PAA/VQSET · RQF Level 2
PAA\VQSET Level 2 NVQ Diploma in Combined Working Practices (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits37
- Guided learning79 hours
- Units in this qualification35
Awarded by PAA/VQSET · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units PAA/VQSET 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.
Adjust process equipment to meet operating requirementsReal unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Work safely at all times, complying with health and safety and other relevant regulations and guidelines
- Make adjustments
- Confirm that adjusted equipment meets the operating specification
- Keep up to date documentation
- Work safely at all times, complying with health and safety and other relevant regulations and guidelines
- Make adjustments
- Keep up to date documentation
Analyse and interpret the results of tests on process products or equipmentReal unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Work safely at all times, complying with health and safety and other relevant regulations and guidelines
- Analyse and interpret the results of tests on process products or equipment
- Record results appropriately
- Analyse and interpret the results of tests on process products or equipment
Assemble orders for dispatch in logistics operationsReal unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Assemble orders for dispatch in logistics operations
- Assemble the orders for dispatch in logistics operations
Carry out planned maintenance procedures on process equipmentReal unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Work safely at all times, complying with health and safety and other relevant regulations and guidelines
- Follow maintenance schedules
- Carry out maintenance activities
- Complete maintenance records accurately
- Dispose of waste materials
- Work safely at all times, complying with health and safety and other relevant regulations and guidelines
- Follow maintenance schedules
- Carry out maintenance activities
- Complete relevant maintenance records
- Dispose of waste materials
Carry out sampling operations for scientific or technical testsReal unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Carry out sampling operations for scientific or technical tests
- 1b. Carry out sampling operations for scientific or technical tests (continued)
- 2a. Know how to carry out sampling operations for scientific or technical tests
- 2b. Know how to carry out sampling operations for scientific or technical tests (continued)
Carry out simple scientific or technical tests using automated equipmentReal unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Carry out simple scientific or technical tests using automated equipment
- 1b. Carry out simple scientific or technical tests using automated equipment (continued)
- 2a. Know how to carry out simple scientific or technical tests using automated equipment
- 2b. Know how to carry out simple scientific or technical tests using automated equipment (continued)
Carry out simple scientific or technical tests using manual equipmentReal unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Carry out simple scientific or technical tests using manual equipment
- 1b. Carry out simple scientific or technical tests using manual equipment (continued)
- 2a. Know how to carry out simple scientific or technical tests using manual equipment
- 2b. Know how to carry out simple scientific or technical tests using manual equipment (continued)
Change process systems to meet requirementsReal unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Change system settings to meet requirements
- Change simple and easily removed and replaced system components
- Optimise a system after changes
- Confirm that the system is functioning
- Change system settings to meet requirements
- Change simple and easily removed and replaced system components
- Optimise a system after changes
- Confirm that the system is functioning
Contribute to the conversion of fibreboard by ClosingReal unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Identify job requirements and follow instructions as required
- Assist in the ‘make ready and production’ processes for Closing
- Assist with the stacking of the finished product
- Undertake basic fault identification
- Operate in a safe and efficient manner
Contribute to the conversion of fibreboard by Die CuttingReal unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Identify job requirements and follow instructions as required
- Assist in the ‘make ready and production’ processes for Die Cutting
- Assist with the stacking of the finished product
- Undertake basic fault identification
- Operate in a safe and efficient manner
Contribute to the conversion of fibreboard by Printing and SlottingReal unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Identify job requirements and follow instructions as required
- Assist in the ‘make ready and production’ processes for Printing and Slotting
- Assist with the stacking of the finished product
- Undertake basic fault identification
- Operate in a safe and efficient manner
Contribute to the improvement of routine working practicesReal unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Identify opportunities to improve routine working practices
- Make realistic suggestions to improving working practices
- Know safety standards that apply to routine working practices
- Identify opportunities to improve routine working practices
- Make realistic suggestions to improve working practices
Contribute to the provision of ancillary systemsReal unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Ensure that the ancillary systems are ready and available
- Monitor system operation and condition
- Control the output of systems
- Start up and shut down systems safely
- Know the safety, health and environmental standards to work safely on and around ancillary systems
- Ensure that ancillary systems are ready and available
- Monitor system operation and condition
- Control the output of systems
- Start up and shut down systems safely
- Work safely on and around ancillary systems
Contribute to the ‘Dry End’ process of fibreboard manufactureReal unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Identify job requirements and follow instructions as required
- Assist in the ‘make ready and production’ processes for the Dry End manufacture
- Assist with the stacking of the finished product
- Undertake basic fault identification
- Operate in a safe and efficient manner
Contribute to the ‘Wet End’ process of fibreboard manufactureReal unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Identify job requirements and follow instructions as required
- Assist in the ‘make ready and production’ processes for the Wet End manufacture
- Assist with the stacking of the finished product
- Undertake basic fault identification
- Operate in a safe and efficient manner
Ensure responsibility for actions to reduce risks to health and safetyReal unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Identify the hazards and evaluate the risks in the workplace.
