Open College Network West Midlands Level 2 Certificate in Work Preparation (QCF)

What you'll be able to do

• Understand different methods of applying for a job.
• Prepare a job application.

What you'll be able to do

• Prepare for building work.
• Carry out building work.
• Tidy up work area.

What you'll be able to do

• Recognise own skills, abilities, experience, knowledge and personal qualities.
• Assess the potential of own skills, abilities, experience, knowledge and personal qualities for contributing towards the achievement of personal goals.
• Build a portfolio of information to evidence achievements and qualities.
• Produce a curriculum vitae (CV).
• Identify personal goals and the actions required to achieve these.
• Understand the value of a portfolio in personal, educational and career development.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how people in the workplace depend on one another.
• Understand how an individual’s behaviour affects other people at work.
• Demonstrate positive behaviours that promote effective working with others.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the reasons for combined arts and collabouration.
• Understand what is required for interdisciplinary working.
• Know what support is available for collabourative working on arts projects/ between art disciplines.
• Know about the value/ purpose of combined arts and collabouration.

What you'll be able to do

• Use basic plumbing installation techniques.
• Carry out basic plumbing maintenance.
• Work safely and tidily.

What you'll be able to do

• Plan a communication.
• Communicate in writing.
• Communicate verbally.
• Identify and agree ways of developing communication skills.

What you'll be able to do

• Know about ways of communicating.
• Know the methods used to communicate different types of information in the workplace.
• Use communication skills.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand thehealth and safety requirements when undertaking creative activity.
• Research and develop ideas for creative activity
• Experiment with media using a sketchbook and/or journal.
• Use a range of materials and equipment.
• Understand techniques to undertake activity.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the principles of good customer care.
• Provide good customer care.
• Communicate positively with customers.
• Understand the importance of keeping to organisational policies and practice.

What you'll be able to do

• Source research material appropriate to the needs of the project.
• Plan work to meet deadlines using time management skills.
• Translate project ideas into final product.
• Plan, develop and complete the design projects using appropriate materials and techniques.
• Understand the need to reflect on own design work.
• Understand Health and Safety issues.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the major characteristics of design for a range of styles and/or movements.
• Understand terminology relevant to design practice and history.
• Understand the key issues influencing development in design styles.
• Extend their critical awareness and design vocabulary.
• Undertake research for design assignments.

What you'll be able to do

• Select and use appropriate designs and page layouts for publications.
• Input and combine text and other information within publications.
• Use desktop publishing software techniques to edit and format publications.

What you'll be able to do

• Develop sculpture ideas creatively
• Adapt sculpture ideas
• Know about safe working environments

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the principles and purpose of bonding.
• Prepare for constructing brick walls using bonding.
• Demonstrate skills and techniques used in constructing brick walls using bonding.
• Leave work area clean and tidy.

What you'll be able to do

• Plan meals.
• Understand a range of cooking equipment, including care and maintenance.
• Use a variety of ingredients, basic cookery methods and equipment to produce dishes.
• Understand the importance of health and safety requirements in the kitchen.

What you'll be able to do

• Use a variety of measuring methods.
• Understand the importance of health and safety requirements when working in a kitchen.
• Apply the principles of food and personal hygiene.
• Apply correct storage methods for food.
• Organise and maintain the work area for food preparation.
• Clear away safely and efficiently.
• Use kitchen equipment correctly.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the purpose and format of meetings.
• Prepare for meetings.
• Contribute to a meeting.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how to use common joints in construction.
• Prepare for making joints.
• Demonstrate skills and techniques used in making joints.
• Leave work area clean and tidy.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand digital imaging and printing.
• Produce digital images and prints.
• Understand photographic practice and health and safety procedures.

What you'll be able to do

• Know about classical music.
• Know about the main types of popular music.
• Know about the production of sound in musical instruments.
• Understand the basic principles of music theory and notation.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the characteristics of successful entrepreneurs and how these are important in business situations.
• Understand own strengths as an enterprising person and ways to develop own enterprising characteristics.

What you'll be able to do

• Select, use and maintain equipment
• Select and transport plants and/or seeds
• Establish plants and/or seeds in soil.
• Work safely and minimise environmental damage
• Know the requirements for establishing healthy plants
• Deal with damage and pollution
• Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
• Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental good practice.

What you'll be able to do

• Recognise career opportunities in the creative sector.
• Identify future career aims or opportunities.
• Understand the value of CVs or portfolios for career development.

