City and Guilds of London Institute · RQF Level 4
City & Guilds Level 4 Diploma in Public Services - Operational Delivery
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 4
- Total credits53
- Guided learning235 hours
- Units in this qualification22
Awarded by City and Guilds of London Institute · 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 and Guilds of London Institute 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.
Address performance problems affecting team membersReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand legal requirements, industry regulations, organisational policies and professional codes concerning performance.,
- Identify performance problems of team members.,
- Discuss performance problems with team members.,
- Set a course of action to deal with identified problems with team members.
Analyse and provide information to Ministers, Parliament and senior officialsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse the effect and impact of operational delivery-related law,
- Communicate operational delivery-related information and advice for Ministers, Parliament and senior officials
Champion customer serviceReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Promote the importance and benefits of customer service,
- Provide advice and information on customer service issues,
- Champion customer service
Contribute to the evaluation of the effectiveness of the compliance risk operational planReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out evaluation activities of the compliance risk operational plan
- Report on the evaluation of the compliance risk operational plan
Contribute to the evaluation of the effectiveness of the operational delivery business processReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Administer the operational delivery evaluation process,
- Evaluate new and existing operational delivery business processes and systems
Contribute to the testing and design of operational delivery business processReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out testing activities of new and adapted operational delivery business process,
- Report on operational delivery tests to inform design
Implement change in own area of responsibilityReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to implement change in own area of responsibility.,
- Involve and support others through the change process.,
- Implement and monitor a plan for change in own area of responsibility.
Implement quality improvements to customer serviceReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plan the introduction of customer service improvements,
- Manage the implementation of customer service improvements,
- Monitor and evaluate customer service improvements,
- Understand how to implement quality improvements to customer service
Interview public service customersReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out planned and unplanned interviews with public service customers,
- Report on interviews with public service customers
Investigate suspected non-compliant individualsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate suspected non-compliant individuals,
- Manage cases of suspected non-compliance
Make a contribution to the formulation of the compliance risk operational planReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Provide contributions to the compliance risk operational plan to meet organisational and business stream objectives,
- Liaise with stakeholders on the compliance risk operational plan
Manage knowledge in own area of responsibilityReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand existing knowledge management in own area of responsibility.
- Develop knowledge
- Share knowledge.
- Monitor and evaluate knowledge management in own area of responsibility.
Manage or support equality of opportunity, diversity and inclusion in own area of responsibilityReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand own responsibilities under equality legislation, relevant codes of practice and own organisational policies.
- Communicate an organisation’s written equality, diversity and inclusion policy and procedures in own area of responsibility.
- Monitor equality, diversity and inclusion within own area of responsibility.
Manage own professional development within an organisationReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Assess own career goals and personal development.,
- Set personal work objectives.,
- Produce a personal development plan.,
- Implement and monitor own personal development plan.
Manage risk in own area of responsibilityReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Undertake a risk evaluation for current and planned activities within own area of responsibility.,
- Minimise the impact and likelihood of potential risks occurring in own area of responsibility.,
- Communicate identified risks.
Negotiating, handling objections and closing salesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to handle objections from customers and negotiate effectively with them.
- Prepare thoroughly for potential objections and negotiation scenarios with customers.
- Handle objections from customers in a professional and effective manner.
- Negotiate with customers to reach mutually beneficial agreements.
- Close the sale successfully following negotiation with the customer.
Prepare for and support quality auditsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the quality standards and procedures that apply to own area of responsibility.,
- Monitor work in own area of responsibility against quality standards and procedures.,
- Prepare for a quality audit in own area of responsibility.,
- Discuss quality audit findings with the auditor.,
- Complete agreed actions following a quality audit.
Principles of operational deliveryReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the scope of operational delivery
- Understand the structure of operational delivery
- Understand professional standards within operational delivery
- Understand the role of Continuous Professional Development (CPD) within operational delivery
Provide interpretative technical advice and/or guidance in public service casesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Provide advice in public service cases
- Feed back information to public service stakeholders
Provide leadership and direction for own area of responsibilityReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Lead in own area of responsibility.,
- Provide direction and set objectives in own area of responsibility.,
- Communicate the direction for own area of responsibility and collect feedback to inform improvement.,
- Assess own leadership performance.
Specify operational delivery business requirementsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Identify the need for new and adapted operational delivery business requirements
- Report on operational delivery business requirements
Support learning and development within own area of responsibilityReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Identify the learning needs of colleagues in own area of responsibility.,
- Understand how to develop a learning environment in own area of responsibility.,
- Support colleagues in learning and its application.,
- Evaluate learning outcomes and future learning and development of colleagues.
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Where these credits take you
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- Communicate Information Effectively: Understand Audiences and Adapt
- Conduct an inspection or review
- Design and Test Effective Operational Delivery Processes
- Design and Test Operational Delivery Business Process
Where this can lead
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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.
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 City & Guilds Level 4 Diploma in Public Services - Operational Delivery
22 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by City and Guilds of London Institute.
- Address performance problems affecting team members
- Analyse and provide information to Ministers, Parliament and senior officials
- Champion customer service
- Contribute to the evaluation of the effectiveness of the compliance risk operational plan
- Contribute to the evaluation of the effectiveness of the operational delivery business process
- Contribute to the testing and design of operational delivery business process
and 16 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
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- 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.
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Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
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- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
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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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