Expert Witness Support
What is an Expert Witness?
Expert Witnesses can be drawn from a wide range of people who can attest to performance in the workplace, including line managers and experienced colleagues from inside the candidate’s organisation or from other organisations such as customers or clients.
The expert witness can, in particular, provide evidence relating to the candidate’s competence:
- when using specialist or bespoke IT applications;
- in meeting customer requirements; and
- of working within organisational procedures.
Expert witnesses must:
- have a minimum of 2 years supervisory, managerial or training experience in the units for which they are providing evidence;
- demonstrate a working knowledge of the National Occupational Standards units they are attesting to;
- demonstrate clear evidence of appropriate continuous professional development.
In addition it would be desirable for the Expert Witness to hold or be working towards an appropriate unit of competence in the assessment of workplace performance (such as the Learning and Development Unit L20 - ‘Support competence achieved in the workplace’). If this is not the case they must hold a post that involves responsibility for the quality of work performed by those for whom they are acting as an Expert Witness.
Last modified: 22 Jun 2007