Pearson Education Ltd · RQF Level 4
Pearson Edexcel Level 4 Diploma in Hospitality Management
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 4
- Total credits59
- Guided learning310 hours
- Units in this qualification50
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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.
Current hospitality industry and food trendsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate current industry and food production trends
- Apply new methods to food production within an organisation’s constraints
- Understand how to investigate current industry and food production trends
- Understand how to apply new methods to food production within an organisation’s constraints
Design, implement and manage a food safety management systemReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Establish the requirements of a food safety management system
- Implement and manage a food safety management system
- Understand how to design implement and monitor a food safety management system
Determine market opportunities for hospitality servicesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Determine market opportunities for hospitality services based on research and analysis
- Interpret the analysis to determine market opportunities for hospitality services
- Prepare for the implementation of new and modified hospitality services
- Understand how to research and analyse data to help determine market opportunities for hospitality services
- Understand how to interpret the analysis to determine market opportunities in line with an organisation’s objectives
- Understand how to prepare for the implementation of new or modified hospitality services
Develop and create innovative dishes and recipesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Be able develop dishes and recipes that reflect organisational style
- Cost dishes and recipes
- Understand how to develop and introduce dishes and recipes
- Understand the impact of the cost of dishes and recipes
Develop beverage lists to complement menusReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Produce beverage lists for the organisation that meet legal requirements
- Manage beverage lists to complement menus and service styles
- Manage the purchase of beverages
- Review the organisation’s beverage list
- Understand how to develop beverage lists which reflect organisational style and comply with relevant legislation
- Understand different types of beverage and their source
- Understand how to manage beverage lists that complement menus and service styles
Develop enhanced levels of food and beverage serviceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Establish procedures and guidelines to enhance levels of food and beverage service
- Develop a team to enhance levels of food and beverage service
- Use appropriate sources of information to improve the food and beverage service
- Understand key facts to providing enhanced levels of food and beverage service
- Understand how to develop team members to enhance levels of food and beverage service
Develop menus to meet the organisation’s cost requirementsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Plan menus
- Develop menus
- Cost menus
- Understand how to plan menus
- Understand how to develop menus
- Understand how to cost menus
Devise and implement training and development plansReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify training needs in relation to an organisation’s aims and objectives
- Produce and implement personal development plans with team members
- Monitor staff training and identify the need for further development
- Understand how to identify training needs in relation to the organisation’s aims
- Understand how to produce and implement personal development plans with team members
Employment Rights and Responsibilities in the Hospitality, Leisure, Travel and Tourism SectorReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know employer and employee rights, responsibilities and own organisational procedures
- Know factors that affect own organisation and occupation
Handle referred customer complaintsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate referred customer complaints
- Take action to deal with referred customer complaints
- Identify repeated customer complaints and recommend changes to policies and procedures
- Understand how to handle referred customer complaints
Implement and manage housekeeping procedures in hospitalityReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Plan and implement housekeeping procedures
- Monitor housekeeping procedures to meet an organisation’s standards and needs
- Understand how to implement housekeeping procedures
- Understand how to manage housekeeping procedures to meet organisational standards and needs
Information systems management in hospitalityReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Manage information systems to meet operational needs
- Evaluate information systems to meet operational needs
- Understand how to manage information systems to meet operational needs
Know how to follow disciplinary proceduresReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand performance expectations of an organisation.
- Identify and use communication methods to assess potential cases of misconduct or unsatisfactory performance.
- Know how to informally with cases of minor misconduct or unsatisfactory performance.
- Follow an organisation’s formal disciplinary procedure.
Manage a budget for own area or activity of workReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare a budget for own area of responsibility.
- Manage a budget.
- Review budget management performance.
