How you’d get this certificate
- Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer NOCN has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and NOCN awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from NOCN.
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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with NOCN. It does the teaching and the mapping. NOCN sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
What each unit actually teaches you to do
Digital Learning for Representatives Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the benefits of digital learning for trade unionists and their members.
- Manage own digital trade union learning effectively, utilising available resources.
- Understand the requirements necessary for successful digital learning implementation.
- Understand the collaborative approach to trade union education digital learning initiatives.
Equalities and Learning for Trade Unions Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the various forms of inequalities that can exist in learning and their potential impact on individuals.
- Understand how a union representative can effectively support learners in accessing and engaging with learning opportunities.
- Effectively represent the interests of learners when collaborating with external partners and training providers.
Informal Learning in the Workplace Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the benefits of informal learning for trade unionists and their members.
- Manage own informal trade union learning effectively, utilising available resources.
- Understand the requirements necessary for successful informal learning implementation.
- Understand the collaborative approach to trade union education informal learning initiatives.
Supporting Apprentices in the Workplace Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand own role and responsibilities when supporting apprentices in the workplace.
- Identify ways to provide individual support for apprentices, tailored to their needs.
- Review progress effectively when supporting apprentices, providing constructive feedback.
Union Learning Representative Role and Functions Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Describe the key functions of a union learning representative in supporting members' learning and development
- Identify the different types of support available for union learning representatives, including training, resources, and networks
- Consult with union members effectively on learning issues, gathering their views and representing their interests
- Explain how unions organise for learning, including their structures, policies, and partnerships
- Outline the trade union approach to learning, including its values, principles, and priorities
Union Learning Representatives - Skills Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Locate, accurately document, and systematically file information relevant to learning and development opportunities.
- Select and effectively utilise information to promote union learning initiatives to members.
- Apply a structured and systematic approach to progressing and resolving learning-related issues raised by members.
- Communicate effectively with members in the role of a union learning representative, providing information and support.
Unions Addressing Learning Needs in the Workplace Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Use different methods to identify learning needs of individuals and groups in the workplace
- Record union representative activities accurately and comprehensively to collect relevant information and data
- Plan learning activities and programmes for union members, taking into account their diverse needs and learning styles
- Carry out a project to develop learning opportunities and resources in the workplace, evaluating its impact and effectiveness
Unions Getting Organised to Promote Learning Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand union structures and their relevance to learning initiatives within the workplace.
- Collaborate effectively with colleagues and stakeholders to promote learning opportunities.
- Identify and address learning-related issues through appropriate actions and interventions.
Workplace Learning and the Union Learning Representative Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Explain how learning relates to the union team and organising in the workplace.
- Develop knowledge of learning initiatives relevant to the workplace.
- Describe how to promote union learning opportunities to members.
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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
Develop a learning agenda and strategy for the promotion of union learning
- Standard
Develop a learning agenda and strategy for the promotion of union learning v2
- Standard
Enable union members to access learning opportunities and resources v2
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Promote learning and union initiatives
- Standard
Promote learning and union initiatives v2
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Support Union Members to Planning and Managing Their Learning V2
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Support and Contribute to the Policy-Making Processes of the Union v2
- Standard
Support union members in planning and managing their learning
The jobs these credits are mapped to
A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.
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Where this can lead
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This work can lead into wider HR or people development roles, such as Apprenticeship Programme Lead or Early Careers Manager.
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The credits, and who awards them
Level 2 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by NOCN 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
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 one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
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.
- 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 v2
- Promote learning and union initiatives
- Promote learning and union initiatives v2
- Support Union Members to Planning and Managing Their Learning V2
- Support and Contribute to the Policy-Making Processes of the Union v2
- Support union members in planning and managing their learning
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 Digital Learning for Representatives, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Learners will understand the benefits of digital learning for trade unionists and their members. The unit covers managing digital learning, accessing digital resources, enhancing engagement, and understanding the collabourative approach to digital trade union education.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for NOCN Level 2 Award in Supporting Union Learning
9 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by NOCN.
- Digital Learning for Representatives
- Equalities and Learning for Trade Unions
- Informal Learning in the Workplace
- Supporting Apprentices in the Workplace
- Union Learning Representative Role and Functions
- Union Learning Representatives - Skills
and 3 more in the full unit list below.
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