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Highfield Qualifications · RQF Level 4

Highfield Level 4 NVQ Diploma in Construction Site Supervision (Residential Development) (RQF)

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  • LevelRQF Level 4
  • Total credits143
  • Guided learning507 hours
  • Units in this qualification14

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What each unit actually teaches you to do

We offer a wide range of Construction certificates and diplomas. These include level 2, 3, 4 and 7 qualifications.

These are the units Highfield Qualifications 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.

Allocating and monitoring the use of plant, equipment or machinery in the workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
This unit develops learners' ability to allocate and monitor plant, equipment, or machinery by producing clear requests, confirming compliance with operational and statutory requirements, assessing hazards and risks, and maintaining records to ensure safe and effective use.

What you'll be able to do

  • Produce clear requests for plant, equipment or machinery which meets the needs of projects or operations
  • Confirm and record that plant, equipment or machinery meets operational and statutory requirements prior to use in the workplace and allocate to suitable operations
  • Identify hazards and assess risks arising from the use of plant, equipment or machinery and implement measures that protect people and the environment
  • Maintain records of how and when plant, equipment or machinery was utilised during the project
  • Recommend alternative types of plant, equipment or machinery to decision makers when existing plant, machinery or equipment is deemed less suitable for use on site
  • Issue instructions for the use of plant, equipment or machinery to operators
  • Check and confirm that operators of plant, equipment or machinery are trained, certificated and authorised for the relevant type, and monitor for safe working
  • Ensure the appropriate storage, servicing and maintenance of plant, equipment or machinery meets organisational requirements
  • Inform decision makers when plant, equipment or machinery is no longer required
Assessing and agreeing work methods in the workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
It teaches you to assess and agree work methods by identifying and evaluating project data, obtaining additional information as needed, and recommending suitable methods that comply with technical and project criteria and method statement requirements.

What you'll be able to do

  • Identify and assess available project data to inform the work methods
  • Examine and assess project data
  • Obtain and record additional information from other sources where available project data is insufficient
  • Evaluate work methods against relevant technical and project criteria
  • Agree and recommend work methods and inform stakeholders
  • Ensure a method statement has been prepared and approved prior to the commencement of work
Contributing to the control of work quantities and costs in the workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
You'll contribute to controlling work quantities and costs by collating, evaluating, and reporting relevant data, identifying cost-saving opportunities, and investigating variations to recommend and implement corrective actions in line with organisational requirements.

What you'll be able to do

  • Contribute to your organisation's requirements in relation to controlling work quantities and costs.
  • Collate, evaluate and report quantities and cost data, passing it on, in time, to people who need to use the data.
  • Identify opportunities for cost savings and recommend findings to the people responsible.
  • Investigate variations and agree and implement appropriate corrective actions with those responsible.
Controlling work against agreed quality standards in the workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
It teaches you to control work against agreed quality standards. You'll confirm quality standards before work commences, communicate individual responsibilities for quality maintenance, and implement inspection and control systems to ensure work conforms to specified requirements.

What you'll be able to do

  • Confirm quality standards from available information before work starts
  • Communicate the responsibilities that individuals have for maintaining quality
  • Implement systems to inspect and control the quality of work and record the outcomes
  • Implement specified checks to ensure that work conforms to the design requirements and the agreed quality standards
  • Identify work and materials which do not conform to the specified quality standards and implement corrective action
  • Identify and report variations in quality and their programme and safety implications
  • Implement improvements from feedback received and recommend them to stakeholders
Controlling work progress against agreed programmes in the workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
It teaches you to control work progress against agreed programmes by implementing monitoring systems, recording progress, identifying deviations, investigating causes, and agreeing and implementing corrective actions to maintain project timelines.

What you'll be able to do

  • Implement systems to monitor and record progress of work against agreed programmes.
  • Identify any deviations from planned progress which has or may occur, that could disrupt programmes and schedules.
  • Investigate circumstances of any deviations thoroughly and agree and implement appropriate corrective actions.
  • Recommend measures most likely to reduce increases in cost and time to help work progress, and communicate onto the people responsible.
  • Inform people responsible regularly about progress and suggest decisions and actions that need to be taken.
  • Identify improvements from feedback received and recommend to the people responsible.
Coordinating work control in the workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
You'll coordinate work control by collating, reviewing, and clarifying information for project or operational plans. The unit includes communicating and agreeing on programmes, methods, attendance, and resource allocation to coordinate construction operations effectively.

