City & Guilds Limited · RQF Level 5
City & Guilds Level 5 Diploma In Leadership for the Children and Young People's Workforce - Early Years (Advanced Practice)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 5
- Total credits80
- Guided learning502 hours
- Units in this qualification42
Awarded by City & Guilds Limited · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units City & Guilds Limited 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.
Appraise staff performanceReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand policies, theories and models which underpin appraisal of performance.
- Support others to understand the purpose of appraisal.
- Facilitate preparation for appraisals.
- Support appraise to participate in appraisal meetings.
- Evaluate own practice during the appraisal process.
Champion equality, diversity and inclusionReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand diversity, equality and inclusion in own area of responsibility
- Champion diversity, equality and inclusion
- Understand how to develop systems and processes that promote diversity, equality and inclusion
- Manage the risks presented when balancing individual rights and professional duty of care
Develop and evaluate operational plans for own area of responsibilityReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Align objectives of own area of responsibility with those of own organisation.
- Implement operational plans in own area of responsibility.
- Monitor and evaluate operational plans in own area of responsibility.
Develop and implement policies and procedures to support the safeguarding of children and young peopleReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the impact of current legislation that underpins the safeguarding of children and young people
- Support the review of policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people
- Implement policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people
- Lead practice in supporting children and young people’s wellbeing and resilience
Develop health and safety and risk management policies, procedures and practices in health and social care or children and young people’s settingsReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the current legislative framework and organisational health, safety and risk management policies, procedures and practices that are relevant to health, and social care or children and young people’s settings
- Implement and monitor compliance with health, safety and risk management requirements in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
- Lead the implementation of policies, procedures and practices to manage risk to individuals and others in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
- Promote a culture where
Develop procedures and practice to respond to concerns and complaintsReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the regulatory requirements, codes of practice and relevant guidance for managing concerns and complaints
- Develop procedures to address concerns and complaints
- Lead the implementation of procedures and practice for addressing concerns and complaints
- Review the procedures and practices for addressing concerns and complaints
Develop professional supervision practice in health and social care or children and young people’s work settingsReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of professional supervision in health and social care or children and young people’s work settings
- Understand how the principles of professional supervision can be used to inform performance management in health and social care or children and young people’s work settings
- Undertake the preparation for professional supervision with supervisees in health and social care or children and young people’s work settings
- Provide professional supervision in health and social care or children and young people’s work settings
- Manage conflict situ
Develop provision for family supportReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key policies and legislative frameworks that govern the provision of family support in UK home nation
- Develop provision for family support
- Implement provision for family support
- Support others to establish positive relationships with families
Develop the environment for children and young peopleReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legislation and regulatory requirements underpinning the environment for children and young people within own work setting
- Manage an environment which supports the needs of children and young people
Develop, maintain and use records and reportsReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legal and organisational requirements for recording information and providing reports.
- Prepare professional records and reports that meet legal requirements, and agreed ways of working.
- Use records and reports to inform judgements and decisions.
Explore models of disabilityReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the complexities of models of disability
- Review how models of disability underpin organisational practice
- Develop others’ awareness of models of disability
Facilitate change in health and social care or children and young people’s settingsReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of change management in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
- Facilitate a shared understanding of the need for change in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
- Develop an approved change management plan in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
- Gain support for a proposed change in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
- Implement approved change management plans in health and social care or children and young people’s settin
Facilitate coaching and mentoring of practitioners in health and social care or children and young people’s settingsReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the benefits of coaching and mentoring practitioners in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
- Promote coaching and mentoring of practitioners in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
- Identify the coaching and mentoring needs of practitioners in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
- Implement coaching and mentoring activities in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
- Review the outcomes of coaching and mentoring in health and social care o
Facilitate the development of effective group practice in health and social care or children and young people’s settingsReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how groups develop and function in health and social care or children and young people’s work settings
- Create a climate that facilitates effective groups in health and social care or children and young people’s work settings
- Facilitate a group in health and social care or children and young people’s work settings
- Enhance learning through the constructive use of power, authority and influence in group work in health and social care or children and young people’s work settings
- Monitor and review the work of a group in health and social c
Lead and manage a team within a health and social care or children and young people’s settingReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the features of effective team performance within a health and social care or children and young people’s setting
- Support a positive culture within the team for a health and social care or children and young people’s setting
- Support a shared vision within the team for a health and social care or children and young people’s setting
- Develop a plan with team members to meet agreed objectives for a health and social care or children and young people’s setting
- Support individual team members to work towards agreed objectives in a health and
Lead practice that supports positive outcomes for child and young person developmentReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand theoretical approaches to child and young person development
- Lead and support developmental assessment of children and young people
- Develop and implement programmes with children or young people requiring developmental support
- Evaluate programmes for children or young people requiring developmental support
- Lead and promote support for children experiencing transitions
- Lead positive behaviour support
Lead support for disabled children and young people and their carersReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how legislation and policy influences provision for disabled children and young people and their carers
- Understand the potential impact of disability on children and young people and their carers
- Lead child and young person centred provision
- Work in partnership with others to promote services for children and young people and their carers
Leading provision for babies and young childrenReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legal requirements governing the provision for babies and young children in UK home nation
- Lead provision for babies and young children
- Manage all aspects of physical care for babies and young children
- Identify how attachment needs of babies and young children inform provision
