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NOCN · RQF Level 1

NOCN Level 1 Certificate in Supporting Union Learning

You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.

  • LevelRQF Level 1
  • Total credits15
  • Guided learning75 hours
  • Units in this qualification9

Awarded by NOCN · on the Ofqual register

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What you’ll learn

What each unit actually teaches you to do

NOCN offers a broad range of qualifications and alternative routes for both experienced workers and new entrants to the jobs market.

These are the units NOCN 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.

Digital Learning for RepresentativesReal unit · NOCN
This unit introduces the benefits and requirements of digital learning for trade unionists. You'll manage their own digital learning, understand accessibility and flexibility aspects, and appreciate the collabourative approach to digital trade union education.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the benefits of digital learning for trade unionists, including increased accessibility and flexibility.
  • Manage own digital trade union learning effectively, including time management and resource utilisation.
  • Understand the requirements necessary for successful digital learning, such as appropriate technology and support.
  • Understand the collaborative approach to trade union education digital learning, including working with colleagues and external providers.
Equalities and Learning for Trade UnionsReal unit · NOCN
This unit covers inequalities in learning and the role of union representatives in supporting learners. You'll understand factors affecting access and outcomes, and how to advocate for learners' rights and represent them effectively when working with partners and providers.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand inequalities in learning, including factors that contribute to unequal access and outcomes.
  • Understand how a union representative supports learners, including advocating for their rights and providing guidance.
  • Represent learners when working with partners and providers, including raising concerns and promoting inclusive practices.
Informal Learning in the WorkplaceReal unit · NOCN
You'll understand the benefits and requirements of informal learning for trade unionists in the workplace. The unit covers managing informal learning, identifying opportunities, reflecting on experiences, and recognising the collabourative nature of informal trade union education.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the benefits of informal learning for trade unionists, including its relevance to workplace skills development.
  • Manage own informal trade union learning effectively, including identifying learning opportunities and reflecting on experiences.
  • Understand the requirements necessary for successful informal learning, such as a supportive workplace culture and access to resources.
  • Understand the collaborative approach to trade union education informal learning, including sharing knowledge and best practices with colleagues.
Supporting Apprentices in the WorkplaceReal unit · NOCN
It teaches you to understand their role and responsibilities in supporting apprentices in the workplace. It covers identifying individual support needs, recognising learning styles, addressing barriers, and reviewing apprentices' progress through constructive feedback.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand own role and responsibilities when supporting apprentices in the workplace, including mentoring and guidance.
  • Understand ways to identify individual support needs for apprentices, including recognising learning styles and addressing barriers to progress.
  • Understand how to review progress when supporting apprentices, including providing constructive feedback and setting achievable goals.
Union Learning Representative Role and FunctionsReal unit · NOCN
This unit equips learners with knowledge of the role and functions of a union learning representative. It includes consulting with members on learning issues and understanding the trade union approach to promoting learning within the workplace.

What you'll be able to do

  • Identify the role and functions of a union learning representative, including key responsibilities and duties
  • Consult with union members on learning issues, gathering information and providing advice and guidance
  • Know the trade union approach to learning, including its principles, values, and objectives
Union Learning Representatives - SkillsReal unit · NOCN
You'll learn to find, document, and file information on learning opportunities and resources. The unit focuses on using information to promote union learning, progressing learning issues systematically, and communicating effectively with members as a union learning representative.

What you'll be able to do

  • Find, document and file information on learning opportunities and resources.
  • Use information effectively to promote union learning initiatives and encourage participation.
  • Use a systematic approach to progressing learning issues and finding appropriate solutions.
  • Communicate effectively with members as a union learning representative, ensuring clear and accessible information.
Unions Addressing Learning Needs in the WorkplaceReal unit · NOCN
This unit develops learners' ability to identify learning needs in the workplace using various methods such as surveys and interviews. It also covers accurate record-keeping of union activities, planning learning for members, and carrying out projects to develop workplace learning.

