Senior People Professional Apprenticeship

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Senior People Professional
Apprenticeship Level 7

Senior People Professional Apprenticeship Level 7 Overview

A Senior People Professional is the in-house expert in people, work and change. They champion the people agenda to create working environments and cultures that help get the best out of people, delivering great organisational outcomes.”

The Senior People Professional Apprenticeship, as the name suggests, is designed for those typically in senior leadership positions rather than those working towards those roles. However, you will be eligible if you’re in a senior generalist HR or Learning & Development role or more specialist Organisational Development, Change Management, Employee Experience or Talent role. From what we know of the industry, this standard seems to reflect that the People Profession is a broad one with many different aspects.

Details Of The Programme

The Senior People Professional apprenticeship usually takes around 2-3 years to complete during which you will participate in training, development and on-going review activities. These typically include

Snapshot of Skills You Will Develop Include:

How to design & Implement a range of people policies
How to recognise the interventions an organisation needs to create the desired cultures and behaviours
How to create and manage relevant budgets
How to design and contribute to the formulation and shaping of the people strategy
How to interpret and offer insight into data and metrics
How to question accepted practice and articulate the need for change

Snapshot of Behaviours That Will be Developed:

Be role models in ethical behaviour & practices and challenge decisions and actions that are not ethical
Be able to demonstrate professional courage
Be able to make a visible commitment to valuing people and enable people to have a meaningful voice in decisions that impact them
Be able to actively create opportunities to learn
Be able to take evidence based approaches to decision making
Strategic and commercial mind-set to drive and enable change

The End Point Assessment Process

Assessment Gateway

At the assessment gateway, your employer will make the decision that you are ready to undertake the end-point assessment.
Before going forward for endpoint assessment, you must have:

The employer must be content that the apprentice is working at or above the level of the occupational standard.
Apprentices must have achieved English and mathematics at Level 2.
Apprentices must submit a portfolio of evidence to their EPAO, which will underpin the professional discussion end-point assessment method.
The EPAO should sign off the work-based project proposal’s title and scope to confirm its suitability at the gateway.

End Point Assessment

Following successful completion of the Gateway, you will proceed to endpoint assessment (EPA).
The EPA is undertaken by an independent assessment organisation.
The End Point assessment components are:

Assessment method 1: Professional discussion underpinned by a portfolio of evidence
Assessment method 2: Project proposal, presentation and questioning.

All components of the endpoint assessment must be completed and an endpoint assessment grade will be determined by the endpoint assessor.