Assessor Refresher Course

Stay up to date with the latest assessment standards and best practices, ensuring compliance and continued effectiveness as an assessor.

Course Overview

This course is designed to refresh and bring up to date the skills of existing assessors. However, it could also be delivered to new assessors who will not be assessing safety critical roles and therefore do not need the full Assessor Award qualification.

Booking Your Award

To book an Assessor Refresher Course or to enquire for further information, please contact bookings@assesstech.com, where a member of the AssessTech team will be happy to assist.

Benefits of AssessTech
What's covered in the Course

Benefits of AssessTech

AssessTech are in a unique position to provide this training, for the following reasons:

AssessTech provide competence management systems that are used widely within the railway industry, and as such understand a wide variety of competence management standards.
AssessTech has been instrumental in the adoption of developmental assessment methods within the railway industry
AssessTech is a City and Guilds centre and also delivers the full Assessor Award.

What's covered in the Course

The course covers:

Complaints and Appeals
Equal opportunities.
Roles of individuals within the assessment process
Why do we assess?
The Swiss cheese theory.
A ‘Just Culture’
Planning Assessments
Assisting the Candidate to prepare for the assessment
Using performance criteria effectively within assessments
Conducting a developmental, holistic assessment.
Collecting and judging evidence using a range of methods
Ensuring quality in assessing performance and diverse evidence
Incorporating a developmental grading system.
Using NTS markers to enhance the assessment.
The supporting of the candidate’s development within the workplace.
80/20 developmental feedback.
Recording developmental feedback.
Producing concise honest assessment records to support the candidate.
Use of Company standards
CPD – RSSB Assessment best practise guide
ORR – Developing and maintaining staff competence
Use of E-systems for gathering and storing assessments (optional).
Assisting the candidate take ownership of their competence.
Standardisation activities
The mature assessment model

Course Delivery

The course is delivered as one or two days of training, based in a classroom. It consists of a mixture of formal learning and practical exercises including walking through scenarios based on historical incidents. The choice of one or two days depends on customer preference and whether or not detailed training on how to use the company’s internal systems is required. There is also the option to have an online version of this course.