Cambridge OCR
Level 6
QN: 603/7561/9
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Cambridge OCR Level 6 Diploma in Career Guidance and Development
Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by Cambridge OCR. Classified as a Vocationally-Related Qualification. Total guided learning hours: 1030 hours.
Qualification Level
Level 6
Awarding Body
Cambridge OCR
Syllabus Units
26 Units
Guided Hours
1030 hrs
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Course Syllabus & Study Modules
Complete breakdown of verified curriculum topics and learning objectives.
1
Agree the purpose of client-centred career interactions and maintain communication with clients
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand techniques used to agree the purpose of careers guidance and development interactions with clients
- Understand a range of digital technologies used to communicate with clients
- Be able to agree with clients the purpose of career guidance and development interactions
- Be able to maintain and adapt communication with the client during the career guidance and development interaction
2
Assist clients to apply for learning, training and work
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand application processes and procedures for learning, training and work
- Be able to assist clients making applications for learning, training or work
- Be able to evaluate with clients the outcomes of the application process for learning, training or work
3
Career guidance and development theories and models
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand career guidance and development theories and models
- Understand theories of motivation and their application in career guidance and development
- Understand concepts and models to support clients in career planning and development
- Understand the role and purpose of research to inform career guidance and development theory and practice
- Understand theories of change management in career guidance and development
- Understand the application of careers guidance and development theories, concepts and models to support own practice
4
Continuously improve career development work in an organisation
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand professional standards for career development work
- Understand the key research findings that demonstrate the value and impact of career development work
- Be able to undertake and lead reviews and evaluations of career development work
- Be able to lead developments in career development work
- Be able to lead and manage continuing professional development for colleagues involved in career development work
5
Enable clients to develop and evidence their employment-related skills
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the concept of employment-related skills and how these have changed over time
- Understand how clients develop their employment-related skills
- Understand the different ways in which clients can consider, articulate, and evidence their employment-related skills
- Plan the content of an activity to enable clients to consider, articulate and evidence their employment-related skills and be motivated to develop these further
- Be able to deliver the employment-related skills activity
- Be able to evaluate the employment-related skills activity
6
Engage with other relevant people to help clients to meet their career development needs
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the rationale for working with others to help clients to meet their career development needs
- Be able to agree how others will help clients to meet their career development needs
7
Explore and agree the career guidance and development needs of clients
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand methods to explore client career guidance and development needs
- Understand methods to agree client career guidance and development needs
- Be able to explore the career guidance and development needs of clients
- Be able to agree action plans with clients to meet their career guidance and development needs
- Be able to evaluate with clients the impact of career guidance and development
- Be able to evaluate the application of career guidance and development theories and models in working with clients
8
Lead and manage career development work in an organisation
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand models for the role of career development leader in an organisation
- Be able to promote career development work within an organization
- Be able to work with senior leaders to develop policy for career development work
- Be able to plan the overall programme of career development work within an organisation
- Be able to manage colleagues and resources in order to deliver career development work
- Be able to manage effective partnerships to deliver career development work
- Understand how to commission career development services for an organisation
9
Manage a personal caseload/work responsibilities in the career development sector
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the purpose of caseload management and the factors that affect caseloads
- Be able to maintain case notes
- Be able to evaluate the intended outcomes of the provision
- Be able to establish priorities for dealing with personal case load
10
Negotiate on behalf of clients
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the principles and practice of negotiation
- Understand the role and purpose of negotiation on behalf of clients
- Be able to negotiate on behalf of clients to meet their career-related needs
- Understand the role and purpose of negotiation with other organisations
- Be able to undertake the negotiation process with other organisations
11
Plan and design career-related learning programmes
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand career learning theories and how these can be applied to the design of programmes of career-related learning
- Understand how the aims of career-related learning fit into the overall aims of own organisation
- Understand how career-related learning is interpreted and delivered in different institutions
- Understand how the aims of career-related learning can be translated into programmes of learning and work
- Understand the full range of education, training and employment opportunities and integrate this information into careers programmes
- Be able to design a career-related learning programme of work
- Be able to identify and negotiate with others suitable delivery methods
- Be able to evaluate the career-related learning programme and make recommendations for improvement
12
Plan, deliver and evaluate career-related learning in groups
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand theories of how people learn in groups
