How you’d get it
How you’d get this certificate
- Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer City & Guilds Limited has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and City & Guilds Limited awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from City & Guilds Limited.
01What it is
City & Guilds, in collaboration with the National Land Based College (NLBC) has designed Land Based Technical Qualifications to increase skills levels in the land based sector.
These are the units City & Guilds Limited 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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with City & Guilds Limited. It does the teaching and the mapping. City & Guilds Limited sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
02The units
What each unit actually teaches you to do
Assess grazing land for the introduction of horses Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
It teaches you to assess grazing land for horse introduction by identifying key features and potential hazards. You'll apply safe working practices and understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice.
What you'll be able to do
- Assess grazing land for the introduction of horses.
- Work safely.
- Assess grazing land for the introduction of horses.
- Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental good practice.
Assist in handling mares and foals Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
You'll learn to assist in handling mares and foals, responding to behaviour appropriately and recognising distress signs. The unit includes safe working practices, hazard identification, and knowledge of health and safety and environmental legislation.
What you'll be able to do
- Assist effectively in handling mares and foals
- Work safely when assisting in handling mares and foals
- Describe how to assist in handling mares and foals, including recognising signs of distress
- State relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice when handling mares and foals
- Identify the types of equipment required for handling mares and foals and explain how to maintain them
Assist the trek leader during a trek Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
This unit develops learners' ability to assist a trek leader by supporting preparation, organisation, and participant monitoring during treks. You'll understand safe working practices and relevant health and safety legislation.
What you'll be able to do
- Assist the trek leader during a trek.
- Work safely.
- Assist the trek leader during a trek.
- Know relevant health and safety legislation.
Assist with foaling Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
You'll gain the skills to assist with foaling, including supporting the mare during labour and monitoring post-foaling conditions. The unit covers the selection, use, and maintenance of appropriate equipment, alongside health and safety legislation and environmental good practice.
What you'll be able to do
- Assist with the foaling process.
- Select appropriate equipment to assist with foaling.
- Use equipment safely to assist with foaling.
- Maintain equipment used to assist with foaling.
- Work safely in an equine environment.
- Describe how to assist with the foaling process.
- Explain current health and safety legislation relevant to assisting with foaling.
- Explain environmental good practice relevant to assisting with foaling.
- Identify the types of equipment required to assist with foaling.
- Describe how to maintain equipment used to assist with foaling.
Assist with getting the mare in foal Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
It teaches you to assist with the teasing process for mares, recognising signs of oestrus and following safe working practices. You'll understand associated hazards and relevant health and safety and environmental legislation.
What you'll be able to do
- Assist with the teasing process for mares
- Work safely during the teasing process
- Assist with the teasing process, following established protocols
- Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental good practice relevant to the teasing process
Assist with mounting and dismounting riders with special requirements Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
This unit equips learners to assist riders with special requirements during mounting and dismounting, adapting techniques to individual needs. You'll identify hazards, work safely, and understand relevant health and safety legislation.
What you'll be able to do
- Assist riders with special requirements effectively with mounting and dismounting
- Work safely when assisting with mounting and dismounting
- Describe how to assist riders with special requirements with mounting and dismounting, considering individual needs
- State relevant health and safety legislation when assisting with mounting and dismounting
Assist with pre and post trek procedures Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
You'll assist with pre- and post-trek procedures for horses, including health checks, tacking, loading, and untacking. The unit emphasises safe working practices, equipment maintenance, and environmental good practice.
What you'll be able to do
- Assist with pre-trek procedures effectively
- Assist with post-trek procedures efficiently
- Work safely when assisting with pre and post trek procedures
- Select appropriate equipment for pre and post trek procedures
- Use equipment safely and effectively during pre and post trek procedures
- Maintain equipment used for pre and post trek procedures in good working order
- Describe how to assist with pre-trek procedures
- Describe how to assist with post-trek procedures
- State relevant health and safety legislation related to pre and post trek procedures
- Explain environmental good practice in relation to pre and post trek procedures
Assist with receiving a horse and carry out an initial assessment Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
You'll develop the ability to assist with receiving horses and conducting initial assessments, following instructions and recording findings accurately. The unit emphasises safe working practices and awareness of health and safety and environmental good practice.
