Focus Awards Limited · RQF Level 2
Focus Awards Level 2 Certificate in Principles of Care
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits46
- Guided learning380 hours
- Units in this qualification9
Awarded by Focus Awards Limited · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
The Focus Awards Level 2 Diploma in Care (RQF) is aimed at learners who work or wish to work within the care sector. It covers effective communication, personal development, values and behaviours, health and wellbeing, responsibilities of self and others, and safeguarding.
These are the units Focus Awards 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, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Communication in care settingsReal unit · Focus Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate effective communication skills in care settings.
- Understand the impact of communication on individuals.
Duty of careReal unit · Focus Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate understanding of duty of care.
Equality and inclusion in care settingsReal unit · Focus Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Promote equality and inclusion in all care activities.
Handle information in care settingsReal unit · Focus Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate accurate record-keeping and reporting procedures.
Health, safety and wellbeing in care settingsReal unit · Focus Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand and implement health and safety measures in care settings.
Implement person-centred approaches in care settingsReal unit · Focus Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Implement person-centred care practices effectively.
Personal development in care settingsReal unit · Focus Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Show evidence of personal development in the caring profession.
Responsibilities of a care workerReal unit · Focus Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Identify key responsibilities in care delivery.
Safeguarding and protection in care settingsReal unit · Focus Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand safeguarding policies and procedures.
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 2 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.
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
Covers the skills and knowledge required for effective communication within care environments.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Focus Awards Level 2 Certificate in Principles of Care
9 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Focus Awards Limited.
- Communication in care settings
- Duty of care
- Equality and inclusion in care settings
- Handle information in care settings
- Health, safety and wellbeing in care settings
- Implement person-centred approaches in care settings
and 3 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.