- Structured
Freelance Assessor
Structured
Post is subject to a satisfactory DBS check:
No
Job description
Purpose of role: To assess childcare settings on the quality of their service, enabling them to achieve Early Years Wales’ quality assurance scheme, QfA.
Main duties:
- Respond to requests for assessments to be undertaken
- Review completed QfA Assessment Tools submitted by individual providers
- Liaise with providers to arrange assessments in-person or online as directed by QA co-ordinator
- Devise assessment plans based on information and evidence submitted in QfA Assessment Tool
- Carry out assessment and identify areas of good and excellent practice
- Hold professional discussions with providers as part of the assessment and support them to identify their next steps
- Complete an assessment summary report
- Submit the summary report and liaise with QA Co-ordinator to complete the assessment
- Attend at least 3 standardisation meetings per year
- Feedback compliments and complaints to QA Co-ordinator
- Promote aims and principles of Early Years Wales wherever possible
Other expectations:
- Identify and feedback opportunities to enhance the QfA scheme that will support providers and increase Early Years Wales’s profile
- Promote diversity, equality and anti-racist practice in the early years childcare and play sector
- Keep up to date with developments and best practice in the early years childcare and play sector
- Take responsibility for your own Continuous Professional Development
Please see job description for person specification.
Location: We invite applications from across Wales, especially West and North Wales.
Rate of Pay: £150 Initial Assessments and Accreditations* plus, travel expenses @ 45p per mile
*Payment for Annual Reassessments under review
How to apply: Complete an application form and send to [email protected]
Contact Claire Thomas, Quality for All Co-ordinator, for more information:
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 07581 630974
Hours of work
Variable