Ascentis Level 2 Diploma In Work Preparation

What you'll be able to do

• Understand different methods of applying for a job.
• Prepare a job application.

What you'll be able to do

• Prepare for building work.
• Carry out building work.
• Tidy up work area.

What you'll be able to do

• Recognise own skills, abilities, experience, knowledge and personal qualities.
• Assess the potential of own skills, abilities, experience, knowledge and personal qualities for contributing towards the achievement of personal goals.
• Build a portfolio of information to evidence achievements and qualities.
• Produce a curriculum vitae (CV).
• Identify personal goals and the actions required to achieve these.
• Understand the value of a portfolio in personal, educational and career development.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how people in the workplace depend on one another.
• Understand how an individual’s behaviour affects other people at work.
• Demonstrate positive behaviours that promote effective working with others.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the reasons for combined arts and collabouration.
• Understand what is required for interdisciplinary working.
• Know what support is available for collabourative working on arts projects/ between art disciplines.
• Know about the value/ purpose of combined arts and collabouration.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the purpose of planning communication
• Understand how to communicate in writing
• Understand how to communicate verbally
• Understand the purpose of feedback in developing communication skills
• Plan communication
• Communicate in writing
• Communicate verbally
• Identify and agree ways of developing communication skills

What you'll be able to do

• Know about ways of communicating.
• Know the methods used to communicate different types of information in the workplace.
• Use communication skills.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand thehealth and safety requirements when undertaking creative activity.
• Research and develop ideas for creative activity
• Experiment with media using a sketchbook and/or journal.
• Use a range of materials and equipment.
• Understand techniques to undertake activity.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the principles of good customer care.
• Provide good customer care.
• Communicate positively with customers.
• Understand the importance of keeping to organisational policies and practice.

What you'll be able to do

• Source research material appropriate to the needs of the project.
• Plan work to meet deadlines using time management skills.
• Translate project ideas into final product.
• Plan, develop and complete the design projects using appropriate materials and techniques.
• Understand the need to reflect on own design work.
• Understand Health and Safety issues.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the major characteristics of design for a range of styles and/or movements.
• Understand terminology relevant to design practice and history.
• Understand the key issues influencing development in design styles.
• Extend their critical awareness and design vocabulary.
• Undertake research for design assignments.

What you'll be able to do

• Develop sculpture ideas creatively
• Adapt sculpture ideas
• Know about safe working environments

What you'll be able to do

• Plan meals.
• Understand a range of cooking equipment, including care and maintenance.
• Use a variety of ingredients, basic cookery methods and equipment to produce dishes.
• Understand the importance of health and safety requirements in the kitchen.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the purpose and format of meetings.
• Prepare for meetings.
• Contribute to a meeting.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how to use common joints in construction.
• Prepare for making joints.
• Demonstrate skills and techniques used in making joints.
• Leave work area clean and tidy.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand digital imaging and printing.
• Produce digital images and prints.
• Understand photographic practice and health and safety procedures.

What you'll be able to do

• Know about classical music.
• Know about the main types of popular music.
• Know about the production of sound in musical instruments.
• Understand the basic principles of music theory and notation.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the characteristics of successful entrepreneurs and how these are important in business situations.
• Understand own strengths as an enterprising person and ways to develop own enterprising characteristics.

What you'll be able to do

• Select, use and maintain equipment
• Select and transport plants and/or seeds
• Establish plants and/or seeds in soil.
• Work safely and minimise environmental damage
• Know the requirements for establishing healthy plants
• Deal with damage and pollution
• Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
• Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental good practice.

What you'll be able to do

• Recognise career opportunities in the creative sector.
• Identify future career aims or opportunities.
• Understand the value of CVs or portfolios for career development.

What you'll be able to do

• Identify suitable job opportunities.
• Investigate job vacancies.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how individuals can take personal responsibility for food safety
• Understand the importance of keeping him/herself clean and hygienic
• Understand the importance of keeping the work areas clean and hygienic
• Understand the importance of keeping food safe

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the principles and practices of crop rotation.
• Understand the factors involved in siting a vegetable production area.
• Grow a range of vegetable seeds.
• Understand key factors for growing tree fruit plants.
• Plant and maintain tree fruit plants.
• Grow a range of soft fruit plants.

What you'll be able to do

• Know the Health and Safety requirements, procedures and equipment relevant to their work environment.
• Recognise and manage risk in their work environment by following safe working practices.