What you'll be able to do
- Assist with receiving a horse and carry out an initial assessment
- Work safely when receiving and assessing horses
- Assist with receiving horses and carry out an initial assessment, following established procedures
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice pertaining to receiving and assessing horses
Assist with riding activity for riders with special requirements Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
This unit provides learners with skills to assist with riding activities for riders with special requirements, including preparation of horses and equipment, mounting and dismounting support, and effective communication. Safe working practices and health and safety legislation are emphasised.
What you'll be able to do
- Assist with riding activity for riders with special requirements
- Work safely in the riding environment
- Assist with riding activity for riders with special requirements
- Know relevant health and safety legislation pertaining to riding activities
Assist with the care of horses at competitions Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
This unit provides learners with the skills to assist in caring for horses at competitions, ensuring their welfare and safety. You'll understand feeding, watering, recognising signs of discomfort, and relevant health and safety legislation.
What you'll be able to do
- Assist with the care of horses at competitions effectively
- Work safely when assisting with the care of horses at competitions
- Describe how to assist with the care of horses at competitions
- State relevant health and safety legislation related to caring for horses at competitions
Assist with the care of performance horses after strenuous exercise Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
You'll learn to assist with the care of performance horses after strenuous exercise, including cooling down, rehydration, feeding, and injury checks. The unit emphasises safe working practices and understanding of health and safety legislation.
What you'll be able to do
- Assist with the care of performance horses after strenuous exercise.
- Work safely.
- Assist with the care of performance horses after strenuous exercise.
- Know relevant health and safety legislation.
Assist with the day to day care of performance horses Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
This unit covers assisting with the day-to-day care of performance horses, including feeding, grooming, and maintaining their environment. You'll develop skills in facility maintenance and safe working practices, alongside knowledge of relevant health and safety legislation.
What you'll be able to do
- Assist with the day to day care of performance horses.
- Assist with maintaining facilities.
- Work safely.
- Assist with the day to day care of performance horses.
- Know relevant health and safety legislation.
Assist with the preparation of horses for sale Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
You'll gain skills to assist in preparing horses for sale, including following procedures, selecting and maintaining equipment, and working safely. The unit covers relevant health and safety legislation and preparation steps.
What you'll be able to do
- Assist with the preparation of a horse for sale
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment for preparing horses for sale
- Work safely when preparing horses for sale
- Prepare horses for sale, following established procedures
- Know relevant health and safety legislation pertaining to horse preparation
- Know the types of equipment required for horse preparation and how to maintain them in good working order
Assist with the rehabilitation of horses Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
You'll gain the skills to assist with the rehabilitation of horses under supervision, including applying prescribed treatments and monitoring condition changes. The unit emphasises safe handling, hazard identification, and adherence to health and safety legislation and environmental good practice.
What you'll be able to do
- Assist with the rehabilitation of horses under supervision.
- Work safely when assisting with the rehabilitation of horses.
- Describe how to assist with the rehabilitation care of horses.
- Explain relevant health and safety legislation relating to the rehabilitation of horses.
- Explain environmental good practice relating to the rehabilitation of horses.
Care for horses after exercise Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
You'll gain skills to care for horses after exercise, including cooling down, injury checks, and applying treatments. The unit emphasises safe working practices and understanding of relevant health and safety legislation.
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate the ability to care for horses after exercise, following established procedures
- Demonstrate the ability to work safely when caring for horses after exercise
- Understand the correct procedures for caring for horses after they have exercised
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation pertaining to caring for horses after exercise
Clean and groom horses for appearance Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
It teaches you to clean and groom horses effectively, selecting, using, and maintaining appropriate equipment. You'll evaluate grooming outcomes, work safely, and understand relevant health and safety legislation.
