King's Trust · RQF Level 2
King's Trust Level 2 Certificate In Working with Young People
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits16
- Guided learning79 hours
- Units in this qualification30
Awarded by King's Trust · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units King's Trust 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.
An introduction to personal developmentReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Develop self understanding
- Understand personal qualities relevant to the helping role
Communicate with the public and othersReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Communicate with the public and others.
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Communicate with the public and others
- Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental good practice.
- Understand the values of the organisation
Contribute to Children and Young People's Health and SafetyReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Know the health and safety policies and procedures of the work setting
- Recognise risks and hazards in the work setting and during off site visits
- Know what to do in the event of a non medical incident or emergency
- Know what to do in the event of a child or young person becoming ill or injured
- Follow the work setting procedures for reporting and recording accidents, incidents, emergencies and illnesses
- Follow infection control procedures
- Know the work setting’s procedures for receiving, storing and administering medicines
Developing Personal Skills for LeadershipReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Know the main features of leadership.
- Demonstrate own leadership skills.
- Prepare for a leadership activity.
Developing facilitator skillsReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role and responsibilities of a facilitator
- Understand how learning styles, learning needs and learning context impact on planning
- Plan a training session
- Select and use appropriate assessment methods for the training session
- Deliver a training session
- Evaluate own skills as a facilitator
Developing selfReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Take an active role in their personal development
- Plan for their personal development
- Review their self-development plan
Engaging with young peopleReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of engaging young people
- Engage young people
- Support young people in engaging with the local community
Establish and maintain effective working relationships with othersReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain working relationships with others
- Understand why good working practices are important
Exploring the roles and responsibilities of Young LeadersReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of a young leader within their organisation
- Understand the social, moral and legal responsibilities of being a young leader
- Develop the skills needed to set personal and professional boundaries
First Aid EssentialsReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role and responsibilities of a first aider
- Assess an incident
- Manage an unresponsive casualty who is breathing normally
- Manage an unresponsive casualty who is not breathing normally
- Recognise and assist a casualty who is chocking
- Manage a casualty with external bleeding
- Manage a casualty who is in shock
- Manage a casualty with a minor injury
Leading a community-based social action projectReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Define social action and its context within their local community
- Develop a social action plan with young people that benefits the local community
- Complete a project to benefit the local community
- Evaluate a social action project that benefits the local community
Managing BehaviourReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Develop awareness of different approaches to managing behaviour
- Understand a specific approach to managing behaviour
- Understand the role of positive support strategies when managing behaviour
- Understand why a safe environment for children and/or young people supports positive behaviour
Mentoring PracticeReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Use mentoring skills and demonstrate good practice.
- Understand how to review own practice as a mentor.
Mentoring SkillsReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the stages of the ‘mentoring’ relationship.
- Understand a range of techniques to make mentees feel comfortable and at ease.
- Understand the boundaries of a mentoring relationship.
- Understand when and to whom referrals should be made.
Organising an activity session at an outdoor centreReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to plan an activity session.
- Understand how to prepare an activity session.
- Prepare an activity session.
- Understand how to lead an activity session.
- Lead an activity session.
- Understand how to conclude and review an activity session.
- Conclude and review an activity session.
Practising Leadership Skills with OthersReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to lead agroup activity
- Demonstrate effectiveleadership skills with others
- Evaluate their leadershipperformance
Promote responsible public use of the environmentReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Safeguard members of the public and others
- Safeguard the environment
- Safeguard members of the public and the environment
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Provide information to support clients to overcome barriers to learning and workReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature of information available from own organisation
- Support client access to information
- Support client use of information to overcome barriers to learning and work
Recognising Issues of Substance MisuseReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Know the differences between legal and illegal substances.
- Understand the impact of the use and misuse of substances.
- Know some sources of available support available relating to misuse of substances.
Safeguarding Young People in a Youth Work SettingReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Understand health and safety legislation, policies and procedures
- Know the legislation, policies, procedures relating to the safeguarding of young people
- Assess risk in a youth work setting
Sex and Relationships EducationReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Explain a range of relationships, family lifestyles and sexuality, including awareness of culture and individual differences.
- Know the qualities and attributes that help form individuals’ positive consensual relationships.
- Know that individuals have rights and responsibilities within a relationship.
- Know the law in relation to sex and sexuality.
- Know how the body works in relation to sexual activity.
- Identify the range and purpose of male and female contraception methods including a knowledge of sexually transmitted infections.
- Know agencies able to give help, advic
Support clients to apply for learning and workReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Understand application methods for learning and work
- Support clients making applications for learning and work
Support the work of the team and organisationReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Support the work of own team and organisation
- Work effectively with colleagues
- Work effectively with colleagues
- Improve own work
- Improve own work
- Help to improve the work of own organisation
- Help to improve the work of own organisation
Supporting young people in the development of employability skillsReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the personal qualities and skills needed to support young people to develop employability skills
- Support young people to develop employability skills
Understanding Conflict ResolutionReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Understand factors that contribute to conflict.
- Understand the different responses to conflict.
- Understand how communication styles can affect a conflict situation.
- Understand what conflict resolution entails.
- Understand the role of a third party in resolving conflict.
Understanding MentoringReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Understand what is meant by ‘mentoring’.
- Understand the need to respect individuality and difference within the mentoring relationship.
Understanding Youth Work Principles and PracticeReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and role of youth work intervention
- Understand the principles and practice of equal opportunities
- Understand the skills, knowledge, qualities and values required to practice within youth work
Understanding how to develop participant_s_ through coaching sportReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of planning coaching sessions
- Understand the principles of skill development through coaching sessions
- Understand how the stages of participant(s)’ development impact on their coaching
- Understand the principles of evaluation in coaching
Understanding prejudice and discriminationReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise prejudice
- Recognise discrimination
- Know how stereotyping people can lead to discrimination
- Understand the impact of discrimination on individuals and society
Work with and consult the local communityReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Work with and consult the local community
- Understand the importance of working with and consulting the local community
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
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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
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Where this can lead
Learning Facilitator
Your journey starts here, but where it goes is really up to you. We're committed to giving you the tools and opportunities to explore different paths, whether that's becoming a master facilitator, a content architect, or a future leader of our L&D function. The most important thing is your drive to help others learn and grow.
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 King's Trust Level 2 Certificate In Working with Young People
30 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by King's Trust.
- An introduction to personal development
- Communicate with the public and others
- Contribute to Children and Young People's Health and Safety
- Developing Personal Skills for Leadership
- Developing facilitator skills
- Developing self
and 24 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.
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