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Awarding Body: Focus Awards
Qualification Number: 601/7667/2
Focus Awards is an Ofqual regulated Awarding Organisation. This guarantees that all of their qualifications conform to a high standard.
View Sample CertificateThe level 4 NVQ Diploma in Advice and Guidance (RQF) is the perfect choice for those who are experienced practitioners and want to work directly with advice and guidance, clients and disseminating information.
The qualification aims at enhancing and developing necessary skills of learners working in all advice and guidance setting. In addition to that, once enrolled, the learners might also have some training or managerial responsibilities, or working as career development professionals.
Furthermore, This L4 Diploma in Advice and Guidance supports those in a role which involves:
This Level 4 Advice and Guidance course is an online, self-paced qualification. This qualification can take as little as 8 weeks or up to 12 months for you to become a qualified Advice and Guidance professional. You have a great opportunity of fast-track completion earlier at the pace and time of your choice. The OFQUAL Level 4 NVQ Diploma in Advice and Guidance (RQF) qualification is delivered through our Virtual Learning Environment. Our online tutor support is there to facilitate you to achieve your success rate accordingly.
Upon completing NVQ Diploma in Advice and Guidance (RQF), the learners may proceed towards achieving these following qualifications:
The learners must follow the following requirements to successfully enrol in the course:
- Learners should be equipped with the necessary literacy and numeracy skills along with strong communication skills.
- The learner must be 18 years old or above
This course is assessed through a series of tutor marked assignments in addition to practical work, which is assessed in the workplace. A work placement is required to complete the practical tasks successfully, which can be spread over the course duration. The placement will need to occur in a work setting, allowing you to demonstrate your skills and progression to gather evidence in the provision of advice and guidance, which must be supervised by a qualified supervisor/ advisor/ counsellor willing to attest to a range of activities undertaken by you and to oversee your practical evidence gathering.
All units in the course will be assessed through a series of written assignments, which are submitted to and marked by your course tutor. In addition, you must provide a witness testimony to meet the assessment criteria requirement. You are required to demonstrate your workplace competence and reflect on your practice when dealing with your clients.
You will be able to:
£399(incl. VAT)
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£480(incl. VAT)
All prices include course fees, awarding body dues, OfQual approved certification, postage of certificate & VAT. The final certification you get is the same,
regardless of your route. There are no strict deadlines for submitting individual coursework, allowing you room and flexibility to pace your studies; the only deadline
is the overall course duration based on the option you selected above.
£459(incl. VAT)
£505(incl. VAT)
£551(incl. VAT)
All prices include course fee, awarding body charges, OfQual approved certification, postage of certificate. The final certification you get is exactly the
same, regardless of what route you pick. There are no strict deadlines for submission of individual coursework, allowing you room and flexibility to pace your
studies; the only deadline is the overall course duration based on the option that you have selected above.
This course is suitable for those who are working as Advice and Guidance providers and wish to develop their existing expertise. In addition, you may have managerial or training responsibilities. Your role may involve face-to-face contact with clients and/or contact by phone.
This qualification covers communication and interactions to support clients in preparing and completing their chosen actions; the knowledge required to work with legislative and procedural frameworks; working with other services through negotiation, liaison and referral, reviewing own development; understanding and promoting careers education guidance within organisations and enabling clients learning through group work, demonstration and instruction.
Our IAG Level 4 Diploma will help you to become a qualified careers advisor/ career counsellor to support individuals to address and overcome their barriers to learning and support them in making realistic and well-informed choices.
This qualification supports the recognised need for individuals and employers/tutors to be responsible for gaining the skills required to meet ever-changing objectives. This will in turn lead to improvements in efficiency and effectiveness throughout the organisation and with clients.
Our courses are OFQUAL approved as we work with an approved awarding organisation called “Focus Awards”. This is a well-respected awarding organisation for education and training courses. This is the confirmation of their status-https://register.ofqual.gov.uk/Detail/Index/1391?category=organisations&query=focus%20awards.
This course requires 37 credits for completion.
This qualification recognises the skills and competences of learners in the workplace. This course is ideal for those who currently work within the advice and guidance sector, providing factual, current and impartial information to clients and presenting ideas in an accessible form for them to consider, thus defining and providing routes which could assist clients in reaching their requirements.
However, this course does not provide your field-specific training, e.g. related to business, housing, debts, immigration, or career education. The learners are expected to have the knowledge about their own fields and taking this course would surely support them to develop the practical skills required to deal with the clients throughout the process.
For those looking for a new job role involving advice and guidance, this qualification will help you make the progression more easily. Relevant higher level advice and guidance job roles include:
There is no time frame to complete the course. Learners can complete it within 8 weeks (fast track) up to 12 months (on average).
Following are the progression routes for learners:
Yes, you need a work placement in any professional environment where you are required to show competence in both knowledge and skills.
You will receive your course material right after getting enrolled in this course at our online Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).
RQF (Regulated Qualification Framework) replaces all the previous frameworks such as NVQ, NQF and QCF. All the qualifications previously designed using other frameworks such as NVQ are now referred to as RQF. In other words, we are talking about exactly the same qualification, with same units, same content, same course requirements and same use/benefits/recognition.
Witness testimonies are classed as “supporting” evidence and provide additional information in the form of a statement of authentication from an occupationally competent individual who verifies all relevant details of a learner’s workplace activities and validates that the learner can conduct a skill or task. In some instances, the course requires the learner to demonstrate certain skills such as “Encouraging clients to explore their requirements” or “Assisting clients to reach a decision”, all of which are very difficult to prove using documentary evidence alone. Hence, an expert witness is tasked with providing a written record of learner’s performance at the workplace, precisely describing the activity undertaken against targeted assessment criteria confirming if these have been followed in the work setting. Witness testimonies are compulsory in certain units and this will be clearly stated in the relevant Assignment Guide. Moreover, it is to be noted that you will need to write a reflective account as well along with providing the witness testimony.
A reflective account is the supporting written evidence/ learner’s statement that indicates how the learner performed/performs the activity testified by the workplace supervisor, what went well and what did not, what you learnt and what you should have done. You also mention what strategies you will adapt for improvement. Please note that there is no separate document for writing a reflective account. Reflective account/learner’s statement is given in the same Assessment Brief document.
Our qualification has been designed to support all learners but you must be currently practising as work place evidence must be submitted, right from unit 1. A Witness Statement must be part of this evidence.
As long as you are an advisor/ career advisor, or counsellor/ career counsellor, working under a workplace supervisor who can support you with the witness statement form, you are eligible for the course.
The short answer is No – Our Level 4 NVQ course is a competence-based IAG qualification that requires you to demonstrate your workplace competence and reflect on your practice when dealing with your clients.
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