SVQ Assessor - Verifier

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We have an exciting opportunity for a confident, innovative, highly motivated and experienced person to assess and verify social services employees who will be completing Social Services and Healthcare and Social Services (Children and Young People) Awards at SCQF L6, L7 and L9 and the Care Services Leadership and Management Award at SCQF L10 to meet both Continuous Professional Development and Scottish Social Services Council Registration requirements. Experience of supporting the delivery of foundation and modern apprenticeship programmes would be desirable.

We are looking for someone to add value to our well-established assessment centre team.

We are proud of our track record of positive external verification visits by SQA, dating back many years. Some feedback from our recent SQA visits:

Nov 2025 Qualification Verification reports reflected high confidence in the delivery of awards across all criteria with examples of good practice across the three verification groups: Resources, Candidate Support and Internal Assessment and Verification.

A quote from the Qualifications External Verifier “The assessment centre is very well organised with excellent Assessors and Internal Verifiers (IVs) who understand and follow SQA guidance. The feedback from candidates was positive and the assessment decisions sampled were all correct. EVs saw evidence of good, clear planning, support and feedback via the VQfolio e-portfolio system, evidence of high-quality feedback from IVs and there are policies and procedure in place that can support good practice. This is currently a good example of a centre delivering high quality qualifications fully following SQA requirements.”

With a forward-thinking ethos, the centre is developing foundation and modern apprenticeship programmes to develop the young workforce and support career pathways into health and social care.

As Assessor-Verifier you will:

support candidates through induction for their qualification, plan assessments, provide learner support and assess evidence holistically.

engage in quality assurance and standardisation activities to ensure that required standards of awards are met. You will provide support and guidance to Assessors as well as have an active role in centre development.

The post requires you to hold a social services and healthcare qualification at SCQF L9 or equivalent, recognised SSSC registerable qualifications.

You will require to hold the L&D9di awards or equivalent Assessor qualification, and you should have the L&D11 or equivalent Internal Verifier award.

You should be passionate about learning and experienced in offering additional support to suit a variety of learning styles and abilities. You should have strong organisational and communication skills and be confident in the use of online tools such as Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Office and e-portfolio systems.

The post will be managed by the SVQ Centre Contact and is part of the Social Work Training and Workforce Development Team located in The Foundry, Larbert. Hybrid working is encouraged, supporting flexibility and good work life balance.

If you are the successful candidate, you will be required to gain/maintain PVG scheme membership.

Closing date: 30^th January 2026.

Interviews will take place on 12^th February 2026.

For further information and informal discussion please contact:

Andrew Clydesdale

SVQ and Career Pathways Manager

mobile:  07921942211

email: andrew.clydesdale@falkirk.gov.uk