Jobs at FutureQuals
Thank you for considering employment with FutureQuals. If you feel that your skills and experience are aligned to the one or more of the career opportunities posted, please e-mail your CV and covering letter outlining how you meet the Person Specification to the specific email address detailed within each job advert. Please include the position and title in the subject line of your email.
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Current vacancies: Awarding Organisation
Product Development Manager (Qualifications, Functional Skills & Apprenticeships)
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We are seeking a Product Development Manager (Qualifications, Functional Skills & Apprenticeships) to support our Head of Product Development in providing outstanding management in a busy Awarding Organisation & End-Point Assessment Organisation, one with a wide variety of business and interests. Working closely with the rest of the Product Development Team and wider Senior Management Team, you will be an integral part of Future (Awards & Qualifications) Ltd, ensuring it delivers an outstanding business plan, supporting at all times:
Our Values “We are a Visionary, Supportive, Innovative and Professional Awarding Organisation that is committed to excellence.”
Our Vision “We envisage a place in which every learner realises their full potential.”
Our Mission “To provide respected and valued qualifications and assessment to enable quality assured learning.”
The role is primarily to manage and oversee the product development cycle to ensure the fitness for purpose and regulatory compliance of FutureQuals’ qualifications and products. Also responsible to support the promotion of FutureQuals as the awarding organisation of choice, ensuring effective communication with all stakeholders to promote knowledge and understanding of FutureQuals products and services. We can offer you a mix of challenges, learning and development opportunities in a dynamic and interesting environment.
To apply, submit your updated CV with a covering letter detailing how your meet the above job description and person specifications to Recruitment@futurequals.com. Closing date 30th June 2019.
Quality Assurance Manager
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We are seeking a Quality Assurance Manager to provide outstanding management in a busy Awarding Organisation, one with a wide variety of business and interests. Working closely with the rest of the Quality Assurance and wider FutureQuals team, you will be an integral part of Future (Awards & Qualifications) Ltd, ensuring it delivers an outstanding business plan, supporting at all times:
Our Values “We are a Visionary, Supportive, Innovative and Professional Awarding Organisation that is committed to excellence”
Our Vision “We envisage a place in which every learner realises their full potential”
Our Mission “To provide respected and valued qualifications and assessment to enable quality assured learning”
The role is primarily to support and assist the Head of Quality Assurance to manage the external quality assurance processes of regulated qualifications.
To be responsible for working collaboratively across all areas of the business in the promotion of FutureQuals as the awarding organisation of choice, ensuring effective communication with all stakeholders to promote knowledge and understanding of FutureQuals’ products and services.
We can offer you a mix of challenges, learning and development opportunities in a dynamic and interesting environment.
To apply, please send your current CV and covering letter to: recruitment@futurequals.com
Closing date: 28th June 2019
External Quality Assurers (EQA)
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FutureQuals are looking for EQA’s with occupational expertise in the following areas to quality assure on our behalf throughout the UK:
- Associate Ambulance Practitioners
- Clinical Healthcare
- Healthcare Screeners (Newborn/Paediatric)
Some of the key responsibilities as an External Quality Assurer are:
- To assist with activities in relation to new centre and additional qualification approvals, following the procedures and processes laid down by Future.
- Conducting post-approval visits to approved centres to advise them on the requirements of FutureQuals.
- Monitoring the on-going compliance of specified centres with the regulatory requirements, as laid down in FutureQuals procedures and processes. In particular, to ensure and verify the consistency of assessment decisions for specified qualifications across their allocated centres.
- Ensure assessment practice confirms validity, authenticity, reliability, currency and sufficiency.
- Ensure Internal Quality Assurance (IQA) practice and procedures meet FutureQuals and regulatory requirements and that practice validity, authenticity, reliability, currency and sufficiency.
- Ensure that Centre Staff and resources are appropriate to the qualification being delivered.
- Meet with staff and learners to discuss aspects of the qualification, including induction, assessment process, resources, qualification structure and the student support/mentoring process.
