Assessing for Westmark

What authorisation requires

Authorisation is held for each scheme separately. Every date below is held in the hub. Thirty days before any of them expires you and the Scheme Owner are reminded, and on the date you can no longer be assigned until the renewal is recorded.

• Baseline personnel security standard screening, held current
• A competence review within the period, covering the scheme and assessment practice
• A signed confidentiality and handling declaration, acknowledging obligations under the Official Secrets Acts and the National Security Act 2023 alongside Westmark's own handling rules
• Calibration against worked records, so two assessors reach the same score on the same evidence

Independence, enforced by the hub

The hub refuses an assignment that breaks any of these rules and shows the reason on screen.

• An organisation that has had consultancy, advisory, implementation, drafting, gap analysis or training from you within the two years before the assessment, or during the life of the outcome, is assigned to somebody else
• A rotation limit caps how often you may assess the same organisation
• Holding a Licensed Partner role keeps you off any engagement that partner referred
• Technical review is a separate authorisation. A reviewer always reviews somebody else's assessment, and the hub keeps the two roles apart on every engagement

How the work runs

1. The hub

   An assignment arrives as a task

   Nothing opens until you accept it and make a conflict declaration.

2. You

   The engagement screen

   Visit arrangements, the client self-assessment, the assessment record and the review position, all in one place.

3. You

   The assessment tool, inside the hub

   Each save lands as the next version of the record, so there is one file and one history.

4. You, at close-out

   Confirm the file

   You confirm your own notes and interview records are on file before the record goes to review.

Pay

Basis

Per accepted day, at a rate agreed in the Authorised Assessor Agreement

Outcome

Pay is the same whatever outcome is reached, and no part of it is contingent on a result

Hospitality

Refreshment in the ordinary course of a working day is fine. Anything beyond that is declined

Applying

Send your assessment or audit background, the schemes you would want authorisation for, and where you are based, to hello@westmarkassurance.co.uk.

• Authorised Assessor brochureAuthorisation, independence and how a job runs. (PDF, opens in a new tab)