How you’d get this certificate
- Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer 1st4sport has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and 1st4sport awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from 1st4sport.
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These are the units 1st4sport 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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with 1st4sport. It does the teaching and the mapping. 1st4sport sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Allocate and monitor the progress and quality of work in own area of responsibility Real unit · 1st4sport
What you'll be able to do
- Plan work for colleagues
- Brief colleagues on planned work
- Monitor colleagues’ work
- Support colleagues in their work
- Understand own sector context for allocating and monitoring work in own area of responsibility
- Understand own organisational context for allocating and monitoring work in own area of responsibility
- Understand how to plan work for colleagues
- Understand how to brief colleagues on planned work
- Understand how to monitor work carried out by colleagues
- Understand how to support colleagues in their work
Contribute to the prevention and management of abusive and aggressive behaviour Real unit · 1st4sport
What you'll be able to do
- Know and understand how to prevent abusive and aggressive behaviour and how to manage it effectively if it occurs.
- Know and understand the various forms, underlying causes, and potential effects of abusive and aggressive behaviour.
- Deal with incidents of abusive and aggressive behaviour in a calm, professional and appropriate manner.
- Contribute to minimising the risk of abusive and aggressive behaviour occurring in a given environment.
Design outdoor education programmes Real unit · 1st4sport
What you'll be able to do
- Design outdoor education programmes
- Identify and agree individual and group educational needs
- Identify and agree individual and group educational needs
- Design an outdoor education programme
- Design an outdoor education programme
Design outdoor recreation programmes Real unit · 1st4sport
What you'll be able to do
- Design outdoor recreation programmes
- Identify the recreational needs and aspirations of participants
- Identify the recreational needs and aspirations of participants
- Design an outdoor recreation programme
- Design an outdoor recreation programme
Enable disabled people to take part in activities Real unit · 1st4sport
What you'll be able to do
- Identify the specific needs of disabled participants in relation to a given activity.
- Accurately identify the specific needs of disabled participants in relation to a given activity.
- Adapt activities to effectively meet the identified needs of disabled participants.
- Adapt activities to effectively meet the identified needs of disabled participants.
- Work effectively and sensitively with disabled participants during activities.
- Work effectively and sensitively with disabled participants during activities.
Facilitate adventurous experiences Real unit · 1st4sport
What you'll be able to do
- Facilitate adventurous experiences
- Prepare for adventurous experiences
- Prepare for adventurous experiences
- Prepare participants for adventurous experiences
- Prepare participants for adventurous experiences
- Supervise and facilitate adventurous experiences
- Supervise and facilitate adventurous experiences
- Conclude and review adventurous experiences
- Conclude and review adventurous experiences
Facilitate education in the outdoors Real unit · 1st4sport
What you'll be able to do
- Facilitate education in the outdoors effectively.
- Initiate the outdoor educational experience for participants.
- Initiate the outdoor educational experience for participants.
- Monitor, support and guide the educational experience of participants.
- Monitor, support and guide the educational experience of participants.
- Manage the physical and emotional well-being of participants during outdoor education.
- Manage the physical and emotional well-being of participants during outdoor education.
Facilitate participants’ investigation and understanding of the environment Real unit · 1st4sport
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for environmental investigation
- Prepare for environmental investigation
- Prepare participants for environmental investigation and understanding
- Prepare participants for environmental investigation and understanding
- Develop participants’ investigation skills and understanding of the environment
- Develop participants’ investigation skills and understanding of the environment
Facilitate recreation in the outdoors Real unit · 1st4sport
What you'll be able to do
- Facilitate recreational activities in an outdoor environment.
- Establish a positive and supportive climate that is conducive to recreation in the outdoors.
- Establish a positive and supportive climate that is conducive to recreation in the outdoors.
- Facilitate outdoor experiences that effectively meet the recreational needs of participants.
- Facilitate outdoor experiences that effectively meet the recreational needs of participants.
- Manage the physical and emotional well-being of participants during outdoor recreational activities.
- Manage the physical and emotional well-being of participants during outdoor recreational activities.
Organise and supervise travel Real unit · 1st4sport
What you'll be able to do
- Organise travel arrangements in accordance with organisational procedures.
- Supervise journeys to ensure the safety and well-being of participants.
- Follow legal and organisational requirements relating to travel.
- Understand how to organise travel arrangements effectively.
- Understand the organisational and legislative requirements for travel.
- Understand supervisory responsibilities required during journeys.