Manage an inter-professional team in a health and social care or children and young people’s settingReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of inter-professional working within health and social care or children and young people’s settings
- Manage service objectives through the inter-professional team in health and social care or children and young people’s setting
- Promote inter-professional team working in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
- Manage processes for inter-professional work with individuals in health and social care or children and young people's setting
- Evaluate the effectiveness of inter-professional team work in hea
Manage finance within own area of responsibility in health and social care or children and young people's settingReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand financial management in own work setting
- Plan budget requirement for own area of responsibility
- Manage a budget
- Evaluate financial expenditure within own area of responsibility
Manage induction in health and social care or children and young people’s settingsReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of induction for health and social care or children and young people’s settings
- Manage the induction process in health, social care and children and young people’s work settings
- Support the implementation of induction processes in health, social care and children and young people’s work settings
- Evaluate the induction process in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
- Implement improvements to the induction process in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
Manage quality in health and social care or children and young people's settingReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the context of quality assurance in a health and social care or children and young people’s setting
- Implement quality standards in a health and social care or children and young people’s setting
- Lead the evaluation of quality processes in a health and social care or children and young people’s setting
Professional practice in children’s care, learning and developmentReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the values, principles and statutory frameworks that underpin service provision in children’s care, learning and development
- Implement values, principles and statutory frameworks that underpin service provision in children’s care, learning and development.
- Implement policies and procedures for sharing information
- Engage others in reflective practice
Promote children in early years settings acquiring a new language through immersionReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the needs of children and families within a new language learning environment.
- Implement the immersion method within the child care setting.
- Plan the environment to promote children’s immersion language acquisition.
- Support the acquisition of language skills that children need to speak a new language.
- Review and evaluate the effectiveness of immersion language development within the setting.
- Evaluate own contribution to children’s language development.
Promote creativity and creative learning in young children.Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the concepts of creativity and creative learning and how these affect all aspects of young children’s learning and development
- Provide opportunities for young children to develop their creativity and creative learning
- Develop the environment to support young children’s creativity and creative learning
- Support the development of practice in promoting young children’s creativity and creative learning within the setting
Promote professional developmentReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand principles of professional development
- Prioritise goals and targets for own professional development
- Prepare a professional development plan
- Improve performance through reflective practice
Provide information about health and social care or children and young people’s servicesReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Develop a plan to provide information about own organisation and its services.
- Provide information about own organisation and its services.
- Evaluate information provided to stakeholders.
Recruitment and selection within health and social care or children and young people’s settingsReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the recruitment and selection processes in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
- Contribute to the recruitment process in health and social care or children’s and young people’s settings
- Participate in the selection process in health and social care or children’s and young people’s settings
- Evaluate the recruitment and selection processes in health and social care or children’s and young people’s settings
Support children’s care, learning and development in the early yearsReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand theimpact of early years curriculum models on the application of theoretical perspectives of children’s care, learning and development
- Lead the implementation of the early years curriculum
- Promote provision that facilitates communication which supports children’s learning and development
Support others to promote children’s communication in an early years settingReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the impact of research on the development of children's communication skills in early years settings
- Facilitate the assessment of children’s communication, language and litreacy in early years settings
- Manage an environment in early years settings that promotes children’s communication, language and litreacy development
- Lead others in engagement with children that promotes communication, language and litreacy development
- Manage programmes to support children’s communication, language and litreacy development in early years settings
Support others to promote children’s knowledge and understanding of the world in an early years settingReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the impact ofresearch on the development ofchildren's knowledge andunderstanding of the world inearly year settings
- Facilitate theassessment process of children’sknowledge and understanding ofthe world in early years settings
- Manage indoor andoutdoor environments in earlyyears settings that promoteschildren’s knowledge andunderstanding of the world
- Manage programmes to support children’s knowledge and understanding of the world in early years settings
Support others to promote children’s mathematical development and problem solving skills in an early years settingReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the impact of research on the development of children's mathematical and problem solving skills in early years settings,
- Facilitate the assessment process of children’s mathematical and problem solving skills in early years settings,
- Manage an environment in early years settings that promotes children’s mathematical and problem solving skills,
- Manage programmes to support children’s mathematical and problem solving skills development in early years settings
Support others to promote children’s physical development in an early years settingsReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the impact of research on the physical development of children in early years settings
- Facilitate the assessment process of children’s physical development in early years settings
- Manage indoor and outdoor environments that promote children’s physical development in early years settings
- Manage programmes to support children’s physical development in early years settings
Support positive practice with children and young people with speech, language and communication needs.Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the concept of positive practice when working with children and young people with speech, language and communication needs
- Work alongside speech, language and communication specialists to use appropriate strategies and targets to support children and young people
- Place children and young people at the centre of professional practice when working with children and young people with speech, language and communication needs
- Understand how to work with others to support the social, emotional and cognitive needs of children and young people
Support the use of assistive technologyReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the contribution that assistive technology can make to the lives of individuals
- Facilitate the use of assistive technology
- Develop others to facilitate the use of assistive technology
- Review the provision of assistive technology
Understand children and young person’s developmentReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the pattern of development that would normally be expected for children and young people from birth-19 yrs
- Understand the factors that impact on children and young people’s development
- Understand the benefits of early intervention to support the development of children and young people
- Understand the potential effects of transitions on children and young people’s development.