Manage a food and beverage serviceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Manage a food and beverage team to meet organisational standards
- Manage a food and beverage operation to meet an organisation’s standards
- Manage the quality of food and beverage operations
- Understand how to manage a food and beverage team to consistently meet an organisation’s standards
- Understand how to manage food and beverage operations to meet an organisation’s standards
- Understand how to manage the performance of food and beverage services
- Understand how to meet the needs of an organisation’s customers
Manage a team meetingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Organise and manage meetings
- Follow up the actions of a meeting to achieve objectives
- Understand how to organise and manage meetings
- Understand how to follow up the actions of a meeting to achieve objectives
- Understand how own performance can be improved at future meeting
Manage a team to prepare, cook and present foodReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Plan food production to an organisation’s standards
- Manage food production operations to an organisation’s standards
- Understand how to plan food production to an organisation’s standards
- Understand how to manage food production operations to an organisation’s standards
Manage arrivals and departures of guest to maximise revenueReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Establish systems and procedures for the arrival and departure of guests
- Manage procedures for the arrival and departure of guests
- Meet targets and maximise revenue potential
- Understand how to manage procedures for guest arrivals and departures
- Understand how to meet targets and maximise revenue potential
Manage cellar and beverage operationsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Manage the implementation of cellar and beverage storage procedures
- Manage the efficient running of the cellar and beverage operations
- Implement and communicate changes to the cellar and beverage operations
- Understand how to manage the cellar and beverage storage procedures
- Understand how to manage the efficient running of the cellar and beverage operations
Manage compliance with regulatory and legislative requirements in hospitalityReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Keep up to date with regulatory and legislative requirements
- Monitor team member’s compliance to regulatory and legislative requirements
- Plan for and action outcomes of regulatory and legislative inspections and compliance visits
- Understand how to monitor an organisation’s compliance to regulatory and legislative requirements
- Understand how to manage team member’s compliance to regulatory and legislative requirements
- Understand how to plan for and action outcomes of regulatory and legislative inspections and compliance visits
Manage customer profile information to improve serviceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Establish and manage customer profile information systems
- Utilise customer profile information to provide an enhanced customer service
- Forecast future trends using customer profiles
- Understand how to establish and maintain systems for managing customer profile information
- Understand how to utilise customer profile information to provide an enhanced customer service
- Understand how to forecast future trends using customer profiles
Manage feedback from customers of hospitality servicesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Obtain customer feedback on hospitality services
- Analyse customer feedback on hospitality services
- Use customer feedback to improve work processes and staff performance
- Understand how to obtain, analyse and implement actions in response to customer feedback
Manage front of house and guest relationsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Manage front of house services
- Manage the receipt and secure storage of customer property
- Manage customer relation services
- Understand how to manage front of house services
- Understand how to manage customer relation services
Manage hospitality functionsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Manage the organisation of a hospitality function
- Monitor the function
- Evaluate the success of a function
- Understand how to plan a function
- Understand how to monitor a function
- Understand how to evaluate a function
Manage operational aspects of hospitality premises refurbishment programmesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Plan refurbishment programmes
- Oversee refurbishments
- Evaluate refurbishments
- Understand how to plan refurbishments
- Understand how to oversee refurbishments
- Understand how to evaluate refurbishments
Manage purchasing costs in hospitalityReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Manage the supply of goods from suppliers
- Manage the delivery of supplies
- Establish procedures to reduce waste and promote sustainability
- Understand how to manage purchasing costs
Manage room availability to maximise revenue potentialReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Monitor room availability to maximise revenue potential
- Monitor staff to ensure room availability which maximises revenue potential
- Understand how to manage room availability to maximise revenue potential
Manage staffing rotas for a hospitality teamReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Plan staffing rotas for own team
- Produce rotas for own team
- Understand how to plan and produce staffing rotas for a hospitality team
Manage statutory fire and security procedures for a hospitality establishmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Implement, monitor and review statutory fire and security procedures
- Conduct and act on risk assessments and compliance inspections
- Oversee the management the statutory fire and security procedures
- Understand key factors when monitoring statutory fire and security procedures
- Understand how to manage risk assessment and compliance
- Understand how to oversee the management the statutory fire and security procedures
Manage supplier contractsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Initiate contracts with suppliers and contractors to meet identified organisational needs
- Manage supplier/contractor contracts
- Evaluate the success of contractual arrangements for the future benefit of an organisation
- Understand how to initiate contracts with suppliers/contractors
- Understand how to manage supplier/contractor contracts
- Understand how to evaluate suppliers in line with an organisation’s requirements
Manage the billing and payment processesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Manage the billing and payment process
- Manage the operation of payment handling system and procedures
- Establish and maintain the security of payment handling systems
- Understand how to monitor and evaluate the billing and payment processes
- Understand how to manage the operation of the billing and payment process
- Understand how to establish and maintain the security of payment handling systems
Manage the linen serviceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Monitor a linen service
- Manage the linen service team
- Manage a system for the delivery of linen
- Understand how to manage the delivery of linen to ensure required quality
Manage the organisation of the food and beverage service areaReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Plan the organisation of the food and beverage service area
- Manage the food and beverage service area
- Review the organisation of a food and beverage service area
- Understand how to manage the organisation of food and beverage service areas
Manage the payroll costs of a hospitality teamReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Budget for required team staffing levels in line with legal requirements
- Manage a team payroll
- Understand how to plan for and review payroll costs
