What does a VET practitioner need to be able to do when facilitating hospitality skills swaps amongst employers? What are the responsibilities and tasks that are involved? How do they ensure they have the confidence of both the employer and the employee to encourage retention and progression? What standards should they be using to structure their role?

Mapping out in detail the responses to these questions forms the basis of the content of IO2. Underpinned by the results of the methodological framework in IO1, this output will draw up a role specification, based on identified tasks and responsibilities and the occupational standards, in terms of a matrix of competences required to meet them. The timing of the IO at this point is to ensure that, before it is completed in the summative phase at the end of the project when IO2 and other IOs are finalised as OERs, each partner and the VET staff that will coordinate the validation actions and contribute to the design of IO3 and 4 are fully immersed in the scope, function and issues connected with skills swapping and have these
set out in a full specification together with the competences to be covered.

The innovation for this IO stems from the fact that involvement of the employer in all forms of VET provision, and particularly WBL is crucial, yet is often missing in VET designs undertaken by VET organisations and practitioners and does not exist in relation to supporting skills swaps in hospitality. IO2 will therefore comprise two parts – a comprehensive Role