NOCN · RQF Level 2
NOCN Level 2 Certificate in Youth Work Practice (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits23
- Guided learning79 hours
- Units in this qualification20
Awarded by NOCN · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units NOCN 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.
Community Development within a Faith ContextReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the different meanings of ‘community’. (E4)
- Understand the values and practice principles of community development work. (B1)
- Understand the key purpose of development work within a faith community. (E4,C5)
- Understand why people get involved in community activities and the barriers to their participation. (B2,C4)
- Understand why groups are necessary and the pros and cons of working in groups. (B1,C3)
Contribute to Children and Young People's Health and SafetyReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Know the health and safety policies and procedures of the work setting
- Recognise risks and hazards in the work setting and during off site visits
- Know what to do in the event of a non medical incident or emergency
- Know what to do in the event of a child or young person becoming ill or injured
- Follow the work setting procedures for reporting and recording accidents, incidents, emergencies and illnesses
- Follow infection control procedures
- Know the work setting’s procedures for receiving, storing and administering medicines
Contribute to the Support of Positive Environments for Children and Young PeopleReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Know the regulatory requirements for a positive environment for children and young people
- Support a positive environment that meets the individual needs of children and young people
- Support the personal care needs of children and young people within a positive environment
- Understand how to support the nutritional and dietary needs of children and young people
Dealing with challenging behaviour within peer activitiesReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how challenging behaviour can affect peer activities
- Understand importance of addressing challenging behaviour appropriately within peer activities
- Know when and where to obtain support in dealing with challenging behaviour within peer activities
Designing and delivering a programme of peer education activitiesReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand importance of a clear purpose in designing a programme of peer activities
- Design a peer education programme
- Deliver own peer education programme
- Understand need to review and check the programme design
Designing, creating and reviewing learning resources for peer activitiesReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand factors that affect the design of learning resources for peer activities
- Design a learning resource to meet learning objectives for a peer activity
- Create, test and review a learning resource
Developing communication skills within peer activitiesReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Know different methods of communication and when to use them in peer activities
- Understand skills of a good communicator and how to relate these to own skills and abilities
- Communicate effectively in peer activities and reflect on own skills
Diversity and FaithReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the meaning of the terms 'diversity' and 'faith'. (B1, B3, B7)
- Recognise a range of faith groups and their practices. (B1, B3, B7)
- Understand prejudice and discrimination. (B1, B3, B7)
- Understand appropriate underpinning legislation relating to equality and diversity. (B1, B3, B7)
- Understand the importance of respecting diversity. (B1, B3, B7)
- Understand how faith groups can promote and support equality and diversity. (C3)
Reviewing and sharing learning from peer education activitiesReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to review learning and the benefits involved in reviewing
- Review learning from peer education activities and share the outcomes with others
- Use learning from the review to make recommendations to improve peer education activities
Safeguarding Young People in a Youth Work SettingReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand health and safety legislation, policies and procedures
- Know the legislation, policies, procedures relating to the safeguarding of young people
- Assess risk in a youth work setting
Support children and young people with disabilities and special educational needsReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Know the rights of disabled children and young people and those with special educational needs
- Understand the disabilities and/or special educational needs of children and young people in own care
- Contribute to the inclusion of children and young people with disabilities and special educational needs
- Support disabled children and young people and those with special educational needs to participate in the full range of activities and experiences
Support children and young people’s play and leisureReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature and importance of play and leisure
- Support children and young people’s play and leisure
- Support children and young people in balancing risk and challenge
- Reflect on and improve own practice
Support the provision of information and advice to young peopleReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of youth workers in providing information and advice to young people
- Support young people to access information and advice
Understand Partnership Working in Services for Children and Young PeopleReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand partnership working within the context of services for children and young people
- Understand the importance of effective communication and information sharing in services for children and young people
- Understand the importance of partnerships with carers
Understand employment responsibilities and rights in health, social care or children and young people’s settingsReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Know the statutory responsibilities and rights of employees and employers within own area of work
- Understand agreed ways of working that protect own relationship with employer
- Understand how own role fits within the wider context of the sector
- Understand career pathways available within own and related sectors
- Understand how issues of public concern may affect the image and delivery of services in the sector
Understanding Youth Work Principles and PracticeReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and role of youth work intervention
- Understand the principles and practice of equal opportunities
- Understand the skills, knowledge, qualities and values required to practice within youth work
Working Together for the Benefit of Children and Young People.Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand integrated and multi agency working.
- Communicate with others for professional purposes.
- Support organisational processes and procedures for recording, storing and sharing information.
Working with peers in a groupReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand key characteristics of effective groups
- Work effectively within a peer group activity
- Use a range of appropriate sources to reflect on own performance
Working with peers in one to one situationsReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand key principles of one to one work
- Understand how to work effectively with peers in one to one situations
- Lead a one to one session and reflect on own performance
Youth Work Principles, Knowledge and Skills in Work-based PracticeReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Communicate effectively with young people in a work-based setting
- Recognise issues that are important to young people
- Understand how groups are formed and facilitated
- Use the principles and practices of participation and empowerment to plan activities with young people in work-based settings
- Evaluate and reflect on activities in own work-based practice
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.
- Assist young people to learn and engage with the youth work service
- Get to know a community
- Maintain community development practice
- Maintain community development practice within own organisation
- Relate to Different Communities
- Support young people to become responsible citizens through active involvement with youth work
- Work with the tensions inherent in community development practice
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 NOCN Level 2 Certificate in Youth Work Practice (QCF)
20 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by NOCN.
- Community Development within a Faith Context
- Contribute to Children and Young People's Health and Safety
- Contribute to the Support of Positive Environments for Children and Young People
- Dealing with challenging behaviour within peer activities
- Designing and delivering a programme of peer education activities
- Designing, creating and reviewing learning resources for peer activities
and 14 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.