What you'll be able to do
- Clean and groom horses effectively for appearance
- Select, use and maintain equipment appropriately for cleaning and grooming horses
- Work safely when cleaning and grooming horses
- Describe how to clean and groom horses to achieve a desired appearance
- State the current health and safety legislation relevant to cleaning and grooming horses
Establish and maintain effective working relationships with others Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
This unit focuses on establishing and maintaining effective working relationships within land-based contexts. You'll develop communication skills, respect for others, and an understanding of the importance of good working practices.
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain effective working relationships with others in a land-based context.
- Understand why good working practices are important for maintaining effective working relationships.
Fit and remove horse clothing Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
This unit provides learners with the skills to fit and remove horse clothing correctly, selecting appropriate garments for weather conditions. You'll work safely, identify hazards, and understand relevant health and safety legislation.
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate the ability to fit and remove horse clothing correctly
- Demonstrate the ability to work safely when fitting and removing horse clothing
- Understand the correct procedures for fitting and removing horse clothing
- Understand the current health and safety legislation relevant to fitting and removing horse clothing
Fit, remove and maintain tack for exercise Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
You'll develop the ability to fit, remove, and maintain tack for horse exercise, ensuring horse comfort and safety. The unit includes knowledge of relevant health and safety legislation and safe working practices related to tack handling.
What you'll be able to do
- Fit tack to horses for exercise.
- Remove tack from horses after exercise.
- Work safely when fitting, removing and maintaining tack.
- Select appropriate tack for exercise.
- Use tack safely for exercise.
- Maintain tack in good condition.
- Describe how to fit tack to horses for exercise.
- Describe how to remove tack from horses after exercise.
- Explain relevant health and safety legislation relating to tacking up horses.
Jump a schooled horse Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
You'll learn to jump a schooled horse safely, maintaining control and a secure riding position throughout the course. The unit covers effective jumping techniques, minimising environmental damage, and adherence to health and safety legislation.
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate the ability to jump a schooled horse safely and effectively.
- Demonstrate the ability to ride safely and minimise environmental damage during jumping activities.
- Demonstrate knowledge of how to jump schooled horses, including appropriate techniques and considerations for both horse and rider.
- Demonstrate knowledge of relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice related to horse jumping.
Load and unload animals for transportation Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
You'll develop the ability to prepare animals and transport for travel, safely load and unload animals, and ensure their comfort throughout transportation. The unit covers relevant legislation and codes of practice.
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare animals for transportation, ensuring their comfort and safety during the journey.
- Prepare the transport vehicle for loading, ensuring it meets the required standards for animal transportation.
- Load and unload animals for transportation safely and efficiently, minimising stress and potential injury.
- Work safely throughout the loading, transportation, and unloading process, adhering to health and safety regulations.
- Prepare animals for transportation, including assessing their fitness to travel and providing appropriate care.
- Prepare the transport vehicle for loading, including checking its suitability and ensuring adequate ventilation.
- Load and unload animals for transport, using appropriate techniques and equipment.
- Know the relevant legislation and codes of practice relating to animal transportation, including welfare standards and documentation requirements.
Long rein a horse under supervision Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
You'll develop the skills to long rein a horse under supervision, including fitting long reins, guiding the horse, and maintaining a safe distance. The unit also covers health and safety legislation and hazard identification to ensure safe practice during long reining.
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate the ability to long rein a horse under supervision, following instructions accurately
- Demonstrate the ability to work safely when long reining a horse
- Understand the procedures for long reining horses effectively
- Understand the current health and safety legislation relevant to long reining horses
Lunge a horse under supervision Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
You'll learn to lunge a horse effectively under supervision, maintaining control and communication. The unit includes adapting lunging techniques based on the horse's response and adhering to health and safety legislation.
What you'll be able to do
- Lunge a horse effectively under supervision
- Work safely when lunging a horse
- Describe how to lunge horses correctly
- State the current health and safety legislation relevant to lunging horses
Maintain and develop personal performance Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
It teaches you to maintain and develop personal performance within a land-based engineering context by demonstrating consistent task performance, adhering to workplace procedures, and managing time effectively. You'll identify and implement personal development plans to improve performance.