What you'll be able to do

• Know the health and safety issues in relation to hedgelaying.
• Know a range of hand tools used for hedgelaying and how to care for them.
• Know about the methodology of hedgelaying.
• Lay a hedge.
• Understand the importance of maintaining laid hedges.
• Know how the characteristics of hedgelaying reflect geology.

What you'll be able to do

• Identify and report the presence of pests, diseases and disorders
• Work safely and minimise environmental damage
• Identify and report the presence of pests, diseases and disorders
• Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how to improve own performance
• Improve own performance using feedback
• Agree own development needs using a learning plan

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the nature of improvisation.
• Devise performance through the process of improvisation.
• Understand the functions of a given brief.
• Contribute to a group devised performance.
• Understand the value of evaluation.

What you'll be able to do

• Demonstrate readiness for an interview.
• Respond to questions in an interview.
• Review own performance in an interview.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the Building and Construction industry.
• Know about different types of career opportunities and training available in the Building and Construction industry.
• Demonstrate and review an appropriate skill in the Building and Construction industry.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the Business and Administration sector.
• Know about different types of career opportunities and training available in the Business and Administration sector.
• Demonstrate and review an appropriate skill in the Business and Administration sector.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the Catering sector.
• Know about different types of career opportunities and training available in the Catering sector.
• Demonstrate and review an appropriate skill in the Catering sector.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the Engineering sector.
• Know about different types of career opportunities and training available in the Engineering sector.
• Demonstrate and review an appropriate skill in the Engineering sector.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the Hairdressing and Beauty sector.
• Know about different types of career opportunities and training available in the Hairdressing and Beauty sector.
• Demonstrate and review an appropriate skill in the Hairdressing and Beauty sector.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the Health and Social Care sector.
• Know about different types of career opportunities and training available in Health and Social Care.
• Demonstrate and review an appropriate skill in Health and Social Care.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the Hospitality sector.
• Know about different types of career opportunities and training available in the Hospitality sector.
• Demonstrate and review an appropriate skill in the Hospitality sector.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand Land-Based Industries.
• Know about different types of career opportunities and training available in Land-Based Industries.
• Demonstrate and review an appropriate skill in Land-Based Industries.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the Retail sector.
• Know about different types of career opportunities and training available in the Retail sector.
• Demonstrate and review an appropriate skill in the Retail sector.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the Travel and Tourism industry.
• Know about different types of career opportunities and training available in the Travel and Tourism industry.
• Demonstrate and review an appropriate skill in the Travel and Tourism industry.

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

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the Creative Industries.
• Know about different types of career opportunities and training available in the Creative Industries.
• Demonstrate and review an appropriate skill in the Creative Industries.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the Information and Communication Technology sector.
• Know about different types of career opportunities and training available in the Information and Communication Technology sector.
• Demonstrate and review an appropriate skill in the Information and Communication Technology sector.

What you'll be able to do

• Know why it is important to maintain moisture for crops and plants
• Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
• Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
• Select, use and maintain equipment
• Maintain moisture levels for crops and plants
• Work safely and minimise environmental damage

What you'll be able to do

• Create movement phrases.
• Warm up and cool down.
• Combine movement phrases.
• Dance with a partner or small group.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand procedures for meeting and welcoming visitors
• Meet and welcome visitors

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the nature of improvisation.
• Devise performance through the process of improvisation.
• Understand the functions of a given brief.
• Contribute to a group devised performance.
• Understand the value of evaluation.

What you'll be able to do

• Generate ideas for news article.
• Carry out research necessary to produce a piece of journalistic writing.
• Understand why articles must be subject to editing.
• Know how images can be sourced or produced to enhance a publication’s design.
• Write and lay out an article that includes both text and an image, taking the readership’s needs into account.
• Use Health and Safety procedures for self and general public.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand, in visual, pictorial and technical terms, approaches to pictorial language.
• Know the value of sketchbook methodology for selecting, collecting and using information.
• Produce work, which shows choice of form and content.
• Understand Health & Safety procedures and safe studio practice.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand health and safety measures relating to physical theatre.
• Engage safely in physical theatre.
• Demonstrate movements for physical theatre.
• Choreograph simple physical performance sequences.
• Receive, respond to and give feedback on performance.
• Reflect on own performance.

