Pearson Education Ltd · RQF Level 2
Pearson Edexcel Level 2 NVQ Certificate in Footwear and Leather
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits18
- Guided learning110 hours
- Units in this qualification25
Awarded by Pearson Education Ltd · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Pearson Education Ltd 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.
Carry out component moulding operationsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to carry out component moulding operations
- Carry out component moulding operations
- Perform quality checks within component moulding operations
Carry out engraving to meet customer requirementsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to carry out engraving
- Carry out engraving that meets customer requirements
- Perform quality checks when engraving to meet customer requirements
Carry out lasting, making and associated operationsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to carry out lasting, making and associated operations
- Carry out lasting, making and associated operations
- Perform quality checks within lasting, making and associated operations
Carry out lasting, making and associated operations for Orthopaedic / bespoke footwearReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to carry out lasting, making and associated operations
- Carry out lasting, making and associated operations
- Perform quality checks within lasting, making and associated operations
Carry out leather cutting operationsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to carry out leather cutting operations
- Carry out leather cutting operations
- Perform quality checks within lasting, making and associated operations
Carry out multiple operations in Orthopaedic / bespoke footwear manufactureReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to carry out multiple operations in footwear manufacture
- Carry out multiple operations in footwear manufacture
- Perform quality checks within multiple operations in footwear manufacture
Carry out multiple operations in footwear manufactureReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to carry out multiple operations in footwear manufacture
- Carry out multiple operations in footwear manufacture
- Perform quality checks within multiple operations in footwear manufacture
Carry out multiple shoeroom operationsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to carry out lasting, making and associated operations
- Carry out lasting, making and associated operations
- Perform quality checks within lasting, making and associated operations
Carry out repairs on footwear / leathergoods / saddleryReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to carry out repairs on footwear / leathergoods / saddlery
- Carry out repairs on footwear / leathergoods / saddlery
- Perform quality checks when repairing on footwear / leathergoods / saddlery
Carry out upper making / leathergoods / saddlery closing / machining and associated operationsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to carry out upper making / leathergoods / saddlery closing / machining and associated operations
- Carry out upper making / leathergoods / saddlery closing / machining and associated operations
- Perform quality checks within upper making / leathergoods / saddlery closing / machining and associated operations
Create a basic pattern for footwear / leathergoods / saddlery productsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to create a basic pattern
- Create a basic pattern
- Perform quality checks when creating basic patterns
Examine finished footwear / leathergoodsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to examine finished footwear/ leather goods
- Carry out examination of finished footwear/ leather goods
- Understand the importance of performing quality checks for finished footwear / leathergoods
Finish bespoke/Orthopaedic footwear / leathergoods / saddleryReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to finish footwear / leathergoods / saddlery ready for inspection and despatch
- Finish footwear / leathergoods / saddlery ready for inspection and despatch
- Perform quality checks when finishing footwear / leathergoods / saddlery
Finish footwear / leathergoods / saddleryReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to finish footwear / leathergoods / saddlery ready for inspection and despatch
- Finish footwear / leathergoods / saddlery ready for inspection and despatch
- Perform quality checks when finishing footwear / leathergoods / saddlery
Machine form and embellish components of footwear / leathergoodsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to carry out machine forming and embellishing footwear / leathergoods components
- Carry out machine forming and embellishing components of footwear / leathergoods
- Perform quality checks when machine forming and embellishing components of footwear / leathergoods
Machine sew components to produce leathergoods / saddleryReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to carry out machine sewing of components to produce leathergoods / saddlery
- Carry out machine sewing of components to produce leathergoods / saddlery
- Perform quality checks when machine sewing components to produce leathergoods / saddlery
Maintain the quality of production working with textiles, leather and MaterialsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Check for faults
- Rectify faults
- Understand the impact of faults on the production process
- Recognise own place within the production process
Maintaining the work area for manufacturing sewn productsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain tools and equipment
- Maintain cleanliness of own work area
- Maintain own wellbeing
Manufacture material to add value in leather production _chemical processing_Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for manufacturing material to add value in leather production (chemical processing)
- Manufacture material to add value in leather production (chemical processing)
- Perform quality checks when manufacturing material to add value in leather production (chemical processing)
Prepare components for footwear / leathergoods / saddleryReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare components for footwear / leathergoods / saddlery
- Assemble and fix components for footwear / leathergoods / saddlery
- Perform quality checks when preparing components for footwear / leathergoods / saddlery
Process customers’ orders for footwear / leathergoods / saddleryReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Process customers’ orders for footwear / leathergoods / saddlery
- Perform quality checks when processing customers’ orders for footwear / leathergoods / saddlery
Produce duplicate keysReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for production of duplicate keys
- Carry out production of duplicate keys
- Perform quality checks when producing duplicate keys
Sell footwear / leathergoods / saddlery care and ancillary productsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to sell footwear / leathergoods / saddlery care and ancillary products
- Sell footwear / leathergoods / saddlery care and ancillary products
Service and repair watchesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to carry out servicing and repair of watches
- Carry out servicing and repair of watches
- Perform quality checks when servicing and repairing watches
Skive and/or split material for footwear/ leathergoods / saddlery manufactureReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to skive and/or split material for footwear/ leathergoods / saddlery manufacture
- Skive and/or split material for footwear/ leathergoods / saddlery manufacture
- Perform quality checks when skiving and/or split material for footwear/ leathergoods / saddlery manufacture
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.
- Analyse and test leather samples
- Assist with different areas of operation to ease production flow in footwear and leathergood operations
- Carry out assessment and measurements for handcrafted, bespoke and orthopaedic footwear
- Carry out chemical or mechanical processes to hides, skins and leather
- Carry out complex lasting and making operations for orthopaedic and bespoke footwear
- Carry out component moulding operations for footwear and leathergoods
- Carry out cutting operations for footwear and leathergoods manufacture
- Carry out lasting and making in footwear and leathergoods manufacture
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 Pearson Edexcel Level 2 NVQ Certificate in Footwear and Leather
25 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.
- Carry out component moulding operations
- Carry out engraving to meet customer requirements
- Carry out lasting, making and associated operations
- Carry out lasting, making and associated operations for Orthopaedic / bespoke footwear
- Carry out leather cutting operations
- Carry out multiple operations in Orthopaedic / bespoke footwear manufacture
and 19 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.