Open Awards · RQF Level 3
Open Awards Level 3 Certificate in Youth Work Practice (England) (RQF)
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- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits27
- Guided learning139 hours
- Units in this qualification36
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These are the units Open Awards 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.
Anti-Discriminatory Practice in Youth WorkReal unit · Open Awards
This unit provides an understanding of anti-discriminatory practice in youth work, relevant legislation, and ethical considerations. You'll examine prejudice and discrimination and learn to evaluate and improve their own practice accordingly.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand anti-discriminatory practice in youth work, including relevant legislation and ethical considerations.
- Understand how anti-discriminatory practice impacts on youth work delivery, ensuring inclusive and equitable services.
- Understand prejudice and discrimination, including different forms and their impact on young people.
- Understand how to evaluate personal practice in relation to anti-discriminatory practice, identifying areas for development and improvement.
Detached and Outreach Youth WorkReal unit · Open Awards
This unit covers the principles, skills, and knowledge required for detached and outreach youth work. You'll explore power dynamics, relationships, and the effects of legislation and organisational needs on practice.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of detached and outreach youth work
- Understand the skills and knowledge required to be a detached and outreach worker
- Understand the importance of power and relationships for detached and outreach youth work
- Understand how practice, legislation and organisational needs affect detached and outreach youth work
Effective Outcomes-Based Youth WorkReal unit · Open Awards
You'll understand the principles and benefits of outcomes-based youth work, including the importance of identifying specific outcomes. The unit enables planning, implementation, evaluation of programmes, and effective communication of outcomes to key stakeholders.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of outcomes-based youth work
- Understand the importance of identifying outcomes for youth work
- Plan, implement and evaluate an outcomes-based youth work programme
- Understand how to communicate the outcomes of a programme to key stakeholders
Engaging and Communicating with Young PeopleReal unit · Open Awards
You'll gain skills and knowledge to engage and communicate effectively with young people in youth work settings. The unit emphasises building professional relationships, using diverse engagement methods, and applying good communication skills.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of building professional relationships with young people in youth work
- Understand different methods of engaging with young people
- Understand the importance of good communication skills for youth work activities
- Communicate effectively with young people to develop a professional relationship
- Support young people in engaging with the local community
- Understand how to support young people's information needs
Exploring Values, Beliefs and Spiritual Development within a Youth Work SettingReal unit · Open Awards
This unit explores values, beliefs, and spiritual development within youth work. You'll learn to facilitate discussions on these topics, understand the role of faith communities, and evaluate youth work approaches in this context.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand values, beliefs and spiritual development in a youth work setting
- Facilitate the exploration of values, beliefs and spiritual development in a youth work setting
- Understand the role of faith communities in the exploration of values, beliefs and spiritual development in a youth work setting
- Understand and evaluate youth work within a faith based context
Facilitate the Learning and Development of Young People through MentoringReal unit · Open Awards
You'll learn to facilitate young people's learning and development through mentoring. The unit covers core mentoring principles, ethical considerations, techniques to support individual needs, and promotion of wellbeing and resilience.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the core principles of mentoring young people, including ethical considerations and best practice.
- Understand how to facilitate the learning and development needs of young people through mentoring techniques.
- Support young people to address their individual learning and development needs through targeted mentoring interventions.
- Promote the wellbeing, resilience and achievement of young people through mentoring support.
- Understand the boundaries of a mentoring relationship, including confidentiality and safeguarding responsibilities.
- Understand how to review the effectiveness of the mentoring process and identify areas for improvement.
Facilitating Youth Trips and ResidentialsReal unit · Open Awards
You'll gain knowledge of planning and facilitating youth trips and residentials. The unit covers benefits for young people, relevant legislation and safeguarding requirements, risk assessment, budgeting, and evaluation to support learning and development.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the benefits of young people participating in trips and residentials for their personal and social development.
- Understand the relevant legislation, organisational policy and safeguarding requirements for planning and delivering youth trips and residentials.
- Plan youth trips or residentials, including risk assessments, budgeting and logistical arrangements.
- Use facilitation and evaluation techniques during trips and residentials to enable learners to self-assess and reframe their learning experiences.
- Work effectively as part of a team during a youth trip or residential, contributing to a positive and supportive environment.
