City and Guilds of London Institute · RQF Level 3
City & Guilds Level 3 Diploma in Perioperative Support
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits66
- Guided learning468 hours
- Units in this qualification30
Awarded by City and Guilds of London Institute · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units City and Guilds of London Institute 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.
Assist in receiving, handling and dispatching clinical specimensReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how health and safety measures are implemented when receiving, handling and dispatching clinical specimens
- Understand the reasons for different containers and transport media for different clinical specimens
- Assist others to receive, handle, label and dispatch clinical specimens
Assist in the delivery of perioperative care and support to individualsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the potential effects of the perioperative environment and procedures on individuals undergoing perioperative care
- Support individuals in a perioperative environment according to their care plan
- Monitor individuals in a perioperative environment according to the requirements of their care plans
Causes and Spread of InfectionReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the causes of infection
- Understand the transmission of infection
Cleaning, Decontamination and Waste ManagementReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to maintain a clean environment to prevent the spread of infection
- Understand the principles and steps of the decontamination process
- Understand the importance of good waste management practice in the prevention of the spread of infection
Contribute to the safe use of medical devices in the perioperative environmentReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of following health and safety requirements when using medical devices in the perioperative environment
- Check and handle medical devices in the perioperative environment, according to health and safety procedures
- Check the integrity of instrument trays
- Dispose of used items and equipment safely
Engage in personal development in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settingsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand what is required for competence in own work role
- Reflect on practice
- Evaluate own performance
- Agree a personal development plan
- Use learning opportunities and reflective practice to contribute to personal development
Maintaining quality standards in the health sectorReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to provide a quality service within legislation, policies and procedures
- Understand the importance of working with others to provide a quality service
- Monitor quality standards
- Understand the importance of prioritising own workload to reduce risks to quality
Measure and record individuals’ body fluid balance in a perioperative environmentReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand safe procedures relating to measuring and recording individuals’ fluid balance in a perioperative environment
- Measure, record and review individuals’ body fluid balance in a perioperative environment
- Manage equipment after measuring individuals’ body fluid balance
Operate equipment for intraoperative cell salvage blood collectionReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand current legislation, national guidelines, policies, protocols and good practice related to the operation of equipment for intraoperative cell salvage blood collection
- Understand blood physiology related to intraoperative cell salvage
- Understand the rationale for intraoperative cell salvage blood collection
- Understand the role and function of equipment used in intraoperative cell salvage blood collection
- Understand the process and rationale of swab washing for intraoperative cell salvage blood collection
- Prepare to operate equipment for intraoperative cell salvage blo
Operate equipment for intraoperative cell salvage blood processing and complete intraoperative cell salvage blood processReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand current legislation, national guidelines, policies, protocols and good practice related to operating equipment for intraoperative cell salvage blood processing and completing the intraoperative cell salvage blood process
- Understand blood physiology in relation to processing intraoperative cell salvaged blood
- Understand the rationale for using intraoperative cell salvage
- Understand the process and rationale for swab washing in relation to intraoperative cell salvage
- Understand the role and function of equipment used in intraoperative cell salvage
- Understand the reinfusion proces
Perform the non scrubbed circulating role for perioperative proceduresReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to perform the non scrubbed circulating role for perioperative procedures in line with policies, protocols and good practice
- Know how medical devices are used for surgical interventions
- Work with medical devices and equipment for clinical procedures in accordance with requirements
Prepare anaesthetic environment and provide support for pre and post operative anaesthesia and recoveryReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand health and safety measures specific to carrying out activities in the anaesthetic/recovery environment
- Understand the parametres for clinical readings taken in the anaesthetic/recovery environment
- Prepare and maintain anaesthetic/recovery equipment for the reception of individuals
- Assist the registered practitioner in caring for individuals in the anaesthetic/recovery environment
Prepare and apply dressings and drains to individuals in the perioperative environmentReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the health and safety measures related to preventing wound contamination and cross infection when preparing and applying dressings and drains
- Understand how medical devices are used in the application of dressings, wound supports and drains in the learner environment
- Select and prepare dressings and drains according to individual requirements
- Apply dressings and attach drains according to individual requirements
Prepare and dress for scrubbed clinical rolesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to follow safe procedures when preparing and dressing for scrubbed clinical roles
- Work within own sphere of competence
- Understand how to dress for scrubbed clinical roles
- Work within scrubbed clinical roles
Prepare and provide surgical instrumentation and supplementary items for the surgical teamReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to prepare and provide surgical instrumentation and items for the surgical team in line with health and safety procedures and protocols
- Prepare surgical instruments and supplementary items for the surgical team
- Provide surgical instruments and supplementary items for the surgical team
- Dispose of waste from the sterile field
Prepare equipment for intraoperative cell salvage blood collectionReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Know current legislation, national guidelines, policies, protocols and good practice related to the preparation of equipment for intraoperative cell salvage blood collection
- Understand transfusion issues related tointraoperative cell salvage
- Understand the role and function of equipment used in intraoperative cell salvage blood collection
- Prepare equipment for intraoperative cell salvage blood collection
Prepare equipment for intraoperative cell salvage blood processingReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand current legislation, national guidelines, policies, protocols and good practice related to which inform the preparation of equipment for intraoperative cell salvage blood processing
- Understand blood transfusion issues in relation to intraoperative cell salvage
- Understand the rationale for the use of intraoperative cell salvage
- Understand how the decision to proceed with intraoperative cell salvage blood processing is made
- Understand the rationale for swab washing in relation to intraoperative cell salvage blood
- Understand the role and function of equipment used for intraoperati
Principles for implementing duty of care in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settingsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how duty of care contributes to safe practice
- Address conflicts or dilemmas that may arise between an individual’s rights and the duty of care
- Respond to complaints
Principles of safeguarding and protection in health and social careReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise signs of abuse.
