Excel Me Adds It’s Professional Expertise to Apprenticeship End Point Assessments

With apprenticeships growing in popularity and prestige in recent years as leading businesses embrace them to close skill gaps, Excel Me, an End Point Assessment Organisation (EPAO), is bringing its professional experience to the table, to help bolster the opportunities for employers, training providers, and apprentices in the leisure and hospitality sector.

In support, as a specialist skills partner of Safety Training Awards, an award-winning Awarding Organisation offering Ofqual regulated professional qualifications, Excel Me has brought together a team of highly professional apprenticeship assessors, who uniquely all have lived experience of working in the leisure and hospitality sector. 

The team’s knowledge of the market, alongside their fundamental understanding of employer skills needs, firmly position’s Excel Me has an organisation that can robustly and impartially assess apprentices of all ages against the required apprenticeship standards to ensure occupational competence – all while providing a flexible, informed approach to assessments so that they meet the needs of the employer.

Excel Me offers end-point assessment services that cover:

• Level 2 Leisure Team Member
• Level 2 Customer Service Practitioner
• Level 3 Customer Service Specialist
• Level 3 Business Administrator
• Level 3 Team Leader or Supervisor
• Level 5 Operations Departmental Manager

By setting up Excel Me, and notably bringing together this high level of assessment experience, we can give employers confidence that the apprentices completing an apprenticeship standard can actually perform in the occupation they have been trained in and can demonstrate the duties, and knowledge, skills and behaviours set out in the occupational standard.

Zac Cheek, Head of Apprenticeships at Excel Me

“Skill shortages in leisure and hospitality are well documented, but the recent reforms in apprenticeships are providing fit-for-purpose career pathways for people of all ages, and we want to use, and share our real-life expertise so that everyone can benefit from this opportunity and excel through the process,” added Zac who has extensive experience in qualifications and apprenticeship management. 

Apprenticeship standards offer a world of opportunities for employers and those seeking a career in leisure, from finance and sales to catering and marketing.