Group Work within a Youth Work settingReal unit · Open Awards
This unit covers the significance of group membership for young people's social development and self-esteem. You'll examine group work theories, leadership styles, conflict management, and evaluate group work programmes and their own roles within youth work settings.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of group membership for young people.
- Understand group work theory and its application in youth work settings.
- Understand the appropriate use of different leadership styles within groups.
- Understand how to manage conflict effectively in a group work setting.
- Evaluate a programme of group work activities, assessing its effectiveness and impact.
- Evaluate own role in the delivery of a programme of group work activities, identifying strengths and areas for development.
Loneliness and Isolation for Young People – Advanced Youth Work ApproachesReal unit · Open Awards
This unit provides an understanding of youth loneliness and isolation, their causes and effects on wellbeing. You'll learn to address these issues through planning, delivering, and evaluating youth work programmes with young people as co-designers and co-facilitators.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand what is meant by youth loneliness and isolation
- Understand how to address youth loneliness and isolation in youth work settings
- Plan and deliver a programme to focus on youth loneliness and isolation with young people as co-designers and co-facilitators
- Evaluate own practice and approaches to tackling youth loneliness and isolation
Managing Performance in a Youth Work SettingReal unit · Open Awards
This unit provides an understanding of management roles and processes within youth work settings. You'll explore management functions, performance management principles, and how these contribute to effective youth work practice.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role, functions and processes of management within an organisational context.
- Understand the specific role of management in a youth work setting, including leadership and team development.
- Understand performance management principles and practices in a youth work setting, including setting objectives and providing feedback.
Managing a Budget within a Youth Work SettingReal unit · Open Awards
It teaches you to identify budgetary requirements, set, manage, and evaluate budgets within youth work settings. You'll understand costs, funding sources, and financial monitoring for youth work activities or projects.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to identify budgetary requirements within a youth work setting.
- Set a budget for a specific youth work activity or project.
- Manage a budget effectively, monitoring income and expenditure.
- Evaluate the use of a budget and identify areas for improvement.
Principles of Supporting Young People with regard to Relationships and Sexual HealthReal unit · Open Awards
This unit covers the issues that may affect young people regarding relationships and sexual health, including consent and characteristics of healthy relationships. You'll gain knowledge to support young people by providing accurate information and signposting to relevant services.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the range of issues that may affect young people with regard to relationships and sexual health, including consent, healthy relationships, and sexual health risks.
- Understand how to support young people in regard to relationships and sexual health, including providing accurate information, signposting to relevant services, and promoting healthy decision-making.
Referrals and Signposting in Youth Work settingsReal unit · Open Awards
This unit examines how youth work supports the referral of young people to specialist services. You'll understand referral options and develop skills to support young people through the referral process, emphasising confidentiality and consent.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how youth work supports the referral of young people
- Understand the referral options that are available for young people
- Support young people through a referral process
Reflective practice in a Youth Work settingReal unit · Open Awards
You'll explore the principles and models of reflective practice in youth work, undertaking self-directed reflection to assess and develop their own practice. The unit also covers maintaining continuous professional development opportunities.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of reflective practice in youth work and its importance for professional development.
- Undertake self-directed reflection on own practice and continuing professional development, identifying areas for improvement.
- Use reflection to develop own and others' practice, promoting best practice in youth work.
- Maintain continuous professional development opportunities that support own youth work practice, ensuring up-to-date knowledge and skills.
Safeguarding in a youth work settingReal unit · Open Awards
This unit provides knowledge of safeguarding policies, procedures, and roles to ensure a safe environment for young people. You'll develop skills in risk assessment and understand responsibilities related to safeguarding in youth work settings.
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the importance of safeguarding policies and procedures in providing a safe environment for young people
- Know about roles and responsibilities in relation to keeping young people, vulnerable adults, self and colleagues safe in youth work settings
- Assess risk in a youth work setting
- Understand how to safeguard young people when using contemporary technologies
- Understand how youth work can help protect young people
Social ActionReal unit · Open Awards
You'll understand the concept and purpose of Social Action within communities, including key elements of successful projects with young people. The unit addresses planning, teamwork, leadership, and overcoming challenges in delivering Social Action projects.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the concept and purpose of Social Action within communities.
- Understand the key elements of successful Social Action Projects with young people, including planning, implementation, and evaluation.
- Understand how to address challenges and overcome barriers when delivering Social Action projects.
