How you’d get it

How you’d get this certificate

  1. Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
  2. You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer iCan Qualifications Limited has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
  3. The centre assesses, and iCan Qualifications Limited awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from iCan Qualifications Limited.

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01What it is

This qualification is designed for practitioners in the learning and development sector, enabling them to develop the skills necessary to plan, prepare, and deliver effective learning and development.

These are the units iCan 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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.

Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with iCan Qualifications Limited. It does the teaching and the mapping. iCan Qualifications Limited sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.

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02The units

What each unit actually teaches you to do

Assess occupational competence in the work environment Real unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
This unit equips learners with the skills to assess occupational competence effectively.

What you'll be able to do

  • Plan the assessment of occupational competence
Assess vocational skills, knowledge and understanding Real unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
This unit focuses on assessing vocational skills, knowledge, and understanding in various environments.

What you'll be able to do

  • Prepare assessments of vocational skills, knowledge and understanding
Develop and prepare resources for learning and development Real unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
This unit covers the development and preparation of resources to aid learning and development.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand principles underpinning development and preparation of resources for learning and development
Engage learners in the learning and development process Real unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
This unit captures strategies for engaging learners effectively in their learning process.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand principles and purpose of engaging learners in learning and development
Engage with employers to develop and support learning provision Real unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
This unit focuses on engaging with employers to create learning opportunities for learners.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand information relating to employers developing provision for learners
Evaluate and improve learning and development provision Real unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
This unit focuses on evaluating and improving existing learning and development programs.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand contexts for evaluation and quality improvement of learning and development
Facilitate learning and development for individuals Real unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
This unit addresses methods for facilitating individual learning plans and needs.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand principles and practices of one to one learning and development
  • Facilitate one to one learning and development
Facilitate learning and development in groups Real unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
This unit focuses on the methods of facilitating effective learning sessions for groups.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand principles and practices of learning and development in groups
  • Facilitate learning and development in groups
Identify individual learning and development needs Real unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
It teaches you to assess and identify individual learning needs.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the principles and practices of learning needs analysis for individuals
Plan and prepare specific learning and development opportunities Real unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
This unit covers the planning and preparation of specific learning and development opportunities.

What you'll be able to do

  • Plan learning and development opportunities
Provide information and advice to learners and employers Real unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
This unit provides guidance on how to effectively inform and advise learners and employers.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand information and advice available for learners and employers
Reflect on and improve own practice in learning and development Real unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
This unit covers the evaluation and improvement of one's own practice in the context of learning and development.

What you'll be able to do

  • Evaluate approaches to reflective practice
  • Reflect on own performance as a learning and development practitioner
  • Improve own learning and development practice
Understand the principles and practices of learning and development Real unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
This unit provides learners with insight into the principles and practices related to effective learning and development.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the purpose and context of learning and development
  • Understand the learning and development cycle
  • Understand the needs of learners in relation to learning and development
  • Understand the roles and responsibilities of the learning and development practitioner
  • Understand legislative and organisational requirements in relation to learning and development
Understanding the Employing Organisation Real unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
This unit outlines understanding of the employing organisation.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the structure of their organisation
Understanding the principles and practices of assessment Real unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
This unit explores the foundational principles surrounding assessment practices.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the principles and requirements of assessment
03The standards

The national standards these units are built against

What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.

  • Engage and involve the learner in learning

    Standard
  • Reflect on, develop and maintain own skills and practice in learning and development

    Standard
04The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by iCan Qualifications Limited rather than by Zavmo. 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 have covered and what is next.

What you would be collecting

Assess occupational competence in the work environmentAssess vocational skills, knowledge and understandingDevelop and prepare resources for learning and developmentEngage learners in the learning and development processEngage with employers to develop and support learning provisionEvaluate and improve learning and development provisionFacilitate learning and development for individualsFacilitate learning and development in groups

Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.

How you’d practise it

You don’t watch this. You do it.

You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.

The Navigator The Navigator · your what-if tutor Illustration
The Navigator Your plan for “Plan and prepare specific learning and development opportunities” assumes the same two people are free in March. What have you seen that makes you slightly uneasy about that?
You One of them has been pulled onto the migration twice already. Probably fine.
The Navigator That is the thread worth pulling. Let us build the version where it happens a third time and find the move that works either way.
The same lesson on the real thing: the conversation in the middle, the thinking ladder on the left, and the criteria each answer is evidencing on the right.
  • Bring your own plan Create

    For “Plan and prepare specific learning and development opportunities” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.

  • Map a live decision Analyse

    “Evaluate and improve learning and development provision” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.

How you would learn this

One to one, on the work you already do

A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.

A lesson from Assess occupational competence in the work environment, one of this qualification's own units.

Assess occupational competence in the work environment Level 3

Applied to your own work

This unit equips learners with the skills to assess occupational competence effectively.

How the thinking builds
  1. 1 Remember
  2. 2 Understand
  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 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.

It is £70 a month, billed monthly. Your free first module is Future Fluency, and you can cancel any time. Teaching towards this qualification begins when you subscribe.

Your Plan Illustration

Built for iCQ Level 3 Certificate in Learning and Development (RQF)

15 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by iCan Qualifications Limited.

  1. Assess occupational competence in the work environment
  2. Assess vocational skills, knowledge and understanding
  3. Develop and prepare resources for learning and development
  4. Engage learners in the learning and development process
  5. Engage with employers to develop and support learning provision
  6. Evaluate and improve learning and development provision

and 9 more in the full unit list below.

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.

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The title, level, credits, guided learning hours and unit learning outcomes on this page are taken from the Ofqual Register of Regulated Qualifications. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Where this data comes from.