Direct training supplier to The Learning and Skills Council, South West
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Trainers
Our trainers are all very highly qualified and have years of experience. Many of them are or have been taxi drivers so empathise with the trials and tribulations of being a driver and recognise that you need to be on the road as much as possible, which is why we can, uniquely, help you get through the necessary exams without you having to go to college.
We are a recognised accredited NVQ delivery centre awarded direct claim status through our awarding body Edexcel. All our assessors are members of The Institute of Learning and currently working to achieve their PTTLLS (Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector) accreditation.
Clare Green
Clare Green is the training coordinator here at Value Cars. She started working for the company in 2007 when Value Cars first carried out BTEC training for Road Passenger Transport. She has helped to develop the training centre and assisted in Value cars getting NVQ centre status.
Her background and training was in the hospitality industry, training at Manchester Polytechnic in Hotel Management and subsequently working for Forte Hotels in various parts of the country, which brought her to Salisbury. She then moved into facilities management at the Old Manor Hospital where she worked for ten years.
With 3 children and busy family life working at Value Cars is the perfect match. Clare assists in ensuring the smooth running of the training centre and liases with assessors, colleges and drivers.
Tony Quinn
Tony Quinn manages our Training centre and our assessor team. Prior to working with Value cars Tony was a Training manager for the Automobile Association. Tony is a qualified NVQ assessor and is currently working toward achieving the Internal verifier accreditation. Tony is member of the Institute for Learning, The Institute of Verifiers and Assessors and the Institute of Advanced Motorists.
Tony’s passion is good customer service and believes that exceeding expectations raises the bar for keeping customers happy and successful achievement of the NVQ demonstrates commitment to recognising the demands on excellent service delivery.
Tony also looks after our sales team. If you would like any information on our training programmes or if you would like to enrol yourself or your team for the BTEC and NVQ programme, contact Tony on 01722 333333 or 07859 902959.
Mark Eaves
Mark is an external consultant who is currently working for The Value Cars Group. He comes from a supply and distribution background and served for 18 years in the Royal Logistic Corps. Mark is a Chartered Member of the Institute for Logistics and Transport and is the Lead External Verifier with Edexcel for Road Passenger Vehicle Driving (Taxi) National Vocational Qualifications. He lives in Wiltshire and is married with one 9 year old daughter.
Mike Smith
Mike is an A1 assessor. He has been in the Hackney/Private Hire industry for 13 years. Mike’s career has included driving Hackney & Private Hire vehicles, call centre telephonist and operations, customer accounts and driver training. He has been heavily involved with the Btec and NVQ driver training for the Value Cars Group drivers and for the last 2 years has been delivering the qualifications to other companies in our sector.
Jim Twomey
Jim joined Salisbury and District Value Cars in June 2001 as a taxi driver. He has worked as a Private Hire and Hackney driver. He has a vast experience in both the commercial and industrial sectors. Jim also works for Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service as a Watch Manager where he attained his level 3 Assessors Qualification, enabling him to join the team of assessors at Value Cars.
Deryk Allen
Deryk has, for many years, been involved in high quality passenger transport including coach driving as well as chauffer and executive driving work. He has travelled all over Europe including the Eastern block countries and has enjoyed lots of great experiences. He is happy and proud to pass on his knowledge and experience and feels that the transport industry has lots to offer. During his five years working for the Value Cars Group, he has trained to become a NVQ assessor.
Ian Blood
Ian joined the Value Cars Group in September 2002 as a Private Hire Driver. Prior to this he worked for a major UK company for many years in a management capacity. He has a wealth of knowledge in a wide range of fields including, computing, payroll, audit and accounting.
Ian holds a professional qualification in IT Service Management and has worked on a number of major computer projects as an Operations and Testing Manager.
He also spent a number of years training staff in the finance and computer fields.
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