UWE Bristol, School of Health & Social Wellbeing is seeking a Field External Examiner and External Assessor for Health Community & Policy Studies.
Essential: Applicants must have Environmental Health Officers Registration Board (EHRB) certificate or equivalent
The External Examiner will also be the External Assessor for the Degree Apprenticeship. Further details can be found below.
The portfolio will cover some of the following modules:
- Environmental Health Professional Practice
- Environmental Health Risk and Law
- Environmental Protection and Sustainability
- Food Control
- Health and Safety Management
- Housing and Healthy Neighbourhoods
- Introduction to Environmental and Public Health
- Quantitative Health Research
Please note, your final portfolio may require you to cover modules beyond this specific professional area. Some of the modules also include examining those delivered at our collaborative provision partners and therefore, familiarity with collaborative provision/partnerships is desirable.
This post is considered as two roles and therefore, you will receive two annual payments following submission of both annual reports.
The External Assessor (EA) is a role created and overseen by the Office for Students for integrated and fully (statutory) integrated apprenticeships. As an External Assessor with specific occupational knowledge, you’ll provide external quality assurance of the End-Point Assessment (EPA). Further information developed by Office for Students (OfS) regarding the role of the External Assessor can be found here.
As External Assessor, you will ‘visit’ UWE (online or in person) annually and report on your findings. You will report each year on:
- your observations, meetings and sampling undertaken
- any issues or activities within the context of the delivery of End Point Assessments that do not meet the requirements of the Standard, or pose a risk to effective End Point Assessment delivery and/ or the achievement of occupational competence
- areas of good practice and developmental advice
- progress with any items for improvement previously raised with the EPAO by the External Assessor
The applicant as a minimum will:
- understand the apprenticeship standard and end-point assessment plan found here: Skills England
- have an Environmental Health Officers Registration Board (EHRB) certificate or equivalent
- comply to the requirements of the EPAO
- be independent of the apprentice, and the employing organisation who are involved in delivering the apprenticeship
All appointments are subject to meeting the University’s criteria for the appointment of external examiners. The External Examiners operational guide can be accessed by using this link: https://www.uwe.ac.uk/study/academic-information/assessments/external-examiners. The guide contains further information regarding the role and responsibilities of external examiners.