Vacancy Details

Description

UNIVERSITY OF CHESTER 

ACADEMIC SERVICES

END POINT ASSESSMENT INDEPENDENT ASSESSOR
FOR THE

POLICE CONSTABLE DEGREE APPRENTICESHIP (PCDA)

The University of Chester’s Academic Services Department is seeking to appoint a pool of End Point Assessment Independent Assessors to conduct the End Point Assessment of the Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship. 

Academic Services acts as the End Point Assessment Organisation on behalf of the University of Chester managing the End Point Assessments EPA) of those apprentices completing integrated degree programmes. 

The role of the Independent Assessor during the EPA is to impartially assess whether the Police Apprentice has developed the skills, knowledge and behaviours outlined in the apprenticeship standard and assess whether an apprentice has achieved occupational competency. Responsibilities include:

•    Conducting the Occupational Competence Portfolio review and professional discussion, independently assessing the two End Point Assessment parts that each Police Apprentice must progress through to successfully complete their apprenticeship, namely:
i    EPA Part 1. Professional Discussion linked to Occupational Competence Portfolio 
ii    EPA Part 2. Professional Policing Practice Project and Professional Policing Practice Project Presentation and discussion 
•    providing detailed feedback to Police Apprentices using appropriate feedback mechanisms and in line with feedback deadlines 
•    having final responsibility for assessment and grading decisions and entering assessment outcomes into the appropriate records systems and in line with assessment deadlines 
•    when determining a grade for the professional discussion, considering whether the student has met 13 distinct areas of competency 
•    determining if the Police Apprentice has passed their End Point Assessment 

As the assessment of apprentices is primarily conducted in person there will be need for related travel within the Cheshire area.    

Applicants should:
• be occupationally knowledgeable in relation to the role of the PC (carrying out the role, or training it, for at least one year in the last 3 years)
• have evidence of ongoing policing-related CPD and assessment-related CPD
• be professionally-qualified as an assessor in line with policing and higher education sector requirements
• work in line with the HE regulator’s requirements for assessment and external examination
• be from an APAR registered organisation approved to deliver this EPA
• have had no involvement in the employment, management or training of the Apprentice.

Independent Assessors may be associate or seconded police officer / staff assessors working for an APAR organisation.
Pay is based on the number of apprentices allocated and a fixed per annum fee and a fixed per cohort fee. Allocations will be between approximately 5 and 10 apprentices based on the number eligible for end-point assessment. The per apprentice fee is £369.25, the per annum fee is £215.40, the per cohort fee is £76.93 (all before deductions). Those deemed appointable will be held in a pool of Independent Assessors and will be assigned on both a rota and availability basis, at which point a contract will be issued.
There are two scheduled end point assessment windows in 2024/25 and these are in April and July 2025.
 

Interviews will be held via MS Teams week beginning 7th October 2024

If you are interested in the position, please send an expression of interest with your CV to the External and Professional Programmes Team, Academic Services
epao@chester.ac.uk   

Please do not complete the online application form.
 
The closing date is 27th September 2024.

The End Point Assessment Plan can be found here:

https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/media/kkbduomv/st0304_police-constable_l6_-correction-for-publication_27092023.pdf