ACL and PCDL Provision
Employer Enagagement and Business Growth:
- The Training Quality Standard - Application and Assessment
- Employer Engagement - Approaches that really work
- Employer Engagement - Sales and/or Marketing Skills for Employer Facing Staff
Self Assessment and Inspection - September 2009 on
- Work based Learning
- FE Colleges
- Schools - Primary, Secondary, Independant etc
- DWP/Job Centre Plus/New Deal/Employment Zone/Next Step
- Train to Gain
- Prison Learning Services
Current Priorities within the FE System/Sector and Latest Initiatives
- Explaining the short and medium term significance of current initiative/s for and impact on learning providers
- Implementation of Techniques for new and/or proven effective at:
- improving quality and/or success rates
- Improving business
- growing sales
- reducing/controlling costs
Train to Gain
- Contract Compliance and Surviving Audit
- Optimising Delivery Efficiency
Developing the Quality of Teaching and Training:
- Effective Integration of Functional Skills onto Teaching, Training and Assessment
- Techniques and Approaches proven to help learners to progress and achieve faster
- Embedding Numeracy and Literacy teaching
- Embedding Functional Skills
NVQ Assessment
- Improving Efficiency and Effectiveness within NVQ Assessment
Application Process
In most cases we would expect that team members are interested in and capable of designing and authoring new workshops to an agreed budget and timetable.
Above all we look for an enthusiastic involvement in helping develop skills and tools in this area of training management coupled with a strong interest in the results of their work and the impact on the employer organisations. The criteria for joining the team are some or all of:
- Detailed knowledge and experience in the specific subject or topic
- Ability to identify sector generic training needs and develop training sessions to meet
- Professional, dynamic and engaging style of tutoring, facilitating or consultancy
- Appropriate qualifications and/or professional memberships
- Working experience in the sector at a relevant level of training management
- Qualified and experienced delivery of train the trainer or other practitioner courses
- Demonstrable knowledge of good practice and innovative approaches
If you have interest in any of the above please email to jon.collis@national-training.co.uk in the first instance, including the following:
- Details of proposed support activity/workshop topic/s
- Outline overview of aims, objectives and content
- CV