SFJ Awards · RQF Level 3
SFJ Awards Level 3 Diploma in Youth Justice Services
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits37
- Guided learning205 hours
- Units in this qualification13
Awarded by SFJ Awards · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units SFJ Awards 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 the challenging behaviour of individualsReal unit · SFJ Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand organisational policies and procedures.
- Understand the legislation regarding physical restraint techniques.
- Understand the principles of challenging behaviour.
- Understand factors to consider when dealing with instances of challenging behaviour.
- Understand support available when dealing with challenging behaviour.
- Negotiate goals with individuals in order to change behaviour.
- Manage challenging behaviour.
- Maintain accurate records
Assess individuals for the principal types and levels of risk associated with their problematic behaviourReal unit · SFJ Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand guidelines relevant to risk- led assessments
- Understand the information required to make an assessment on individuals
- Understand approaches taken to assess risk on individuals
- Understand sources of information gathered to make assessment on individuals
- Understand key factors affecting the risk of individuals offending or reoffending
- Communicate with individuals
- Gather information from a variety of sources to assess individuals
- Assess the circumstances of individuals
- Assess the likelihood of individuals offending or reoffending
- Be
Assist in developing intervention plans for those at risk of offendingReal unit · SFJ Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand legislation and organisational guidelines.
- Understand intervention strategies used within organisation.
- Understand the role of organisation and its services.
- Understand the procedures for managing individuals in the community.
- Understand the principles of restorative practice.
- Understand how different factors affect the development of individuals.
- Understand the impact of crime on victims and survivors.
- Gather information for intervention plans.
- Assess individuals for intervention plans.
- Work with others to develop intervention plans for individual
Communicate effectively with people whilst maintaining the security of informationReal unit · SFJ Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to communicate with people.
- Understand how to maintain the security of information in communications with people.
- Communicate with people
Contribute to the effectiveness of team workingReal unit · SFJ Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles that underpin effective team working
- Contribute to effective team working
- Contribute to the development of team working
Maintain personal security and safety, and be alert to the security of othersReal unit · SFJ Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the requirements for maintaining personal safety and security and being alert to the security of others.
- Manage personal security and safety.
- Contribute to maintaining the security of colleagues and premises
Model pro-social behaviour when working with individualsReal unit · SFJ Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand legislation and guidelines in line with organisational practice.
- Understand the role of their organisation and services.
- Understand how different factors can impact upon relationships with other individuals.
- Understand factors that can have an effect on communication and behaviour.
- Understand how crime impacts individuals.
- Familiarise self with information about individuals.
- Establish expectations of relationships with individuals.
- Communicate appropriately with individuals.
- Challenge attitudes and behaviours of individuals.
- Wor
Plan, promote and support children and young people’s participation when they are in contact with the justice and community safety sectorReal unit · SFJ Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legal basis for children and young people’s right to participation.
- Understand how different factors can affect children and young people’s ability to participate.
- Understand how to support children and young people to participate.
- Understand why it is necessary to evaluate the participation process.
- Plan participation processes with children and young people who have contact with the justice and community safety sector.
- Work with children and young people throughout participation processes.
- Promote participation in policy and practice.
- Be able t
Promote equality and value diversityReal unit · SFJ Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key features of a culture which promotes equality and values diversity.
- Understand the importance of promoting equality and valuing diversity for effective work in the sector.
- Demonstrate behaviour appropriate to the promotion of equality and valuing of diversity.
- Support others in the promotion of equality and valuing of diversity
Provide support through mentoring and befriendingReal unit · SFJ Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legal and organisational requirements for the provision of support through mentoring and befriending.
- Understand the processes of providing support through mentoring and befriending.
- Provide mentoring and befriending support
Support and encourage individuals in addressing their problematic behaviourReal unit · SFJ Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how factors can influence the behaviour of individuals.
- Understand legislation, organisational polices and practice to address problematic behaviour.
- Understand how to support individuals to come to terms with their actions.
- Communicate effectively with individuals.
- Help individuals address their problematic behaviour.
- Support individuals to understand the impact their behaviour has on others.
- Support individuals to understand the benefits of positive behaviour.
- Support individuals to develop realistic action plans for change,
Understand How to Safeguard the Wellbeing of Children and Young People.Real unit · SFJ Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the main legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people.
- Understand the importance of working in partnership with other organisations to safeguard children and young people.
- Understand the importance of ensuring children and young people’s safety and protection in the work setting.
- Understand how to respond to evidence or concerns that a child or young person has been abused or harmed.
- Understand how to respond to evidence or concerns that a child or young person has been bullied.
- Understand how to work with children and young people
Work with families and carers towards addressing individuals’ problematic behaviourReal unit · SFJ Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand legislation and guidelines in line with organisational practice.
- Understand the role of their organisation and services.
- Understand the nature of relationships between families, carers and individuals.
- Understand how different factors can affect development of individuals.
- Prepare for meetings with individuals, families and carers.
- Meet with families and carers to establish expectations of relationships.
- Communicate with families and carers.
- Support families and carers towards achieving their goals.
- Review progress with families
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.
- Assess Risk of Harm and the Need for Intervention
- Assess individuals’ needs and circumstances and evaluate the risk of abuse, failure to protect and harm to self and others
- Assess offenders for risk factors and levels of risk associated with their behaviour
- Assess risks associated with health conditions
- Assess the genetic risk associated with a condition
- Assess the need for intervention and present assessments of individuals’ needs and related risks
- Assess the risk of harm to individuals
- Assess the risk to the safety and security of offenders
Where this can lead
Risk Assessor
Your journey here as a Risk Assessor is just the beginning. We're committed to helping you build a robust career, whether that's becoming a leader of people or a recognised expert in a complex technical field. We'll provide the opportunities and support; your drive and curiosity will do the rest. It's a challenging but incredibly rewarding path, protecting the very foundations of our business.
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 SFJ Awards Level 3 Diploma in Youth Justice Services
13 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by SFJ Awards.
- Address the challenging behaviour of individuals
- Assess individuals for the principal types and levels of risk associated with their problematic behaviour
- Assist in developing intervention plans for those at risk of offending
- Communicate effectively with people whilst maintaining the security of information
- Contribute to the effectiveness of team working
- Maintain personal security and safety, and be alert to the security of others
and 7 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.