- Provide positive feedback, identify areas of best practice and encourage Centres to develop their practice.
- Presenting to QA findings of centre monitoring via written evidence based reports in a timely manner and in the format specified by FutureQuals, including any recommendation for sanctions. This is an essential part of the assurance the Responsible Officer needs that only learners who have fulfilled all FutureQuals assessment requirements are processed for certification.
Please see the terms and conditions for full details.
If you would like further information regarding this role, please contact: QualityAssurance@futurequals.com
To apply, please download and complete the EQA application form and email it to: Recruitment@futurequals.com Closing date: ongoing
Current vacancies: End-Point Assessment Organisation (EPAO)
Independent End-Point Assessor
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Role Purpose:
To conduct and document apprentice competence against Apprenticeship Standards when requested by the End Point Assessment Team.
The key responsibilities:
- Assessing and documenting apprentice competence against industry specific Apprenticeship Standards, at designated venues using the assessment methods and grading criteria documented in the Apprenticeship Standard Assessment Plan to ensure that overall standards are maintained.
- Providing technical, Apprenticeship Standard specific advice to a range of internal and external stakeholders and advice and support at end point assessment sites and to the End Point Assessment Team.
- Taking part in regular training and standardisation activities, associated with the role of independent end point assessor.
- Maintaining and providing evidence of up to date and ongoing, relevant Continuous Professional Development (CPD).
- Maintaining service-level agreements relating to responding to end-point assessment operational activities, reporting and submissions of assessment outcomes.
- Reporting all risks and issues encountered during the end-point assessment, including suspected malpractice/maladministration, to the Lead Independent End Point Assessor and the End Point Assessment Team.
- Reporting potential and/or actual conflicts of interest, including in relation to the independence of assessment, to the Lead Independent End Point Assessor and the End Point Assessment Team.
- Taking part in best practice, training and standardisation activities to ensure a consistent approach to independent endpoint assessment.
- Maintaining a thorough knowledge of Future (Awards and Qualifications) Ltd independent end point assessment policies and procedures.
If you would like further information regarding this role, please contact: EPAO@futurequals.com
To apply, please contact: recruitment@futurequals.com Closing date: Ongoing
Please note that our Independent End-point Assessors are contracted on an annual basis, and that this is not a permanent role with Future (Awards and Qualifications) Ltd.
Lead Independent End-Point Assessor
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Role Purpose:
To monitor and support Independent End Point Assessors to ensure a standardised approach to quality
assurance activities.
The key responsibilities:
- Providing advice and guidance to the End Point Assessment Team and the Independent End Point
Assessors including undertaking accompanied visits when required. - Reporting trends and issues identified by Independent End Point Assessors, End Point Assessment
customers and through sampling activities to the End Point Assessment Team. - Implementing sampling plans, in line with the sampling strategy, recording sampling on sampling
records. - Producing a Lead Independent End Point Assessor report for the End Point Assessment Team,
reporting on trends and issues identified by Independent End Point Assessors, End Point Assessment
customers and sampling activities. - Standardising Independent End Point Assessor practice, to ensure that End Point assessment
practices, policies and procedures are adhered to in line with Future (Awards and Qualifications) Ltd
and regulatory arrangements. - Supporting the development, facilitation and delivery of Independent End Point Assessor
standardisation and training sessions/activities. - Monitoring and documenting Independent End Point Assessors’ risk and/or potential and actual
conflicts of interest, in line with Future (Awards and Qualifications) policies and procedures. - Providing technical, Apprenticeship Standard specific advice to a range of internal and external
stakeholders. - Maintaining and providing evidence of up to date and ongoing, relevant Continuous Professional
Development (CPD). - Maintaining a thorough knowledge of Future (Awards and Qualifications) Ltd independent endpoint
assessment policies and procedures.
If you would like further information regarding this role, please contact: EPAO@futurequals.com
To apply, please contact: recruitment@futurequals.com Closing date: Ongoing
Please note that our Independent End-point Assessors are contracted on an annual basis, and that this is not a permanent role with Future (Awards and Qualifications) Ltd