Ascentis · RQF Entry Level
Ascentis Entry Level Certificate in Personal and Vocational Development (Entry 3) (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Entry Level
- Total credits13
- Guided learning60 hours
- Units in this qualification49
Awarded by Ascentis · on the Ofqual register
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Ten quick questions, one per Future Fluency, asked against this qualification rather than a generic one.
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Ascentis registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Career Development: Level 1Real unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Assess own skills and development needs in relation to career development
- Identify career opportunities
- Prepare an application for a job or training course
- Conduct themselves appropriately in an interview situation
- Demonstrate an awareness of health, safety and welfare in the workplace
- Demonstrate a knowledge of employee and employer rights and responsibilities
- Understand and apply good practice in work situations
Community actionReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate their knowledge of local community groups
- Demonstrate their participation in community activities
Community actionReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate an understanding of the role that community groups play
- Demonstrate their involvement in community activities
Community actionReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise local community groups
- Demonstrate how they participate in community activities
Dealing with Problems in daily lifeReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate an awareness of how to recognise straightforward problems
- Tackle straightforward problems
Dealing with Problems in daily lifeReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to recognize a straightforward problem
- Tackle a problem
- Carry out a review of their progress towards solving the problem
Dealing with Problems in daily lifeReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Recognize a straightforward problem and identify ways to tackle it
- Plan and carry out activities to tackle a problem
- Carry out a review of their methods and the skills they used in tackling the problem
Developing selfReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Take an active role in their self development
- Plan for their self development
- Review their self development and plan for the future
Developing selfReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise their strengths and areas they need to develop
- Recognise how to develop themself
- Review their development
Developing selfReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to identify areas for self development
- Understand how to take responsibility for their own self development
- Demonstrate how they have developed personal skills
Healthy LivingReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of leading a healthy lifestyle
- Demonstrate how they contribute to own healthy lifestyle
- Review the activities undertaken to maintain a healthy lifestyle
Healthy LivingReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise the steps needed to lead a healthy lifestyle
- Demonstrate how they contribute to own healthy lifestyle
Healthy LivingReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand what is needed to lead a healthy lifestyle
- Demonstrate how they contribute to own healthy lifestyle
Identity and Cultural DiversityReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand aspects of cultural diversity
- Develop strategies to challenge antisocial behaviour
- Understand the value of respect and understanding
Individual rights and responsibilitiesReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand that they have individual rights and responsibilities
Individual rights and responsibilitiesReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise that they have rights and responsibilities as an individual
Individual rights and responsibilitiesReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand their individual rights
- Understand their individual responsibilities
Introduction to Business and Business AdministrationReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and functions of a range of business organisations
- Demonstrate understanding of the main business administration tasks
Introduction to Business and Business AdministrationReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and functions of a range of business organisations
- Demonstrate understanding of the main business administration tasks
Introduction to Care WorkReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and range of care work
- Understand skills required for care work
Introduction to Care WorkReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and range of care work
- Understand skills required for care work
Introduction to CateringReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the range and purpose of catering
- Understand the importance of food safety in catering
Introduction to CateringReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the range and purpose of catering
- Understand the importance of food safety in catering
Introduction to Contact Centre OperationsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Describe contact centre operations
- Describe the technology used in contact centres
- Understand importance of customer service for contact centres
- Demonstrate skills required in contact centre work
Introduction to Contact Centre OperationsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Describe contact centre operations
- Describe the technology used in contact centres
- Understand importance of customer service for contact centres
- Demonstrate skills required in contact centre work
Introduction to Customer ServiceReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the range of customer focused roldes available in the local area
- Create a good impression on customers
- Demonstrate ability to interact positively with customers
- Understand importance of working within given rules
Introduction to RetailReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and range of retail businesses
- Understand the roles and activities within retail businesses
Introduction to RetailReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and range of retail businesses
- Understand the roles and activities within retail businesses
Introduction to Salon WorkReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the roles and activities within salon work
- Understand the importance of salon hygiene and safety
- Demonstrate skills for reception duties within a salon
Introduction to Salon WorkReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the roles and activities within salon work
- Understand the importance of salon hygiene and safety
- Demonstrate skills for reception duties within a salon
Managing Own MoneyReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to plan a personal budget
- Carry out transactions
Managing Own MoneyReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to plan a personal budget
- Understand how to manage their personal finances
- Carry out transactions
Managing Own MoneyReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise their income and expenditure
- Carry out simple transactions
Managing Social RelationshipsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise how to interact with others in everyday and familiar situations
Managing Social RelationshipsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to interact with others in a range of social situations
- Demonstrate how to interact with others in a range of social situations
Managing Social RelationshipsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to interact with others in familiar social situations
- Demonstrate how to interact with others in familiar social situations
Personal Advancement: Entry 3Real unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate an understanding of learning preferences and how they best support the learning needs of the individual
- Demonstrate an understanding and awareness of values, attitudes and belief systems and their potential effect on an individual’s self development and achievement of personal success
- Design an activity which requires group participation including goal setting and visualisation activities
- Describe and demonstrate an understanding and knowledge of how to manage change in individual performance and goals
- Demonstrate an understanding of personal responsibility as it applies to the
Personal Advancement: Level 1Real unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate an understanding of learning preferences and how they best support the learning needs of the individual.
- Demonstrate an understanding and awareness of values, attitudes and belief systems and their potential effect on an individual’s self development and achievement of personal success.
- Design an activity which requires group participation including goal setting and visualisation activities.
- Describe and demonstrate an understanding and knowledge of how to manage change in the individual’s performance and life goals.
- Demonstrate an understanding of personal responsibility as it
Preparation for workReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the skills and qualities needed for working life
- Investigate personal career opportunities
Preparation for workReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how own skills and qualities relate to those needed for working life
- Research personal career opportunities
Preparation for workReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise the skills and qualities needed for working life
- Recognise personal career opportunities
Study Skills: Entry 3Real unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to take responsibility for their own learning
- Build a portfolio
- Carry out research and organise information collected
- Complete assignments to meet given criteria
Study Skills: Level 1Real unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to take responsibility for their own learning
- Build a portfolio
- Carry out research and organise information collected
- Complete assignments to meet given criteria
Working as part of a groupReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate an awareness of how to work with others in appropriate ways
- Demonstrate working as part of a group
Working as part of a groupReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Work with others in appropriate ways
- Play an active role in working as part of a group
- Review their role in the group
Working as part of a groupReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to contribute to working as part of a group in appropriate ways
- Demonstrate how to work as an effective group member
- Review the group’s progress and their contribution to it
Working towards GoalsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Identify goals
- Plan how to meet their agreed goal
- Follow a plan to achieve an agreed goal
Working towards goalsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and explain their goals
- Prepare an action plan to meet their goal
- Review progress towards achieving their goal
Working towards goalsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate an awareness of personal skills and qualities
- Demonstrate an awareness of how to identify goals
- Follow steps to achieve a personal goal
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Entry Level credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
Meet all twelve tutorsWhere this connects
Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
Where this can lead
Customer Operations Associate
Your journey starts here, learning the ropes and making a real difference for our customers every day. We're excited to see where you take your career within Zavmo, and we'll be here to support your growth every step of the way.
See the whole journey →Showing 6 roles, drawn from 12 job records mapped to this qualification.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Ascentis Entry Level Certificate in Personal and Vocational Development (Entry 3) (QCF)
23 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Ascentis.
- Career Development: Level 1
- Community action
- Dealing with Problems in daily life
- Developing self
- Healthy Living
- Identity and Cultural Diversity
and 17 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.