- Understand how to monitor the operation of a payroll system
Manage the performance of teams and individualsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Set objectives and work plans with teams and individuals
- Communicate, manage and evaluate objectives and work plans
- Assess the performance of teams and individuals against objectives and work plans
- Provide feedback to teams and individuals on performance in line with organisational guidelines
- Understand how to agree and set objectives and work plans with teams and individuals
- Understand how to assess the performance of teams and individuals
- Understand how to provide feedback to teams and individuals on performance
Manage the presentation and portion size of dishesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Manage the portion size and presentation of dishes to meet an organisation’s standards
- Understand how to manage the portion size, to minimise waste
- Understand how to manage the presentation of dishes to meet an organisation’s standards
Manage the production and presentation of menusReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Source information to develop new menus
- Produce and present menus
- Evaluate the impact of new menus to inform the management team
- Understand how to source information to develop new menus
- Understand how to produce and present menus
Manage the provision of additional servicesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and plan for additional services
- Monitor additional services
- Understand how to identify and plan for additional services
- Understand how to manage additional services
Manage the reservation systemsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Manage the reservation service in line with an organisation’s procedures and systems
- Manage the operation of the reservation service
- Understand the legal requirements, policies, procedures and systems for managing the reservation service
- Understand how to manage the operation of the reservation service
Manage the security and privacy of hospitality guestsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Manage a team to protect guest security and privacy
- Manage guest security and privacy in accordance with organisational and legal requirements
- Understand how to manage guest security and privacy in accordance with legislation, regulations and an organisation’s procedures
- Understand how to manage a team to protect guest security and privacy
Manage the supply of uniforms and housekeeping of staff areasReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Monitor the supply and upkeep of staff uniforms
- Monitor the housekeeping of staff areas
- Understand how to manage the provision and upkeep of staff uniforms
- Understand how to manage the housekeeping of staff areas
Managing grievance proceduresReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to prevent potential grievances.
- Understand an organisation’s grievance policy and procedure and deal with concerns raised by individuals informally.
- Understand how to follow grievance procedures.
Maximise sales and profit from hospitality servicesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Obtain information from various sources that can help maximise sales and profit within hospitality services.
- Implement strategies designed to maximise sales and profit in a hospitality setting.
- Analyse the effectiveness of different strategies for maximising sales and profit, identifying areas for improvement.
- Understand how to obtain information that can help develop effective strategies to maximise sales and profit in hospitality services.
- Understand how to agree on and implement strategies for maximising sales and profit, taking into account stakeholder perspectives.
- Understand how to analyse the outcomes of strategies for maximising sales and profit, evaluating their impact and identifying lessons learned.
Monitor maintenance and repair work within a hospitality premisesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Plan maintenance and repair work in an organisation
- Monitor arrangements for maintenance and repair work in an organisation
- Manage the use of external contractors
- Understand how to monitor the maintenance and repair work for an organisation
Organise the promotion of additional services or products to customersReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Offer additional services or products
- Organise support to promote use of additional services or products
- Monitor the promotion of additional services or products
- Understand how to organise and promote services or products to customers
Plan and design food production areasReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Assess the future needs of food production areas
- Re-design food preparation and production areas
- Understand how to assess and plan for the future needs of food production areas
- Understand how to re-design food preparation and production areas
Recruit and select hospitality staffReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify the need for hospitality staff
- Prepare to recruit and select hospitality staff
- Manage the recruitment and selection process of hospitality team members
- Evaluate the recruitment, selection and retention of team members
- Understand how to identify the need for additional hospitality team members
- Understand how to manage the recruitment and selection process
- Understand how to evaluate the loss and retention of team members
Review the quality of customer serviceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Plan how to measure customer service
- Collect and analyse information on customer service
- Understand how to review the quality of customer service
Use customer service as a competitive toolReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Organise customer service to gain a competitive advantage
- Deliver a competitive service
- Understand how to use customer service as a competitive tool
Work as part of a hospitality management team to achieve strategic goalsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Participate in management team meetings
- Work interactively with the management team
- Recruit and develop team members
- Take responsibility for the management team at periodic times
- Understand how to participate in management team meetings
- Understand how to work interactively with the management team
- Understand how to review own team’s performance
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 4 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
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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.
- Carry out cask disgorging operations in the spirits industry
- Comply with legislative requirements in hospitality
- Contribute to the strategic goals of the organisation’s leadership team
- Design and produce complex and innovative dishes in a professional kitchen
- Develop a team to provide enhanced levels of food and beverage service
- Develop and deliver a menu which meets organisational standards and financial targets
- Develop and evolve dishes and recipes showing innovation and creativity
- Develop and manage a team in a food and drink business
Where this can lead
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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 Pearson Edexcel Level 4 Diploma in Hospitality Management
50 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.
- Current hospitality industry and food trends
- Design, implement and manage a food safety management system
- Determine market opportunities for hospitality services
- Develop and create innovative dishes and recipes
- Develop beverage lists to complement menus
- Develop enhanced levels of food and beverage service
and 44 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
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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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