- Respond to suspected or alleged abuse.
- Understand the national and local context of safeguarding and protection from abuse.
- Understand ways to reduce the likelihood of abuse.
- Recognise and report unsafe practices.
Promote and implement health and safety in health and social careReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand own responsibilities, and the responsibilities of others, relating to health and safety
- Carry out own responsibilities for health and safety
- Understand procedures for responding to accidents and sudden illness
- Reduce the spread of infection
- Move and handle equipment and other objects safely
- Handle hazardous substances and materials
- Promote fire safety in the work setting
- Implement security measures in the work setting
- Manage stress
Promote communication in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settingsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand why effective communication is important in the work setting
- Meet the communication and language needs, wishes and preferences of individuals
- Overcome barriers to communication
- Apply principles and practices relating to confidentiality
Promote equality and inclusion in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settingsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of diversity, equality and inclusion
- Work in an inclusive way
- Promote diversity, equality and inclusion
Promote good practice in handling information in health and social care settingsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand requirements for handling information in health and social care settings
- Implement good practice in handling information
- Support others to handle information
Promote person centred approaches in health and social careReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the application of person centred approaches in health and social care
- Work in a person-centred way
- Establish consent when providing care or support
- Implement and promote active participation
- Support the individual’s right to make choices
- Promote individuals well-being
- Understand the role of risk assessment in enabling a person centred approach
Provide support to the surgical team when preparing individuals for operative and invasive proceduresReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to prepare individuals for operative and invasive procedures in line with national guidelines, policies, protocols and good practice
- Understand the factors to be considered in the choice of surgical instruments and supplementary items during operative procedures
- Support others to prepare individuals for operative and invasive procedures
- Select, handle and dispose of surgical instruments and supplementary items for operative and invasive procedures
Receive and handle clinical specimens within the sterile fieldReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to receive and handle clinical specimens within the sterile field in line with health and safety guidance
- Receive and handle clinical specimens within the sterile field
Service improvement in the health sectorReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to evaluate own work and that of others to identify potential improvements
- Understand how to make constructive suggestions about how services can be improved
- Understand how to discuss and agree improvements with others
- Understand how to make agreed improvements to own work and how to support others to make changes
The principles of Infection Prevention and ControlReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand roles and responsibilities in the prevention and control of infections
- Understand legislation and policies relating to prevention and control of infections
- Understand systems and procedures relating to the prevention and control of infections
- Understand the importance of risk assessment in relation to the prevention and control of infections
- Understand the importance of using Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in the prevention and control of infections
- Understand the importance of good personal hygiene in the prevention and control of infections
The role of the health and social care workerReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand working relationships in health and social care.
- Work in ways that are agreed with the employer.
- Work in partnership with others.
Transport, transfer and position individuals and equipment within the perioperative environmentReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of health and safety measures when transporting, transferring and positioning individuals and equipment in the perioperative care environment
- Understand the requirements for pressure area care in the perioperative environment
- Prepare to transport individuals within the perioperative care environment
- Assist in the transfer and positioning of individuals within the perioperative environment
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
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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.
- Assist in the preparation of patients for operative and clinically invasive procedures
- Assist in the support and monitoring of patients within the perioperative care environment
- Assist in the transfer and positioning of patients within the perioperative environment
- Bring an individual back to consciousness following an intervention
- Carry out delegated activities in receiving, handling and dispatching clinical specimens
- Communicate and relate to individuals during endoscopic procedures
- Contribute to the safe use of medical devices in the perioperative environment
- Enable the Patient to Optimise Pre-Transplant Health
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 City & Guilds Level 3 Diploma in Perioperative Support
30 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by City and Guilds of London Institute.
- Assist in receiving, handling and dispatching clinical specimens
- Assist in the delivery of perioperative care and support to individuals
- Causes and Spread of Infection
- Cleaning, Decontamination and Waste Management
- Contribute to the safe use of medical devices in the perioperative environment
- Engage in personal development in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settings
and 24 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.
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