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Coach, Financial Services

Employer
BPP EDUCATION GROUP
Location
London, United Kingdom
Salary
Competetive
Closing date
20 Aug 2020

Job Details

Job Profile Apprenticeship - Coaches & Assessors
Contract Type Permanent

Job Purpose

BPP University, PQ FS is recruiting for a Coach role to accommodate the demand needs within the School across our Financial Services apprenticeship programmes.  We are looking for highly motivated, practitioner-experienced candidates to bring high quality support, to nurture and develop talent within the sector. The overall purpose of the role is to support each learner to develop their knowledge, skills and behaviours to successfully complete their apprenticeship.

The successful candidate will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check

Please note that this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore the successful candidate will be required to declare any convictions, cautions, reprimands and final warnings that are not protected, as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013).

Job Background

You will be responsible for the on programme and EPA phase delivery of apprenticeships standards. This will include coaching and provision of high quality support, guidance and feedback for all apprentices enrolled on relevant Financial Services Level 6 and Level 7 apprenticeship programmes.

Key Responsibilities:

 

  1. Provide a structured and appropriate development journey for the learners enabling them to maximise their full potential;
  2. Manage a cohort of learners by providing excellent coaching and support throughout their apprenticeship programme;
  3. Deliver induction and industry relevant skills and behaviour sessions both face to face and online;
  4. Carry out review/coaching calls with learners and line managers to ensure progression with their studies;
  5. Ensure that all relevant paperwork, such as review forms and learner information files are completed in line with BPP quality standards;
  6. Work collaboratively with client services, line managers and apprenticeship support teams;
  7. Provide detailed feedback to the learner on their progress against knowledge skills and behaviours relevant to their standards;
  8. Update data management systems to show how learners are progressing;
  9. Facilitate and moderate discussion forums on their VLE;
  10. Communicate effectively with learners via the VLE and other appropriate tools to actively encourage learner engagement with their programmes using resources available as per BPP quality standards;
  11. Provide academic (both pre-submission via advice on continuous development of learner e-portfolio's and post-submission) and safeguarding support to learners.

Department Accountancy & Tax - A&T Apprenticeships
Vacancy location UK, Home Based, Home Based

Candidate criteria

Essential

  • Relevant work experience
  • Teaching/assessors qualification
  • Experience of managing stakeholders (particularly customer/client relationships)
  • Coaching/mentoring both formally and informally
  • Use and accurately update data management systems
  • Experience of working in an academic environment
  • Excellent IT skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Excellent presentation skills
  • Excellent customer service skills
  • The ability to effectively plan, organise and prioritise workload
  • Ability to communicate professionally and work closely with and support all stakeholders
  • Excellent computer/IT skills
  • Self-motivated
  • Experience of working autonomously and managing own workload efficiently and effectively
  • An ability to take responsibility to develop own knowledge and skills

Desirable

  • Educated to master's level or equivalent
  • Coaching qualification
  • Industry relevant accreditations or certificates
  • Membership of a relevant professional body e.g. CISI
  • Experience in teaching at the graduate or professional level or of delivering training and seminars in a commercial context, relevant to the discipline
  • Work place training
  • Experience at using video/webinar conferencing systems
  • Experience of working with apprenticeships
  • Experience of external inspections such as Ofsted and QAA

Employment Details

Contract Hours 37.50
FTE 1.00
Salary Competitive

Company

When you work with BPP, you will be part of a business that really believes in supporting your personal and professional development. With so many different business areas, we offer a wide range of exciting opportunities across the UK and abroad – from teaching to marketing to business development to human resources to name only a few. But what really makes working at BPP rewarding, is the culture of encouragement, respect and teamwork.

Company info
Location
BPP HOUSE
ALDINE PLACE
142-144 UXBRIDGE ROAD
SHEPHERD'S BUSH
LONDON
W12 8AW
GB

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