Agored Cymru · RQF Level 2
Agored Cymru Level 2 Certificate In Clinical Imaging Support (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits33
- Guided learning79 hours
- Units in this qualification11
Awarded by Agored Cymru · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Agored Cymru 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.
Assist the practitioner to carry out health care activitiesReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Know about current legislation, national guidelines, policies, protocols and good practice when assisting the practitioner to carry out health care activities
- Assist the practitioner in carrying out health care activities
Cleaning, Decontamination and Waste ManagementReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to maintain a clean environment to prevent the spread of infection
- Understand the principles and steps of the decontamination process
- Understand the importance of good waste management practice in the prevention of the spread of infection
Clinical Imaging Support Worker: Anatomy and TerminologyReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Know how human anatomy is used in clinical imaging.
- Know terminology used in clinical imaging settings.
Clinical Imaging Support Worker: Fundamentals of CareReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to work safely in a range of modalities in clinical imaging.
- Understand how to provide care in clinical imaging settings.
- Provide care in clinical imaging settings.
Clinical Imaging Support Worker: Radiation Protection and AwarenessReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the use of ionising radiation.
- Understand a range of clinical imaging techniques.
- Understand the legislation governing medical exposures.
- Understand how radiation protection is used within the clinical imaging department.
Introduction to duty of care in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settingsReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the implications of duty of care
- Understand support available for addressing dilemmas that may arise about duty of care
- Respond to complaints
Promote and implement health and safety in health and social careReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand own responsibilities, and the responsibilities of others, relating to health and safety
- Carry out own responsibilities for health and safety
- Understand procedures for responding to accidents and sudden illness
- Reduce the spread of infection
- Move and handle equipment and other objects safely
- Handle hazardous substances and materials
- Promote fire safety in the work setting
- Implement security measures in the work setting
- Manage stress
Promote communication in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settingsReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand why effective communication is important in the work setting
- Meet the communication and language needs, wishes and preferences of individuals
- Overcome barriers to communication
- Apply principles and practices relating to confidentiality
Promote good practice in handling information in health and social care settingsReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand requirements for handling information in health and social care settings
- Implement good practice in handling information
- Support others to handle information
The Use of Contrast Media in Clinical ImagingReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Know types of contrast media used in clinical imaging.
- Understand why contrast media are used in clinical imaging.
- Understand how to care for patients undergoing contrast media imaging.
The principles of Infection Prevention and ControlReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand roles and responsibilities in the prevention and control of infections
- Understand legislation and policies relating to prevention and control of infections
- Understand systems and procedures relating to the prevention and control of infections
- Understand the importance of risk assessment in relation to the prevention and control of infections
- Understand the importance of using Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in the prevention and control of infections
- Understand the importance of good personal hygiene in the prevention and control of infections
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
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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.
- Analyse and interpret treatment verification images
- Assess individuals’ suitability to undergo imaging procedure
- Clinically Authorise and Prescribe Radiation Treatment
- Introduce and remove a rectal catheter for the introduction of contrast agents for imaging procedures
- Measure an individual’s healthcare radiation exposure to minimise risk
- Obtain images to assist healthcare interventions
- Request imaging investigations to provide information on an individual’s health status and needs
- Undertake a clinical examination of the breast
Where this can lead
Principal Medical Imaging Engineer
Your journey as a Principal Medical Imaging Engineer is about more than just a job; it's about shaping the future of healthcare technology. We're looking for someone who wants to leave a lasting legacy, both in the code they influence and the lives they help improve.
See the whole journey →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 Agored Cymru Level 2 Certificate In Clinical Imaging Support (QCF)
11 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Agored Cymru.
- Assist the practitioner to carry out health care activities
- Cleaning, Decontamination and Waste Management
- Clinical Imaging Support Worker: Anatomy and Terminology
- Clinical Imaging Support Worker: Fundamentals of Care
- Clinical Imaging Support Worker: Radiation Protection and Awareness
- Introduction to duty of care in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settings
and 5 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.