Promote the transfer of learning from outdoor experiences Real unit · 1st4sport
What you'll be able to do
- Facilitate learning through individual and shared reflection on experience
- Facilitate learning through individual and shared reflection on experience
- Help participants identify how they can transfer learning to other aspects of their lives
- Help participants identify how they can transfer learning to other aspects of their lives
Provide leadership in own area of responsibility Real unit · 1st4sport
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the sector context for leadership
- Understand own personal context for leadership
- Establish the conditions for effective leadership in own area of responsibility
- Understand how to lead other people
- Lead people in own area of responsibility
- Understand how to empower other people through leadership
- Empower other people through effective leadership
Supervise residential experiences Real unit · 1st4sport
What you'll be able to do
- Supervise participants' arrival at a residential experience, ensuring a smooth and safe process.
- Supervise participants' arrival at a residential experience, ensuring a smooth and safe process.
- Supervise participants' daily organisation during a residential experience, promoting independence and responsibility.
- Supervise participants' daily organisation during a residential experience, promoting independence and responsibility.
- Organise participants' sleeping arrangements in a safe, comfortable, and appropriate manner.
- Organise participants' sleeping arrangements in a safe, comfortable, and appropriate manner.
- Supervise participants' departure from a residential experience, ensuring a safe and organised process.
- Supervise participants' departure from a residential experience, ensuring a safe and organised process.
Support the efficient use of resources Real unit · 1st4sport
What you'll be able to do
- Support the efficient use of resources within the organisation.
- Make recommendations for improvements to the use of resources.
- Make recommendations for improvements to the use of resources within the organisation.
- Contribute to the control of resources within the organisation.
- Contribute to the control of resources within the organisation.
Understand How to Safeguard the Wellbeing of Children and Young People. Real unit · 1st4sport
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the main legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people
- Understand the importance of working in partnership with other organisations to safeguard children and young people
- Understand the importance of ensuring children and young people’s safety and protection in the work setting
- Understand how to respond to evidence or concerns that a child or young person has been abused or harmed
- Understand how to respond to evidence or concerns that a child or young person has been bullied
- Understand how to work with children and young people to support their safety and wellbeing
- Understand the importance of e-safety for children and young people
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
- Standard
Allocate and monitor the progress of your work in your area of responsibility
- Standard
Arrange and supervise travel
- Standard
Create innovative outdoor programmes and activities to meet the needs and goals of clients
- Standard
Create innovative outdoor programmes and activities to meet the needs and goals of clients
- Standard
Facilitate and deliver outdoor programmes
- Standard
Facilitate and deliver sustainable, safe, and effective outdoor and adventure programmes
- Standard
Facilitate participants’ investigation of the environment
- Standard
Liaise with clients to analyse and agree their needs and goals for outdoor programmes and activities
- Standard
Liaise with clients to analyse and agree their needs and goals for outdoor programmes and activities
- Standard
Organise residential experiences
- Standard
Plan and design innovative outdoor and adventure programmes
- Standard
Promote the transfer of learning from outdoor experiences
- Standard
Provide Leadership in Your Organisation
- Standard
Provide leadership in active leisure environments
- Standard
Support participants with disabilities to take part in activities
The credits, and who awards them
Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by 1st4sport rather than by Zavmo. 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 have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Allocate and monitor the progress and quality of work in own area of responsibilityContribute to the prevention and management of abusive and aggressive behaviourDesign outdoor education programmesDesign outdoor recreation programmesEnable disabled people to take part in activitiesFacilitate adventurous experiencesFacilitate education in the outdoorsFacilitate participants’ investigation and understanding of the environment
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
The Coach · your practice partner Illustration - Rehearse the conversation Apply
“Understand How to Safeguard the Wellbeing of Children and Young People.” is a conversation before it is a document. You have it with Zavmo playing the other person, badly at first, then again once you know what you actually want to say.
- Bring your own plan Create
For “Design outdoor education programmes” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Allocate and monitor the progress and quality of work in own area of responsibility” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.
- Lead it Apply
“Contribute to the prevention and management of abusive and aggressive behaviour” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
- Allocate and monitor the progress of your work in your area of responsibility
- Arrange and supervise travel
- Create innovative outdoor programmes and activities to meet the needs and goals of clients
- Facilitate and deliver outdoor programmes
- Facilitate and deliver sustainable, safe, and effective outdoor and adventure programmes
- Facilitate participants’ investigation of the environment
- Liaise with clients to analyse and agree their needs and goals for outdoor programmes and activities
- Organise residential experiences
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Allocate and monitor the progress and quality of work in own area of responsibility, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your own work
Learners will develop skills to allocate and monitor work within their area of responsibility. The unit includes planning, briefing, supporting colleagues, and understanding organisational and sector contexts for effective work management.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for 1st4sport Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Outdoor Programmes
15 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by 1st4sport.
- Allocate and monitor the progress and quality of work in own area of responsibility
- Contribute to the prevention and management of abusive and aggressive behaviour
- Design outdoor education programmes
- Design outdoor recreation programmes
- Enable disabled people to take part in activities
- Facilitate adventurous experiences
and 9 more in the full unit list below.
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