We offer a range of qualifications for managers at all levels,
team leaders and supervisors, trainers, assessors and internal
verifiers. Whether you are looking for a qualification that accredits
your existing competence or a development route for that next
move, we have a qualification to suit your needs.

Management NVQs at levels 3, 4 & 5
National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs) are based on defined standards of competence for doing the job. Management NVQs at all levels require candidates to show they are competent in managing activities, resources, people and information. They can also include specialist activities such as project or quality management. Level 3 is suitable for supervisors, level 4 for managers and level 5 for middle to senior managers. To show they are competent and achieve the qualification candidates present evidence from their own current work activities. Programmes can be designed to include as much (or as little) training and development as is required for candidates to achieve competence.

Assessor and Verifier awards
We offer a full range of qualifications for assessors and verifiers. All are competence based – that is, they are achieved by providing evidence that you carry out the role in your normal work and to the required standard. You can access full details of our public programmes by clicking on a link.

A1 is for people who will act as the main assessor for NVQ candidates (or candidates for similar qualifications). To achieve this award you must provide evidence that you have assessed 3 people using different assessment methods and have worked with your internal verifier to ensure quality of assessments.

A2 is for people who will act as the workplace assessor for NVQ candidates (or candidates for similar qualifications). To achieve this award you must provide evidence that you have assessed 3 people by advising them on collecting their own work evidence, watching them work and asking them questions.

L20 is for people who support people who need to prove their competence at work, by watching them, questioning them, and advising them on any further development they require. L20 does not qualify you to formally assess NVQ candidates.

V1 is for internal verifiers working within a centre providing NVQ qualifications. The award is achieved by showing how you have supported and advised your assessors, monitored their assessment practice and sampled and verified their assessment decisions. You also need to show your involvement in quality improvement and external verification procedures.

Learning and Development NVQs
We offer a full range of qualifications for professional trainers, training managers and others who have a training component as part of their job. All are competence based – that is, they are achieved by providing evidence that you carry out the role in your normal work and to the required standard.

The qualifications we offer are listed below. Some are available as public programmes and you can access full details of these by clicking on a link.
Direct Training and Support Level 3
This qualification is for training practitioners whose main focus is to develop and deliver direct training sessions for individuals and groups.

Learning and Development Level 3
This award is for practitioners whose role includes some learning design and support as well as direct training for individuals and groups.

Learning and Development Level 4
This more advanced award is for people who are involved in learning design and development at an organisation level. It may include some direct training delivery, but this is optional.

Management of Learning and Development Provision Level 4
As its title implies, this qualification is for managers. It involves strategic planning of learning and development within an organisation, as well as managing your own team.

Co-ordination of Learning and Development Provision Level 4
This award is for people who design and develop learning programmes, and manage the contributions of other people to those programmes.

Mini Awards
There are 9 mini awards which each consists of 3 or more units of competence (a full NVQ consists of 8 or more).

Training Groups
This 5 day training programme is designed for people who are involved in providing group training sessions. Follow-up assessment at work leads to the achievement of up to 4 units of competence, L9, L10, L11, L13.

Coaching Skills
This 3 day training programme is for you if you support individual development by coaching people at work. Follow-up assessment leads to the achievement of L12.

Institute of Leadership and Management Awards
This is a series of progression awards for managers at different levels. The Introductory Certificate and Certificate are for First Line Managers, and the Introductory Diploma and Diploma are for Middle Managers.

This development route is ideally suited to people who are wishing to gain promotion, or are recently promoted. It provides group training to introduce the skills of management and workplace projects to put them into practice with the support of your tutor.

We can design programmes to include open learning, either computer or paper-based.

Institution of Safety and Health
‘Managing Safely’ is for those required to manage safely and effectively in compliance with both their organisation's policy and best practice in Health and Safety. This programme is designed to help reduce accidents and improve your company safety record. Managing Safely looks at current UK legislation as well as providing a general understanding of responsibilities and obligations. The course aims to develop competence in carrying out risk assessments of the most common hazards found in most, if not all workplaces. The course comprises seven core modules usually delivered over four days plus additional time for the completion of a practical project in the delegate’s own workplace. A further organisation-specific module may be added if required which will increase the course duration to five days.

‘Working Safely’ is a one-day programme designed to help reduce and improve your company safety record by training workers to ensure that their actions contribute to Health and Safety in the workplace and that individual responsibilities are clearly understood.