- Understand how assessing, monitoring and recording the development of children and young people informs the use of interventions
Understand professional management and leadership in health and social care or children and young people’s settingsReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand theories of management and leadership and their application to health and social care or children and young people settings.
- Understand the relationship between professional management and leadership.
- Understand the skills of professional management and leadership in health and social care or children and young people’s settings.
- Understand the impact of policy drivers on professional management and leadership in health and social care or children and young people’s services.
Understand the speech, language and communication needs of children and young people with behavioural, social and emotional difficulties.Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the links between language, behaviour, emotional and social development difficulties
- Understand how to support positive speech, language and communication development for children and young people with behavioural, emotional and social difficulties
- Understand how to adapt strategies and approaches to behavioural, emotional and social development to meet speech, language and communication needs
- Work with others in order to support the speech, language and communication development of children and young people with behavioural, emotional and social development needs
Undertake a research project within services for health and social care or children and young peopleReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Justify a topic for research within services for health and social care or children and young people
- Understand how the components of research are used
- Conduct a research project within services for health and social care or children and young people
- Analyse research findings
Use and develop systems that promote communicationReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Address the range of communication requirements in own role
- Improve communication systems and practices that support positive outcomes for individuals
- Improve communication systems to support partnership working
- Use systems for effective information management
Work in partnership in health and social care or children and young people’s settingsReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand partnershipworking
- Establish and maintain working relationships with colleagues
- Establish and maintain working relationships with other professionals
- Work in partnership with others
Work with parents, families and carers to support their children’s speech, language and communication development.Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of parental support for the development of speech, language and communication
- Work in partnership with parents to support their child’s speech, language and communication development
- Support parents to use activities and approaches to support their child’s speech, language and communication development
- Understand the importance of working in partnership with parents of children with speech, language and communication needs and relevant professional agencies
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 5 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.
Appraise staff performanceChampion equality, diversity and inclusionDevelop and evaluate operational plans for own area of responsibilityDevelop and implement policies and procedures to support the safeguarding of children and young peopleDevelop health and safety and risk management policies, procedures and practices in health and social care or children and young people’s settingsDevelop procedures and practice to respond to concerns and complaintsDevelop professional supervision practice in health and social care or children and young people’s work settingsDevelop provision for family support
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
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City & Guilds Level 5 Diploma In Leadership for the Children and Young People's Workforce - Early Years (Advanced Practice)
- Co-ordinate the Delivery of Care Plans to Meet the Health and Well-Being Needs of Children and Young People
- Determine a research and development topic worthy of investigation
- Evaluate interventions with children and young people, and those involved in their care
- Lead and manage change in commissioning activities
- Make use of Supervision
- Manage operational plans for play provision
- Plan, prepare and facilitate group work with children and young people
- Promote a culture of quality in parenting provision
Where this can lead
Onboarding and Induction Specialist
Your journey here is really what you make of it. We're committed to helping you grow, whether that's becoming a deep specialist in onboarding, leading a team, or exploring other areas of people and talent. The opportunities are definitely there if you're willing to grab them.
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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.
Co-ordinate the Delivery of Care Plans to Meet the Health and Well-Being Needs of Children and Young PeopleDetermine a research and development topic worthy of investigationEvaluate interventions with children and young people, and those involved in their careLead and manage change in commissioning activitiesMake use of SupervisionMake use of SupervisionMake use of supervisionManage operational plans for play provisionPlan, prepare and facilitate group work with children and young peoplePromote a culture of quality in parenting provision
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.
One-to-one, on your real workNo lectures, no past-papers. Every unit is practised on the actual tasks your job throws at you, a tutor beside you, not a video in front of you.
Taught to the top, not the testMost courses stop at remembering. Your companion keeps climbing: analysing, judging, creating. That’s the part a machine can’t do for you.
Credits you keep, a map that continuesEvery unit is regulated and yours for good. The day you finish, Zavmo already knows the next role your new credits open.
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How the thinking builds
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for City & Guilds Level 5 Diploma In Leadership for the Children and Young People's Workforce - Early Years (Advanced Practice)
42 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by City & Guilds Limited.
- Appraise staff performance
- Champion equality, diversity and inclusion
- Develop and evaluate operational plans for own area of responsibility
- Develop and implement policies and procedures to support the safeguarding of children and young people
- Develop health and safety and risk management policies, procedures and practices in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
- Develop procedures and practice to respond to concerns and complaints
and 36 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
Why this matters: AI can already remember and understand for you. What it can’t do is
take your real problem and judge the right call. So the only learning worth paying
for is the learning that takes you to the top. That’s exactly what a tutor doing it with
you, on your real work, is for.
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.