Gateway Qualifications
    Entry Level
    QN: 603/4520/2
    Curriculum Active

    Gateway Qualifications Entry Level Extended Certificate in Skills for Independent Living (Entry 2)

    Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by Gateway Qualifications. Classified as a Other Life Skills Qualification. Total guided learning hours: 4532 hours.

    Qualification Level
    Entry Level
    Awarding Body
    Gateway Qualifications
    Syllabus Units
    165 Units
    Guided Hours
    4532 hrs
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    Course Syllabus & Study Modules

    Complete breakdown of verified curriculum topics and learning objectives.

    1

    Active support: lead interactive training

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the theoretical background to person-centred interactive training
    • Be able to plan person-centred interactive training sessions to enhance whole team performance
    • Be able to lead person-centred interactive training sessions in situ
    • Be able to provide support to improve the performance of others
    2

    Adjusting to a New Setting

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to access relevant members of staff, resources and locations to meet their needs.
    • Know how to be safe on site.
    3

    Applying for a Job

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to prepare a job application.
    • Be able to prepare a CV.
    4

    Applying for Jobs

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know who can help them to apply for a job.
    • Be able to apply for a job.
    5

    Being a householder

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to identify household tasks.2.
    • Be able to differentiate between household tasks they can do for themselves and where they need support.3.
    • Be able to carry out household tasks.
    6

    Being part of a group

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to work as part of a group.2.
    • Be able to show respect for others in a group.
    7

    Career Planning

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to find out about different career options.2.
    • Be able to assess career options.3.
    • Be able to plan goals for future career.
    8

    Communication skills for work

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to use communication skills in a work context.
    9

    Completing a task

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to confirm requirements of a task.2.
    • Be able to complete a task.3.
    • Be able to review a task.
    10

    Completing a workplace task

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to complete a workplace task.2.
    • Be able to review a workplace task.
    11

    Conduct and personal presentation for work

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Present self appropriately in a work setting.2. Conduct self appropriately in a work setting.
    12

    Conduct at Work

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to conduct self appropriately in a work setting.
    • Be able to review own conduct in a work setting.
    13

    Contributing to tasks

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to help complete tasks.
    14

    Contributing to the community

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to contribute to the community.2.
    • Be able to assess own contribution to the community.
    15

    Contributing to workplace tasks

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to engage in work place activity.
    16

    Customer service skills

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know about good customer service.2.
    • Be able to interact with customers.3.
    • Be able to perform customer service tasks.
    17

    Dealing with problems

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to arrive at a solution to a problem or issue.2.
    • Be able to apply a strategy to address a problem or issue.
    18

    Dealing with Work-related Problems

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to recognise when they have a problem in the workplace.
    • Be able to seek help in solving a workplace problem.
    • Be able to work with others to solve a work-related problem.
    19

    Digital Skills for Everyday Life

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to use digital skills to handle information outside of the work environment.2.
    • Be able to create and edit digital content outside of the work environment.3.
    • Be able to use digital skills to communicate outside of the work environment.4.
    • Be able to go online and use digital devices safely and responsibly outside of the work environment.5.
    • Be able to respond to technical problems outside of the work environment.
    20

    Digital skills for work

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Use digital skills and/or devices in a work environment.2.
    • Use digital skills and/or devices to communicate in a work environment.
    21

    Direct Own Support

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know when they are likely to need support.
    • Be able to request support from appropriate sources.
    • Be able to make informed choices about their own support.
    • Be able to give instructions to people providing support.
    • Be able to ask for support to be adjusted.
    • Know how support can benefit them.
    22

    Direct own support in the workplace

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know about own support needs in the workplace.2.
    • Be able to request support in the workplace.3.
    • Be able to give instructions to people providing support in the workplace.4.
    • Be able to make use of support in the workplace.5.
    • Be able to ask for support to be adjusted.
    23

    Exploring and Presenting Enterprise Ideas

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to discuss ideas for an enterprise activity.2.
    • Be able to select an enterprise idea.3.
    • Be able to present an idea for an enterprise activity to others.
    24

    Exploring Entrepreneurship

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know what makes a successful entrepreneur.2.
    • Be able to assess own suitability for enterprise.
    25

    Exploring the world of work

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know about working life.2.
    • Know about areas of work.
    26

    Finding jobs

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know who can help them to find a job.2.
    • Be able to identify jobs of interest to self.
    27