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain personal performance in a land-based engineering context
- Develop personal performance in a land-based engineering context
- Develop personal performance in a land-based engineering context
Monitoring and maintaining health and safety Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
You'll gain knowledge and skills to maintain health, safety, and security in the workplace, including hazard identification and safe use of equipment. The unit covers procedures and systems essential for workplace safety and compliance.
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain health, safety and security in the workplace.
- Use equipment and materials safely in accordance with established procedures.
- Describe the systems and procedures for maintaining health, safety and security in the workplace.
- Explain why equipment must be transported and stored safely.
- Explain the reasons for following manufacturers’ guidance when using equipment and materials.
- Maintain good standards of health and safety for self and others in the workplace.
- Explain how to maintain the health and safety of self and others in the workplace.
- Describe safe lifting techniques.
- Explain how to maintain health and safety in a given working environment.
Plait and trim horses manes and tails Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
You'll develop practical skills to plait and trim horses' manes and tails to a satisfactory standard. The unit covers equipment selection and maintenance, safe working practices, and relevant health and safety legislation.
What you'll be able to do
- Plait and trim horses' manes and tails to a satisfactory standard
- Work safely when plaiting and trimming horses' manes and tails
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment appropriately for plaiting and trimming
- Describe how to plait and trim horses' manes and tails, considering breed and discipline
- State the current health and safety legislation relevant to plaiting and trimming
- Identify the types of equipment required for plaiting and trimming and explain how to maintain them
Prepare a stable for a horse Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
This unit covers preparing stables for horses, including cleaning, selecting bedding, and hazard identification. You'll work safely and understand relevant health and safety legislation related to stable preparation.
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare a stable effectively for a horse
- Work safely at all times when preparing a stable
- Describe how to prepare stables for horses, including the selection of appropriate bedding
- State the current health and safety legislation relevant to preparing a stable
Prepare horses for riders with special requirements Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
This unit covers the preparation of horses for riders with special requirements, including grooming, tacking up, and adjusting equipment to suit individual needs. You'll gain knowledge of relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice to work safely throughout the process.
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate the ability to prepare horses for riders with special requirements, adapting procedures as necessary
- Demonstrate the ability to work safely when preparing horses for riders with special requirements
- Understand the procedures for preparing horses for riders with special requirements
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice related to preparing horses for riders with special requirements
Restrain horses using specified methods Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
This unit equips learners to restrain horses safely using specified methods under instruction. You'll select, use, and maintain appropriate equipment while understanding the importance of restraint techniques and health and safety legislation.
What you'll be able to do
- Restrain horses using specified methods correctly
- Select appropriate equipment for restraining horses using specified methods
- Use equipment safely and effectively when restraining horses using specified methods
- Maintain equipment used for restraining horses using specified methods in good working order
- Work safely at all times when restraining horses
- Describe how to restrain horses using specified methods
- State the current health and safety legislation relevant to restraining horses
Ride a horse in the open Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
You'll develop competence in riding horses in open environments, demonstrating control at various paces and adapting techniques to terrain. The unit includes equipment selection, hazard awareness, and adherence to health and safety legislation.
What you'll be able to do
- Ride a horse in the open
- Work safely when riding in the open
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment for riding in the open
- Ride horses in the open, demonstrating appropriate techniques
- Know relevant health and safety legislation pertaining to riding in the open
Ride a schooled horse Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
This unit develops learners' ability to ride a schooled horse safely and effectively, demonstrating balanced riding position, use of aids, and smooth gait transitions. You'll understand relevant health and safety legislation and safe riding practices.
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate the ability to ride a schooled horse effectively.
- Demonstrate the ability to ride safely, adhering to recognised safety procedures.
- Demonstrate knowledge of how to ride schooled horses, including appropriate techniques and considerations.
- Demonstrate knowledge of relevant health and safety legislation pertaining to horse riding activities.
Ride and lead horses Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
You'll develop competence in riding and leading horses safely, maintaining control at various gaits, and minimising environmental impact. The unit includes selecting, using, and maintaining relevant equipment and understanding associated health and safety legislation.
