Open College Network Yorkshire and Humber Region trading as Certa · RQF Level 2
Certa Level 2 Certificate in Information, Advice or Guidance
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 learning79 hours
- Units in this qualification16
Awarded by Open College Network Yorkshire and Humber Region trading as Certa · on the Ofqual register
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Open College Network Yorkshire and Humber Region trading as Certa 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 College Network Yorkshire and Humber Region trading as Certa
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.
Developing Interaction Skills for Information, Advice or GuidanceReal unit · Open College Network Yorkshire and Humber Region trading as Certa
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to interact with clients.
- Understand the importance of effective communication skills in the delivery of information, advice or guidance.
- Understand how own values, beliefs and attitudes may affect interactions with clients.
- Understand the importance of confidentiality and impartiality in interactions with clients.
- Outline an action plan for developing own interaction skills.
Information, Advice or Guidance - ContextReal unit · Open College Network Yorkshire and Humber Region trading as Certa
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the information, advice or guidance needs of a specific group of clients.
- Understand how to explore choices and options with a specific group of clients.
- Understand how to enable clients to challenge discriminatory behaviour and practice.
- Understand the range of barriers which may prevent clients from being able to access information, advice or guidance services.
Information, Advice or Guidance Work with GroupsReal unit · Open College Network Yorkshire and Humber Region trading as Certa
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise the role of group work in information, advice or guidance.
- Understand the factors which can influence the effectiveness of information, advice or guidance group sessions.
- Plan, conduct and evaluate information, advice or guidance sessions.
- Understand the skills required to establish co-operative working relationships within information, advice or guidance group sessions.
Information, Advice or Guidance in PracticeReal unit · Open College Network Yorkshire and Humber Region trading as Certa
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the distinction between information, advice or guidance.
- Understand ways of meeting information, advice or guidance requirements of clients.
- Understand the boundaries of own role in meeting information, advice or guidance requirements of clients.
- Understand the purpose of accurate record keeping to fulfil good practice guidelines.
Introduction to Information, Advice or Guidance in Schools and Colleges - PolicyReal unit · Open College Network Yorkshire and Humber Region trading as Certa
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 - PracticeReal unit · Open College Network Yorkshire and Humber Region trading as Certa
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 - PrinciplesReal unit · Open College Network Yorkshire and Humber Region trading as Certa
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.
Managing InformationReal unit · Open College Network Yorkshire and Humber Region trading as Certa
What you'll be able to do
- Know the range of resources available to clients in a specific organisation.
- Know a range of media which can be used to provide information for clients in own organisation.
- Understand how systems for storage and retrieval of information operate in own organisation.
Operating within Networks to Support Information, Advice or GuidanceReal unit · Open College Network Yorkshire and Humber Region trading as Certa
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise the role of networks in supporting information, advice or guidance.
- Understand the need for networks to operate within Codes of Practice and Principles.
- Understand the different roles within networks.
Signposting and Referral - Information, Advice or GuidanceReal unit · Open College Network Yorkshire and Humber Region trading as Certa
What you'll be able to do
- Understand when it is appropriate to signpost or refer clients to other agencies.
- Understand the difference between signposting and referral.
- Demonstrate good practice when referring or signposting clients.
- Monitor and evaluate client referrals to other agencies.
Skills for Advice ProvidersReal unit · Open College Network Yorkshire and Humber Region trading as Certa
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of social policy in advice work.
- Understand the purpose and process of an advice interview.
- Support a client to plan and take action.
- Understand how to negotiate effectively on a client’s behalf.
- Understand how to use information resources to meet client requirements.
Specialist Advice Work in Practice - EmploymentReal unit · Open College Network Yorkshire and Humber Region trading as Certa
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 - HousingReal unit · Open College Network Yorkshire and Humber Region trading as Certa
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 – DebtReal unit · Open College Network Yorkshire and Humber Region trading as Certa
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 – Refugee, Immigrant or Asylum SeekerReal unit · Open College Network Yorkshire and Humber Region trading as Certa
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 or 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.
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 2 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
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Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
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Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Advise how health improvement can be promoted in policy development
- 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 health and community care legal advice
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.
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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 Certa Level 2 Certificate in Information, Advice or Guidance
16 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Open College Network Yorkshire and Humber Region trading as Certa.
- Benefits Advice Work - Practice
- Developing Interaction Skills for Information, Advice or Guidance
- Information, Advice or Guidance - Context
- Information, Advice or Guidance Work with Groups
- Information, Advice or Guidance in Practice
- Introduction to Information, Advice or Guidance in Schools and Colleges - Policy
and 10 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.