- Understand the importance of teamwork and leadership when developing and implementing a Social Action project.
Supervision in the Youth Work ContextReal unit · Open Awards
You'll understand the roles, functions, and organisational arrangements of supervision in youth work. The unit covers creating a successful supervision environment and the importance of reflective practice, enabling learners to undertake supervision effectively.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the range of roles and functions of supervision
- Understand organisational arrangements for providing supervision
- Understand the requirements for a successful supervision environment
- Understand the importance of reflective practice and its application to youth work
- Undertake a supervision session in the supervisor role
Support Young People to Achieve their Learning PotentialReal unit · Open Awards
This unit covers legislation and policies affecting young people's education and learning, including safeguarding and equality. You'll learn to support young people’s learning, work collabouratively with others, and maximise learning opportunities.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the relevant legislation and policies that affect young people’s education and learning.
- Support young people to learn and achieve their individual learning potential.
- Understand how to work collaboratively with others to support young people to achieve their learning outcomes.
- Work with young people to make the most of available learning opportunities.
Support Young People who are Looked After or Leaving CareReal unit · Open Awards
You'll explore the challenges faced by young people who are looked after or leaving care, alongside relevant statutory and legal frameworks. The unit teaches you to provide appropriate support and advocate for positive outcomes.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the specific issues affecting young people who are looked after or leaving care.
- Provide appropriate support to young people who are looked after or leaving care.
- Know about the statutory and legal frameworks that apply in relation to young people who are looked after or leaving care.
Support Young People who are Refugees or Seeking AsylumReal unit · Open Awards
You'll explore the challenges faced by young people who are refugees or seeking asylum, including the impact of trauma. This unit also covers statutory and legal frameworks, enabling learners to provide appropriate support and protection.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the issues affecting young people who are refugees or seeking asylum
- Understand how to support young people who are refugees or seeking asylum
- Understand the statutory and legal frameworks in relation to protecting young people who are refugees or seeking asylum
Support Young People who are not in Employment, Education or Training or that have been Excluded from SchoolReal unit · Open Awards
This unit provides knowledge of issues affecting young people who are not in employment, education, or training (NEET) or excluded from school. You'll develop strategies to engage and support these young people, enhancing their development and prospects.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the issues affecting young people not in education, employment, or training (NEET) or those who have been excluded from school.
- Support young people who are not in employment, education, or training or who have been excluded from school.
Support Young People’s Transition to IndependenceReal unit · Open Awards
You'll explore the transition from dependence to independence for young people, including practical and emotional challenges. The unit develops skills to support young people in preparing for independence and assessing their personal readiness.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the ways in which young people move from dependence to independence.
- Understand how to support young people to prepare for the practical challenges of independence.
- Understand how to prepare young people for the emotional challenges of independence.
- Prepare young people to assess personal risks and protect themselves.
- Understand how to support young people’s information and guidance needs when moving toward independence.
Supporting Young People with Disabilities and/or Diverse Learning Needs within a Youth Work SettingReal unit · Open Awards
You'll understand the needs, rights, and barriers faced by young people with disabilities and/or diverse learning needs in youth work settings. The unit covers adapting activities and resources to promote inclusion and participation.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the diverse needs of young people with disabilities and/or diverse learning needs within a youth work setting.
- Know the rights of young people with disabilities and those with diverse learning needs, ensuring these are upheld.
- Contribute effectively to the inclusion of young people with disabilities and diverse learning needs in the youth work setting.
- Support young people with disabilities and those with diverse learning needs to participate fully in a range of activities and experiences.
Theory of Youth WorkReal unit · Open Awards
This unit provides a comprehensive understanding of youth work theory, including its purpose, principles, community role, delivery models, and required skills, knowledge, qualities, and values. You'll understand how theory informs effective practice.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key purpose and role of youth work
- Understand key principles of youth work
- Understand the role of youth work in the young person’s local community
- Understand different models of youth work delivery
- Understand the skills, knowledge, qualities and values required to practice as a youth support worker
- Understand own skills, knowledge, qualities and values required to practice youth support work
Trauma Informed Approaches to Youth WorkReal unit · Open Awards
This unit introduces trauma-informed practice within youth work, covering types and effects of trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). You'll learn to engage sensitively with young people and apply trauma-informed approaches to support resilience.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the potential effects of trauma on young people.
- Understand the principle concepts underpinning trauma-informed practice.
