ATHE Ltd · RQF Level 6
ATHE Level 6 Diploma in Coaching and Mentoring
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 6
- Total credits43
- Guided learning163 hours
- Units in this qualification7
Awarded by ATHE Ltd · on the Ofqual register
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Ten quick questions, one per Future Fluency, asked against this qualification rather than a generic one.
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
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These are the units ATHE Ltd 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.
Coaching education professionalsReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of coaching in the development of teachers, teaching assistants, trainers or other education professionals
- Manage coaching contexts and relationships in education
- Effectively coach teachers, teaching assistants or educational professionals
Coaching for business/organisational improvementReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of coaching for people in businesses/organisations
- Manage the coaching context and relationship
- Provide effective coaching
Managing Mentoring or Coaching in OrganisationsReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Complete an organisational or departmental needs analysis to identify coaching or mentoring requirements.
- Plan a coaching or mentoring programme that aligns with organisational objectives and individual needs.
- Evaluate the benefits of a coaching or mentoring programme in terms of improved performance and employee development.
- Understand how to embed a coaching or mentoring culture within an organisation to foster continuous improvement and knowledge sharing.
Mentoring Business/Organisation ProfessionalsReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of mentoring in a business/organisational context
- Manage a mentoring programme in a business/organisation
- Effectively mentor individuals working in, managing or leading a business/organisation
Mentoring Education ProfessionalsReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of mentoring in the development of teachers, teaching assistants, trainers or education professionals
- Manage a mentoring programme for teachers, teaching assistants, trainers or educational professionals
- Effectively mentor teachers or other educational professionals
Personal Development for Coaches and MentorsReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Assess own skills, knowledge and understanding for coaching and mentoring
- Prepare own development plan to support development as a coach and mentor
- Understand how to review own performance as a coach/mentor on an ongoing basis
Principles and Practices of Coaching and MentoringReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the context of coaching and mentoring in organisations
- Understand the principles and practices required for coaching and mentoring in organisations
- Understand how the impact of coaching and mentoring can be evaluated
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 6 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.
Where this can lead
Coaching and Mentoring Coordinator
Your journey here isn't just about this role; it's about building a foundation for a really impactful career in people development. We're excited to see where you take it.
See the whole journey →Showing 6 roles, drawn from 7 job records mapped to this qualification.
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.
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 work in any of these jobs
This unit covers the role of coaching in developing education professionals, including teachers and teaching assistants. Learners will analyse coaching models, manage coaching contexts and relationships, and develop skills to effectively coach within educational settings.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for ATHE Level 6 Diploma in Coaching and Mentoring
7 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by ATHE Ltd.
- Coaching education professionals
- Coaching for business/organisational improvement
- Managing Mentoring or Coaching in Organisations
- Mentoring Business/Organisation Professionals
- Mentoring Education Professionals
- Personal Development for Coaches and Mentors
and 1 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.