What you'll be able to do

• Identify suitable job opportunities.
• Investigate job vacancies.

What you'll be able to do

• Research for a film or video project.
• Undertake a film project.
• Reflect on own film produced.
• Understand relevant Health and Safety issues and procedures.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how individuals can take personal responsibility for food safety.
• Understand the importance of keeping clean and hygienic.
• Understand the importance of keeping the work areas clean and hygienic.
• Understand the importance of keeping food safe.

What you'll be able to do

• Make informed design decisions
• Plan and produce a garment
• Review own work

What you'll be able to do

• Know the Health and Safety requirements, procedures and equipment relevant to their work environment.
• Recognise and manage risk in their work environment by following safe working practices.

What you'll be able to do

• Know the health and safety issues in relation to hedgelaying.
• Know a range of hand tools used for hedgelaying and how to care for them.
• Know about the methodology of hedgelaying.
• Lay a hedge.
• Understand the importance of maintaining laid hedges.
• Know how the characteristics of hedgelaying reflect geology.

What you'll be able to do

• Identify and report the presence of pests, diseases and disorders
• Work safely and minimise environmental damage
• Identify and report the presence of pests, diseases and disorders
• Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice

What you'll be able to do

• Obtain, insert and combine information for images.
• Use imaging software tools to create, manipulate and edit images.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how to improve own performance.
• Improve own performance using feedback.
• Agree own development needs using a learning plan.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand different ways of learning.
• Set realistic learning targets.
• Review own performance in meeting learning targets.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the nature of improvisation.
• Devise performance through the process of improvisation.
• Understand the functions of a given brief.
• Contribute to a group devised performance.
• Understand the value of evaluation.

What you'll be able to do

• Demonstrate readiness for an interview.
• Respond to questions in an interview.
• Review own performance in an interview.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the Building and Construction industry.
• Know about different types of career opportunities and training available in the Building and Construction industry.
• Demonstrate and review an appropriate skill in the Building and Construction industry.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the Business and Administration sector.
• Know about different types of career opportunities and training available in the Business and Administration sector.
• Demonstrate and review an appropriate skill in the Business and Administration sector.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the Catering sector.
• Know about different types of career opportunities and training available in the Catering sector.
• Demonstrate and review an appropriate skill in the Catering sector.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the importance of duty of care.
• Understand support available for addressing dilemmas that may arise about the duty of care.
• Respond to complaints.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the Engineering sector.
• Know about different types of career opportunities and training available in the Engineering sector.
• Demonstrate and review an appropriate skill in the Engineering sector.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the Hairdressing and Beauty sector.
• Know about different types of career opportunities and training available in the Hairdressing and Beauty sector.
• Demonstrate and review an appropriate skill in the Hairdressing and Beauty sector.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the Health and Social Care sector.
• Know about different types of career opportunities and training available in Health and Social Care.
• Demonstrate and review an appropriate skill in Health and Social Care.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the Hospitality sector.
• Know about different types of career opportunities and training available in the Hospitality sector.
• Demonstrate and review an appropriate skill in the Hospitality sector.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand Land-Based Industries.
• Know about different types of career opportunities and training available in Land-Based Industries.
• Demonstrate and review an appropriate skill in Land-Based Industries.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the Retail sector.
• Know about different types of career opportunities and training available in the Retail sector.
• Demonstrate and review an appropriate skill in the Retail sector.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the Travel and Tourism industry.
• Know about different types of career opportunities and training available in the Travel and Tourism industry.
• Demonstrate and review an appropriate skill in the Travel and Tourism industry.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the Creative Industries.
• Know about different types of career opportunities and training available in the Creative Industries.
• Demonstrate and review an appropriate skill in the Creative Industries.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the Information and Communication Technology sector.
• Know about different types of career opportunities and training available in the Information and Communication Technology sector.
• Demonstrate and review an appropriate skill in the Information and Communication Technology sector.

What you'll be able to do

• Know about lathe tools.
• Care for lathe tools.
• Care for lathe tools.
• Use lathe tools to create engineering items.
• Work safely with lathe tools.
• Review own work.