- Understand methods to plan, deliver and evaluate career-related learning in groups to meet needs
- Be able to plan career-related learning in groups
- Be able to deliver career-related learning in groups
- Be able to evaluate career-related learning in groups
13
Plan, deliver and evaluate presentations
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the different purposes of and means of presentation delivery to meet audience need
- Understand methods to plan, deliver and evaluate presentations on career development topics
- Be able to plan presentations
- Be able to deliver presentations
- Be able to evaluate presentations
14
Preparing to work in the career development sector
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the career development sector
- Understand roles within the organisation
- Understand working practices within the career development sector
- Understand the impact of legislative policy, professional codes of practice and ethics on the career development sector
15
Promote career-related learning to clients
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the policy context for career-related learning
- Understand the characteristics of career-related learning
- Understand the promotion of career-related learning to clients
- Be able to negotiate with external organisations to promote career-related learning
- Be able to implement career-related learning promotional activities
16
Provide on-going support to clients
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the nature of ongoing support for clients to meet their career-related needs
- Be able to provide ongoing support for clients to meet their career-related needs in accordance with the organisation’s protocols
17
Publicise and negotiate career development provision with external agencies or other departments within the same organisat
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the range of career development provision to be offered
- Understand different methods to publicise the career development provision on offer
- Understand the negotiation process
- Publicise and negotiate the delivery of career development provision to an internal or external party.5.
- Be able to evaluate the publicising and negotiation of the delivery of career development provision to an external or internal party
18
Reflect on and improve professional practice
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand reflective practice
- Understand methods used to reflect on practice
- Understand the need for continuous professional development as a career development practitioner
- Be able to reflect on own performance as a career development professional
- Be able to improve own practice through continuous professional development
19
Source, evaluate and use Labour Market Intelligence (LMI) with clients
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the Labour Market Intelligence required by clients
- Understand methods for using Labour Market Intelligence with clients
- Be able to use Labour Market Intelligence with clients
- Be able to evaluate the use of Labour Market Intelligence by clients
20
Understand how to support specific client groups to overcome barriers to learning, training and work
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the legislative and policy context for working with specific client groups
- Understand barriers to learning, training and work for specific client groups
- Understand services designed for specific client groups
21
Undertake research on behalf of the service
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the research requirements of the career development service and its clients
- Understand research methods used in career development services
- Be able to agree research requirements
- Be able to source evidence and information to meet the needs of the service and its clients
- Be able to analyse research evidence and information
- Be able to report on research outcomes to meet the needs of the service and its clients
22
Use career-related information with clients
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the scope and purpose of career-related information
- Be able to assist client access to career-related information
23
Use diagnostic and assessment tools with clients
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the purpose and application of diagnostic and assessment tools
- Be able to use diagnostic and assessment tools with clients
24
Use digital technology in the career development sector
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how digital technology can be used in the career development sector
- Understand the legislative requirements and ethical implications when using digital technology
- Understand different platform features used to enhance communication and maintain the safety and well-being of users
- Be able to plan how to use digital technology to deliver an outcome
- Be able to use the digital technology to deliver the outcome and maintain the well-being of users
- Be able to evaluate the use of digital technology in delivering an outcome
25
Use the expertise of employers and other organisations in the delivery of career learning/development activities
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the career learning and career development needs of clients and how expertise from employers and organisations can contribute to meeting these needs
- Understand different types of involvement that employers and organisations can have in contributing to career learning and career development activities
- Understand how to evaluate the impact of employer and organisation involvement in career learning and career development activities
- Negotiate the involvement of an employer or organisation in the delivery and evaluation of an activity
- Facilitate the involvement of an employer or organisation in the delivery of the activity
- Be able to evaluate the involvement of an employer and/or organisation in the delivery of an activity
26
Work with other organisations for the benefit of clients and own organisation
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the characteristics of networks that support career development
- Understand the networks supporting the delivery of career development
- Understand the benefit of further support to meet the needs of clients and the organisation
- Understand the principles of negotiation
- Be able to work with other organisations for the benefit of clients
- Be able to signpost or refer clients to sources of further support
Regulatory & Verification Details
- Qualification Number (QN)
- 603/7561/9
- Regulated Status
- Available to learners
- Awarding Body
- Cambridge OCR
- Qualification Type
- Vocationally-Related Qualification
- Operational Start
- Sept 2021