    Following Instructions

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to follow instructions.
    28

    Handling money

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to carry out transactions.2.
    • Know how to keep money safe.3.
    • Be able to access own money.
    29

    Health and Safety in the Workplace

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know about roles and responsibilities for health and safety in the workplace.2.
    • Know how to identify and control risks from hazards in the workplace.3.
    • Know procedures for responding to accidents and incidents in the workplace.
    30

    Healthy eating

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know about healthy eating.2.
    • Be able to assess own eating habits.3.
    • Be able to make healthy choices in relation to diet.
    31

    Identifying Own Starting Point

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know their likes, dislikes and interests in relation to learning.
    • Know the support they need.
    • Know the skills they already have and those they would like to develop.
    • Know in what circumstances they learn best.
    • Know their own strengths and weaknesses.
    32

    Independent travel

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to plan journeys.2.
    • Be able to travel safely.3.
    • Know what to do when a journey does not go according to plan.
    33

    Interview Skills

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to prepare for an interview.2.
    • Be able to present self positively at an interview.3.
    • Be able to review own performance in an interview.
    34

    Introduction to Self-Employment

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know about self-employment.2.
    • Know about planning for self-employment.3.
    • Know about income and expenditure.
    35

    Keeping safe online

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to keep safe online.2.
    • Be able to inform others when they feel unsafe or upset online.3.
    • Be able to demonstrate positive online behaviour.
    36

    Knowing How You Learn

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to communicate own likes and dislikes about learning.
    • Know own strengths and areas for development.
    • Be able to express preferences about how they learn.
    • Be able to indicate own support needs.
    37

    Looking after own mental wellbeing

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to support own mental wellbeing.2.
    • Be able to cope in different situations.3.
    • Be able to access support for mental wellbeing.
    38

    Looking after your own home

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to carry out key household tasks.2.
    • Know about the support available for helping people to live as independently as possible.
    39

    Making choices

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to recognise the options from which they can choose.2.
    • Be able to seek support and/or information to help them make a choice.3.
    • Be able to select the most appropriate option.4.
    • Be able to recognise the consequences of their choices.
    40

    Making Choices about Learning

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to make suggestions about what they want to learn.
    • Know that different activities provide opportunities for different sorts of learning.
    • Be able to make choices between given learning options.
    41

    Making Support Work for You

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to indicate their need for support.
    • Know where they can get support.
    • Be able to work with providers of support.
    • Be able to indicate satisfaction or dissatisfaction with support being provided.
    42

    Making the most of work placement

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to prepare for a work placement.2.
    • Be able to identify what they want to achieve through the work placement.3.
    • Be able to identify learning from the work placement.4.
    • Be able to review own performance during work placement.
    43

    Managing money

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to identify income and expenditure.2.
    • Be able to recognise potential threats to own money management.3.
    • Be able to identify sources of help in managing money.
    44

    Negotiation skills

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to communicate own wants, needs and views to others.2.
    • Be able to listen to the wants, needs or views of others.3.
    • Be able to agree ways forward at the end of a negotiation process.
    45

    Numeracy skills for work

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to use numeracy skills in a work context.
    46

    Personal safety

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to keep safe in own home.2.
    • Be able to keep safe when in the community.3.
    • Be able to identify people who can help if they feel unsafe.
    47

    Preparing for the Future

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know about some options for the future.
    • Be able to express preferences about options for the future.
    • Be able to engage in learning activities which will help them develop skills for the future.
    48

    Presenting information about self to an employer

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to present information about self to an employer
    49

    Recognising Own Achievements

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know what constitutes achievement in relation to their own targets or goals.
    • Communicate about their achievements.
    50

    Review Own Support

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to reflect on how well support is meeting their needs.
    • Be able to recognise when support needs have changed.
    • Know the benefits of being involved in setting up and managing own support package.
    51

    Reviewing and Reflecting on Own Progress

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know how the skills and knowledge they are developing are helping them to progress towards aims, goals or targets.
    • Know in which aspects of their programme they have made progress and where they have not.
    • Know what may be holding them back from making progress.
    • Be able to respond positively to the feedback of others.
    52

    Reviewing and reflecting on own progress towards employment

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to review own progress towards employment goals.2.
    • Be able to respond positively to feedback from others.3.
    • Be able to identify next steps towards achieving own employment goals.
    53

    Rights and responsibilities

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know about their rights.2.
    • Know about their responsibilities.
    54

    Searching for a Job

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to find out about job vacancies.2.
    • Know how to take a pro-active approach to job search.
    55

    Self-advocacy

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to say what they think and feel.2.
    • Be able to state choices and express preferences.3.
    • Be able to make requests and suggestions.4.
    • Be able to challenge others.
    56

    Self-awareness

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to identify what makes them individual.2.
    • Be able to express themselves as an individual.
    57

    Self-Management Skills for Work

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to demonstrate good time-keeping.2.
    • Be able to work in an organised manner.3.
    • Be able to manage own feelings and behaviours.4.
    • Be able to review own self-management skills.
    58

    Setting and Meeting Work-Related Targets

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to set a personal target relating to work.2.
    • Be able to review progress towards a personal target.
    59

    Setting Targets

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know the purpose of target-setting.
    • Be able to negotiate personal targets.
    • Be able to negotiate dates for target completion.
    • Understand their own targets.
    60

    Setting work-related targets

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to suggest areas of focus for work-related targets.2.
    • Know own work-related targets.
    61

    Solving Work-Related Problems

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to select solutions to a work-related problem or issue.2.
    • Be able to apply a strategy to address a work-related problem or issue.
    62

    Speaking up for yourself

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to express thoughts and feelings.2.
    • Be able to make choices and express preferences.3.
    • Be able to make requests.4.
    • Be able to ask questions.
    63

    Starting a New Experience

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know why they are starting a new learning experience.
    • Know how their time in the setting will be structured.
    • Be able to apply existing skills in a new context.
    • Be able to interact with peers in a new context.
    • Review the new experience.
    64

    Starting a New Learning Experience

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know why they are starting a new learning experience.
    • Be able to apply existing skills within the new learning experience.
    • Know how their time will be structured to enable them to learn.
    • Interact with their peers in the new learning experience.
    • Review the new learning experience.
    65

    Starting Out on a New Learning Experience

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know the key people involved in their learning.
    • Be able to recognise their new surroundings.
    • Know that they are starting a new learning experience.
    • Be able to respond to a new learning experience.
    66

    Taking exercise

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to select form of exercise.2.
    • Be able to prepare self for exercise.3.
    • Be able to engage in exercise.
    67

    Time Management

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to manage their time while working or studying.2.
    • Be able to review their time management.
    68

    Understanding relationships

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know about types of relationship.2.
    • Be able to communicate in relationships.3.
    • Be able to respond to others in relationships.
    69

    Understanding self in an employability context

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to express own wishes and goals in relation to employment.2.
    • Be able to identify relevant prior experience and/or knowledge of work and/or the workplace.3.
    • Be able to identify own strengths and weaknesses in relation to employment.4.
    • Be able to contribute to own development plan.
    70

    Understanding the world of work

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know the benefits of working.2.
    • Know about ways of working.3.
    • Know about areas of work.4.
    • Know about sources of information, advice and guidance about work.
    71

    Using money

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to pay for items.2.
    • Be able to keep means of payment safe.3.
    • Be able to access own money.
    72

    Using social and leisure facilities

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to access social and leisure facilities within the community.2.
    • Be able to use social and leisure facilities.3.
    • Be able to express a view about social and leisure facilities in the community.
    73

    Using tools or equipment in the workplace

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to select tools or equipment for tasks associated with a specific job role.2.
    • Be able to use tools or equipment to complete workplace tasks.3.
    • Be able to deal with tools or equipment after use.
    74

    Working in a team

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to work as a team member.2.
    • Be able to contribute to completing an activity as part of a team.3.
    • Be able to review a team activity.
    75

    Working safely

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know about health and safety procedures at work.2.
    • Be able to follow health and safety procedures at work.3.
    • Be able to behave in a safe and responsible way in a work setting.
    76

    Working with Colleagues

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to work positively with colleagues.
    77

    Working with Customers

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to work with customers.
    78

    Working with others in the workplace

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know their colleagues.2.
    • Be able to work with colleagues.

    Regulatory & Verification Details

    Qualification Number (QN)
    603/4520/2
    Regulated Status
    Available to learners
    Awarding Body
    Gateway Qualifications
    Qualification Type
    Other Life Skills Qualification
    Operational Start
    May 2019

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