Employment

1. Atalian Servest
Employability Session One

2. Content for today
• Welcome and introductions
• Practicalities
• Your times on the programme
• What you need to complete the programme
successfully
• Intent/Implementation
• Pre-course items
• Moodle demonstration
• Next steps
• Invite for questions
• End

3. Introductions
• Holly Fairburn - Lancashire Adult Learning,
Employability Tutor
holly.fairburn@nelsongroup.ac.uk – for
programme related enquiries

4. Practicalities of live sessions
• Please do not share personal details on group
chat/presentations
• Everyone will be on mute whilst the presentation
is taking place
• Type any questions and/or use the ‘hands up’
buttons in the chat pane – we’ll try and answer
them as we go along or we will go over them at
the end.
• Email any questions about the programme to
holly.fairburn@nelsongroup.ac.uk

5. What you need
• Access to a computer/laptop or tablet essential
• Internet
• Webcam/video capability
• Photo ID – For assessments
If you only have a mobile phone – You need to email
so we can check phone capability of doing
assessments whilst in a live session.
This is a requirement of completing the end
assessments

6. What is the intent of the course?
To prepare you to effectively demonstrate skills,
relevant training, knowledge and attributes required to
be successful in application for the Atalian Servest role.

7. Course Objectives
1. Identify personal skills and attributes relevant to the role
2. State examples of demonstrating a variety of personal skills and attributes
3. Prepare for an interview to perform confidently and effectively, by taking
part in the live session, accessing and completing Moodle’s resources and
tasks independently and taking part in a Mock Interview

8. You will:
• Undertake relevant training and development to
support with a successful application for roles
available
• Analyse a job description to understand the role
and match your own skills, training and knowledge
to the requirements
• Consider how to apply the STAR technique to your
own competencies – To support during interview
• Have the opportunity to complete optional training
and mock interviews

9. Pre-course information – You
should already have…
• Completed an Initial Assessment
• Received your Activity Planner for details about
training – Copy is also on Moodle
• You will received your Moodle login details via email

10. Hygiene Operative
As a Hygiene Operative working in an abattoir
environment, you will be responsible for the cleaning of
machines and production areas. You will be a team
player, resilient and will be able to adapt to the factory
environment which can be busy, pressured, and wet.
Full training is provided and Atalian Servest actively
encourages all positive and reliable workers to apply.

11. Hygiene Operative
Key Responsibilities:
Maintaining standards of hygiene, quality and product
safety within the designated area Follow agreed controls for
safe working practices in relation to personnel, product,
processes and/or raw materials, identifying risks and taking
the appropriate actions to ensure a safe working
environment. Working with chemicals (training provided)
and washdown equipment. Other general hygiene-related
duties

12. Hygiene Operative
Key Attributes:
Be customer-driven, with the ability to work well as a
team. Be an effective communicator and able to work
with people at all levels of ability and from different
cultures and backgrounds. Positive work ethic, reliable,
honest and committed. Able to work under pressure
and take ownership of processes and responsibility for
own workload.

13. Questions
What is the wage? –
It depends on the shift. AM shift is £9.11ph (40hrs per week). PM and Nights is £10.08
(37.5hrs per week). Shifts are Mon to Fri. Time and a half for weekends.
What holiday's do staff get?
Its 28 days per year. The 1st year they are on an accrual basis so works out at just
over 2.3 days per month.
How many roles are available?
It’s hard to quantify it but there’s generally a place for anyone who’s willing to give it a
proper go.
What is the application process?
Is there a job spec and an application form to send? – I’ll interview them and then invite
them to an induction if all goes well. All paperwork will be sorted at the induction stage.

14. Skills and Qualities
A skill requires learning,
often acquired through
specialist training and
knowledge. It can be
loosely defined as the
‘what’ we can do well
A quality, on the other
hand, is more about
‘who’ we are as a
person; a distinctive
attribute or
characteristic
possessed by someone
or something.

15. What are
transferable skills?
Transferable skills are a core set of skills and abilities,
which can be applied to a wide range of different jobs and
industries. They're usually developed over time, and can
be gained from previous positions, charity or voluntary
work, your hobbies, or even just at home.

16. Moodle demonstration
Please ask any questions in
the chat pane

17. Next Steps
• After this meeting you will be able to start completing tasks
which are set on Moodle
• These tasks are monitored and activity/scores/feedback
recorded
Access Moodle to complete the following;
Exploring transferrable skills from different careers – 2 activities:
1. Read through skills from different careers presentation
2. Complete ‘Exploring occupational areas – Assessment 1’
3. Complete Assessment 2
After lunch:
1. Attend live virtual session at 1pm on BBB – Q & A ,Progress Check,
Introduction to AIM Qualifications

18. Questions
• Questions from the chat pane
• Any one with only a mobile device must get in
contact as we need to arrange a live meeting to
check your phone’s capability to allow the running
of video whilst doing assessments
• Email: holly.fairburn@nelsongroup.ac.uk