1. Developing your skills
“Growing your potential…”

2. What’s it all about? Developing your skills set over 12 months
Creating a skill set relevant to the sector and beyond
Producing a ‘file of evidence’ to validate your skills and experience.
Vital employability skills

3. Developing your skill set
Government, and previous governments, have stressed the importance of work based learning
“For the first time, a new generation of young people are seeing apprenticeships as the route to a brighter future. Now is the time to reform the apprenticeship system in order to put it at the forefront of economic growth for years to come. Alongside universities, apprenticeships are the new norm for young people leaving school”. (Mathew Hancock MP)

4. Portfolio: Development Areas
Your job role
Identifying one or two ‘role related’ skills.
Accounting skills
Focused around ‘Core’ Accounting skills
Organisational Awareness
Generic skills and IT and software

5. Instruction and documents
Function
Stage
Apprentice Portfolio review
Introduces the overall structure of the portfolio and initiates you to complete an action plan.
Start of the apprenticeship
EPO Role record
To record role, tenure within the role and mentor details.
The Apprentice Role
To define skills, based around your work role and in conjunction with your employer, that will be evidenced and developed over a defined period.
Start of the apprenticeship.
Key Accounting Skills
On-going
Organisational Awareness
On going
ICT and Generic Skills

6. Type of evidence ‘Simple evidence collection’
mentor sign off, blogs, ‘print offs’, testimonies
Competency
You can…
You are able to….
Competency level
Demonstrates Knowledge
Applying knowledge
Analyse
Type of evidence
The competency level is an indication of your level of exposure and standing with a particular task or duty.
Competency levels will depend on exposure to certain tasks, job roles and organisational need
Demonstrating knowledge and awareness
Application- Produce evidence where you have been actively involved or performed the task in question
Analysis- how it impacts on other areas/factors and multiple contexts
For example, attendance of a meeting/research (reading articles/reports
For example, Screen shot/print off/ s
For example, statement/mentor sign off/contribution to reports/ s/blog entry with mentor sign off.

7. EPO Role Support the process
Initial definition of your role and where you will be based
Defining evidence re: the specialist role

8. Collecting evidence and Competency levels
Based on Blooms taxonomy
Evidence can be:
print off
Project work
Blog (See blog)
Employer agreed evidence
‘Simple mentor sign off’

9. Summary Integral part of your apprenticeship
Validation of your experience
Collection of ‘real’ evidence
Portable
Reviewed at periodic points of the year
Signed off by your Mentor and CIPFA at the end of the apprenticeship.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITY