Chartered Institute of Legal Executives · RQF Level 3

CILEx Level 3 Certificate in Employment Practice (QCF)

You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.

  • LevelRQF Level 3
  • Total credits28
  • Guided learning120 hours
  • Units in this qualification6

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What you’ll learn

What each unit actually teaches you to do

These are the units Chartered Institute of Legal Executives 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.

Client Care SkillsReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the professional requirements of a client care interview
  • Understand the relevant professional requirements of client care communications
  • Understand the relevant issues and rules governing the relationship with the client
Contract LawReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the concept of contract
  • Understand the rules for establishing whether a valid offer and acceptance have taken place
  • Understand the concept of consideration in contract
  • Understand the rules for determining a party’s intention to enter into a contract
  • Understand how terms are incorporated into a contract
  • Understand the classification of different provisions of a contract, and the implication of categorisation
  • Understand misrepresentation and its consequences
  • Understand the ways in which a contract might be discharged
  • Understand the remedies available where a contract has been
Employment LawReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand that individuals can have different legal employment status within a business
  • Understand the nature of the contract between employer and employee
  • Understand the main terms of a contract of employment
  • Understand the protection afforded to employees by discrimination legislation
  • Understand how employment can be terminated
  • Understand when an employee has been wrongfully dismissed
  • Understand when an employee has been unfairly dismissed
Introduction to Law and PracticeReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the structure of the law
  • Understand what the organs of government are
  • Understand how an Act of Parliament is created
  • Understand the meaning of delegated legislation
  • Understand how the doctrine of judicial precedent operates
  • Understand how membership of the European Union influences the law of England and Wales
  • Understand the court hierarchy
  • Understand the relevance of the European Convention on Human Rights
  • Understand how disputes can be resolved outside the court hierarchy
  • Understand the personnel of the English Legal System, their qualification routes and their roles
  • Un
Legal Research SkillsReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives

What you'll be able to do

  • Find and read statutes
  • Understand the purpose and status of the statute
  • Understand how to use sections of the statute that provide supporting guidance for the user
  • Understand how to use information from a statute
  • Understand the purpose of a statutory instrument (SI)
  • Understand how to use information from a statutory instrument (SI)
  • Understand the way in which case law works and progresses
  • Understand how to use information from a case report
The Practice of Employment LawReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the practical scope of employment law practice
  • Understand the legal implications of recruitment
  • Understand the essential statutory principles governing the employment contract
  • Understand additional desirable contractual terms and policies which further define the employment relationship
  • Understand the right to request flexible working, maternity and paternity leave and pay and other family friendly policies
  • Understand how to manage redundancy situations
  • Understand how to manage dismissals
  • Understand how to submit a simple claim in an employment tribunal

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.

Client Care SkillsContract LawEmployment LawIntroduction to Law and PracticeLegal Research SkillsThe Practice of Employment Law

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 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.

Where this can lead

Employment Law Specialist

Your journey here as an Employment Law Specialist is just the beginning. We're keen to invest in your development and help you build a truly impactful career in the legal field. Whether you aspire to lead a team or become a deep subject matter expert, we'll work with you to chart a path that matches your ambitions and helps you grow.

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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.

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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.

One-to-one, on your real workNo lectures, no past-papers. Every unit is practised on the actual tasks your job throws at you, a tutor beside you, not a video in front of you.
Taught to the top, not the testMost courses stop at remembering. Your companion keeps climbing: analysing, judging, creating. That’s the part a machine can’t do for you.
Credits you keep, a map that continuesEvery unit is regulated and yours for good. The day you finish, Zavmo already knows the next role your new credits open.
Client Care SkillsLevel 3

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How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.
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Built for CILEx Level 3 Certificate in Employment Practice (QCF)

6 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Chartered Institute of Legal Executives.

  1. Client Care Skills
  2. Contract Law
  3. Employment Law
  4. Introduction to Law and Practice
  5. Legal Research Skills
  6. The Practice of Employment Law
These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

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.

  1. Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.

  1. 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
  2. 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
  3. 4AnalyseThe Analyst
  4. 3ApplyThe Coach
  5. 2UnderstandThe Connector
  6. 1RememberThe Builder

Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you

Why this matters: AI can already remember and understand for you. What it can’t do is take your real problem and judge the right call. So the only learning worth paying for is the learning that takes you to the top. That’s exactly what a tutor doing it with you, on your real work, is for.

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, free

No 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.