- Understand the term ‘Adverse Childhood Experiences’ (ACEs) and their potential impact.
- Understand how to create open dialogue and engage sensitively with a young person according to their individual needs and experiences.
- Understand how to utilise trauma-informed approaches to encourage the development of resilience and self-esteem in young people.
- Understand the potential impact of secondary trauma on practitioners.
- Understand how to facilitate empowerment in young people who have experienced trauma.
Understand how Youth Work Supports Young People who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender or Questioning (LGBTQ+)Real unit · Open Awards
This unit covers issues affecting young people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning (LGBTQ+), including challenges and discrimination. You'll understand how youth work can provide supportive environments and promote inclusion.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the issues that affect young people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and/or questioning (LGBTQ+).
- Understand how youth work can support young people who are LGBTQ+, promoting inclusivity and well-being.
Understand how Youth Work can Support Young People who Misuse SubstancesReal unit · Open Awards
You'll understand substance misuse among young people, its prevalence, contributing factors, and impact on health. The unit covers how youth work supports young people who misuse substances and the professional boundaries involved.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature and prevalence of substance misuse amongst young people.
- Understand the impact of substance misuse on young people and the youth work provision, including potential risks and challenges.
- Understand how youth work supports young people who misuse substances, including referral pathways and support strategies.
- Understand the boundaries that apply to youth workers when working with young people who misuse substances, including confidentiality and safeguarding.
Understand how Youth Work can Support Young People who are Experiencing PovertyReal unit · Open Awards
This unit provides knowledge of how youth work can support young people experiencing poverty. You'll explore contributing factors, impacts on development, effective interventions, and methods to signpost young people to relevant services.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the various factors that can affect young people in relation to poverty.
- Understand how youth work interventions can effectively support young people experiencing poverty.
- Understand how poverty may impact young people’s development across different life stages.
- Understand how young people can be supported in relation to poverty, including signposting to relevant services.
Understand how Youth Work can Support Young People’s Mental Health and WellbeingReal unit · Open Awards
You'll gain knowledge of mental health issues affecting young people and statutory frameworks. The unit covers strategies to support mental health and wellbeing, enabling youth workers to promote resilience and positive outcomes.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the issues affecting young people’s mental health and wellbeing, including common mental health conditions and risk factors.
- Understand how to support young people’s mental health and wellbeing, promoting resilience and positive coping strategies.
- Know about the statutory and legal frameworks in relation to young people’s mental health and wellbeing, including safeguarding procedures.
- Understand the role of the youth worker to support young people’s mental health and wellbeing, including signposting to specialist services.
Understand how to Manage Staff in a Youth Work SettingReal unit · Open Awards
You'll gain an understanding of staff management principles in youth work settings. The unit includes conflict management, leadership styles, legal and organisational requirements, and the review of personal management practice.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of staff management in a youth work setting
- Understand how to manage conflict within a team
- Understand how to manage staff and volunteers in a youth work setting
- Understand how to review own management role and areas for development
Work with Young People Involved in or Impacted by Youth Violence, Criminal Activities and ExploitationReal unit · Open Awards
You'll gain an understanding of the underlying issues contributing to youth violence, criminal activities, and exploitation. The unit focuses on applying youth work skills to support affected young people and recognising the impact of these issues.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the underlying issues that contribute to young people's involvement in, or impact from, youth violence and/or criminal activities.
- Understand how to utilise youth work skills to support young people impacted by youth violence, child criminal exploitation and child sexual exploitation.
- Evidence understanding of the impact of youth violence, youth criminal activity, child criminal exploitation and child sexual exploitation on young people.
- Understand the local and national frameworks for working with young people involved in youth violence, criminal activity, child criminal exploitation or child sexual exploitation.
Work-based Practice in Youth WorkReal unit · Open Awards
It teaches you to apply participation and empowerment principles in planning and delivering youth work activities. You'll understand group structures and dynamics, and develop skills to work effectively within groups in a work-based youth work setting.
What you'll be able to do
- Use the principles and practice of participation and empowerment to plan activities with young people in a work-based setting.
- Understand the structure of a specific group of young people in a work-based setting, including their needs and dynamics.
- Deliver a youth work programme based on participation processes, ensuring young people's voices are heard and valued.
- Work effectively within a group activity, collaborating with colleagues and young people to achieve common goals.