What you'll be able to do

• Know conventions for personal presentation in the workplace.
• Demonstrate appropriate personal presentation for the workplace.

What you'll be able to do

• Use a camera and relevant accessories to create images.
• Frame the image.
• Select and transfer images from camera for printing.
• Know about relevant Health and Safety issues and procedures.

What you'll be able to do

• Prepare and use a tripod with a camera.
• Understand relevant Health and Safety issues and procedures.

What you'll be able to do

• Plan to meet targets.
• Follow a plan to meet targets and improve performance.
• Review own progress and achievements.

What you'll be able to do

• Dismantle a wall
• Lay foundations
• Construct a wall

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the importance to the organisation in providing excellent customer service in the hospitality, leisure, travel and tourism industries
• Understand the role of the individual in delivering customer service in the hospitality, leisure, travel and tourism industries
• Understand the importance of customers’ needs and expectations in the hospitality, leisure, travel and tourism industries

What you'll be able to do

• Understand why communication is important in adult social care settings
• Understand how to meet the communication and language needs, wishes and preferences of an individual
• Understand how to reduce barriers to communication
• Understand confidentiality in adult social care settings

What you'll be able to do

• Understand what is required for good practice in adult social care roles
• Understand how learning activities can develop knowledge, skills and understanding
• Know how a personal development plan can contribute to own learning and development

What you'll be able to do

• Cook basic fish dishes
• Finish basic fish dishes

What you'll be able to do

• Cook basic pasta dishes
• Finish basic pasta dishes

What you'll be able to do

• Cook rice, pulse and grain dishes
• Finish rice, pulse and grain dishes

What you'll be able to do

• Cook vegetable dishes
• Finish vegetable dishes

What you'll be able to do

• Recognise signs of abuse.
• Respond to suspected or alleged abuse.
• Understand the national and local context of safeguarding and protection from abuse.
• Understand ways to reduce the likelihood of abuse.
• Recognise and report unsafe practices.

What you'll be able to do

• Know how nutrient requirements vary and their method of application
• Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
• Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
• Provide nutrients to plants or crops
• Work safely and minimise environmental damage
• Select use and maintain equipment

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the characteristics of effective leadership.
• Understand the skills required for effective leadership.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how stereotyping people can lead to prejudice and discrimination.
• Understand the impact of discriminatory behaviour on individuals and the workplace.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how recognising and respecting individual differences and diversity contributes to a positive environment in the workplace.
• Understand key responsibilities in relation to promoting equality in the workplace.
• Understand the importance of challenging discrimination at work.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the requirements of the workplace.
• Understand the importance of positive attitudes and behaviours at work.
• Understand the characteristics of effective work practice.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand why rights and responsibilities are important in the workplace.
• Understand how to access sources of support and guidance about rights and responsibilities in the workplace.

What you'll be able to do

• Know their personal responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work Act
• 2: Know why it is important to work in a safe and hygienic way
• 3: Know about hazards and safety in the workplace

What you'll be able to do

• Select, use and maintain equipment for establishing interior plant displays
• Establish interior plant displays
• Work safely and minimise environmental damage
• Set up interior plant displays
• Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
• Know the relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice.

What you'll be able to do

• Plan to meet goals in the performing arts.
• Contribute to the setting of group and individual goals in the performing arts.
• Understand own and others’ responsibilities in achieving group goals in the performing arts.
• Plan group activities in the performing arts.
• Undertake group activities in the performing arts.
• Review own group’s performing arts activities.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the types of problems that may occur in the workplace.
• Understand how problems can be solved.

What you'll be able to do

• Agree roles for individuals in a performing arts group.
• Understand how to communicate verbally when working with a performing arts group.
• Interact with group members during performing arts activities.
• Demonstrate listening and conversational skills for social interaction during performing arts activities.
• Accept the right of other people to communicate within a group situation during performance arts activities.
• Understand the importance of co-operation in group situations during performing arts activities.
• Accept and respond to prai

What you'll be able to do

• Document material to support textile design and production.
• Produce experimental samples of textile design.
• Understand different ways to solve problems with textiles.
• Understand Health and Safety issues.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the importance of welcoming tourists/visitors to a destination
• Know the customers of a tourist/visitor destination
• Know what is available at a tourist/visitor destination
• Understand the role of a customer service representative at a tourist/visitor destination

What you'll be able to do

• Know UK physical features relating to travel and tourism
• Know established tourism destinations within the United Kingdom
• Understand what attracts tourists to the United Kingdom

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the need for secure handling of information in social care settings.
• Access support for handling information in social care settings.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand working relationships in social care settings.
• Understand the importance of working in ways that are agreed with the employer.
• Understand the importance of working in partnership with others.

