If you manage or supervise a team as part of your role, the NVQ Certificate in Management is a highly flexible, nationally recognised qualification that helps you to become more effective in your job and to demonstrate your skills and experience to current or future employers.Â
 The course is ideal for first line managers who are able to demonstrate a range of responsibilities. A first-line manager may allocate work to team members/colleagues or contractors, achieving specific results, manage financial and physical resources and have some degree of decision making.
 Entry requirements
 There are no formal requirements although you must be in a role where you manage a team. It is also highly recommended that you possess a level 2 literacy and numeracy qualification due to the demands of the course. If you do not possess level 2 literacy and numeracy you will be offered the chance to achieve these qualifications.
What will the interview involve?
Your employer will be contacted to support your application. The interview will include an explanation of what will be required on the course and the requirements of the learner.
What will I learn?
The NVQ Certificate is based on what a person needs to be able to do and know to be competent in the workplace. You will take three mandatory units and then choose from a diverse range of optional units to complete the qualification. The optional units can be tailored to your particular learning needs or to meet organisational requirements whilst meeting a minimum credit requirement of 11 credits (please ask for more information on credits)
Mandatory units:
- Manage own professional development
- Set objectives and provide support for team members
- Plan, allocate and monitor the work of a team
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Optional units:
Choose from 37 different units.Â
- Manage personal development
- Develop, maintain and review personal networks
- Manage risk in own area of responsibility
- Review risk management processes in own area of responsibility
- Manage or support equality of opportunity, diversity and inclusion in own area of responsibility
- Provide leadership and direction for own area of responsibility
- Ensure compliance with legal, regulatory, ethical and social requirements
- Support team members in identifying, developing and implementing new ideas
- Implement Change in own area of responsibility
- Develop working relationships with colleagues
- Manage conflict in a team
- Lead and manage meetings
- Participate in meetings
- Support individuals to develop and take responsibility for their performance
- Know how to follow disciplinary procedures
- Managing grievance procedures
- Support the management of redundancies in own area of responsibility
- Develop working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders
- Recruit staff in own area of responsibility
- Plan, allocate and monitor work in own area of responsibility
- Support learning and development within own area of responsibility
- Address performance problems affecting team members
- Build, support and manage a team
- Make effective decisions
- Communicate information and knowledge
- Manage knowledge in own area of responsibility
- Procure supplies
- Manage a tendering process
- Develop and implement a risk assessment plan in own area of responsibility
- Manage physical resources
- Manage the environmental impact of work activities
- Plan and manage a project
- Manage the achievement of customer satisfaction
- Prepare for and support quality audits
- Manage customer service in own area of responsibility
- Develop and implement marketing plans
- Analyse the market in which your organisation operates
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These can be grouped together to represent your area of responsibility (subject to meeting credit requirements) – please ask
For example:Â
Risk management
- Manage risk in own area of responsibility
- Review risk management processes in own area of responsibility
- Ensure compliance with legal, regulatory, ethical and social requirements
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Human Resources
- Managing grievance procedures
- Support the management of redundancies in own area of responsibility
- Address performance problems affecting team members
- Support learning and development within own area of responsibility
- Build, support and manage a team
- Recruit staff
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These are just some examples from the 37 available units.
How will I learn?
An assessor will visit you in your workplace to discuss with both you and your employer your progress, learning and monitor agreed targets. Depending on your current skills, you may be asked to undertake further research into a subject and other specific activities to enable you to demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of management techniques. This qualification is assessment using evidence from the workplace, and could include observation, professional discussion, questioning/interviewing, physical products of work or other appropriate methods.
Benefits of the qualification
For employers the qualification can:
- Ensure confidence that their managers, and those they recruit are competent to carry out their responsibilities.
- Assist in using Management standards as the benchmark to compare the quality of their employees with other organisations
- Reduce training costs as training becomes more clearly focused on what managers need to perform effectively and develop their careers
- Link to other activities, such as performance appraisal, coaching, recruitment and reward systems
- Improve communication as managers begin to use a common language and an empowering culture develops.
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For employees the qualification can:Â
- Build on your strengths and focus training and development on the areas in which you could improve, not waste time studying things you already know
- Prepare you for your qualifications to fit in with your work and personal commitments and adjust your plans in the light of your progress and contingencies
- Help choose the way in which you learn to suit your preferred learning style
- Provide a certificate recognising your competence as a manager
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The qualification comes with free studying membership to a professional management body; an opportunity to network with other managers and provide further development in management. Once registered you will be able to access further resources whether it is learning about management, what the latest news is in management and current practice and e-learning opportunities.
 Call us on 01983 550 609 for further information
Call us on 01983 550 609 or email info@islandtraining.org for further information.
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