What is covered?
A refresher of the IQA Award ensuring you are still up to date with current practices, including:
- Planning and implementing verification sampling
- Collecting and verifying evidence using a range of methods
- Ensuring quality in the assessment process
- Leading indicators – looking ahead to future situations and development. The supporting of Assessors' development within the workplace Producing concise honest verification records to support Assessors
Then:
- A new unit of competence: 403 - plan, allocate and monitor work in own area of responsibility.
Description of Training
Each new Lead IQA will receive the following:
- One day of classroom or online training delivered by AssessTech, including:
- Course Core Content (see above), including principles and best practice for verification, as well as underpinning knowledge
- Coaching on completing the Lead IQA Award to City & Guilds standards
- An account on AssessBook to store all of the evidence needed to achieve the award with City & Guilds
- Registration with City & Guilds
- A workplace assessment, assessed by an AssessTech IQA
- Verification of the portfolio by AssessTech
- Ongoing support from the AssessTech trainer
- A City & Guilds IQA Award and associated certificate, upon successful completion
Units of Competence
Successful candidates will achieve a City & Guilds Level 4 Award comprising a single unit of competence:
Unit 403 – Plan, Allocate and Monitor work in own area of responsibility.
There are 4 Learning outcomes to this unit. The learner will:
- Be able to produce a work plan for own area of responsibility.
- Be able to allocate and agree responsibilities with team members.
- Be able to monitor the progress and quality of work in own area of responsibility and provide feedback.
- Be able to review and amend plans of work for own area of responsibility and communicate changes.
How will this unit be achieved?
The evidence for this unit will be completed, via uploading evidence of you working as a Lead IQA and demonstrating competence against the unit criteria. It will be up to the AssessTech trainer to decide what is most appropriate to the candidate's needs.