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Diploma Level 3 in Advice and Guidance

Who is this Diploma for?

This Diploma is designed to reflect the activities and responsibilities of candidates who are practitioners who work directly with clients, disseminating information, advice and some level of guidance. Candidates will be working with information that is often interpreted by others, usually working within some clear guidelines.

It is suitable for candidates:

  • who’s work includes clear guidelines in the practice of advice and guidance
  • who are working in designated advice and/or guidance organisations
  • whose role is to provide information that is often interpreted by others.

The award is particularly suited to those candidates who may wish to progress to become practitioners.

The Diploma is a work-orientated qualification and is suitable for those who have current real work experience. It is open to candidates of any age, of either gender and there are no entry barriers on grounds of race, creed or previous academic attainment or learning.

The purpose of this Diploma

The objective of this qualification is to provide a statement of competence that testifies to the ability of candidates to work with practitioners and clients to achieve clients’ objectives. It covers support systems, processes and services and recognises that employment in the advice and guidance sectors involves a diverse range of functions, tasks and activities that are constantly developing in the light of changing client needs.

It supports the recognised need that individuals and employers must be responsible for gaining the skills needed to meet ever changing objectives which will in turn lead to improvements in efficiency and effectiveness throughout the organisation and with clients.
This Diploma assesses a candidate’s competence against the national occupational standards for Advice and Guidance at Level 3. Candidates must prove they are competent in a wide range of activities.

Benefits

Employees will benefit from:

  • A clearer understanding of their responsibility within their organisation
  • The opportunity to develop new skills
  • The recognition of existing skills

Employers will benefit from:

  • Improved staff performance and motivation
  • Improvements in the quality of service to services users
  • The opportunity to ensure levels of care are to national standard
  • Improvements in the quality and service provided
  • New ideas for future development Centres

Structure

To achieve a full OCR Level 3 Diploma in Advice and Guidance, candidates must achieve six units made up of three mandatory units and three optional units
Diploma units of competence

Core units

AG1 Establish communication with clients for advice and guidance
AG2 Support clients to make use of the advice and guidance service
AG15 Review own contribution to the service

How do I enrol?

Contact us on 0191 230 3090 or email us.