What you'll be able to do

• Know why it is important to maintain moisture for crops and plants
• Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
• Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
• Select, use and maintain equipment
• Maintain moisture levels for crops and plants
• Work safely and minimise environmental damage

What you'll be able to do

• Create movement phrases.
• Warm up and cool down.
• Combine movement phrases.
• Dance with a partner or small group.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how to meet and welcome visitors.
• Meet and welcome visitors.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the nature of improvisation.
• Devise performance through the process of improvisation.
• Understand the functions of a given brief.
• Contribute to a group devised performance.
• Understand the value of evaluation.

What you'll be able to do

• Generate ideas for news article.
• Carry out research necessary to produce a piece of journalistic writing.
• Understand why articles must be subject to editing.
• Know how images can be sourced or produced to enhance a publication’s design.
• Write and lay out an article that includes both text and an image, taking the readership’s needs into account.
• Use Health and Safety procedures for self and general public.

What you'll be able to do

• Plan a presentation.
• Deliver a structured presentation to an audience.
• Review the presentation.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand, in visual, pictorial and technical terms, approaches to pictorial language.
• Know the value of sketchbook methodology for selecting, collecting and using information.
• Produce work, which shows choice of form and content.
• Understand Health & Safety procedures and safe studio practice.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand health and safety measures relating to physical theatre.
• Engage safely in physical theatre.
• Demonstrate movements for physical theatre.
• Choreograph simple physical performance sequences.
• Receive, respond to and give feedback on performance.
• Reflect on own performance.

What you'll be able to do

• Know conventions for personal presentation in the workplace.
• Demonstrate appropriate personal presentation for the workplace.

What you'll be able to do

• Use a camera and relevant accessories to create images.
• Frame the image.
• Select and transfer images from camera for printing.
• Know about relevant Health and Safety issues and procedures.

What you'll be able to do

• Prepare and use a tripod with a camera.
• Understand relevant Health and Safety issues and procedures.

What you'll be able to do

• Plan to meet targets.
• Follow a plan to meet targets and improve performance.
• Review own progress and achievements.

What you'll be able to do

• Know about tools and equipment used in plastering.
• Know about materials used in plastering.
• Mix plaster.
• Know about backgrounds that receive plaster.
• Understand how to prepare for plastering.
• Prepare for plastering.
• Know about floating techniques.
• Use floating techniques.
• Review own work.

What you'll be able to do

• Dismantle a wall
• Lay foundations
• Construct a wall

What you'll be able to do

• Input and combine text and other information within presentation slides.
• Use presentation software tools to structure, edit and format slide sequences.
• Prepare slideshow for presentation.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand why communication is important in adult social care settings.
• Understand how to meet the communication and language needs, wishes and preferences of an individual.
• Understand how to reduce barriers to communication.
• Understand confidentiality in adult social care settings.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the importance to the organisation in providing excellent customer service in the hospitality, leisure, travel and tourism industries.
• Understand the role of the individual in delivering customer service in the hospitality, leisure, travel and tourism industries.
• Understand the importance of customers’ needs and expectations in the hospitality, leisure, travel and tourism industries.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand what is required for good practice in adult social care roles.
• Understand how learning activities can develop knowledge, skills and understanding.
• Know how a personal development plan can contribute to own learning and development.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how to cook basic fish dishes.
• Understand how to finish basic fish dishes.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how to cook basic pasta dishes.
• Understand how to finish basic pasta dishes.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how to cook rice, pulse and grain dishes.
• Understand how to finish rice, pulse and grain dishes.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how to cook vegetable dishes.
• Understand how to finish vegetable dishes.

What you'll be able to do

• Recognise signs of abuse.
• Respond to suspected or alleged abuse.
• Understand the national and local context of safeguarding and protection from abuse.
• Understand ways to reduce the likelihood of abuse.
• Recognise and report unsafe practices.

What you'll be able to do

• Plan the production of craft work.
• Produce craft work.
• Evaluate the creative and craft making processes.

What you'll be able to do

• Know how nutrient requirements vary and their method of application
• Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
• Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
• Provide nutrients to plants or crops
• Work safely and minimise environmental damage
• Select use and maintain equipment

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the characteristics of effective leadership.
• Understand the skills required for effective leadership.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how stereotyping people can lead to prejudice and discrimination.
• Understand the impact of discriminatory behaviour on individuals and the workplace.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how recognising and respecting individual differences and diversity contributes to a positive environment in the workplace.
• Understand key responsibilities in relation to promoting equality in the workplace.
• Understand the importance of challenging discrimination at work.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the requirements of the workplace.
• Understand the importance of positive attitudes and behaviours at work.
• Understand the characteristics of effective work practice.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand why rights and responsibilities are important in the workplace.
• Understand how to access sources of support and guidance about rights and responsibilities in the workplace.

