How you’d get this certificate
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- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer NCFE has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and NCFE awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from NCFE.
These are the units NCFE 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 NCFE. It does the teaching and the mapping. NCFE sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Allocate and monitor the progress and quality of work in own area of responsibility Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Plan work for colleagues
- Brief colleagues on planned work
- Monitor colleagues’ work
- Support colleagues in their work
- Understand own sector context for allocating and monitoring work in own area of responsibility
- Understand own organisational context for allocating and monitoring work in own area of responsibility
- Understand how to plan work for colleagues
- Understand how to brief colleagues on planned work
- Understand how to monitor work carried out by colleagues
- Understand how to support colleagues in their work
Applying a reflective approach to improve professional development Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand a range of reflective learning theories and techniques
- Reflect on own learning to inform professional development
Appraise staff performance Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand policies, theories and models which underpin appraisal of performance.
- Support others to understand the purpose of appraisal.
- Facilitate preparation for appraisals.
- Support appraise to participate in appraisal meetings.
- Evaluate own practice during the appraisal process.
Champion equality, diversity and inclusion Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand diversity, equality and inclusion in own area of responsibility
- Champion diversity, equality and inclusion
- Understand how to develop systems and processes that promote diversity, equality and inclusion
- Manage the risks presented when balancing individual rights and professional duty of care
Develop and implement procedures to safeguard children and young people Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to maintain procedures to safeguard children and young people
- Maintain procedures to safeguard children and young people
- Understand how to implement procedures to safeguard children and young people
- Implement procedures to safeguard children and young people
Develop, manage and review operational plans for play provision Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Develop operational plans for play provision
- Manage change in play provision
- Implement organisational values, policies and procedures
- Review operational plans for play provision
Engage in personal development in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settings Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand what is required for competence in own work role
- Reflect on practice
- Evaluate own performance
- Agree a personal development plan
- Use learning opportunities and reflective practice to contribute to personal development
Engage with parents, carers and families in a play environment Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Develop relationships with parents, carers and families
- Communicate with parents, carers and families
- Support effective parenting as a playworker
- Understand how to develop relationships with parents, carers and families
- Understand how to communicate with parents, carers and families
- Understand how to support effective parenting as a playworker
Establish and develop working relationships to support children and young people’s play Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Build working relationships with colleagues
- Build working relationships with other professionals
- Enable colleagues to reflect on playwork practice
- Share knowledge with colleagues on playwork practice
Manage finance in own area of responsibility Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the sector context for managing finance
- Understand the organisational context for managing finance
- Establish financial responsibilities
- Understand how to establish budgetary systems
- Establish a master budget for own area
- Understand how to control budgets
- Control finance in own area
- Understand how to improve financial performance in own area
- Improve financial performance in own area
Obtain additional finance for the organisation Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the sectoral context for raising additional finance
- Understand the organisational context for raising additional finance
- Evaluate alternative sources of finance
- Understand the need for additional finance
- Understand how to apply for additional finance
- Apply for additional finance
- Understand how to reach agreements on additional finance
- Reach agreements on additional finance
Provide information to support decision making Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to obtain information for decision making
- Obtain information for decision making
- Understand how to record and store information
- Record and store information
- Understand the analytical skills involved in managing information
- Understand how to use information to make decisions
- Analyse information to support decision making
- Understand the communications skills required when managing information
- Understand how to advise and inform others
- Advise and inform others
Provide leadership in own area of responsibility Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the sector context for leadership
- Understand own personal context for leadership
- Establish the conditions for effective leadership in own area of responsibility
- Understand how to lead other people
- Lead people in own area of responsibility
- Understand how to empower other people through leadership
- Empower other people through effective leadership
Provide learning opportunities for colleagues Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Encourage learning and development
- Help colleagues identify their learning needs and styles
- Help colleagues to plan and implement learning and development
- Help colleagues to implement learning opportunities
- Help colleagues to review and update learning and development plans
- Understand how to encourage learning and development
- Understand how to help colleagues identify their learning needs and styles
- Understand how to help colleagues to plan learning and development
- Understand how to help colleagues to implement learning and develop
Recruit, select and keep colleagues Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Identify recruitment and selection needs
- Plan a recruitment and selection process
- Contribute to a recruitment and selection of people for identified vacancies
- Contribute to the retention of colleagues
- Understand own sector context for recruitment, selection and retention
- Understand own organisational context for recruitment, selection and retention
- Understand how to identify recruitment and selection needs
- Understand how to plan recruitment and selection processes
- Understand how to contribute to the recruitment and selection of people for ide
Research, design and facilitate possibilities for children and young people’s self-directed play Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate play behaviour and play theories
- Design spaces and possibilities for self-directed play
- Interact with children and young people during self-directed play
