The Energy & Efficiency Industrial Partnership Employer-led Assessment Barry Brooks Strategic Adviser [email protected]

The Energy & Efficiency Industrial Partnership

Employer-led Assessment

Barry BrooksStrategic Adviser

[email protected]

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The policy landscape

Government’s Skills Policies all focus on employer-leadership :

Employer Ownership of Workforce Skills Pilots

Apprenticeship Trailblazers

Gatsby


Which Sectors are involved?

• Energy Supply/ Efficiency– including gas, power, energy assessment and

installation, housing

• Energy Production/ Distribution/ Transmission– including gas, power and renewables

• Environmental Sustainability – including water, waste management and

recycling


Accountable for shaping the Partnership’s overarching strategy and objectives in the context of skills, sustainability and other issues facing the Partnership’s sectors.

Industrial Partnership Council Board


“Together we will take a radical new approach to recruitment and skills.

The Partnership will set the agenda and pioneer new approaches to training development,

delivery and assessment that will yield the skills the sector needs.

By investing in talent the Partnership intends not only to solve its skills shortages,

but also to create jobs and help the whole economy”.

Energy and Efficiency Industrial Partnership


EEIP’s focus and scope

VISION OUTCOMES

Setting the Skills Agenda

Pioneering new approaches to

development, delivery and assessment

Investment in future talent

Simplifying a complex system

Working together for a better future

Meeting business needs

Doing the right thing


Overview of the programme

Job Creation and Talent Retention Pool for the Industry

Employer Ownership Pilot

Attract

Flexible Apprenticeships - Trailblazers

Youth Entrant Programmes

Develop Assure

Diversity, Youth, Experienced, Leadership

Sector Attractiveness

Experienced Talent – up-skilling, re-skilling and leadership

Quality Framework and Approval process

Independent Quality Board

Independent Assessment

Recruitment


The Partnership’s commitments

• Whilst the sector faces large skills challenges we are collectively addressing these by working together

• Our priorities include:– Simplifying a complex system– Working together for a better future– Meeting business needs– Doing the right thing

• Our measures focus activity on:– What we are doing.– How we are doing it.– Are we making the difference needed?


EEIP - a workforce-wide approach to skills

Apprentice

NewEntrant

Improver

• Government requirements• Job/employer requirements• Professional Body requirements• Apprentice requirements

• Government requirements• Employer requirements• Professional Body requirements• Entrant requirements

• Sector requirements• Employer requirements• Professional Body Requirements• Employee requirements

Talent Pool


Blue-print for the new NOS

• An occupation title that secures universal understanding and authenticity. Occupation Title

• A brief overview of the occupation that specifies the observable performance of a competent and effective practitioner. Occupation

Definition

• The core functions of a competent and effective practitioner.Occupation Description

• The essential competencies required by a practitioner to undertake the core functions, as well as, where appropriate, what enhanced performance looks like.

• The qualities that an individual must consistently demonstrate to be recognised as an expert practitioner.

Occupation Knowledge

& Skills

Occupation Attitudes & Behaviours


In the real world of work...

Apprenticeship (group award)

Technical Certificate

National Vocational

Qualification

Functional Skills

Trade Tests Authorisation Levels


Differentiating Performance

Enhanced performance through:Skills and Knowledge

AttitudesBehaviours

Competent:Cognitive, Functional, Methodological, Personal

Industry-led amplification & exemplification

Performance recognised by authorisation

levels

Dis

tincti

on:

Supe

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est)

Perf

orm

ance

Mer

it:

Com

para

tive

(Bett

er)

Perf

orm

ance

Pass

:Po

sitiv

e (G

ood)

Perf

orm

ance


Industry-led assessment

Knowledge:• Factual• Theoretical

Skills:• Cognitive• Practical

Behaviours: • Ethical• Interpersonal

Lear

ning

Out

com

es: C

ompe

tenc

y ac

cord

Competence:

Trade tests

Autonomy:

Authorisation levels

Assessment Principles and associated sector tolerances


Continuum for Independent Assessment

End of programme

synoptic assessment:

Enhanced Trade tests;

Authorisation interviews; knowledge

tests

25%-30%

On-programme assessment



Timing and nature of on-programme assessment potentially employer and/or sector specific such as current trade tests

On-programme assessment + synoptic assessment = competence


From employer assessment to an employer-led assessment system

• Authentic assessment needs to be valid, reliable, manageable (internal assurance), and

• When the public purse contributes there needs to be general public assurance and confidence around: – Rigour– Comparability across assessment decisions and

outcomes– Comparable over time (so standards of competence

remain consistent)• Ofqual manages this for the supply-driven model of VET• Our approach is to secure a demand-led (employer-led)

model.


Characteristics of industry-led assessment

ReliabilityValidity

Safety, Security & Confidentiality

StandardsSustainability

Visibility & Transparency

Fitness for Purpose

Cost Efficiency

Formative &

Summative

CredibilityInte

grity

Productivity & Quality


Why are Energy and Utilities employers excited by independent assessment?

• ‘Own’ assessment mechanisms, processes and procedures

• Streamline assessment of apprenticeships by using trusted industry practice as ‘The’ practice (Trade Tests, Authorisations)

• ‘Own’ occupational standards by sharing IPR through employer-leadership

• Allow qualification market place to develop around customer service and quality of resources and support not assessment and quality assurance

• Strip out duplication and unnecessary service provision (and associated cost) around assessment


What will employer-led independent assessment look like?

• Develop and ‘own’ occupational standards for employers and the sector

• Provide assurance around employer assessment for businesses of all sizes

• Ensure consistency and comparability in assessment practice across and between employers

• Ensure standards of competence are maintained over time

• Provide public assurance of value and impact of public investment

• Establish a talent pool of competent workers for both asset owners and their supply chains


Established industry assessment practices

Workforce Competence

Trade Tests

Competency Accords

EUSRegister

Authorisation Processes


The Quality Assurance Register

Provider Approval

Assessor and Affiliate Training & Approval

Qua

lity

assu

ranc

e, a

udit

and

cont

rol

Standardisation across and between employment settings & standardisation across and between assessor decisions

Collection of data and reporting on performance to include benchmarking & consistency across & between audiences

& constituencies in different contexts and settings


Establishing reliable independent assessment

Employer B’s Assessment Approach

Employer C’s Assessment Approach

Employer D’s Assessment Approach

Employer A’s Assessment Approach

Approaches to assessment developed and based on established custom and practice within and across the sector with a focus on establishing

comparability and consistency

Robust and consistent application of the assessment approaches across the sector including the supply chain

All successful candidates registered on the EUSR together with agreed levels of authorisation for specified roles within and across different employers


Assessment Through Peer Review

Sector Experts: Assessors; Verifiers; External Verifiers

Experts fromEmployer B

AssessingEmployees

from Employer B

Assessing Employees

from Employer A

AssessingEmployees

from Employer C

Experts fromEmployer A

Experts fromEmployer C


The EEIP’s independent assessment

• Increased authenticity and validity in assessment• Streamlined and more efficient and effective

learning and assessment• Increase impact and ROI for employers,

employees and tax-payers• Better quality of service from providers (customer

service and resources focused)• Ensure employer leadership in standards,

assessment and quality assurance• Workforce that is better trained and more flexible


A radical approach to workforce skills

The EEIP is committed to employer ownership for skills development:• For the stock of their existing workforce• For the flow of young people into their workforce

The EEIP recognises that employer ownership is not without its challenges:

• This is paradigm shift from supply-driven to demand-led• There are many established vested interests in established positions• Employers do not have a tradition of speaking with one voice• Competition rather than collaboration has been the tradition.

By investing in talent the Partnership intends not only to solve its skills shortages, but also to create jobs and help

the whole economy

The Energy & Efficiency Industrial Partnership

Employer-led Assessment

Barry BrooksStrategic Adviser

[email protected]

Documents

The Energy & Efficiency Industrial Partnership Employer-led Assessment Barry Brooks Strategic Adviser [email protected]