What you'll be able to do

• Know their personal responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work Act.
• Know why it is important to work in a safe and hygienic way.
• Know about hazards and safety in the workplace.

What you'll be able to do

• Select, use and maintain equipment for establishing interior plant displays
• Establish interior plant displays
• Work safely and minimise environmental damage
• Set up interior plant displays
• Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
• Know the relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice.

What you'll be able to do

• Plan to meet goals in the performing arts.
• Contribute to the setting of group and individual goals in the performing arts.
• Understand own and others’ responsibilities in achieving group goals in the performing arts.
• Plan group activities in the performing arts.
• Undertake group activities in the performing arts.
• Review own group’s performing arts activities.

What you'll be able to do

• Design a cushion cover.
• Make closures that can be used for cushion covers.
• Calculate measurements for interior cushion pads.
• Produce a cushion cover.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the types of problems that may occur in the workplace.
• Understand how problems can be solved.

What you'll be able to do

• Use a spreadsheet to enter, edit and organise numerical and other data.
• Select and use appropriate formulas and data analysis tools to meet requirements.
• Select and use tools and techniques to present and format spreadsheet information.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how roles and responsibilities can be allocated within a team.
• Understand how to contribute to a team discussion.
• Understand how to participate in a team activity.
• Review own contribution to the team.

What you'll be able to do

• Agree roles for individuals in a performing arts group.
• Understand how to communicate verbally when working with a performing arts group.
• Interact with group members during performing arts activities.
• Demonstrate listening and conversational skills for social interaction during performing arts activities.
• Accept the right of other people to communicate within a group situation during performance arts activities.
• Understand the importance of co-operation in group situations during performing arts activities.
• Accept and respond to prai

What you'll be able to do

• Document material to support textile design and production.
• Produce experimental samples of textile design.
• Understand different ways to solve problems with textiles.
• Understand Health and Safety issues.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the importance of welcoming tourists/visitors to a destination.
• Know the customers of a tourist/visitor destination.
• Know what is available at a tourist/visitor destination.
• Understand the role of a customer service representative at a tourist/visitor destination.

What you'll be able to do

• Know UK physical features relating to travel and tourism.
• Know gateways and main transport routes within the United Kingdom.
• Know established tourism destinations within the United Kingdom.
• Understand what attracts tourists to the United Kingdom.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the need for secure handling of information in social care settings.
• Access support for handling information in social care settings.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand working relationships in social care settings.
• Understand the importance of working in ways that are agreed with the employer.
• Understand the importance of working in partnership with others.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the different types and purpose of businesses.
• Understand the different types of business ownership.
• Understand organisational structures of different types of businesses.
• Understand the role of communication in business.

What you'll be able to do

• Know the structure of occupations within the leisure and tourism industry.
• Know the main employers in the industry.
• Understand trends, developments and issues in leisure and recreation in the UK.
• Understand the factors affecting people’s choice of leisure and recreation opportunities.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand that organisations need to respond to change and new directions.
• Understand the impacts of change in the workplace.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the principles and practices of crop rotation.
• Understand the factors involved in siting a vegetable production area.
• Understand how to grow a range of vegetables seeds.
• Understand key factors for growing tree fruit plants.
• Understand how to plant and maintain tree fruit plants.
• Understand how to grow a range of soft fruit plants.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand plant categories and their uses.
• Understand the importance of appropriate plant selection.
• Select plants to produce particular effects.
• Select plants for a specified location.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the purpose of work based learning and apprenticeships.
• Understand how work based learning and apprenticeship opportunities can benefit own learning and development.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the structure of the horticultural industry and the current status of organic methods.
• Understand the current legislative and regulatory framework in which organic horticulture operates.
• Know the advantages to the environment of organic horticultural methods.
• Understand how the principles of organic horticulture can be integrated into mainstream horticulture.
• Understand the economic underpinning of the organic approach.
• Understand the potential for growth of organic products and services within the horticulture industry.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the importance of organisational objectives and values.
• Understand the need for effective communication routes within an organisation.
• Recognise the way in which decisions are made in relation to organisational structure.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the effect of customer service on retail business
• Understand how retail businesses find out about customers’ needs and preferences
• Understand the importance to a retail business of customer service standards, policies and procedures
• Understand how customer complaints and problems are resolved in a retail business

