Learning Frameworks Practice Advisor

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Do you have a good understanding of the barriers faced by people with a learning disability and how best they can learn new skills that will support them to secure paid employment? 
Do you have a sound understanding of education programmes and delivery models?
Do you have a sound understanding and working knowledge of the Ofsted Education Inspection Framework? 
Do you have experience of supporting teams to improve their performance and quality of delivery?  
Can you positively motivate and influence people to embrace change and achieve agreed targets? 
If you can answer yes to these questions and class yourself as an excellent communicator with good coaching, mentoring and presentation skills who has clear and reliable judgements that supports best practice we would love to hear from you. 
As a result of growth and expansion in our Quality team, Mencap have an exciting opportunity for a Learning Frameworks Practice Advisor (LFPA), working specifically across the Lifestyles and Work directorate on a national level.
This is a full time permanent contract (37.5 hrs per week) and is a home based position with extensive national travel. 
This is a fantastic opportunity to work with dedicated teams, committed to ensuring that people with a learning disability have the best possible chances to make progress and achieve good life outcomes. 
The successful LFPA will be supporting Programme Managers and Programme Leads to embed our Quality Framework in order to standardise best practice across our employment programmes, including our Three Ships. 
We are looking for dynamic individuals with experience of Quality Assurance procedures, particularly around the Ofsted Education Inspection Framework who also have a good understanding of how people with a learning disability can learn and make progress into employment. You will support teams to make improvements to their practice through effective coaching and mentoring.  
As a LFPA you will be responsible for supporting the quality development and improvement of our ‘Three Ships’ programmes; Supported Internships, Traineeships and Apprenticeships as well as our other programmes, Employ Me and Me Time. 
The LFPA will be working nationally, across programmes: 
Supporting Programme Manager/Leads to embed Mencap’s Quality Framework, Carrying out observations of teaching and learning, together with checking learner files to support Self-Assessment. 
Supporting managers and teams to achieve identified improvements and meet a range of compliance requirements.
Conducting best practice coaching, mentoring and workshop sessions. 
Acting as internal verifier for externally moderated courses. Job ID: 31524
 
At Mencap, we value a diverse and inclusive workplace and we intentionally plan for the success of our colleagues in everything we do. We welcome applications from everyone, so come as you are and join us. Together we are Mencap!

Benefits
As well as knowing that what we do is making a positive difference to people’s lives, you will receive fair pay and have access to a wide range of rewards and benefits as one of our employees.
32 days holiday (including bank holidays) increasing to 35 days with long service plus the ability to buy up to another 10 days via our HolidayPlus scheme
Service related sick pay when 6 month probation is completed
Eligibility to join Mencap Pension Plan where Mencap matches contributions up to 5% on a salary sacrifice basis meaning NI savings. If you don’t join the Plan you start, you will be auto-enrolled after three months with us.
Membership of Mencap Pension Plan to include up to 3 times salary death in service live cover AND Income Protection of 50% salary to be triggered at 26 weeks of long term sickness
Loans for debt consolidation,bikes, computers and phones when you have been with us for 6 months
Interest free season ticket loans
Discounts and cashback from 3% to 30% at high street shops including major super markets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via Mencap Extras. Find out more here  removed)/(phone number removed)/ac6fdbd7b9
Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc.
Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
Quarterly award scheme and recognition at every 5 years through our YouRock program
Access to award winning training and development*T&C's apply based on contract

About Mencap
We work in partnership with people with a learning disability, and all our services support people to live life as they choose. Everyone wants a purposeful job - to do something meaningful. At Mencap, we can give you that. You will have opportunities to develop as a person, colleague, leader and activist. We want to make you feel inspired to reach your potential.  
Our work includes;

providing high-quality, flexible services that allow people to live as independently as possible in a place they choose
providing advice through our help lines and web sites
campaigning for the changes that people with a learning disability want