King's Trust · RQF Level 3
King's Trust Level 3 Certificate In Working with Young People
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits150
- Guided learning138 hours
- Units in this qualification22
Awarded by King's Trust · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units King's Trust 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.
Coaching and/or Mentoring young peopleReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Understand what is involved in mentoring young people
- Understand the mentoring process
- Implement the mentoring process with young people
- Review own mentoring practice
Develop effective relationships with young peopleReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to develop effective relationships with young people
- Communicate effectively with young people
- Understand how to work and share information with other staff and organisations
Facilitate learning and development for young peopleReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Understand principles and practices underpinning effective learning and development for young people
- Facilitate learning and development for young people
- Assist young people to apply new knowledge and skills in practical contexts
- Assist young people to reflect on their own learning and development
Manage and deliver an outdoor development programme for young peopleReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Design an outdoor development programme for young people
- Deliver an outdoor development session to young people
- Conclude and evaluate own delivery of an outdoor development session to young people
- Evaluate own management of the delivery of an outdoor development programme for young people
Principles and PracticesReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the values and policies related to working with young people
- Understand the issues that impact on the lives of young people
- Understand how to develop effective communication and appropriate relationships with young people
- Understand the importance of promoting equality, diversity and inclusion.
Provide information, advice and guidance to young peopleReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the distinction between information, advice and guidance
- Recognise the limits of own ability and role in relation to giving information, advice or guidance to young people
- Determine the information, advice and guidance needs of young people
- Provide young people with information, advice and guidance to meet identified needs
Reflective PracticeReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Reflect on own professional development in relation to working with young people
- Review the effectiveness of own practice in relation to working with young people
- Keep up to date with policies and developments relevant to working with young people.
SafeguardingReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Understand legal, professional and organisational requirements for safeguarding
- Understand how to maintain confidentiality of information
- Maintain the safety and security of young people in own work setting
- Understand the importance of e-safety.
Support young people to apply for learning and workReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the issues young people may have when applying for learning and work
- Understand application methods for learning and work
- Support young people to make applications for learning and work
Support young people to develop their literacy, language and numeracy skillsReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the benefits of improving young peoples’ litreacy, language and numeracy skills
- Understand how to support young people to develop their litreacy, language and numeracy skills
- Understand how to use strategies and resources to support litreacy, language and numeracy skills development
Support young people to start a businessReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Understand key considerations for starting a business
- Support young people to start a business
Working with young people involved in anti-social and/or criminal activitiesReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the issues contributing to the anti-social and criminal activities of young people
- Understand how to support young people who are involved in anti-social and/or criminal activities
Working with young people involved in substance misuseReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the indicators and effects of substance misuse in young people
- Understand how to support young people who are involved in substance misuse
Working with young people who are homeless or at risk of homelessnessReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the issues affecting young people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness
- Understand how to support young people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness
Working with young people who are in debtReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the issues affecting young people who are in debt
- Understand how to support young people who are in debt
Working with young people who display challenging behaviourReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Understand roles and responsibilities relating to the management of challenging behaviour
- Know the potential causes and effects of challenging behaviour in young people
- Understand what to consider when dealing with instances of challenging behaviour in young people
Working with young people who have been excluded from schoolReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the issues affecting young people who have been excluded from school
- Understand how to support young people who have been excluded from school
Working with young people with disabilities and/or learning difficultiesReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the statutory and legal frameworks relating to young people with disabilities and learning difficulties
- Understand the issues affecting young people with disabilities and learning difficulties
- Understand how to support young people with disabilities or learning difficulties
Working with young people with mental health problemsReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the statutory and legal frameworks relating to young people with mental health problems
- Understand the issues affecting young people with mental health problems
- Understand how to support young people with mental health problems
Working with young people: principles and practicesReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the values and core principles of working with young people
- Understand the issues that are important to young people
- Understand how to make and sustain contact with young people and develop appropriate relationships with them
- Reflect on the diversity of young peoples' experiences within the community
- Understand the key features of a culture which promotes equality and values diversity and inclusion
Working with young people: reflective practiceReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Reflect on own professional development in relation to working with young people
- Review the effectiveness of own practice in relation to working with young people
- Keep up to date with policies and developments relevant to working with young people
Working with young people: safeguardingReal unit · King's Trust
What you'll be able to do
- Understand legal, professional and organisational requirements for safeguarding
- Communicate appropriately with young people
- Understand how to maintain confidentiality of information
- Maintain the safety and security of young people in own work setting
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.
- Assist young people to express and to realise their goals
- Create innovative outdoor programmes and activities to meet the needs and goals of clients
- Enable young people to identify, reflect and use their learning to enhance their future development
- Enable young people to use their learning to enhance their future development
- Work with young people to safeguard their welfare
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 King's Trust Level 3 Certificate In Working with Young People
22 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by King's Trust.
- Coaching and/or Mentoring young people
- Develop effective relationships with young people
- Facilitate learning and development for young people
- Manage and deliver an outdoor development programme for young people
- Principles and Practices
- Provide information, advice and guidance to young people
and 16 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.