FDQ Limited · RQF Level 2
FDQ Level 2 Award for Proficiency in Fish and Shellfish Industry Skills
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits10
- Guided learning20 hours
- Units in this qualification6
Awarded by FDQ Limited · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
This qualification develops proficiency in fish and shellfish industry skills. It is intended for those working in, or aspiring to work in, roles that involve processing and displaying fish and shellfish products within a sales environment.
These are the units FDQ 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, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Display fish/shellfish in a sales environmentReal unit · FDQ Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare the display area and materials for displaying fish/shellfish products safely and hygienically
- Label displays of fish/shellfish products accurately, providing necessary information to customers
- Arrange and maintain fish/shellfish products attractively and appropriately for display, ensuring freshness and quality
- Empty and clean the fish/shellfish product display area thoroughly after use, adhering to hygiene standards
Maximise sales in a food retail environmentReal unit · FDQ Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Identify opportunities to increase retail sales through promotions and displays of food and drink products.
- Organise the promotion and display of food and drink products for sale in a retail environment.
- Promote food and drink products to customers in a retail environment.
Process fish/shellfish in a sales environmentReal unit · FDQ Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare the work area, equipment, and fish/shellfish for processing in readiness for sale, ensuring hygiene and safety standards are met
- Process fish/shellfish using appropriate hand-tools to prepare them for sale, demonstrating correct techniques and minimising waste
- Finish processing fish/shellfish to meet quality standards and customer requirements, ensuring they are ready for display and sale
Understand how to display fish/shellfish in a sales environmentReal unit · FDQ Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Know the legal, hygiene, and safety requirements for displaying fish/shellfish in a sales environment
- Prepare the display area and materials for displaying fish/shellfish in sales, considering factors such as temperature and presentation
- Display fish/shellfish effectively in a sales environment, maintaining quality and visual appeal
- Dismantle and clean fish/shellfish displays in a sales environment, adhering to hygiene and safety procedures
Understand how to maximise sales of food products in a retail environmentReal unit · FDQ Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Confirm that displays meet required standards for displaying goods, including health and safety regulations, food hygiene standards, and company policies.
- Deal with problems in displaying goods, such as stock shortages, damaged products, and display maintenance issues.
- Assess and monitor displays to ensure they are effective in attracting customers and driving sales, using key performance indicators (KPIs) and customer feedback.
Understand how to process fish/shellfish in a sales environmentReal unit · FDQ Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Know the requirements for processing fish and shellfish in a sales environment, including relevant legislation and best practise guidelines.
- Prepare the work area, equipment, and materials for processing fish and shellfish in a sales environment.
- Process fish and shellfish in a sales environment, using appropriate techniques and equipment.
- Finish processing operations in a sales environment, including cleaning, storage, and waste disposal.
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 2 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.
- Display fish or shellfish for retail sale
- Maximise sales of food and drink products in a retail environment
- Process fish by hand
- Process fish by machine
- Process fish or shellfish for retail sale
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
Learners will develop practical skills to prepare, label, arrange, maintain, and clean fish and shellfish displays in a sales environment. The unit emphasises hygiene, product quality, and compliance with food safety standards.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for FDQ Level 2 Award for Proficiency in Fish and Shellfish Industry Skills
6 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by FDQ Limited.
- Display fish/shellfish in a sales environment
- Maximise sales in a food retail environment
- Process fish/shellfish in a sales environment
- Understand how to display fish/shellfish in a sales environment
- Understand how to maximise sales of food products in a retail environment
- Understand how to process fish/shellfish in a sales environment
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.