Open Awards · RQF Level 2
Open Awards Level 2 Certificate in Delivering Information, Advice or Guidance (RQF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits15
- Guided learning120 hours
- Units in this qualification10
Awarded by Open Awards · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Open Awards 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.
Benefits Advice Work - PracticeReal unit · Open Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the main categories of welfare benefits.
- Recognise the key features of the benefits system.
- Claim appropriate benefits or funds
Information, Advice and Guidance Work with GroupsReal unit · Open Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise the role of group work in information, advice or guidance
- Understand and manage group dynamics
- Plan, conduct and evaluate the information, advice or guidance group sessions
- Understand the skills required to establish co-operative working relationships within information, advice and guidance group sessions
Introduction to Information, Advice or Guidance in Schools and College – PracticeReal unit · Open Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand own responsibilities in relation to information, advice or guidance practice within an education environment.
- Plan own information, advice or guidance activities
Introduction to Information, Advice or Guidance in Schools and Colleges – PolicyReal unit · Open Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the national requirements for information, advice or guidance provision, as determined by current UK government policy
Introduction to Information, Advice or Guidance in Schools and Colleges – PrinciplesReal unit · Open Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the relationship between information, advice and guidance.
- Understand the components of information, advice and guidance provision in an education environment
Operating within Networks to Support Information, Advice and GuidanceReal unit · Open Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise the role of networks in supporting information, advice and guidance practice
- Understand the need for networks to operate with codes of practice and principles
- Understand the different roles within networks
Specialist Advice Work in Practice - DebtReal unit · Open Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the factors to consider when advising a client on debt issues.
- Know about the types of debt and the strategies used to resolve debt problems.
- Recognise own skills and development needs
Specialist Advice Work in Practice - HousingReal unit · Open Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the information needs and legal rights relevant to housing advice.
- Know the factors to consider when advising a client on housing issues.
- Recognise own skills and development needs
Specialist Advice Work in Practice – EmploymentReal unit · Open Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legal rights and systems which support employment advice provision.
- Know the factors to consider when advising a client on employment issues.
- Recognise own skills and development needs
Specialist Advice Work in Practice – Refugee, Immigrant or Asylum SeekerReal unit · Open Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legal rights and status of refugees, immigrants and asylum seekers.
- Know the factors to consider when advising a client on refugee, immigrant and asylum seeker issues.
- Recognise own skills and development needs
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.
- First line asylum legal advice
- Immigration legal advice and casework
- Initiate, and participate in, networks and discussion groups
- Provide first line immigration legal advice
- Provide specialist asylum legal advice and casework
- Provide specialist employment legal advice and progress cases with clients
- Provide specialist housing legal advice and progress cases with clients
- Provide specialist legal immigration advice and casework
Where this can lead
Business Immigration Specialist
Your journey here starts with mastering the day-to-day, but the long-term possibilities are vast. We're committed to helping you build a career that's both challenging and deeply rewarding, whether you choose to lead teams or become an unparalleled subject matter expert.
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 Open Awards Level 2 Certificate in Delivering Information, Advice or Guidance (RQF)
10 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Open Awards.
- Benefits Advice Work - Practice
- Information, Advice and Guidance Work with Groups
- Introduction to Information, Advice or Guidance in Schools and College – Practice
- Introduction to Information, Advice or Guidance in Schools and Colleges – Policy
- Introduction to Information, Advice or Guidance in Schools and Colleges – Principles
- Operating within Networks to Support Information, Advice and Guidance
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.
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.