What you'll be able to do

  • Collate and review relevant information used in the preparation of project or operational plans
  • Clarify information which is unclear
  • Communicate and agree programmes, methods and attendance that will coordinate construction operations
  • Plan and obtain sufficient resources and attendance of the appropriate type which meets project requirements and timescales
  • Organise work activities and implement work measures that take into account appropriate factors and influences
Developing and maintaining good occupational working relationships in the workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
You'll learn to establish and maintain good occupational working relationships by promoting goodwill and trust, communicating work activities appropriately, offering advice and support, and resolving differences of opinion constructively.

What you'll be able to do

  • Develop, maintain and encourage working relationships to promote good will and trust
  • Inform relevant people about work activities in an appropriate level of detail, with the appropriate level of urgency
  • Offer advice and help to relevant people about work activities and encourage questions/requests for clarification and comments
  • Clarify proposals with relevant people and discuss alternative suggestions
  • Resolve differences of opinion in ways that minimise offence and maintain goodwill, trust and respect
Handing over property in the workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
This unit covers managing the handover of property by recording and confirming procedures and timings, analysing completed work against specifications, resolving discrepancies, and ensuring the property is clean and complies with organisational requirements.

What you'll be able to do

  • Record and confirm procedures and time for handing over the property
  • Analyse completed work against property specifications, identify and record any discrepancies
  • Take appropriate action to resolve any problems that emerge from an inspection of the property
  • Ensure the property is clean and tidy, all redundant materials are removed, and records are kept of all preparation activities
  • Observe organisational procedures appropriate to the work environment
  • Provide the recipient with all relevant documents, materials, information and keys or access media
  • Advise the recipient of the procedure for contacting the appropriate people in the event of any problems arising after handover
Implementing communication systems for the project in the workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
It teaches you to implement and maintain organisational communication systems for projects. You'll develop skills in managing communication, reporting, recording, and retrieving information among stakeholders, and investigating procedural changes to communication methods.

What you'll be able to do

  • Implement organisational communication systems for projects
  • Maintain methods of communication, reporting, recording and retrieving information between stakeholders, that may have an interest, appropriate to the needs of the project
  • Investigate evidence of procedural change to communication methods implementing the actions taken
  • Implement organisational systems to record and provide feedback
Implementing, maintaining and reviewing systems for health, safety, welfare, wellbeing and environmental protection in the workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
You'll implement, maintain, and review health, safety, welfare, wellbeing, and environmental protection systems within the workplace. The unit includes promoting a culture of awareness, identifying improvement opportunities, and verifying the competence of individuals involved in these systems.

What you'll be able to do

  • Implement organisational initiatives related to health, safety, welfare, wellbeing, and environmental protection.
  • Promote a culture of health, safety, welfare, and environmental awareness within the workplace.
  • Identify and implement opportunities to improve health, safety, welfare, wellbeing, and environmental performance on site.
  • Implement and document checks to verify the competence of individuals under your supervision.
  • Maintain accurate and appropriate statutory notices and hazard warnings.
  • Ensure the serviceability of health, safety, welfare, and environmental protection equipment and resources to comply with current legislation and organisational requirements.
  • Implement current organisational procedures for identifying hazards and reducing risks.
  • Implement systems for reporting accidents and emergencies and preventing their recurrence.
  • Regularly monitor health, safety, welfare, and environmental protection systems in accordance with organisational requirements.
  • Identify, record, and report any site conditions that do not comply with organisational requirements.
Maintaining supplies of materials to meet project requirements in the workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
You'll maintain supplies of materials to meet project requirements by supervising storage and use, ensuring efficient handling and minimal wastage, calculating and recording deliveries and stock positions, and identifying and resolving supply problems.

