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- The centre assesses, and Royal Society for Public Health awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Royal Society for Public Health.
This RSPH Level 4 Diploma is designed for those wishing to become Associate Anatomical Pathology Technologists. The qualification consists of five knowledge units and five competency units and can only be taken after the successful completion of the RSPH Level 3 Diploma in Healthcare Science (Anatomical Pathology Technology).
These are the units Royal Society for Public Health 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.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with Royal Society for Public Health. It does the teaching and the mapping. Royal Society for Public Health sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
What each unit actually teaches you to do
Advanced Governance and Administration of a Mortuary Real unit · Royal Society for Public Health
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legal requirements relating to the operation of a mortuary.
- Understand the requirements for the advanced administration of a mortuary.
- Prepare for variations in death rates.
Advanced mortuary practice Real unit · Royal Society for Public Health
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of Imaging in mortuary practice.
- Understand the requirements of specialised post mortem examinations.
- Carry out tissue retrieval from a deceased person.
Bereavement support Real unit · Royal Society for Public Health
What you'll be able to do
- Manage the viewing process for a deceased person under circumstances in which viewing is restricted.
- Provide support to the bereaved in circumstances of sudden death or trauma.
- Understand the need for bereavement support.
Common human pathology for anatomical pathology technologists Real unit · Royal Society for Public Health
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how external observation of the human body and organs during post mortem examination can help to determine the cause of death.
- Understand how observation of the dissected human body and organs during post mortem examination can help to determine the cause of death.
- Understand how the use of laboratory analysis of material obtained during post mortem examinations can help determine the cause of death.
Deliver and evaluate training in anatomical pathology technology Real unit · Royal Society for Public Health
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to deliver training programmes for anatomical pathology technology.
- Deliver training programmes for anatomical pathology technology.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of delivery of the training programme.
Health and safety in the mortuary Real unit · Royal Society for Public Health
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the process by which health and safety is managed in a mortuary.
- Understand procedures for developing and implementing safe systems of work in a mortuary.
- Manage infection control procedures in the mortuary.
Management of the deceased in the mortuary Real unit · Royal Society for Public Health
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out procedures for the registration of deceased persons in the mortuary.
- Carry out procedures for the storage of deceased persons in the mortuary.
- Carry out procedures for the disposal of deceased persons in the mortuary.
Quality management in the mortuary Real unit · Royal Society for Public Health
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of quality management.
- Understand the quality management systems that are applicable to mortuaries.
- Identify and promote good practice in the mortuary.
Specialist practical mortuary skills Real unit · Royal Society for Public Health
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out specialised post mortem examinations.
- Carry out specialised evisceration techniques.
- Carry out specialist body and tissue reconstruction following post mortem examination.
Supervision of the mortuary function Real unit · Royal Society for Public Health
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out data management.
- Supervise the use of mortuary resources.
- Develop and maintain mortuary records.
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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
Arrange the cremation of the deceased
- Standard
Reconstruct the deceased following pathological examination
- Standard
Undertake a postmortem examination
The jobs these credits are mapped to
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Where this can lead
Director, Medical Imaging R&D
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The credits, and who awards them
Level 4 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Royal Society for Public Health 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
Advanced Governance and Administration of a MortuaryAdvanced mortuary practiceBereavement supportCommon human pathology for anatomical pathology technologistsDeliver and evaluate training in anatomical pathology technologyHealth and safety in the mortuaryManagement of the deceased in the mortuaryQuality management in the mortuary
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
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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.
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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.
- Arrange the cremation of the deceased
- Reconstruct the deceased following pathological examination
- Undertake a postmortem examination
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 Advanced Governance and Administration of a Mortuary, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit covers the legal and administrative aspects of operating a mortuary.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for RSPH Level 4 Diploma in Healthcare Science (Anatomical Pathology Technology)
10 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Royal Society for Public Health.
- Advanced Governance and Administration of a Mortuary
- Advanced mortuary practice
- Bereavement support
- Common human pathology for anatomical pathology technologists
- Deliver and evaluate training in anatomical pathology technology
- Health and safety in the mortuary
and 4 more in the full unit list below.
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