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- The centre assesses, and GQA Qualifications Limited awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from GQA Qualifications Limited.
This Level 3 NVQ Diploma is designed for laboratory technicians and those in associated technical roles. It allows candidates to develop competence in complex scientific testing, evaluation of technical methods, and providing technical assistance.
These are the units GQA Qualifications 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, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Access and communicate scientific or technical information to authorised personnel Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Access and communicate scientific or technical information effectively to authorised personnel.
- Continue to access and communicate scientific or technical information, adapting communication methods as required.
- Know the appropriate methods for accessing and communicating scientific or technical information to authorised personnel.
- Access and communicate scientific or technical information, ensuring accuracy, confidentiality and compliance with data protection regulations.
Assess their own scientific or technical knowledge and skills for workplace activities Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Assess their own scientific or technical knowledge and skills for workplace activities.
- Continue to assess their own scientific or technical knowledge and skills for workplace activities.
- Demonstrate knowledge of how to assess their own scientific or technical knowledge and skills for workplace activities.
- Demonstrate continued knowledge of how to assess their own scientific or technical knowledge and skills for workplace activities.
Carry out complex scientific or technical testing operations Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out complex scientific or technical testing operations.
- Continue to carry out complex scientific or technical testing operations, building on previous experience.
- Understand how to carry out complex scientific or technical testing operations.
- Understand how to continue to carry out complex scientific or technical testing operations.
Carry out scientific or technical investigations Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out scientific or technical investigations following established protocols.
- Continue to carry out scientific or technical investigations, analysing results and identifying areas for improvement.
- Know the procedures for carrying out scientific or technical investigations.
- Carry out scientific or technical investigations, including data collection, analysis and interpretation.
Carry out scientific or technical testing operations Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out specified scientific or technical testing operations according to established procedures.
- Demonstrate competence in performing scientific or technical testing operations.
- Describe the procedures for carrying out scientific or technical testing operations.
- Explain the knowledge required to carry out scientific or technical testing operations.
Carry out small scale processing Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out small scale processing.
- Describe how to carry out small scale processing.
Carrying out complex scientific or technical sampling operations Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out complex scientific sampling operations.
- Carry out complex technical sampling operations.
- Describe how to carry out complex scientific sampling operations.
- Explain how to carry out complex technical sampling operations.
Demonstrate scientific or technical methods, techniques and skills to others in the workplace Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate scientific methods, techniques and skills to others in the workplace.
- Demonstrate scientific methods, techniques and skills to others in the workplace.
Diagnose faults, repair and maintain scientific or technical equipment for workplace activities Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Diagnose faults in scientific or technical equipment for workplace activities.
- Repair scientific or technical equipment for workplace activities.
- Maintain scientific or technical equipment for workplace activities.
- Describe how to diagnose faults in scientific or technical equipment for workplace activities.
- Explain how to repair scientific or technical equipment for workplace activities.
- Describe how to maintain scientific or technical equipment for workplace activities.
Evaluate and provide scientific or technical assistance for learning activities Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate scientific or technical assistance provided for learning activities.
- Provide scientific or technical assistance for learning activities.
- Demonstrate knowledge of how to evaluate scientific or technical assistance provided for learning activities.
- Demonstrate knowledge of how to provide scientific or technical assistance for learning activities.
Following aseptic procedures in the laboratory environment Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Follow aseptic procedures in the laboratory environment.
- Continue to follow aseptic procedures in the laboratory environment, building on previous experience.
- Understand how to follow aseptic procedures in the laboratory environment.
- Understand how to continue to follow aseptic procedures in the laboratory environment.
Improve the quality and reliability of scientific or technical activities in the workplace Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Improve the quality and reliability of scientific or technical activities in the workplace.
- Continue to improve the quality and reliability of scientific or technical activities in the workplace.
- Demonstrate knowledge of how to improve the quality and reliability of scientific or technical activities in the workplace.
- Demonstrate continued knowledge of how to improve the quality and reliability of scientific or technical activities in the workplace.
Maintain and control stocks of all resources, equipment and consumables for scientific or technical activities Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain stocks of all resources, equipment and consumables for scientific or technical activities.
- Control stocks of all resources, equipment and consumables for scientific or technical activities.
- Describe how to maintain stocks of all resources, equipment and consumables for scientific or technical activities.
- Explain how to control stocks of all resources, equipment and consumables for scientific or technical activities.
Maintain effective and efficient working relationships for scientific or technical activities Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain effective and efficient working relationships for scientific or technical activities, contributing to a positive and productive work environment
- Maintain effective and efficient working relationships for scientific or technical activities, understanding the importance of communication and collaboration
Maintain health and safety in a scientific or technical workplace Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain health and safety in a scientific or technical workplace.
- Continue to maintain health and safety in a scientific or technical workplace, adapting to changing circumstances.
- Know the procedures for maintaining health and safety in a scientific or technical workplace.
- Maintain health and safety in a scientific or technical workplace, including risk assessment and control measures.
Make presentations for scientific or technical activities in the workplace Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare and make presentations for scientific or technical activities in the workplace.
- Demonstrate the ability to make effective presentations for scientific or technical activities in the workplace.
- Describe the processes involved in making presentations for scientific or technical activities in the workplace.
- Explain the knowledge required to make presentations for scientific or technical activities in the workplace.
Measuring, weighing and preparing compounds and solutions for laboratory use Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Measure, weigh and prepare compounds and solutions accurately for laboratory use.
- Continue to measure, weigh and prepare compounds and solutions, ensuring consistency and quality.
