Learning Frameworks Practice Advisor

Do you have experience of supporting staff teams to improve their performance and quality of education and employability delivery through coaching and mentoring?  

Can you positively motivate and influence people to embrace change and achieve agreed targets? 

Do you have a good understanding of the barriers faced by people with a learning disability and how best they can learn new skills that will support them to secure paid employment? 

Do you have a sound understanding of education programmes and delivery models, particularly study programmes?

Do you have a sound understanding and working knowledge of the Ofsted Education Inspection Framework? 

If you can answer yes to these questions and class yourself as an excellent communicator with good coaching, mentoring and presentation skills who has clear and reliable judgements that supports best practice we would love to hear from you. 

As a result of growth and expansion in our Quality team, Mencap have an exciting opportunity for an experienced quality assessor, to join us as a Learning Frameworks Practice Advisor (LFPA), working specifically across the Lifestyles and Work directorate on a national level. This is a unique and exciting role.

This is a full time permanent contract (37.5 hrs per week) and is a home based position with extensive national travel. 

This is a fantastic opportunity to work with dedicated teams, committed to ensuring that people with a learning disability have the best possible chances to make progress and achieve good life outcomes linked to employment. 

The successful LFPA will be supporting Programme Managers and Programme Leads to embed our Quality Framework in order to standardise best practice across our employment programmes, including our Three Ships. 

At Mencap, we value a diverse and inclusive workplace and we intentionally plan for the success of our colleagues in everything we do. We welcome applications from everyone, so come as you are and join us. Together we are Mencap!

We are looking for dynamic individuals with experience of implementing and using Quality Assurance processes to drive up quality, particularly around the Ofsted Education Inspection Framework. You will need to have a good understanding of how people with a learning disability can learn and make progress into employment. You will support teams, including managers, to make improvements to their practice through effective coaching and mentoring.  

As a LFPA you will be responsible for supporting the quality development and improvement of our ‘Three Ships’ programmes; Supported Internships, Traineeships and Apprenticeships as well as our other programmes, Employ Me and Me Time. 

The LFPA will be working nationally, across programmes: 

Supporting Programme Manager/Leads to embed Mencap’s Quality Framework, Carrying out observations of teaching and learning, together with checking learner files to support Self-Assessment. 

Supporting managers and teams to achieve identified improvements and meet a range of compliance requirements. 

Conducting best practice coaching, mentoring and workshop sessions with a range of staff in different roles from delivery staff and management teams. 

(Please view the Role Profile for a more extensive list of essential and desirable skills/experience required for this role.)

Please apply with an up to date CV and a covering letting, demonstrating why you are interested and suitable for the role.

This role will close on Friday 19th March and the interviews will take place on 1st April via Microsoft Teams.

If you require any further information about the role, please call Lianne in the recruitment team on 01733 346699.

JOB ID 21143