GQA Qualifications Limited · RQF Level 3
GQA PAA\VQ-SET Level 3 Certificate in Learning and Development
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits30
- Guided learning120 hours
- Units in this qualification15
Awarded by GQA Qualifications Limited · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
This qualification develops knowledge and skills for those providing direct learning support. It covers principles and practices of assessment, resource development, and reflective practice. Furthermore, it is suitable for individuals seeking to evaluate and improve learning and development provision within an employing organisation.
These are the units GQA Qualifications Limited 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.
Assess occupational competence in the work environmentReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Plan the assessment of occupational competence.
- Make assessment decisions about occupational competence.
- Provide required information following the assessment of occupational competence.
- Maintain legal and good practice requirements when assessing occupational competence.
Assess vocational skills, knowledge and understandingReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare assessments of vocational skills, knowledge and understanding.
- Carry out assessments of vocational skills, knowledge and understanding.
- Provide required information following the assessment of vocational skills, knowledge and understanding.
- Maintain legal and good practice requirements when assessing vocational skills, knowledge and understanding.
Develop and prepare resources for learning and developmentReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles that underpin the development and preparation of resources for learning and development.
- Develop resources to meet identified learning and development needs, taking into account different learning styles and preferences.
Engage learners in the learning and development processReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and purpose of engaging learners in learning and development activities
- Understand the role of mentoring in facilitating learning and development
- Assist and engage the learner effectively in the learning and development process
- Assist the learner in reviewing their own progress and identifying areas for improvement
Engage with employers to develop and support learning provisionReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand information relating to how employers develop provision for learners.
- Understand how to engage with employers for the benefit of learners.
- Engage with employers for the benefit of learners.
- Evaluate the effect of employer provision on the learner and partner organisation.
Evaluate and improve learning and development provisionReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the different contexts for evaluation and quality improvement of learning and development provision.
- Understand the methods and processes involved in the evaluation of learning and development activities and programmes.
- Evaluate learning and development provision in accordance with organisational requirements and quality standards.
- Improve learning and development provision, ensuring that regulatory and organisational requirements are consistently met.
Facilitate learning and development for individualsReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and practices of one-to-one learning and development
- Facilitate one-to-one learning and development effectively
- Assist individual learners in applying new knowledge and skills in practical contexts
- Assist individual learners in reflecting on their learning and/or development
Facilitate learning and development in groupsReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and practices of learning and development in groups.
- Facilitate learning and development in groups.
- Assist groups to apply new knowledge and skills in practical contexts.
- Assist learners to reflect on their learning and development undertaken in groups.
Identify individual learning and development needsReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and practices of learning needs analysis for individuals
- Conduct a thorough learning needs analysis for individuals
- Agree individual learning and development needs with relevant parties
Plan and prepare specific learning and development opportunitiesReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Plan learning and development opportunities that are appropriate for the learner
- Prepare specific learning and development opportunities to meet identified learner needs
Provide information and advice to learners and employersReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand information and advice available for learners and employers regarding learning and development
- Understand own boundaries and limitations in relation to providing information and advice to learners and employers
- Provide appropriate information and advice to learners and employers
- Assist learners and employers to access relevant information and advice
Reflect on and improve own practice in learning and developmentReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand different approaches to reflective practice and the processes associated with continuing professional development.
- Reflect on own performance as a learning and development practitioner, identifying strengths and areas for improvement.
- Improve own learning and development practice through planned professional development activities and reflective practice.
Understand the principles and practices of learning and developmentReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and context of learning and development within organisations.
- Understand the stages of the learning and development cycle, from needs analysis to evaluation.
- Understand the diverse needs of learners in relation to learning and development, including different learning styles and accessibility requirements.
- Understand the roles and responsibilities of the learning and development practitioner in supporting learners and delivering effective training.
- Understand the relevant legislative and organisational requirements in relation to learning and development, including data protection, equality and diversity, and health and safety.
Understanding the Employing OrganisationReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the structure of their employing organisation, including its different departments and functions.
- Understand the key aims and objectives of their organisation and how these are achieved.
- Understand their own contribution to their organisation’s key aims and objectives and how their role supports the organisation's success.
- Understand the opportunities for entry, professional development and progression within their organisation, including available training and career pathways.
Understanding the principles and practices of assessmentReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and requirements of assessment.
- Understand different types of assessment method.
- Understand how to plan assessment.
- Understand how to involve learners and others in assessment.
- Understand how to make assessment decisions.
- Understand quality assurance of the assessment process.
- Understand how to manage information relating to assessment.
- Understand the legal and good practice requirements in relation to assessment.
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.
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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
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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
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 as a reflective supported employment practitioner
- Develop yourself as a reflective supported employment practitioner
- Engage and involve the learner in learning
- Engage and support learners in the learning and development process
- Engage in the strategic development of adult learning
- Evaluate and improve family learning provision
- Evaluate and improve learning and development provision
- Identify Individual Learning and Development
Where this can lead
Learning Management Specialist
Your journey starts here, but where you go next is really up to you. We're committed to providing the opportunities and support for you to build a truly impactful career in learning and knowledge management. If you're keen to learn, grow, and make a real difference, we'd love to hear from you.
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
Learners will develop skills to plan and conduct assessments of occupational competence in work environments. The unit covers assessment planning, evidence evaluation, decision-making, reporting, and adherence to legal and good practice requirements.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for GQA PAA\VQ-SET Level 3 Certificate in Learning and Development
15 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by GQA Qualifications Limited.
- Assess occupational competence in the work environment
- Assess vocational skills, knowledge and understanding
- Develop and prepare resources for learning and development
- Engage learners in the learning and development process
- Engage with employers to develop and support learning provision
- Evaluate and improve learning and development provision
and 9 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.