- Know the correct techniques for measuring, weighing and preparing compounds and solutions for laboratory use.
- Measure, weigh and prepare compounds and solutions, adhering to safety protocols and quality standards.
Plan scientific or technical sampling and testing activities Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Plan scientific or technical sampling and testing activities, considering relevant factors.
- Continue to plan scientific or technical sampling and testing activities, adapting plans based on new information or changing requirements.
- Know the principles of planning scientific or technical sampling and testing activities.
- Plan scientific or technical sampling and testing activities, including resource allocation, risk assessment and quality control.
Provide scientific or technical leadership for a workplace team Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Provide scientific leadership for a workplace team.
- Provide technical leadership for a workplace team.
- Describe how to provide scientific leadership for a workplace team.
- Explain how to provide technical leadership for a workplace team.
Provide technical advice and guidance for scientific or technical activities Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Provide technical advice and guidance for scientific or technical activities, ensuring accuracy and clarity.
- Demonstrate the ability to provide effective technical advice and guidance for scientific or technical activities.
- Describe the processes involved in providing technical advice and guidance for scientific or technical activities.
- Explain the knowledge required to provide technical advice and guidance for scientific or technical activities.
Provide technical support for computer application software and equipment for learning activities Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Provide technical support for computer application software and equipment for learning activities.
- Continue to provide technical support for computer application software and equipment for learning activities.
- Demonstrate knowledge of how to provide technical support for computer application software and equipment for learning activities.
- Demonstrate continued knowledge of how to provide technical support for computer application software and equipment for learning activities.
Provide training for scientific or technical activities in the workplace Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Provide training for scientific or technical activities in the workplace.
- Continue to provide training for scientific or technical activities in the workplace.
- Demonstrate knowledge of how to provide training for scientific or technical activities in the workplace.
- Demonstrate continued knowledge of how to provide training for scientific or technical activities in the workplace.
Test and evaluate new scientific or technical methods and equipment for learning activities Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Test and evaluate new scientific or technical methods and equipment for learning activities.
- Continue to test and evaluate new scientific or technical methods and equipment for learning activities, building on previous experience.
- Understand how to test and evaluate new scientific or technical methods and equipment for learning activities.
- Understand how to continue to test and evaluate new scientific or technical methods and equipment for learning activities.
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
01_Maintain health and safety in a biomanufacturing environment
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01_Maintaining health and safety in a laboratory environment
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03_Follow aseptic procedures in a biomanufacturing environment
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03_Monitor and follow aseptic procedures in a biomanufacturing environment
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04_Communicating laboratory information to authorised personnel under supervision
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04_Improving product and process quality in laboratories
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05_Provide leadership for a biomanufacturing team
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06_Measure, weigh and prepare compounds and solutions for biomanufacturing use
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10_Monitor the measuring, weighing and preparation of compounds and solutions for biomanufacturing use
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Assess and communicate scientific or technical information to authorised personnel
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Assess your own scientific or technical knowledge and skills for workplace activities
- Standard
Assisting with the maintenance of stocks of reagents and consumables for laboratory use
- Standard
Assure quality processes and procedures for scientific or technical activities
- Standard
Carry Out Complex Testing Operations
- Standard
Carry out complex scientific or technical sampling operations
- Standard
Carry out complex scientific or technical testing operations
- Standard
Carry out investigation in life sciences and related industries
- Standard
Carry out scientific or technical investigations
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The jobs these credits are mapped to
A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.
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Where this can lead
International Testing and Validation Assistant
This work can lead to lead validation engineer roles, validation and verification management, or a move into R&D quality and compliance.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by GQA Qualifications 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
Access and communicate scientific or technical information to authorised personnelAssess their own scientific or technical knowledge and skills for workplace activitiesCarry out complex scientific or technical testing operationsCarry out scientific or technical investigationsCarry out scientific or technical testing operationsCarry out small scale processingCarrying out complex scientific or technical sampling operationsDemonstrate scientific or technical methods, techniques and skills to others in the workplace
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 Navigator · your what-if tutor Illustration - Bring your own plan Create
For “Plan scientific or technical sampling and testing activities” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.
- Draft the real one Create
You do “Following aseptic procedures in the laboratory environment” 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
“Evaluate and provide scientific or technical assistance for learning activities” 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
“Provide scientific or technical leadership for a workplace team” 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.
- 01_Maintain health and safety in a biomanufacturing environment
- 01_Maintaining health and safety in a laboratory environment
- 03_Follow aseptic procedures in a biomanufacturing environment
- 03_Monitor and follow aseptic procedures in a biomanufacturing environment
- 04_Communicating laboratory information to authorised personnel under supervision
- 04_Improving product and process quality in laboratories
- 05_Provide leadership for a biomanufacturing team
- 06_Measure, weigh and prepare compounds and solutions for biomanufacturing use
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 Access and communicate scientific or technical information to authorised personnel, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit covers how to access relevant scientific or technical information from appropriate sources and communicate it clearly to authorised personnel. Learners will develop skills in documenting information according to organisational procedures while ensuring accuracy and confidentiality.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for GQA PAA\VQ-SET Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Laboratory and Associated Technical Activities
23 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by GQA Qualifications Limited.
- Access and communicate scientific or technical information to authorised personnel
- Assess their own scientific or technical knowledge and skills for workplace activities
- Carry out complex scientific or technical testing operations
- Carry out scientific or technical investigations
- Carry out scientific or technical testing operations
- Carry out small scale processing
and 17 more in the full unit list below.
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