What you'll be able to do

• Know the structure of occupations within the leisure and tourism industry.
• Know the main employers in the industry.
• Understand trends, developments and issues in leisure and recreation in the UK.
• Understand the factors affecting people’s choice of leisure and recreation opportunities.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand that organisations need to respond to change and new directions.
• Understand the impacts of change in the workplace.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the purpose of work based learning and apprenticeships.
• Understand how work based learning and apprenticeship opportunities can benefit own learning and development.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the structure of the horticultural industry and the current status of organic methods.
• Understand the current legislative and regulatory framework in which organic horticulture operates.
• Know the advantages to the environment of organic horticultural methods.
• Understand how the principles of organic horticulture can be integrated into mainstream horticulture.
• Understand the economic underpinning of the organic approach.
• Understand the potential for growth of organic products and services within the horticulture industry.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the importance of organisational objectives and values.
• Understand the need for effective communication routes within an organisation.
• Recognise the way in which decisions are made in relation to organisational structure.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the effect of customer service on retail business
• Understand how retail businesses find out about customers’ needs and preferences
• Understand the importance to a retail business of customer service standards, policies and procedures
• Understand how customer complaints and problems are resolved in a retail business

What you'll be able to do

• Understand plant categories and their uses.
• Select plants to produce particular effects.
• Select plants for a specified location.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the nature/nurture debate with regard to effects on intelligence.
• Understand theories of cognitive development.
• Understand how language develops and the major theories of language development.

What you'll be able to do

• Define the leisure industry.
• Understand the diverse needs of leisure users from different social groups.
• Be aware of the range of facilities offered by leisure providers.
• Understand the importance of leisure to the local and national economy.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand what is meant by the term ‘tourism’.
• Understand the diverse needs of different social groups in relation to the leisure opportunities offered by the tourism industry.
• Understand the impact and importance of tourism development to the local, national and global economy.
• Know the range of leisure opportunities offered by organisations within the tourism industry.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand regulatory frameworks relevant to the travel industry.
• Understand the scale of operations of tour operators.
• Understand the role of a resort representative.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the five steps of the selling model
• Understand how questions are used to identify customers’ needs
• Understand the benefits and uses of product knowledge
• Understand how sales are closed

What you'll be able to do

• Know about different types of office equipment and its uses
• Understand the purpose of following instructions and health and safety procedures
• Understand how to use equipment in a way that minimises waste
• Know about the different types of problems that may occur when using equipment and how to deal with them
• Understand the purpose of meeting work standards and deadlines
• Understand the purpose of leaving equipment and the work area ready for the next user
• Use office equipment

What you'll be able to do

• Welcome and receive visitors
• Care for visitors
• Welcome and receive visitors
• Care for visitors
• Know the relevant health and safety procedures

What you'll be able to do

• Plan their work experience.
• Work effectively in their role.
• Review their work experience placement.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how to respect other people at work
• Understand how to maintain security and confidentiality at work and deal with concerns
• Understand the purpose and procedures for keeping waste to a minimum in a business environment
• Understand procedures for disposal of hazardous materials
• Support sustainability in an organisation
• Respect and support other people at work in an organisation
• Maintain security and confidentiality
• Support sustainability and minimise waste in an organisation

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how to work as part of a team to achieve goals and objectives.
• Understand how to communicate as part of a team.
• Understand the contribution of individuals within a team.
• Understand how to deal with problems and disagreements.
• Understand the purpose of feedback when working as a team.

What you'll be able to do

• Know different types of organisations in the craft industry.
• Know job roles in the craft industry.
• Know the skills and training required for jobs in craft.
• Know about progression opportunities in the craft industry.
• Know own skills and qualities relevant to craft job roles.
• Prepare a C.V. for a specific job role in the craft industry.

What you'll be able to do

• Know different types of organisations in the performing arts industry.
• Know job roles in the performing arts industry.
• Know the skills and training required for jobs in performing arts.
• Know progression opportunities in performing arts.
• Know own skills and qualities relevant to performing arts job roles.
• Prepare a C.V. for a specific job role in the performing arts industry.