End Point Assessor - Hospitality

What you will be doing: 

Reporting to an End Point Assessor Manager, you’ll be working with apprentices and their employers to plan, carry out and report on End Point Assessments. Making decisions for apprenticeship standards and overall grades, you’ll use your expertise to make fair and independent assessment judgments against the standard’s grading criteria. You’ll also carry out administration and keep your sector knowledge up to date.  

With a great work/life balance, and with the support of our expert and friendly team, you’ll have the chance to not only help people improve their prospects, but to help our business achieve its ambitions.  

As an EPA your role will be varied and flexible and will include working from home and visits out in the field within the sector you specialise in.  

Who you are: 

You have a wealth of professional experience in Hospitality, having worked as a supervisor or manager. Able to interact with a wide range of learners, you’re empathetic yet effective in your tasks and a keen communicator, whether that’s written or verbal. You’ll be confident working autonomously but also a keen team player. Your time management and administration skills will be second to none.  

What you’ll need: 

A proven passion for and hands-on, extensive FOH & basic BOH hospitality experience is essential for this role as well as an assessors qualification. You will ideally have the following experience: team member/supervisor/general manager with experience in housekeeping/reception/front office/reception. Basic chef experience would be advantageous.

Access to a vehicle and your own IT equipment are a must, and you’ll be familiar with MS Office and other IT systems (training will be provided for epaPRO). You will also require a formal assessor's qualification such as A1, D32, D33 Level 3 TAQA or CAVA. 

What we offer:  

In return for applying your skills and experience as an Associate End Point Assessor you will be welcomed and integrated in to the Innovate culture, so you really feel part of the team.   

You will enjoy the flexibility to manage your own work, to suit your work/life balance. 

As an Innovate Associate you will also benefit from

• Core Hours: Monday - Friday 9.00 - 5.30
• Generous mileage allowance  
• Comprehensive onboarding
• Payment for standardisation and training events

Who are Innovate

Innovate Awarding is an independent awarding organisation with a 'no surprises approach' to assessment.  We provide End-point Assessment services for apprenticeship Standards, and vocational qualifications for work-based learning and those transitioning to work, across 15 sectors and we're growing. We’re trusted by employers and their training organisations across the country to evaluate Apprentice competence.

Innovate is part of the Lifetime Training Group. As a Group we are passionate about learning and creating life changing opportunities for our learners.  We are made up of four unique businesses, two of which focus on apprentice training across a range of professions, one that focusses on awarding qualifications, and one which develops the awarding software.  

We are at the forefront of innovative training and awarding and as a larger group network we can offer a broad range of development opportunities, great benefits and a people focussed reward and recognition offering.