AIM Qualifications · RQF Level 3
AIM Qualifications Level 3 Award in Skills for Employment and Further Learning
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits8
- Guided learning42 hours
- Units in this qualification56
Awarded by AIM Qualifications · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units AIM Qualifications 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.
Active Citizenship in the Local CommunityReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the social diversity of citizens in the local community and the UK
- Understand the importance of active participation in the local community
Building a Personal Career PortfolioReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how own personal qualities, skills, abilities, experience and knowledge and can contribute to future opportunities and goals
- Understand how different types of information can be used to evidence own personal qualities, skills, abilities experience and knowledge
- Understand how a portfolio of information can be used to evidence own personal qualities, skills, abilities experience and knowledge
- Understand what needs to be included in a Curriculum Vitae (CV)
- Evaluate progress towards personal goals
Career PlanningReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand own strengths, qualities, skills and abilities
- Understand relevant sources of information, advice and guidance in relation to career management
- Know how own abilities relate to progression opportunities
- Plan for transition to the next stage of education, training or work
Child Communication DifficultiesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand listening skills when working with children
- Understand the development of comprehension of vocabulary and sentence grammar
- Understand the development of expressive language skills in relation to learning
- Understand the development of speech and sound in relationship to learning
- Know about different communication methods with children
- Understand the impact of poorly developed social skills in children on communication
Child ProtectionReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand that all children have needs and rights
- Understand the different forms that child abuse can take
- Understand how to deal with a child’s disclosure of abuse
- Understand the legislative framework surrounding issues of child protection
Communication in the WorkplaceReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the lines of communication within own organisation
- Understand the need to communicate effectively with team members
- Define tasks for interpretation by others
- Understand how conflict is dealt with in own organisation
Creative Writing SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Produce sophisticated creative writing
- Understand the importance of structure and shape
- Understand form and genre in creative writing
- Understand strategies for conveying themes
- Critically analyse creative writing
Delivering a Training SessionReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Produce a plan for the training session
- Deliver a training session
- Evaluate a training session
Employment Rights, Contracts and PayReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about employment legislation
- Know about statutory and contractual employment rights
- Know about a contract of employment
- Understand the implications of breach of contract
- Understand pay
Examination SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand revision strategies
- Prepare for an examination
- Review own examination performance
Hand Knit Design for Home InteriorsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the history of hand knitting
- Understand the use of colour theory, texture, shape and form for the design of hand knitted items for home interiors
Hand Knitting Skills: Home Interiors ProductsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Plan the knitting of a co-ordinated range of hand knit textiles for the home
- Make well-constructed samples of each product in the range to a saleable standard
- Understand safe working practices when constructing the hand knit range
- Make a co-ordinated range of hand knitted products for home interiors, to a saleable standard
- Use presentation skills to display the range of hand knitted products for home interiors
Improving Own Learning and PerformanceReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about different ways of learning which reflect own likes and dislikes
- Use own strengths, aptitudes and skills to determine realistic learning targets
- Make decisions about how to achieve learning targets
- Review performance against own learning targets
Interaction and Play for Children Birth to Three YearsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Create a stimulating environment for young children
- Plan, implement and evaluate activities for play
- Communicate with young children and babies
Interior Design in ContextReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the concept of interior design
- Understand historical developments in interior design
- Know about the influence of socio-economic and technological factors on interior design
Interpersonal SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand personal strengths and weaknesses
- Understand the need for time management
- Understand the need to manage stress
- Understand the difference between constructive and destructive criticism
- Understand the application of body language in personal and work related situations
- Understand different behaviours
Involving VolunteersReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand why organisations recruit volunteers
- Understand processes for recruiting volunteers
Leadership SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key characteristics of an effective leader
- Understand the skills involved in being an effective leader
- Understand how to develop the relationship between leader and team member
- Understand how to improve own leadership skills
Learner Representation SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of the learner representative
- Understand the importance of learner involvement
- Understand the skills of learner representation
- Represent learners’ views
- Reflect on own performance as learner representative
Managing a ProjectReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Plan a project
- Monitor the progress of a project
- Evaluate the project
Nutrition and Healthy EatingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the function of food
- Understand the relationship between food and health
- Understand the basic principles of weight control
- Understand why a balanced diet is required to maximise performance
- Understand how to promote healthy eating
Organise an EventReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of an event organiser in realising the event brief
- Organise an event
- Oversee all of the legal requirements for the event
- Delegate responsibility to the event team
- Engage their target audience
Performance Realisation SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand effective realisation of a performance
- Appreciate own performance
- Appreciate the realisation
Personal Skills AuditReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand own strengths
- Understand how to relate own strengths to opportunities
Personal Study SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Locate, retrieve and store information
- Read and respond to written materials
- Produce written materials for specific purposes
- Use basic IT applications to enhance own learning
- Make appropriate personal contributions in individual and group discussions
Play and Child DevelopmentReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand children’s key stages of development
- Understand the importance of providing suitable resources and play activities for children
- Understand the nature and function of play in a childcare setting
Play for Children Birth to Three YearsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the ways in which children birth to three years learn through play
- Understand current government initiatives covering birth – three year olds
Play for Early Learning in a Childcare SettingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Support children in developing their attention span and memory
- Develop children’s understanding of mathematics and science
- Support children in developing and expressing their imagination and creativity
- Facilitate communication with a child
- Promote children’s communication skills in a group
- Plan activities and experiences to facilitate children’s learning and development
Preparing a Training SessionReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the training cycle
- Understand the factors to consider when preparing a training session
- Understand how to adapt a training session plan