- Help children and young people to manage risk during play
Support others in accessing the resources they need to provide play environments Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to identify playwork needs and resources
- Identify the playwork needs and resources of other organisations and individuals
- Understand how to help organisations and individuals to share information on needs and resources
- Help organisations and individuals to share information on needs and resources
- Understand how to co-ordinate the provision of playwork resources
- Co-ordinate the provision of playwork resources
Understand how to develop, manage and review operational plans for play provision Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to develop operational plans for play provision
- Understand how to manage operational change in playwork provision
- Understand how to implement organisational values, policies and procedures within the operational plan
- Understand how to review operational plans for play provision
Understand how to establish and develop working relationships to support children and young people’s play Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to establish and develop working relationships with colleagues in a playwork context
- Understand how to establish and develop working relationships with other professionals in a playwork context
- Understand how to facilitate reflective practice and the sharing of knowledge in a playwork context
- Understand legal and good practice requirements in relation to the sharing of information
Understand how to research, design and facilitate possibilities for children and young people’s self-directed play Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to evaluate play behaviour and play theories
- Understand how to design spaces and possibilities for self-directed play
- Understand how to interact with children and young people during self-directed play
- Understand how to help children and young people to manage risk during play
Understand how to work with colleagues and other key partners to develop an organisational framework for children and young people’s play Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of an organisational framework for children and young people’s play provision
- Understand how to research the social, economic, political, legal and ethical context in which a playwork organisation operates
- Understand how to research aspects of playwork practice relevant to an organisation’s provision
- Understand how to work with colleagues, children, young people and other key partners to develop playwork policy and practice
Understand the principles and theories underpinning playwork provision Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role and value of play to children and young people
- Understand the theories that underpin effective playwork provision
- Understand the role of the playwork organisation in supporting children and young people’s play
Work with colleagues and other partners to develop an organisational framework for play Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Research the social, economic, political and ethical context for play provision
- Analyse the value and importance of play provision for children and young people to inform the development of an organisational framework for play
- Consult on research findings with colleagues and key partners
- Develop playwork policy and practice
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.
- Standard
Allocate and monitor the progress and quality of work in your area of responsibility
- Standard
Create playwork settings that support freely chosen self-directed play
- Standard
Develop an organisational framework for playwork that reflects the needs and protects the rights of children and young people
- Standard
Implement contemporary frameworks within the context of playwork
- Standard
Make decisions in the playwork setting
- Standard
Manage finance for your area of responsibility
- Standard
Manage finance for your area of responsibility
- Standard
Manage operational plans for play provision
- Standard
Organise and support open access play opportunities in public spaces
- Standard
Provide Learning Opportunities for Colleagues
- Standard
Provide leadership to your team
- Standard
Provide learning opportunities for colleagues
- Standard
Research, design and facilitate possibilities for self-directed play
- Standard
Support others in accessing the resources they need to provide playwork settings
- Standard
Work with others external to your playwork setting
The credits, and who awards them
Level 5 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by NCFE 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
Allocate and monitor the progress and quality of work in own area of responsibilityApplying a reflective approach to improve professional developmentAppraise staff performanceChampion equality, diversity and inclusionDevelop and implement procedures to safeguard children and young peopleDevelop, manage and review operational plans for play provisionEngage in personal development in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settingsEngage with parents, carers and families in a play environment
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 Coach · your practice partner Illustration - Rehearse the conversation Apply
“Develop and implement procedures to safeguard children and young people” is a conversation before it is a document. You have it with Zavmo playing the other person, badly at first, then again once you know what you actually want to say.
- Bring your own plan Create
For “Develop, manage and review operational plans for play provision” 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.
- Draft the real one Create
You do “Manage finance in own area of responsibility” on a real document of your own. Zavmo works on the draft you have to send anyway, so the coursework and the job are the same piece of work.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Allocate and monitor the progress and quality of work in own area of responsibility” 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.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
- Allocate and monitor the progress and quality of work in your area of responsibility
- Create playwork settings that support freely chosen self-directed play
- Develop an organisational framework for playwork that reflects the needs and protects the rights of children and young people
- Implement contemporary frameworks within the context of playwork
- Make decisions in the playwork setting
- Manage finance for your area of responsibility
- Manage operational plans for play provision
- Organise and support open access play opportunities in public spaces
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 Allocate and monitor the progress and quality of work in own area of responsibility, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your own work
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for NCFE CACHE Level 5 Diploma in Advanced Playwork (Wales)
23 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by NCFE.
- Allocate and monitor the progress and quality of work in own area of responsibility
- Applying a reflective approach to improve professional development
- Appraise staff performance
- Champion equality, diversity and inclusion
- Develop and implement procedures to safeguard children and young people
- Develop, manage and review operational plans for play provision
and 17 more in the full unit list below.
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