Specialist (Trainer/Assessor): Adult Care

There’s never been a more exciting time to join West Nottinghamshire College Group.  West Nottinghamshire College Group has grown from a local college to an international organisation with a reputation for dynamism and success.  The college group is made up of a number of separate companies all with education and training to the very highest level at their heart.     We embrace and encourage all those who are driven to better themselves, achieve their goals and reach new heights. Outstanding resources combined with exceptional tutors and student support means that whatever your ambition, we can help you to achieve it.  The college is widely-regarded as one of the most successful colleges in the country, based on students’ results, Ofsted inspection and reputation.  Each year approximately 3,000 young people choose to continue their studies with us full-time with a further 500 choosing to study in our brand new HE centre. We offer apprenticeship training to 14,000 young people and adults each year, making us one of the largest college providers of apprenticeships in the country. Our offer is delivered both directly and through a high quality network of training providers. Our assessors have a distinctive mix of talent.  They are sector relevant, having gained significant expertise to know their sector inside out, being ‘credible’ in their field.  They are ingenious at imparting knowledge and skill to others, bringing alive and sharing their sector expertise in a way that will develop our apprentices to become experts in their own right.  They are equally comfortable engaging with the managing director of the business as they are the apprentice.    Our specialists support apprentices in health and social care setting across a variety of specialisms, where the apprentices support clients with diverse needs such a dementia, learning disabilities, mental health, challenging behaviour and the elderly.  Our specialists support apprentices in a sector that offers 24 hour support to the clients in their care, requiring specialists to work outside normal office hours, supporting apprentices, whom work variable hours across 3 different shift patterns; days, afternoons and night shifts.   We measure our success by how many of our clients achieve their apprenticeship programme and are happy with the service.   We also measure how many of our employers value the services we provide to their business and the contribution our apprentices make.