Pearson EDI · RQF Level 3
Pearson EDI Level 3 Diploma in Hospitality Supervision and Leadership Skills (NVQ) (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits45
- Guided learning120 hours
- Units in this qualification32
Awarded by Pearson EDI · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Pearson EDI 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.
Contribute to promoting hospitality services and productsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to contribute to promoting hospitality services and products
- Contribute to promoting hospitality services and products
Contribute to the control of resourcesReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Contribute to the control of resources
- Understand how to contribute to the control of resources
Contribute to the development of a wine listReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Contribute to the development of a wine list
- Understand how to contribute to the development of a wine list
Contribute to the development of recipes and menusReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Contribute to the development of recipes and menus
- Understand how to contribute to the development of recipes and menus
Contribute to the selection of staff for activitiesReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Contribute to the selection of staff for activities
- Understand how to contribute to the selection of staff for activities
Develop productive working relationships with colleaguesReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Develop productive working relationships with colleagues
- Use appropriate behaviours for developing productive working relationships with colleagues
- Know and understand how to develop productive working relationships with colleagues using general knowledge
- Know and understand how to develop productive working relationships with colleagues using industry and sector specific knowledge
- Know and understand how to develop productive working relationships with colleagues using context specific knowledge
Employment Rights and Responsibilities in the Hospitality, Leisure, Travel and Tourism SectorReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Know employer and employee rights, responsibilities and own organisational procedures
- Know factors that affect own organisation and occupation
Ensure food safety practices are followed in the preparation and serving of food and drinkReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Ensure food safety practices are followed in the preparation and serving of food and drink
- Understand how to ensure food safety practices are followed in the preparation and serving of food and drink
Improve the customer relationshipReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Improve communication with customers
- Balance the needs of their customers and their organisation
- Exceed customer expectations to develop the relationship with the customer
- Know and understand how to improve the customer relationship
Lead a team to improve customer serviceReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Plan and organise the work of a team
- Provide support for team members
- Review performance of team members
- Know and understand about leading a team to improve customer service
Lead meetingsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Lead meetings
- Understand how to lead meetings
Maintain the health, hygiene, safety and security of the working environmentReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain the health, hygiene, safety and security of the working environment
- Understand how to maintain the health, hygiene, safety and security of the working environment
Manage the environmental impact of workReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Manage the environmental impact of work
- Understand how to manage the environmental impact of work
Manage the receipt, storage or dispatch of goodsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Manage the receipt, storage and dispatch of goods
- Understand how to manage the receipt, storage and dispatch of goods
Monitor and solve customer service problemsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Solve immediate customer service problems
- Identify repeated customer service problems and options for solving them
- Take action to avoid the repetition of customer service problems
- Know and understand how to monitor and solve customer service problems
Provide Leadership for your teamReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Develop skills to provide leadership for their team.
- Use appropriate behaviours to provide leadership for their team.
- Know and understand how to provide leadership for their team using general knowledge
- Know and understand how to provide leadership for their team using industry and sector specific knowledge
- Know and understand how to provide leadership for their team using context specific knowledge
Provide learning opportunities for colleaguesReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Provide learning opportunities for colleagues
- Provide learning opportunities for colleagues
- Behave appropriately in providing learning opportunities for colleagues
Supervise Housekeeping ServicesReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Supervise housekeeping services
- Understand how to supervise housekeeping services
Supervise cellar and drink storage operationsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Supervise cellar and drinks storage operations
- Understand how to supervise cellar and drink storage operations
Supervise drink servicesReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Supervise drinks services
- Understand how to supervise drinks services
Supervise food production operationsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Supervise food production operations
- Understand how to supervise food production operations
Supervise food servicesReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Supervise food services
- Understand how to supervise food services
Supervise functionsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Supervise functions
- Understand how to supervise functions
Supervise linen servicesReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Supervise linen services
- Understand how to supervise linen services
Supervise off-site food delivery servicesReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Supervise off-site food delivery services
- Understand how to supervise off-site food deliveries
Supervise portering and concierge servicesReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Supervise portering and concierge services
- Understand how to supervise portering and concierge services
Supervise practices for handling paymentsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Supervise practices for handling payments
- Understand how to supervise practices for handling payments
Supervise reception servicesReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Supervise reception services
- Understand how to supervise reception services
Supervise reservations and bookings servicesReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Supervise reservations and bookings services
- Understand how to supervise reservations and bookings services
Supervise the use of technological equipment in hospitality servicesReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Supervise the use of technological equipment in hospitality services
- Understand how to supervise the use of technological equipment in hospitality services
Supervise the wine store/cellar and dispense counterReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Supervise the wine store/cellar and dispense counter
- Understand how to supervise the wine store/cellar and dispense counter
Supervise vending servicesReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Supervise vending services
- Understand how to supervise vending services
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
Level 3 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.
- Contribute to promoting hospitality services and products
- Contribute to the selection of staff for activities
- Contribute to the selection of staff for activities Legacy
- Contribute to the strategic goals of the organisation’s leadership team
- Develop Productive Working Relationships with Colleagues Legacy
- Develop productive working relationships with colleagues
- Identify and communicate the process for receipt and dispatch of goods in a music publishing organisation
- Improve the Customer Relationship
Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
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 own work
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Pearson EDI Level 3 Diploma in Hospitality Supervision and Leadership Skills (NVQ) (QCF)
32 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson EDI.
- Contribute to promoting hospitality services and products
- Contribute to the control of resources
- Contribute to the development of a wine list
- Contribute to the development of recipes and menus
- Contribute to the selection of staff for activities
- Develop productive working relationships with colleagues
and 26 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.