- Evaluate practice following the delivery of youth work programmes, identifying areas for improvement and future development.
Working with Behaviour that challenges in a Youth Work settingReal unit · Open Awards
This unit covers the understanding and management of conflict and challenging behaviour in youth work settings. You'll develop de-escalation techniques, appreciate the role of feedback in behaviour change, and identify when additional support is necessary.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand what is meant by conflict and challenging behaviour in a youth work setting.
- De-escalate conflict and behaviour that challenges in youth work settings.
- Understand the role of feedback in relation to changed behaviour in a youth work setting.
- Understand when support is required in managing conflict and behaviour that challenges in a youth work setting.
- Develop own practice in relation to conflict and behaviour that challenges.
Young People’s DevelopmentReal unit · Open Awards
You'll explore adolescent development, including physical, cognitive, social, and emotional changes. The unit highlights how this knowledge informs youth work practice and supports young people during adolescence.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how young people develop during adolescence
- Understand how knowledge of adolescence impacts on youth work practice
- Know where young people can access support during adolescence
Young People’s Participation in Youth WorkReal unit · Open Awards
You'll understand young people's participation in youth work, including its principles, benefits, and barriers. The unit covers methods to support and evidence participation and the evaluation of personal practice in promoting involvement.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand young people’s participation in a youth work setting
- Understand how young people’s participation is evidenced in youth work
- Support and promote young people’s participation in youth work
- Evaluate personal practice in relation to young people’s participation
Youth Work in Digital Spaces and PlacesReal unit · Open Awards
You'll understand digital communities and the impact of digitalisation and digital transformation on young people, youth work practice, and the youth work sector. The unit covers the characteristics of digital communities and their influence on engagement.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature and characteristics of digital communities
- Understand how digitalisation and digital transformation impacts young people
- Understand how digitalisation and digital transformation impacts the youth work sector
- Understand how digitalisation and digital transformation impacts youth work practice
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Anti-Discriminatory Practice in Youth WorkDetached and Outreach Youth WorkEffective Outcomes-Based Youth WorkEngaging and Communicating with Young PeopleExploring Values, Beliefs and Spiritual Development within a Youth Work SettingFacilitate the Learning and Development of Young People through MentoringFacilitating Youth Trips and ResidentialsGroup Work within a Youth Work setting
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Open Awards Level 3 Certificate in Youth Work Practice (England) (RQF)
- Assist young people to assess risk and make informed choices in the management of their health and well-being
- Develop and support learning mentor networks
- Engage with and empower young people to make use of digital media in their daily lives
- Engage with young people to promote their emotional wellbeing and mental health
- Explore the concept of values and beliefs with young people
- Manage resources with young people for youth work activities
- Monitor and evaluate the quality of youth work strategy and delivery
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.
Assist young people to assess risk and make informed choices in the management of their health and well-beingDevelop and support learning mentor networksEngage with and empower young people to make use of digital media in their daily livesEngage with young people to promote their emotional wellbeing and mental healthExplore the concept of values and beliefs with young peopleManage resources with young people for youth work activitiesMonitor and evaluate the quality of youth work strategy and delivery
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
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One-to-one, on your real workNo lectures, no past-papers. Every unit is practised on the actual tasks your job throws at you, a tutor beside you, not a video in front of you.
Taught to the top, not the testMost courses stop at remembering. Your companion keeps climbing: analysing, judging, creating. That’s the part a machine can’t do for you.
Credits you keep, a map that continuesEvery unit is regulated and yours for good. The day you finish, Zavmo already knows the next role your new credits open.
Applied to your own work
This unit provides an understanding of anti-discriminatory practice in youth work, relevant legislation, and ethical considerations. Learners will examine prejudice and discrimination and learn to evaluate and improve their own practice accordingly.
How the thinking builds
- Remember
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- Apply
- Analyse
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Built for Open Awards Level 3 Certificate in Youth Work Practice (England) (RQF)
36 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Open Awards.
- Anti-Discriminatory Practice in Youth Work
- Detached and Outreach Youth Work
- Effective Outcomes-Based Youth Work
- Engaging and Communicating with Young People
- Exploring Values, Beliefs and Spiritual Development within a Youth Work Setting
- Facilitate the Learning and Development of Young People through Mentoring
and 30 more in the full unit list below.
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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.
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