• Job Description

  Req#: 22487

  Role: Specialist, Service Delivery Management - Horse/Animal Care

  Description: In this role, you will coach and assess apprentices in Horse and Animal Care, ensuring high-quality delivery, strong learner progress and successful achievement of apprenticeship standards.

  This role aligns with market titles such as Apprenticeship Coach, Equine Assessor, Animal Care Trainer, or Work-Based Learning Coach.

  The Role

  This role exists to ensure apprentices receive structured, engaging and compliant training that leads to successful programme completion and positive career progression.

  You will manage a caseload of learners, delivering underpinning knowledge, conducting progress reviews and assessing competence in workplace settings. Your focus will be on maintaining quality, safeguarding learner wellbeing and supporting achievement against apprenticeship standards.

  Your work directly contributes to workforce capability and employer confidence.

  What You’ll Be Excited to Work On

  • Coaching apprentices in real-world equine and animal care environments
  • Supporting learners to build confidence, technical competence and professional behaviours
  • Delivering engaging sessions that connect theory to workplace practice
  • Working closely with employers to ensure alignment between training and operational needs

  Your First 6 Months

  In your first six months, you will:

  • Take ownership of an apprentice caseload and establish strong employer relationships
  • Deliver structured reviews in line with ESFA and Pearson TQ quality standards
  • Ensure all compliance documentation is accurate and audit-ready
  • Identify and implement targeted support to keep learners on track

  Why This Role Is Different

  At Pearson TQ, our apprenticeship delivery is employer-connected and outcomes-driven. You will not only assess competence — you will actively shape learner development and contribute to continuous improvement across programmes.

  This is a role where quality, learner experience and employer partnership are equally important.

  What You’ll Own

  Success in This Role Looks Like:

  • Apprentices progressing on programme and achieving on time
  • Strong employer engagement and positive learner feedback
  • High-quality, compliant documentation aligned to funding and regulatory standards
  • Early identification and resolution of learner risks or barriers

  Top Priorities:

  1. Deliver and assess apprenticeship standards in Horse/Animal Care
  2. Conduct structured progress reviews and coaching sessions
  3. Maintain compliance with safeguarding, quality and funding requirements

  You’ll Lead, Create or Influence:

  • Individual learning journeys and development plans
  • Training delivery that enhances workplace performance
  • Quality improvement and standardisation activities
  • Sharing best practice across Pearson TQ teams

  About You

  You bring sector experience in Horse or Animal Care, along with apprenticeship delivery or assessment expertise. Most importantly, you are passionate about developing others and preparing them for sustainable careers.

  You likely have:

  • A Level 3 (or equivalent) qualification in a relevant sector
  • Experience delivering or assessing apprenticeship standards
  • Strong planning, coaching and learner support skills
  • Confidence working independently while collaborating across teams

  Desirable: Assessor qualifications (A1/D32/D33 or equivalent), safeguarding and EDI training, Functional Skills delivery experience.

  You are someone who:

  • Demonstrates a learner-first mindset
  • Builds strong partnerships with employers
  • Manages competing priorities with professionalism
  • Upholds safeguarding and inclusion as core responsibilities

  You must be willing to travel as required and obtain enhanced DBS clearance.

  What You’ll Get

  • The opportunity to develop the next generation of skilled professionals
  • A role that blends coaching, assessment and employer partnership
  • Ongoing CPD and professional development
  • The chance to contribute to nationally recognised apprenticeship delivery

  Ready to Make an Impact?

  Apply now and help build the skills that power the workforce of tomorrow.

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• About the company

  At Pearson, our purpose is simple: to add life to a lifetime of learning. We believe that every learning opportunity is a chance for a personal breakthrough.

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