Preparing for a Written AssignmentReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Gather information in preparation for a written assignment
- Plan a written assignment
Presentation SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know why and/or when formal presentations can be used
- Plan a presentation
- Know about using visual images in presentations
- Know about techniques for scripting a presentation
- Know about the health and safety requirements involved in using equipment for presentations
- Deliver a presentation
Problem Solving in the WorkplaceReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how different factors might influence problem solving in the workplace
- Solve problems
- Apply solutions to problems
- Make appropriate decisions in the workplace
Recognising Employment OpportunitiesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand different forms of employment
- Understand the concept of the labour market
Rehearsal Process SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the skills required for effective realisation of a performance
- Demonstrate effective rehearsal skills
- Review performance
Report WritingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Produce a written report to specifications
Research SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand research methods and their uses
- Plan a piece of research
- Carry out a piece of research
- Report on a piece of research
- Evaluate a piece of research
Sound Checking a BandReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to prepare a PA system for sound check
- Sound check instruments
- Work with performers
- Create a balanced mix
Sports Coaching SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of the sports coach
- Understand the skills involved in sports coaching
- Understand factors affecting performance of participants
Stress and Stress Management TechniquesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the term stress
- Recognise signs and symptoms of stress
- Understand potential causes of stress in everyday life
- Understand a range of stress management techniques
- Devise a stress management action plan
Supporting the Development of Two Year OldsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Support the well-being of two year olds through own practice
- Support the development of language and communication skills of two year olds
- Use indoor and outdoor learning opportunities to support the physical development of two year olds
- Work within the expectations of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) to support a two year olds’ progress
- Work closely with parents of two year olds
Supporting, Developing and Managing VolunteersReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how organisations can support and develop volunteers
- Understand how organisations manage volunteers
Teamwork SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Contribute to the setting of team and individual goals
- Understand responsibilities of members of the group in achieving goals
- Plan and undertake team activities
- Review the activities of the team
The Intellectual and Language Development of ChildrenReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the stages of intellectual development in children
- Understand the stages of language development in children
- Understand why it is important to communicate with young children
- Understand factors which affect intellectual and language development in children
The Physical Development of ChildrenReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the physical growth and development of children
- Understand activities which promote physical development
The Principles of Childcare PracticeReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the values of the childcare sector
- Understand how quality of service is measured and problems addressed
- Understand institutional policy, procedures and practice in dealing with sensitive issues
Theory of Team Building SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the characteristics of a successful team leader
- Review leadership skills
- Understand team roles
- Understand objective setting
- Know about communicating objectives to the team
Three-Dimensional Creative Machine EmbroideryReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Plan the process of construction of an original three-dimensional machine embroidered design
- Understand health and safety requirements when working with machine embroidery
- Create an original three-dimensional design using machine embroidery
Three-Dimensional Creative Machine Embroidery DesignReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know the value of sketchbook methodology for three-dimensional machine embroidery design
- Use different methods to colour fabrics
- Understand the characteristics of materials required for construction of three-dimensional machine embroidered items
- Understand the characteristics of soluble fabrics and their use in the construction of three-dimensional machine embroidered items
- Develop ideas for three-dimensional machine embroidery design through experimentation
Time ManagementReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand own patterns of working and personal preferences
- Allocate time appropriately
- Manage change that affects time allocation
Undertaking an Enterprise ProjectReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Select an enterprise project for a particular target market
- Know about the costs involved in setting up the product or service
- Understand the significance of effective marketing
- Plan, monitor and review the enterprise project
Work ExperienceReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the structure and purpose of the organisation selected for their work experience placement
- Understand own role and responsibilities within organisation
- Adhere to workplace standards for personal presentation and behaviour
- Comply with safe working practices demanded by the work environment
- Carry out work tasks as requested
Work with Volunteers in a Creative and Cultural ContextReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Communicate opportunities for involving volunteers in the work programme
- Explain the work to be done to volunteers
- Support volunteers in their work
Working in Pastoral CareReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand a ‘faith-based pastoral care’ system
- Understand the confines of pastoral care
- Understand safeguarding within pastoral care
- Understand the part of ‘faith’ within the faith based pastoral carer’s role
Working with Disabled Learners: Disability AwarenessReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the associated learning needs of specific disabilities
- Understand the personal skills and attitudes necessary for working with disabled students
- Understand the role of professionals and agencies working with disabled people.
Working with Disabled Learners: Note-taking SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of a note-taker for disabled students
- Know about the diversity of communication language used by the presenters
- Take and summarise notes for disabled learners
- Evaluate own note-taking skills to suit differing learner needs
Working with Others to Support Two Year OldsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the key changes in safeguarding and welfare requirements for young children
- Implement safeguarding and welfare requirements to keep young children safe
- Work with vulnerable families
- Support a two year old to build their resilience
- Know how a multi-agency approach can support two year olds
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 3 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
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
Meet all twelve tutorsWhere this connects
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.
- Develop and maintain partnership working to support your volunteering strategy
- Develop organisational structures and systems to support volunteering
- Develop structures, systems and procedures to support volunteering
- Organise and Co-ordinate Events
- Organise events involving volunteers
- Recruit and manage volunteers
- Support the development of volunteers’ knowledge, skills and competence
Where this can lead
Event Innovation Coordinator
Your journey starts here, learning the foundations of event innovation. Where you go from here is really up to you and your ambition. We're here to provide the opportunities and support, but your drive and curiosity will be the real fuel for your career.
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 AIM Qualifications Level 3 Award in Skills for Employment and Further Learning
56 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by AIM Qualifications.
- Active Citizenship in the Local Community
- Building a Personal Career Portfolio
- Career Planning
- Child Communication Difficulties
- Child Protection
- Communication in the Workplace
and 50 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.