Expedition Assessor Accreditation Scheme

The DofE’s Expedition Assessor Accreditation Scheme (EAAS) is the national training route to becoming an accredited DofE Expedition Assessor. The scheme outlines the steps required to be eligible for the Expedition Assessor role and is mandatory for individuals intending on assessing DofE expeditions.

Route to accreditation

Some of the benefits of being an accredited Expedition Assessor include:

  • Achieving a nationally recognised DofE accreditation and Expedition Assessor’s ID card;
  • Receiving a DofE card giving you a discount of 15-20% at GO Outdoors, Blacks, Millets, Ultimate Outdoors and Tiso in-store and online;
  • Joining the DofE’s Assessor Directory
Route to accreditation

There are several mandatory steps towards achieving accreditation. These steps are not all linear and could be completed in any order e.g. you can register with an LO/AAP before completing the Expedition Assessor and Supervisor Pathway. An individual’s progress on these steps can be checked at any time under Training ‘My Expedition Assessor accreditation’ section in their eDofE account.

Complete the Expedition Assessor and Supervisor Pathway

You should request this learning pathway by registering for it through the Opportunity Finder, using your eDofE log in details when prompted for this at the application stage. If you don’t currently have an eDofE account please ask your Licensed Organisation to create one for you.

If you belong to an organisation that hasn’t yet got access to eDofE or an Approved Activity Provider (AAP) then please complete the relevant information boxes within the Opportunity Finder booking process.

You will receive an email from the DofE saying that you have been approved to access this pathway within two working days:

  • If you already have a learning platform account, log in and you will find your new learning in your ‘Must Do’ section
  • If you haven’t accessed the learning platform before you will receive an invitation from the Learning platform from [email protected] titled Welcome to the DofE Learning Platform, this will come within 24 hours of your email approving you to attend the pathway. If you haven’t received the email please check your junk/spam folders and if you still can’t find it, please ask your IT team to white list the above email address. Then email [email protected] and ask them to resend the link.

You will need to complete the Foundations pathway if you haven’t already done so, and this will be available in your ‘Must Do’ section on the learning platform. Once you have completed the Foundations Pathway the Expedition Assessor and Supervisor learning will appear.

Once you have completed the Expedition Assessor and Supervisor pathway, including the Facilitated Discussion you should log into your eDofE account. If you don’t have a role account within eDofE a guest account will have been created for you when you were approved to attend the pathway, you will have received log in details for this in your confirmation email.

You should go to the Training Tab, and then to ‘My Expedition Assessor Accreditation’. From here you can see the steps to completion.

The Foundations Pathway and Expedition Assessor Accreditation Pathway will be showing as green once our staff have updated your account with the completion information.

You will then be able to complete the Expedition Assessor Accreditation Assessment which will be shown as a link in the list of mandatory tasks.

Once you have completed the assessment and scored a minimum of 80% then make sure that you complete all the other mandatory information and turn the ticks green.

Request accreditation

Applications for accreditation must be sponsored by an organisation. Usually this is the LO/AAP you currently work for but does not have to be. An LO/AAP sponsors the individual by initially registering them as a Trainee Assessor with their organisation.

You must then complete all the steps outlined on the route to accreditation. Once all the steps are complete, you will be able to request accreditation.

The sponsor LO/AAP needs to make the declaration that the applicant has satisfied the safeguarding and competence check required by their organisation. Once the ‘Route to Accreditation’ is shown as complete (all green ticks) you can apply for accreditation and a confirmation email, with a PDF for the assessor card, will be sent automatically.

  • How does a Primary affiliation approve an Assessor’s request for accreditation?

The route to accreditation must be completed within 2 years of completing the EAS pathway, or if a previous EASTC course was completed, within two years of that course completion date.

Reaccreditation

Accreditation normally lasts for five years. Expedition Assessors wishing to continue in the role will be notified by email six months before their accreditation is due to expire. It is important that you keep your email address up to date in eDofE for this to happen.

To be eligible for reaccreditation, active Expedition Assessors will be asked to complete an Expedition Assessors Re-accreditation Assessment about the assessor role. This knowledge check is based on common scenarios that assessors often encounter. This should only take 12-15 minutes and is a way of promoting quality and understanding of the Expedition section requirements.

The process to apply to be reaccredited is accessed through eDofE under Training and My Expedition Assessor Accreditation.

Opportunity Finder

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