What you'll be able to do

  • Supervise the storage and use of materials and components to ensure efficient material handling and movement, and to minimise wastage.
  • Calculate and maintain accurate records of deliveries and stock positions, and communicate this information to relevant decision-makers.
  • Identify and document any problems with supply, discuss these issues with material suppliers, and relay the information to decision-makers.
  • Regularly review stock records and calculate the necessary replacement stock requirements.
  • Identify opportunities to improve stock utilisation and turnover, and recommend these improvements to decision-makers.
Maintaining the dimensional accuracy of work in the workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
You'll maintain dimensional accuracy of work by providing clear information to the workforce, ensuring organisational checks are conducted and recorded, identifying deviations, and implementing revised work practices to maintain quality standards.

What you'll be able to do

  • Ensure the workforce is provided with sufficient clear and accurate information to enable them to position, align or level the work
  • Ensure that organisational checks on the dimensional controls have been carried out and record results to meet quality standards
  • Identify any deviations in positions, alignments or levels and take corrective actions to promptly correct them
  • Implement revised work practices and procedures to minimise deviations and to allow for different circumstances and conditions
Planning work activities and resources to meet project requirements in the workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
This unit covers planning and organising work activities to efficiently utilise available resources. You'll learn to recommend alternative methods, resources, and systems to meet project programmes and schedules, and to seek clarification or advice when resources are unavailable.

What you'll be able to do

  • Organise work activities to maximise the efficient use of available resources.
  • Recommend alternative methods, resources, and systems to meet project programmes and schedules.
  • Seek clarification or advice from appropriate sources when required resources are unavailable.
  • Evaluate work activities against project or operational data and relevant external factors.
  • Update existing programmes and schedules of planned activities and communicate these updates to stakeholders.
  • Implement systems to monitor and record work progress against established programmes and schedules.
Providing customer services in the construction workplaceReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
You'll gain knowledge and skills to deliver customer services in the construction workplace. The unit covers implementing organisational procedures to improve service, providing consistent and reliable customer care, and working collabouratively to resolve customer service issues.

What you'll be able to do

  • Identify and use organisational procedures to implement systems or processes that will deliver and improve customer service
  • Give a consistent and reliable service that promotes a customer’s confidence
  • Work with others to resolve customer services problems and communicate with customers
  • Communicate with customers to provide information, check and record their satisfaction
  • Solve problems within existing systems or procedures that may affect customers before the customer becomes aware of them
  • Confirm that the service given meets the customer’s needs and expectations
  • Inform and record any changes to customer service systems or procedures to those people responsible
  • Share information to maintain and improve standards of service delivery

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Every credit is a stamp you keep

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Allocating and monitoring the use of plant, equipment or machinery in the workplaceAssessing and agreeing work methods in the workplaceContributing to the control of work quantities and costs in the workplaceControlling work against agreed quality standards in the workplaceControlling work progress against agreed programmes in the workplaceCoordinating work control in the workplaceDeveloping and maintaining good occupational working relationships in the workplaceHanding over property in the workplace

Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.

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Allocating and monitoring the use of plant, equipment or machinery in the workplaceLevel 4

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Health and Safety CoordinatorInternational Health and Safety CoordinatorLead CQHS GeneralistLead CQHS SpecialistInternational Health and Safety AdvisorSenior Health & Safety Advisor

This unit develops learners' ability to allocate and monitor plant, equipment, or machinery by producing clear requests, confirming compliance with operational and statutory requirements, assessing hazards and risks, and maintaining records to ensure safe and effective use.

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  2. Understand
  3. Apply
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Built for Highfield Level 4 NVQ Diploma in Construction Site Supervision (Residential Development) (RQF)

14 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Highfield Qualifications.

  1. Allocating and monitoring the use of plant, equipment or machinery in the workplace
  2. Assessing and agreeing work methods in the workplace
  3. Contributing to the control of work quantities and costs in the workplace
  4. Controlling work against agreed quality standards in the workplace
  5. Controlling work progress against agreed programmes in the workplace
  6. Coordinating work control in the workplace

and 8 more in the full unit list below.

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  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.
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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.

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