What you'll be able to do

• Know the stages of children's learning and development.
• Understand the factors that influence children's learning.
• Recognise groups that may have particular difficulties affecting their learning and development.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand health and hygiene requirements for the development of young children’s physical needs.
• Understand commonly encountered illnesses and how to support children and families.
• Understand the importance of keeping health records and maintaining confidentiality.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the role of play in children's development.
• Understand the purpose of play activities for children at different levels of development.
• Know the importance of an overall curriculum plan in planning and presenting children's activities.
• Understand how stereotyping can affect children's participation in activities

What you'll be able to do

• Define the leisure industry.
• Understand the diverse needs of leisure users from different social groups.
• Be aware of the range of facilities offered by leisure providers.
• Understand the importance of leisure to the local and national economy.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the process of children's physical growth and development.
• Know the difference between gross and motor skills and how these can be developed through a range of activities and equipment.
• Understand how to promote children's physical development, regardless of gender, race, culture or disability.
• Understand the importance of maintaining a safe environment, whilst promoting children's physical development.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand what is meant by the term ‘tourism’.
• Understand the diverse needs of different social groups in relation to the leisure opportunities offered by the tourism industry.
• Understand the impact and importance of tourism development to the local, national and global economy.
• Know the range of leisure opportunities offered by organisations within the tourism industry.

What you'll be able to do

• Know the nutritional value of common food and drink.
• Know why attractive presentation of food and drink is important.
• Understand health and safety requirements and legislation in relation to food preparation and storage.
• Understand the importance of introducing children to cultural and religious variations in types of food, preparation, utensils and eating habits.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand regulatory frameworks relevant to the travel industry.
• Understand the scale of operations of tour operators.
• Understand the role of a resort representative.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the five steps of the selling model
• Understand how questions are used to identify customers’ needs
• Understand the benefits and uses of product knowledge
• Understand how sales are closed

What you'll be able to do

• Use e-mail software tools and techniques to compose and send messages.
• Manage incoming e-mail effectively.

What you'll be able to do

• Set up and customise the mobile device to meet needs.
• Select and use applications and files on the mobile device.
• Use tools and techniques to transfer data to and from mobile devices.
• Optimise the performance of mobile devices.

What you'll be able to do

• Use manual woodworking tools.
• Maintain manual and electrical tools.
• Use electrical tools in woodwork.
• Store woodworking tools.

What you'll be able to do

• Select equipment and materials for wallpapering.
• Plan and prepare for the wallpapering task.
• Wallpaper.
• Maintain tools and the working area.

What you'll be able to do

• Welcome and receive visitors
• Care for visitors
• Welcome and receive visitors
• Care for visitors
• Know the relevant health and safety procedures

What you'll be able to do

• Know about welding process.
• Care for welding tools.
• Care for welding tools.
• Create engineering items be welding.
• Work safely with welding tools.
• Review own work.

What you'll be able to do

• Plan their work experience.
• Work effectively in their role.
• Review their work experience placement.

What you'll be able to do

• Work in ways which respect other people in the workplace.
• Maintain security and confidentiality at work and deal with concerns.
• Support sustainability and minimise waste in an organisation.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how to work as part of a team to achieve goals and objectives.
• Understand how to communicate as part of a team.
• Understand the contribution of individuals within a team.
• Understand how to deal with problems and disagreements.
• Understand the purpose of feedback when working as a team.

What you'll be able to do

• Know different types of organisations in the craft industry.
• Know job roles in the craft industry.
• Know the skills and training required for jobs in craft.
• Know about progression opportunities in the craft industry.
• Know own skills and qualities relevant to craft job roles.
• Prepare a C.V. for a specific job role in the craft industry.

What you'll be able to do

• Know health and safety rules relating to an engineering environment.
• Work safely at all times in an engineering environment.
• Produce engineering drawings.
• Know a range of engineering materials.
• Know about Kaizen and Lean manufacturing business practices.
• Find and repair faults in electrical systems.
• Conduct quality control checks.
• Assess own work.

What you'll be able to do

• Know different types of organisations in the performing arts industry.
• Know job roles in the performing arts industry.
• Know the skills and training required for jobs in performing arts.
• Know progression opportunities in performing arts.
• Know own skills and qualities relevant to performing arts job roles.
• Prepare a C.V. for a specific job role in the performing arts industry.