What you'll be able to do

  • Use different methods to identify learning needs within the workplace.
  • Record union representative activities accurately to collect relevant information and data.
  • Plan learning activities and resources effectively for union members.
  • Carry out a project to develop learning opportunities and resources in the workplace.
Unions Getting Organised to Promote LearningReal unit · NOCN
This unit provides an understanding of trade union structures related to learning and how to work collabouratively to promote learning initiatives. You'll identify and address learning issues and barriers, and take action to support members' learning and development.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand union structures and their role in promoting and supporting learning initiatives for members.
  • Work collaboratively with others to facilitate and enhance learning opportunities within the workplace.
  • Identify and take appropriate action to address learning-related issues and barriers faced by members.
Workplace Learning and the Union Learning RepresentativeReal unit · NOCN
You'll explore the relationship between workplace learning and union organising, including its role in building membership and empowering workers. The unit covers building knowledge of learning initiatives, researching resources, and promoting union learning effectively.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how learning relates to the union team and organising in the workplace, including its role in building membership and promoting worker empowerment.
  • Build knowledge on learning initiatives, including researching available resources and identifying training needs.
  • Promote union learning, including raising awareness and encouraging participation among members.

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 1 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.

Digital Learning for RepresentativesEqualities and Learning for Trade UnionsInformal Learning in the WorkplaceSupporting Apprentices in the WorkplaceUnion Learning Representative Role and FunctionsUnion Learning Representatives - SkillsUnions Addressing Learning Needs in the WorkplaceUnions Getting Organised to Promote Learning

Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.

Who’d teach you this

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Where this connects

Where these credits take you

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NOCN Level 1 Certificate in Supporting Union Learning
  • Develop a learning agenda and strategy for the promotion of union learning
  • Develop a learning agenda and strategy for the promotion of union learning v2
  • Enable Union Members to Access Learning Opportunities and Resources
  • Enable union members to access learning opportunities and resources v2
  • Promote learning and union initiatives
  • Promote learning and union initiatives v2
  • Support Union Members to Planning and Managing Their Learning V2
  • Support union members in planning and managing their learning
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Where this can lead

Apprenticeship Coordinator

Your journey here starts with getting the fundamentals right, but the sky's the limit for where you can take your career in apprenticeships and talent development. We're investing in you for the long haul, and we'll support you in building a truly impactful career.

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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.

Develop a learning agenda and strategy for the promotion of union learningDevelop a learning agenda and strategy for the promotion of union learning v2Enable Union Members to Access Learning Opportunities and ResourcesEnable union members to access learning opportunities and resources v2Promote learning and union initiativesPromote learning and union initiatives v2Support Union Members to Planning and Managing Their Learning V2Support union members in planning and managing their learning

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.

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.
Digital Learning for RepresentativesLevel 1

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

Which job do you mean?
Apprenticeship CoordinatorApprenticeship ManagerSenior Apprenticeship Coordinator

This unit introduces the benefits and requirements of digital learning for trade unionists. Learners will manage their own digital learning, understand accessibility and flexibility aspects, and appreciate the collabourative approach to digital trade union education.

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.
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Built for NOCN Level 1 Certificate in Supporting Union Learning

9 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by NOCN.

  1. Digital Learning for Representatives
  2. Equalities and Learning for Trade Unions
  3. Informal Learning in the Workplace
  4. Supporting Apprentices in the Workplace
  5. Union Learning Representative Role and Functions
  6. Union Learning Representatives - Skills

and 3 more in the full unit list below.

These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

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.

  1. Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.

  1. 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
  2. 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
  3. 4AnalyseThe Analyst
  4. 3ApplyThe Coach
  5. 2UnderstandThe Connector
  6. 1RememberThe Builder

Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you

Why this matters: AI can already remember and understand for you. What it can’t do is take your real problem and judge the right call. So the only learning worth paying for is the learning that takes you to the top. That’s exactly what a tutor doing it with you, on your real work, is for.

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.

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