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Title: National Occupational Standards (NOS) for Local Land Charges and Property Information


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National Occupational Standards (NOS) for Local
Land Charges and Property Information
  • Clare Vokes, Senior Research Executive
  • Pye Tait Consulting

2
Pye Tait Consulting
  • Specialists in
  • skills and labour research
  • Standards and qualifications development
  • Conducting the review of Local Land Charges and
    Property Information NOS and the NVQs

3
Asset Skills
  • The Sector Skills Council (SSC) for Facilities
    Management, Housing, Property, Planning, Cleaning
    and Parking
  • Employer-led
  • One of 25 SSCs
  • Lead on skills issues

4
Background
  • Standards in existence for the public sector
  • Reviewed (2007) to ensure they are up to date
    to include new units for those working in other
    departments (e.g. Highways)
  • NVQs at Level 3 and Level 4
  • Completing the picture for the sector by adding
    coverage for private companies

5
The project
  • Addressing calls for professionalisation
  • Developing new units for
  • Level 3 Supervisory
  • Level 4 Middle Management
  • Adding into the current NVQs a route for personal
    search agents

6
So far...
  • Liaised with professional bodies and personal
    search companies
  • Background scoping
  • Written new standards for personal search agents
  • Reviewed the standards with the sector

7
What are NOS?
  • Define competence in a job role or occupational
    area
  • Divided into units covering broad functions
  • Describe required performance and underpinning
    knowledge
  • Written in outcome terms
  • Free!
  • They are not
  • Mandatory
  • A training course

8
What do they look like?
  • Unit title
  • Unit overview
  • Performance statements
  • Knowledge requirements

9
Do they cover all sectors?
  • NOS exist for many different sectors
  • Specialist, sector specific
  • Generic, cross-sector
  • Management Leadership
  • Administration
  • Customer Service

10
What are they used for?
  • Identifying skills needs
  • Training needs analyses
  • Training programmes
  • Qualifications development
  • Job descriptions
  • Recruitment
  • Appraisals
  • Staff retention

11
Qualifications
  • NOS used as a basis on which NVQs are built
  • Level 3 roughly equivalent to A level
  • Level 4 roughly equivalent to HND
  • A range of mandatory and optional units

12
Next steps
  • Documentation submitted to the approvals body
  • National Occupational Standards
  • Qualification structures
  • NOS freely available to use for...

13
Outcome
  • Monitoring performance
  • Specifying organisational competence needs
  • Linking training and development to strategy and
    objectives
  • Preparing recruitment specifications
  • Preparing job advertisements
  • Job design
  • Identifying trends in skills requirements
  • Developing training programmes
  • Self-assessment
  • A format for internal assessment and appraisal
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