City College Norwich Qualifications · RQF Level 3
CCNQ Level 3 Diploma For Professional Bankers (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits40
- Units in this qualification10
Awarded by City College Norwich Qualifications · 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 College Norwich Qualifications 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.
Banking OperationsReal unit · City College Norwich Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand what is meant by a bank and how it functions.
- Know the range of services a bank can offer
- Within a regulated environment recognise different types of customers and their requirements.
- Understand how bank accounts operate.
- Understand the mechanism of funds transfers.
- Know the principles of good lending.
- Understand the main reasons why a bank takes security, the attributes of good security and the common features types and features.
Call centre operations within the financial servicesReal unit · City College Norwich Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand why financial organisations have created call centres to serve their customers
- Understand the different types and needs of financial service customers
- Know the products and process involved in selling financial products and services to customers
- Understand how a call centre should deal with customer complaints
- Understand how to comply with legal requirements, industry regulations and professional codes.
- Understand staffing and other resource requirements when setting up a call centre
- Understand the importance that culture plays within a call centre
Commercial PropertyReal unit · City College Norwich Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand principals of commercial property finance
- Understand the factors involved when dealing with owner occupier lending
- Understand the main factors involved in property investment
- Understand the main principals involved in property development
- Understand the legal issues involved in commercial property
- Understand the UK property markets
- Understand a range of business and borrower types within commercial property
- Understand property transactions
Introduction to Business RiskReal unit · City College Norwich Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand business risk
- Understand third party services and the risks and benefits of using them.
- Understand the concept, purpose, advantages and disadvantages of using model risk policies
- Understand business resilience
- Understand the internal audit function
- Understand the legal framework of an organisation
- Understand the relevant regulatory and compliance frameworks
Introduction to creditReal unit · City College Norwich Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how banks determine a good lending proposal using the Campari principles
- Understand the range of credit products and services
- Understand how organisations use securities when lending money to customers
- Understand the importance of communicating with customers.
- Understand collections and recoveries
- Understand the relevant legal and regulatory frameworks
Money laundering and financial crimeReal unit · City College Norwich Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the different types of financial crime
- Understand the legal framework and regulation relating to financial crime
- Understand the Joint Money Laundering Steering Group’s risk–based approach
- Understand the practical implications of the Money Laundering Regulations and how they should be put into practice by regulated firms
Products, marketing, legislation and regulation within a financial services environmentReal unit · City College Norwich Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the range of products and services sold by financial services organisations, including their features and benefits
- Understand the range of products and services available through building societies, the government, the stock exchange and finance companies, and how they meet different customer needs
- Know the benefits, impact and processes involved in marketing financial services products and services to target audiences
- Adhere to the relevant legislation and regulatory frameworks within which financial services operate, ensuring compliance in all activities
Professional BankerReal unit · City College Norwich Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know the requirements,importance and implications of ethical and professional behaviour.
- Understand the wide range of institutions that make up the financial services sector and the workings of a modern economy
- Understand the legal and regulatory requirements of a banks operating environment.
- Know what is involved in meeting customers’ various needs professionally and responsibly.
- Understand the products and services offered by financial services organisations.
- Know the banks principles when deciding whether or not to lend money
- Understand risk and the techniques of risk management opera
Sales and service within the financial services environmentReal unit · City College Norwich Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of sales activities within the financial services industry
- Build successful relationships with customers in order to sell financial products and services effectively
- Provide excellent customer service to clients within the financial services sector
- Understand how to deal with customer complaints in a professional and timely manner
- Understand the process of achieving sales targets through identifying and meeting customer needs
- Know the appropriate approach and structure for making telephone sales calls in the financial services industry
Team LeadershipReal unit · City College Norwich Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- In a context of organisations explain and analyse the dynamics of team working and organisational structure
- Explore and evaluate theories covering management, culture, motivation, team design and development
- Understand, explore, and evaluate human resource management processes for recruitment, selection and training
- Assess recognition, reward and performance management processes.
- With the purpose of gaining sustainable and dynamic competitive advantage, identify and evaluate techniques to achieve good communication within teams.
- Compare and contrast different change management techniques
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.
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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
The Evidence Evaluator
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Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
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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.
Where this can lead
Banking Services Associate
Your journey starts here, building a robust foundation in banking operations. The opportunities to specialise, lead, or even move into different areas of finance are vast, provided you bring curiosity, a dedication to accuracy, and a commitment to continuous learning. We're excited to see where you take your career with us.
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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 work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for CCNQ Level 3 Diploma For Professional Bankers (QCF)
10 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by City College Norwich Qualifications.
- Banking Operations
- Call centre operations within the financial services
- Commercial Property
- Introduction to Business Risk
- Introduction to credit
- Money laundering and financial crime
and 4 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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