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• Quick refresher on key apprenticeship information
• Library Information and Archive Services Assistant Standard
• End Point Assessment – what it is and how it works
• Overview of our programme
• Benefits and next steps if you’re a service that wants to offer
this apprenticeship
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Apprenticeships - quick refresher
• Apprenticeships combine practical training in a job with study
through a formal training programme with a registered
provider; off the job training at least 20% of time
• Based around a standard describing the knowledge, skills and
behaviours (KSBs) needed to carry out the role and a plan for
End Point Assessment through which the apprentice
demonstrates competence in KSBs
• Developed by employer groups supported by the Institute for
Apprenticeships
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Library Information and Archives Services
Assistant Apprenticeship standard
• Developed in 2018 by a cross-sector trailblazer group
• Level 3
• 22 knowledge elements, 19 skills elements, 16 behaviours
(KSBs) mapped to 12 Occupation duties
Library, information and archive services assistant / Institute for Apprenticeshi
ps and Technical Education
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End Point Assessment (EPA)
• Final assessment of the apprenticeship; gives apprentice the
opportunity to show that they have the knowledge, skills and
behaviours required for the role.
• Delivered by an independent registered apprentice assessment
organisation (RAAO), not the training provider or employer –
CILIP Pathways. Guidance documents.
• EPA period is a maximum of 3 months and starts when
apprentice has met the Gateway requirements
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EPA Gateway requirements
• Achieved Maths and English at Level 2
• Spent a minimum of 12 months on the programme
• Employer should be satisfied that you are consistently working
at or above the level of the occupational standard and that you
feel ready for EPA
• Employer and training provider sign the Gateway Declaration
Form and training provider submits it to CILIP Pathways along
with portfolio of evidence and evidence of eligibility
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Content of EPA
2 elements:
1. Work based project report and presentation with questions
Scope and title agreed with employer, Project Approval Form
completed within 7 days of start of EPA period
Preparation via teaching sessions, specific project planning
sessions, workplace observation and questioning
2. Professional discussion, underpinned by a portfolio
10-15 pieces of evidence with appendices. Preparation via
teaching sessions. Assignments cover portfolio topics.
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Examples of EPA project themes to date:
• Making collection/resources available for specific user
groups
• Promoting stock for specific user groups
• Workshops for users/developing the skills of users
• Social media
• Support for users with disabilities
• Moving face to face services online
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Stockton Learning and Skills
Service – Background
• Has provided further education in the region for over 50
years
• Offers a range of opportunities – apprenticeships,
workforce development, Maths, English, ICT functional
skills, ESOL, community & family learning
• Qualification achievement rate for apprentices above the
national average
• Rated ‘Good’ by OFSTED
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Overview of our programme
• Developed since May 2021
• Scheme of work with 33 teaching sessions once a fortnight
from September 2021 - January 2023, each linked to KSBs in
the standard
• Face to face induction, on-line sessions using Teams, visits
• Preparatory work for each session
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Overview of our programme
• 12 written assignments linked to End Point Assessment
• Workplace observation and professional discussion
• Support and practice to develop a project
• VQ Manager e-portfolio system, records off the job training
• 3 way reviews at 5 weeks and then every 12 weeks
• Paid for CILIP student membership
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Benefits for Library Services:
• New entrants to the service
• Supports workforce/succession planning
• Makes the most of government funding
• Provides continuing professional development
opportunities for existing employees
• Service improvement
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If you want to offer an apprenticeship
• Develop proposal including Job Description with HR team
• Find a registered provider
https://findapprenticeshiptraining.apprenticeships.education.gov.
uk/
or
• (Particularly if organisation already has experience of
delivering training/apprenticeships) consider becoming a
registered provider
