Work Experience Coordinator/NVQ Assessor
Foxes Academy
Somerset
- £24,516.67 - £28,707.79 per year
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 16 August 2022
Job overview
Location: Minehead, Somerset
Salary: £24,516.67 - £28.707.79 Per Year Actual Salary
Hours: 40 Hours per week, Term time only
Welcome to Foxes Academy, a specialist college and training hotel for young people with learning disabilities, situated in the friendly seaside town of Minehead. Foxes is a very special place.
We believe in changing lives and giving our students the skills, knowledge, and confidence to successfully shape their own future. Our aim is to equip our young adults with the life and hospitality skills to become work ready, life ready.
The main purpose of the role:
As a Work experience Coordinator, you will coordinate the colleges work experience programme and support young people to ensure a successful work experience placement. This role is both office and field based. The majority of your week will be spent directly supporting students in workplace settings.
The successful applicant will also be familiar with the NVQ level 1 in Hospitality Services and will plan and prepare robust assessments, as well as preparing and giving feedback to students regarding their progress and appropriate steps that need to be taken to ensure a successful outcome.
Key duties:
- Seek meaningful work experience relating to their outcomes, skillset, and aspirations for the future.
- Prepare risk assessments for work experience providers, which will be reviewed regularly.
- Update individual risk assessments as required.
- Attend departmental meetings to feedback on the progress of placements.
- Complete mid-placement reviews with students in conjunction with the local employer.
- Keep accurate records of work experience placements.
- Build on relationships with local employers and support them at every step.
- Within external work experience placements, plan and prepare robust and professional assessments for the hospitality NVQ ensuring that all tracking and reports associated with these are completed accurately and efficiently and in a timely manner, ensuring they are kept up to date.
Duties will vary, you must expect to diversify and lend a hand wherever is required.
For the full job description and break down of duties, please contact Annie from the recruitment team adele.richard@the-aurora-group.com
Skills and Qualifications
Successful candidate qualities:
Requirements of the role:
- A genuine interest in supporting young people with learning difficulties.
- Ability to manage workload effectively.
- Excellent communications skills across all levels.
- Clean full driving licence and the willingness to drive company vehicles.
- A Level 4 qualification relevant to the post or be willing to work towards one
Knowledge and Experience:
- Strong IT skills and an excellent telephone manner.
- Good knowledge of the SEND code of practice
- You will be a team player who is confident self-starter and finisher who can work independently.
- Experience of working with young people with learning difficulties, however this is not essential.
- Good knowledge of the hospitality sector
What’s on offer?
- Full training and continued support
- Opportunity to gain qualifications, which will be funded by us!
- 10% off accommodation, hot drinks and food at Foxes Hotel
- Life assurance and pension
- Health cash back plan
- Car lease scheme
- Bike to work scheme
- Perk box
- Free parking
For more information on this position please contact 07918 144908 / adele.richard@the-aurora-group.com
Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer
Attached documents
About Foxes Academy
- Foxes Academy
- The Esplanade, Selbourne Place, Minehead
- Somerset
- TA24 5TY
- United Kingdom
If we had to capture the essence of Aurora Foxes, it would be employability and independence for adulthood. We strive daily to be the very best and we will continue to do so, to ensure that graduates from Aurora Foxes are: work ready, life ready.
Mark Costello - Principal
Our College"I think people should come to Foxes to work on their independence skills. I have been learning about shopping and budgeting. I can now travel to Taunton on the bus, which is 24 miles away to get to my work experience. My work experience is amazing, I serve customers and do the drinks. I hope to live in a supported living flat when I graduate, because I have all the skills I learnt at Foxes." — George
"I love Foxes because it is an amazing place to be. I love all of the sessions. I like 'Moving On' because you learn to cook and to do your personal shopping. There are so many activities to choose from. The activity I like to do the most is Mindfulness, because I like to do the yoga. I really like Ballroom Dancing, my favourite is the Waltz. I like Minehead Eye because I love the singing. You should come to Foxes because you'll like all the sessions and activities that we do!" — Rebecca
"I like working on going out independently. I like to go shopping independently and I have been on the bus to Dunster to go to the cafe with my friends. I am now travel training to get to my work experience, which is really good. You will learn to do things independently that will help you in the future." — Zac
Accommodation
Aurora Foxes has residential accommodation throughout the safe community of Minehead. Each student has a fully furnished room, as part of a comfortable, caring and happy home.
Each house has a highly experienced Team Leader, Deputy Team Leader and Learner Support Practitioners. There is a wide range of accommodation to meet individual needs. The accommodation ranges from 5 - 16 bedrooms. The students are carefully placed in their accommodation following a robust risk assessment process.
By their final year, students can be living in a small group in one of our independent flats where they have to do as much as possible for themselves; getting themselves up, washing, dressing, travelling to work experience independently, shopping, cooking and cleaning. Just like any young person in further education!
Foxes Hotel
Foxes Hotel is a delightful Victorian seaside hotel in Minehead on the Exmoor coast and is the UK’s only fully operational training hotel for young people with learning disabilities. From day one, our students have the opportunity to gain valuable practical work experience, learning all the skills needed to have a successful working life in the hospitality sector.
To learn more about our hotel, please click here.
The Flying Fox
Aurora Foxes has been in a partnership with Hilton for 8 years. The Hilton Global Foundation donated a grant to Aurora Foxes, which facilitated the purchase of The Flying Fox catering truck.
This has expanded our vocational training space, and has provided our students with the opportunity to transfer their work skills within this unique environment.
Our Community
An important and unique quality of Foxes, which is often remarked upon by visiting parents, is our location. Foxes is located right in the heart of the community. Students are therefore prepared every day for engaging in town life. This valuable experience helps to shape our students and prepare them for life after Foxes, as well as helping to reinforce independent living skills. As the second-biggest employer in Minehead, Foxes forms a signification proportion of the population of the town and is held in high regard by the community for the valuable part we play in shaping the culture of our town and community. This is especially helpful for students who may initially struggle with being out in unfamiliar spaces, as students become more familiar with being able to seek out a safe and friendly face. Over the course of their time with us, students become more confident in accessing the many facilities and events that are on offer and these experiences will form a solid foundation for life beyond their time with us.
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