Train Your Staff To Become Quality Instructors and Assessors
At SP Training, we have decades of experience in upskilling drivers to be competent trainers and assessors. From our Instructor Academy in Carlisle, we are set up to deliver a comprehensive list of accredited courses such as the VTCT Skills for Logistics – Register of Logistics Instructors qualifications comprising: LGV Instructor, Driver Trainer / Assessor (DTA), Driver Assessor (DA) & RTITB Lift Truck Instructor.
The VTCT Skills for Logistics DVSA recognised LGV Instructor, DTA, DA programmes, along with the approved Low Carbon Instructor course help businesses upskill staff, reduce risk and lower costs.
As a business, we realise the importance of having quality trainers to deliver quality courses. Nationally, we have a large team of instructors from a variety of backgrounds!
Why would a business want to upskill their own staff, rather than asking someone like SP Training to deliver their training?
Large businesses often need regular, or even job specific, training requirements. Training your own instructors and assessors ensures drivers are trained and assessed to a national standard and giving consistency while they’re representing the business. It is key that all instructors operating in a business are using the same standards and continue with their CPD to remain competent.
Upskilling a member of staff to be able to assess or deliver training allows a business to take ownership, creating more flexibility, faster reactions to changes, and an overall more efficient training structure.
Instructor Qualities
When selecting a member of staff to upskill, there are certain candidate qualities businesses should consider. Broadly speaking, an ideal candidate should be:
- A skilled driver with experience in driving a range of vehicles.
- Confident, reliable, literate, and numerate.
- Sufficiently able to understand their obligations to carry out driving assessments and/or training on behalf of the organisation.
- Patient and flexible in their approach with people to suit a variety of needs, backgrounds and personality types.
- Articulate with good interpersonal and communication skills.
Key personal attributes of confidence, knowledge and communication ensure that an instructor can deliver effectively and efficiently.
The role of a LGV Instructor, Driver Trainer/Assessor or Driver Assessor is a key role that supports the management of risk in a business. Appointing the right individual with the required temperament and personal attributes is critical to ensuring the driving assessment and/or training is carried out systematically and accurately.
Depending on the course they are being upskilled to deliver, further qualifications and teaching experience may be required – for those without the relevant experience, we can help by providing an Education & Training Level 3 Qualification!
Instructor Academy Courses
Click on any of the links below for full course details.
VTCT Skills For Logistics LGV Instructor
This modular course focuses on the theoretical and practical aspects of qualifying for the VTCT Skills for Logistics – Register of Logistics Instructors.
The course covers the skills and knowledge required to train new drivers. It also carries out the assessment and training of newly qualified and experienced drivers helping them to develop their careers. Candidates who successfully complete the course and pass all three examinations will be able to apply for registration to the VTCT Skills For Logistics – Register of Logistics Instructors.
VTCT Skills For Logistics Driver Trainer Assessor
This course focuses on the practical aspects of driver assessment and coaching. This can prove an extremely cost-effective way of providing training throughout a company.
Subsequent in-house training ensures drivers are taught about driving safely and responsibly, with consideration of their fuel economy and other road users. The course will train candidates to carry out driving assessments and provide corrective training for HGV drivers.
VTCT Skills For Logistics Driver Assessor
Often the first step in a potential trainer’s journey is to become a Driver Assessor.
A Driver Assessor’s role is to assess drivers against a recognised risk grading, allowing the business an understanding of the level of a risk each driver poses. A key benefit to this structured assessment is ensuring that all drivers are graded in the same way to a recognised and robust national standard.
Driver Assessors are taught how to risk grade in 5 bands from low risk to high risk, enabling training and interventions to be targeted at the higher risk drivers. Driver Assessors benefit businesses by identifying risk and helping to reduce driver accident severity and frequency.
Many businesses have Driver Assessors who are overseen by Driver Trainer Assessors, whose role is to train drivers to improve their skills and reduce their risk grading. Although candidates can go straight to a DTA course, it is often the next step in a trainer’s journey. This qualification enables successful candidates to apply for to VTCT Skills for Logistics – Register of Logistics Instructors.
Low Carbon Instructor
SP Training’s new three-day Low Carbon Instructor course enables you to cut your fuel use, reduce your environmental impact and help your customers reduce their Scope 3 emissions.
It also allows you to extend the range of your vehicles, reduce vehicle incidents, improve road safety and reduce driver fatigue while improving the skills and efficiency of your drivers.
Developed initially for large vehicles, the training is applicable for all types of fleet vehicles from 44-tonne HGV to fleet cars. The qualification is recognised as CPD for existing instructors.
Implementing low-carbon training can achieve fuel savings of over five per cent. The course is for existing instructors or assessors. The
Skills for Logistics-accredited course offers candidates the tools to train drivers in safe and fuel efficient driving methods applicable to all motive energy types including conventional fuel, hybrid, battery and hydrogen.
Driver CPC Trainer
The Driver CPC Trainer course develops new and existing trainers’ skills to deliver high quality classroom based training courses. You will learn how to deliver training that complies with DVSA requirements in a dynamic and effective manner using multimedia and modern teaching techniques.
Who should attend?
Commercial trainers, new and existing in-house trainers, driver trainer assessors (DTAs), fuel champions, or anyone who wishes to develop knowledge of instructional techniques and lesson planning.
RTITB FLT Instructor
The SP Training RTITB Lift Truck Instructor course will provide candidates with the skills required to prepare and examine operators for the working environment of lift trucks. Candidates will be equipped to understand how to do this in accordance with agreed best practice.
Successful completion of the course will require candidates to pass an examination that covers basic operating skills, associated knowledge and practical instructional ability. Courses are available for inexperienced instructors, instructors converting from ITSSAR, AITT or NPORS as well as re-registration.
Want to speak to one of our expert team?
We are ready to have an informal chat, discuss your business needs or advise on the best way to start your training journey. With over 20 years of experience in the business, we can help you!
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