What you'll be able to do
- Ride horses competently
- Lead horses safely and effectively
- Ride and lead horses safely, minimising any potential environmental damage
- Select, use, and maintain all relevant equipment required for riding and leading horses
- Ride and lead quiet horses in a safe and controlled manner
- Know and understand relevant health and safety legislation pertaining to riding and leading horses
Ride horses on the road Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
You'll learn to ride horses safely on roads, responding to traffic and road conditions. The unit includes equipment selection, adherence to safety procedures, and knowledge of relevant health and safety legislation.
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate the ability to ride a horse safely on the road
- Demonstrate the ability to ride safely, adhering to recognised safety procedures
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment for riding horses on the road
- Understand the procedures for riding horses on the road
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation pertaining to riding horses on the road
Turn out, catch and maintain horses when turned out Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
You'll gain practical skills to prepare horses for turnout, maintain them while turned out, and safely catch them. The unit covers hazard identification, environmental maintenance, and adherence to current health and safety legislation.
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to turn horses out.
- Maintain horses when turned out.
- Catch up horses.
- Work safely.
- Maintain horses when turned out.
- Know the current health and safety legislation.
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03The standards
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
- Standard
Apply, fit and maintain horse tack for exercise
- Standard
Assess Grazing Land for the Introduction of Horses
- Standard
Assist the trek leader during a horse trek
- Standard
Assist with Foaling Legacy
- Standard
Assist with getting mares in foal Legacy
- Standard
Assist with handling mares and foals Legacy
- Standard
Assist with pre and post horse trek procedures
- Standard
Assist with riding activities for riders with special requirements Legacy
- Standard
Assist with the care of horses at competitions
- Standard
Assist with the mounting and dismounting of riders Legacy
- Standard
Assist with the on-going specialist care of performance horses
- Standard
Assist with the rehabilitation of equines
- Standard
Attend to the mare and foal during foaling Legacy
- Standard
Care for horses after exercise Legacy
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Clean and groom horses for appearance Legacy
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Clean, prepare and maintain stables for horses
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Clip Horses Legacy
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Create effective working relationships
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04The credits
The credits, and who awards them
Level 2 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by City & Guilds Limited rather than by Zavmo. 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 have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Assess grazing land for the introduction of horsesAssist in handling mares and foalsAssist the trek leader during a trekAssist with foalingAssist with getting the mare in foalAssist with mounting and dismounting riders with special requirementsAssist with pre and post trek proceduresAssist with receiving a horse and carry out an initial assessment
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
The Practical Builder · your make-it-real tutor Illustration The Practical Builder Paste in the draft you have for “Assist with pre and post trek procedures”. Not a tidied one, the one you would actually send.
You It is mostly there. The recommendations section is thin.
The Practical Builder Thin is fine, vague is not. Take recommendation two and tell me who does what by when, then we will see if it survives.
- Draft the real one Create
You do “Assist with pre and post trek procedures” on a real document of your own. Zavmo works on the draft you have to send anyway, so the coursework and the job are the same piece of work.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Monitoring and maintaining health and safety” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.
- Lead it Apply
“Assist the trek leader during a trek” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
City & Guilds Level 2 Diploma in Work-based Horse Care
- Apply, fit and maintain horse tack for exercise
- Assess Grazing Land for the Introduction of Horses
- Assist the trek leader during a horse trek
- Assist with Foaling Legacy
- Assist with getting mares in foal Legacy
- Assist with handling mares and foals Legacy
- Assist with pre and post horse trek procedures
- Assist with riding activities for riders with special requirements Legacy
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Assess grazing land for the introduction of horses, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your own work
This unit enables learners to assess grazing land for horse introduction by identifying key features and potential hazards. Learners will apply safe working practices and understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice.
How the thinking builds
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for City & Guilds Level 2 Diploma in Work-based Horse Care
34 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by City & Guilds Limited.
- Assess grazing land for the introduction of horses
- Assist in handling mares and foals
- Assist the trek leader during a trek
- Assist with foaling
- Assist with getting the mare in foal
- Assist with mounting and dismounting riders with special requirements
and 28 more in the full unit list below.
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