Open College Network Northern Ireland · RQF Level 3
OCN NI Level 3 Certificate in Outreach and Detached Youth Work (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits24
- Guided learning160 hours
- Units in this qualification11
Awarded by Open College Network Northern Ireland · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Open College Network Northern Ireland 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.
Community Mapping for Youth WorkReal unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the rationale for community mapping in youth work.
- Understand how to identify community assets.
- Understand the community mapping process.
- Understand how to use community mapping for the strategic development of youth work in own area.
Facilitating Issue-Based Group WorkReal unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and practices of issue-based group work theory.
- Understand the purpose and impact of issue-based group work.
- Use different facilitation styles to promote learning in an issue-based group work situation.
- Understand the preparation and process required to co-facilitate issue-based group work.
- Create a climate conducive to learning.
- Understand conflict in issue-based group work.
- Understand how to monitor and evaluate an issue-based group work programme.
Facilitating Youth Residentials, Trips and Exchange ProgrammesReal unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the benefits for young people of residentials, trips and exchange programmes.
- Be aware of the legislative and policy requirements for residentials, trips and exchange programmes.
- Understand the planning stages of a residential, trip or exchange programme.
- Understand the roles and responsibilities of all staff and volunteers involved in the residential, trip or exchange programme.
- Understand the safeguarding requirements for a residential, trip or exchange programme.
- Understand the need to work collabouratively during a residential, trip or exchange programme.
- Understand how to
Feminist Theories and their Impact on Young Women in Youth WorkReal unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how society influences and affects the development of gender roles.
- Understand the impact of sexism on females in society.
- Understand how to address and challenge sexism.
- Understand how feminism and the Women’s Movement has impacted on females in today’s society.
- Understand the implications of an equal opportunity policy on own youth work practice.
- Understand how the development of the Youth Service has supported young females.
Outreach and Detached Youth WorkReal unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the rationale and nature of outreach and detached youth work.
- Plan and prepare for outreach and detached youth work.
- Manage self and others in outreach and detached youth work.
- Understand the needs of young people and how to engage with them.
- Develop and use recording, monitoring and evaluation tools for outreach and detached youth work.
Promoting Partnership Working in Youth WorkReal unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the rationale and benefits of partnership working.
- Understand the mechanisms that underpin effective partnership working.
- Understand the need to monitor and review partnership arrangements.
Understand how to Promote Young People’s RightsReal unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legislative, policy and philosophical frameworks that underpin the rights of young people.
- Understand how to assess the effectiveness of own work to address the rights of young people.
- Understand how to assess the effectiveness of own organisation to address the rights of young people.
- Create a climate conducive to the expression of young people’s ideas, views and opinions.
- Understand how to advocate on behalf of young people.
- Understand how to evaluate a rights-based youth work programme.
Understand how to develop a Youth ForumReal unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role, purpose and functions of a youth forum.
- Understand the processes and support involved in building and sustaining a youth forum.
- Understand the meaning of participation and empowerment within a youth forum.
- Understand the role of governance within a youth forum.
Understanding Fundraising for Youth WorkReal unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Develop a strategy for fundraising in youth work.
- Develop a business case for fundraising projects.
- Apply for funding from a range of funders in order to meet their requirements.
- Understand the importance of public and private relations in securing funding.
- Understand how to manage funds in accordance with legal and funder requirements.
- Understand how to plan a fundraising event in local community.
Understanding Outcomes-Based Youth WorkReal unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of outcomes-based youth work.
- Know the difference between aims, objectives, outputs and outcomes.
- Understand the importance of identifying outcomes for youth work.
- Develop an outcomes-based youth work programme.
- Communicate effectively the outcomes of a programme to key stakeholders.
Youth Work with Young WomenReal unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the needs and issues of young women within communities.
- Understand the key principles of working with young women.
- Understand the barriers to young women's participation in youth service/community structures.
- Understand issues when developing work with single gender groups.
- Facilitate a group session with young women.
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
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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.
- Advocate with and on behalf of young people so that their interests are represented
- Assist young people to recognise, realise and defend their rights
- Promote partnership working
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 own work
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for OCN NI Level 3 Certificate in Outreach and Detached Youth Work (QCF)
11 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Open College Network Northern Ireland.
- Community Mapping for Youth Work
- Facilitating Issue-Based Group Work
- Facilitating Youth Residentials, Trips and Exchange Programmes
- Feminist Theories and their Impact on Young Women in Youth Work
- Outreach and Detached Youth Work
- Promoting Partnership Working in Youth Work
and 5 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.
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