- Reduce the risks to health and safety in the workplace.
- Reduce risks to health and safety in the workplace.
Exchange responsibility for control of process operationsReal unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Know what information is available and required for exchange of responsibility
- Know the handover procedures
- Ensure all information is available
- Follow the handover procedures
How to contribute to the conversion of fibreboard by ClosingReal unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Identify the job requirements and follow instructions
- Assist in the ‘make ready and production’ processes for Closing
- Undertake basic fault identification
- Operate in a safe and efficient manner
- Stack finished product
How to contribute to the conversion of fibreboard by Die CuttingReal unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Identify the job requirements and follow instructions
- Assist in the ‘make ready and production’ processes for Die Cutting
- Undertake basic fault identification
- Operate in a safe and efficient manner
- Stack finished product
How to contribute to the conversion of fibreboard by Printing and SlottingReal unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Identify the job requirements and follow instructions
- Assist in the ‘make ready and production’ processes for Printing and Slotting
- Undertake basic fault identification
- Operate in a safe and efficient manner
- Stack finished product
How to contribute to the ‘Dry End’ process of fibreboard manufactureReal unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Identify the job requirements and follow instructions
- Assist in the ‘make ready and production’ processes for Dry End manufacture
- Undertake basic fault identification
- Operate in a safe and efficient manner
How to contribute to the ‘Wet End’ process of fibreboard manufactureReal unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Identify the job requirements and follow instructions
- Assist in the ‘make ready and production’ processes for Wet End manufacture
- Undertake basic fault identification
- Operate in a safe and efficient manner
Identify and respond to process problemsReal unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Know the types of potential process problems that could occur
- Know the procedures to respond to potential process problems that could occur
- Record details of problems and the actions taken to respond to them
- Identify problems and their nature correctly
- Select and use the correct procedures to respond to problems
- Record details of problems and the actions taken to respond to them
Maintain the condition of process equipmentReal unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Work safely at all times, complying with health and safety and other relevant regulations and guidelines
- Remove and replace components
- Maintain and store components
- Check equipment to identify any defects or variations from the specification
- Maintain documentation in accordance with requirements
- Work safely at all times, complying with health and safety and other relevant regulations and guidelines
- Remove components using approved tools and techniques
- Replace components using appropriate tools and techniques
- Check equipment to
Make sure own actions within the workplace aim to protect the environmentReal unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Identify the risks to the environment arising as a result of workplace activities
- Minimise risks to the environment arising as a result of workplace activities
- Identify the risks to the environment arising as a result of workplace activities
- Minimise risks to the environment arising as a result of workplace activities
Move loads for processingReal unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Work safely at all times, complying with health and safety and other relevant regulations and guidelines
- Know the methods and techniques for moving loads
- Know moving, lifting and handling equipment and how to use it
- Know the characteristics of moving loads
- Work safely at all times, complying with health and safety and other relevant regulations and guidelines
- Use moving methods and techniques
- Move loads
Operate programmable processesReal unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Work safely at all times, complying with health and safety and other relevant regulations and guidelines
- Confirm that the equipment is set up and ready for operation
- Follow procedures for starting and running the operating programme
- Control the computer process
- Shut down the equipment to a safe condition on conclusion of the activities
- Work safely at all times, complying with health and safety and other relevant regulations and guidelines
- Start and run the operating programme
- Control the computer process
- Shut down the equipmen
Prepare materials for processing according to instructionsReal unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare materials
- Handle materials in a safe manner
- Keep up to date accurate and complete records
- Measure materials
- Prepare material for use
- Keep up to date, accurate and complete records
Produce process outcomes using manual operationsReal unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Know the equipment and materials used for manual operations
- Operate equipment and control outcomes of manual processing
- Leave equipment in a suitable condition after use
- Know the appropriate safety, health and environmental standards and procedures
- Prepare equipment and materials for manual operations
- Operate and respond to problems with equipment and materials for manual processing
- Control the outcomes of manual processing
- Leave equipment in a suitable condition after use
- Keep appropriate records
Producing packaged productsReal unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Produce packaged products
- 1b. Produce packaged products (continued)
- 2a. Know how to produce packaged products
- 2b. Know how to produce packaged products (continued)
Respond to accidents, hazardous incidents and emergenciesReal unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Comply with organisational procedures for hazardous incidents, accidents and emergencies
- Act within the limits of own responsibility
- Act on the identification of an accident or hazardous incident
- Respond to emergencies
- Report hazardous incidents, accidents and emergencies
Run machine led process operations, which are under process controlReal unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to run a machine led process operation
- Run and monitor a machine led process operation
- Conclude a machine led process operation
- Know the safety, health and environmental standards within a machine led process operation
- Make sure that the conditions are right for the operation to begin
- Run and monitor a machine led process operation
- Conclude a machine led process operation
- Follow all safety, health and environment procedures for the operation
Separate and dispose of processing materials, by-products and wastesReal unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Separate part processed materials, excess materials, recoverable by-products and wastes from the process
- Handle materials and respond to problems
- Keep accurate records and keep other people informed
- Comply with safety, health and environmental standards
- Separate part processed materials, excess materials, recoverable by-products and wastes from the process
- Handle materials safely and take action should problems occur
- Keep accurate records and keep other people informed
- Work safely at all times, complying with health and safety and other re
Support own and others’ improvement in the work environmentReal unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Know the standards of work that are expected
- Know what development activities are available and why they are important
- Give and receive feedback
- Meet the standards of work that are expected
- Take an active part in development activities
- Give and receive feedback
- Use support provided effectively
Support the achievement of work objectivesReal unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Find information about work and work objectives
- Keep records of work
- Make sure resources are available and requisitioned
- Make effective use of resources
- Collect information about the work and work objectives
- Keep records of the work in progress
- Make sure resources are available and requisitioned
- Make effective use of resources
- Seek clarification from appropriate person when required
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.
- 18_Carry out sampling operations in a biomanufacturing environment
- Achieve Product Specification by Adjusting Process Parameters
- Adjust equipment used in nuclear decommissioning to meet operational requirements
- Adjust instrument and control systems to meet operational requirements
- Adjust process equipment to meet operating requirements
- Analyse and interpret the results of tests on process products or equipment
- Carry out complex scientific or technical sampling operations
- Carry out planned maintenance procedures on mechanical plant and equipment
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 PAA\VQSET Level 2 NVQ Diploma in Combined Working Practices (QCF)
35 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by PAA/VQSET.
- Adjust process equipment to meet operating requirements
- Analyse and interpret the results of tests on process products or equipment
- Assemble orders for dispatch in logistics operations
- Carry out planned maintenance procedures on process equipment
- Carry out sampling operations for scientific or technical tests
- Carry out simple scientific or technical tests using automated equipment
and 29 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.