SEG Awards
Level 3
QN: 603/5562/1
Curriculum Active
SEG Awards Level 3 Diploma in Youth Work Practice (England)
Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by SEG Awards. Classified as a Vocationally-Related Qualification. Total guided learning hours: 619 hours.
Qualification Level
Level 3
Awarding Body
SEG Awards
Syllabus Units
36 Units
Guided Hours
619 hrs
Instant access to interactive lessons, quizzes, and spaced revision.
Course Syllabus & Study Modules
Complete breakdown of verified curriculum topics and learning objectives.
1
Anti-Discriminatory Practice in Youth Work
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand anti-discriminatory practice in youth work.2.
- Understand how anti-discriminatory practice impacts on youth work delivery.3.
- Understand prejudice and discrimination.4.
- Understand how to evaluate personal practice in relation to anti-discriminatory practice.
2
Detached and Outreach Youth Work
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand detached and outreach youth work.2.
- Understand the skills and knowledge required to be a detached and outreach worker.3.
- Understand the importance of power and relationships for detached and outreach youth work.4.
- Understand how practice, legislation and organisational needs affect detached and outreach youth work.5.
- Create a plan for detached and outreach youth work.6.
- Be able to implement a plan for detached and outreach youth work.7.
- Be able to record detached and outreach sessions.8.
- Evaluate the impact of detached and outreach sessions.9.
- Be able to reflect on professional detached and outreach practice.
3
Effective Outcomes-Based Youth Work
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the principles of outcomes-based youth work.2.
- Understand the importance of identifying outcomes for youth work.3.
- Be able to plan
- implement and evaluate an outcomes-based youth work programme.
- Understand how to communicate the outcomes of a programme to key stakeholders.
4
Engaging and Communicating with Young People
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the importance of building professional relationships with young people in youth work.2.
- Understand the different ways of engaging with young people.3.
- Understand the importance of good communication skills for youth work activities.
- Be able to communicate with young people to develop a professional relationship.5.
- Be able to support young people in engaging with the local community.
- Understand how to support young people’s information needs.
5
Exploring Values, Beliefs and Spiritual Development within a Youth Work Setting
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand values, beliefs and spiritual development in a youth work setting.
- Facilitate the exploration of values, beliefs and spiritual development in a youth work setting.
- Understand the role of faith communities in the exploration of values, beliefs and spiritual development in a youth work setting.
- Understand and evaluate youth work within a faith based context.
6
Facilitate the Learning and Development of Young People through Mentoring
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the principles of mentoring young people
- Understand how to facilitate the learning and development needs of young people through mentoring.3.
- Be able to support young people to address their individual learning and development needs.4.
- Be able to promote the wellbeing, resilience and achievement of young people through mentoring.5.
- Understand the boundaries of a mentoring relationship.6.
- Understand how to review the effectiveness of the mentoring process.
7
Facilitating Youth Trips and Residentials
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the benefits of young people participating in trips and residentials.2.
- Understand legislation, policy and safeguarding requirements for youth trips and residentials.3.
- Be able to plan youth trips or residentials.4.
- Be able to use facilitation and evaluation in trips and residentials to enable learners to self-assess and reframe their learning.5.
- Be able to work as part of a team during a youth trip or residential.
8
Group Work within a Youth Work Setting
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the importance of group membership.2.
- Understand group work theory.3.
- Understand the appropriate use of leadership styles within groups.4.
- Understand how to manage conflict in a group work setting.5.
- Be able to evaluate a programme of group work activities.6.
- Be able to evaluate own role in the delivery of a programme of group work activities.
9
Loneliness and Isolation for Young People
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand what is meant by youth loneliness and isolation.2.
- Understand how to address youth loneliness and isolation in youth work settings.3.
- Plan and deliver a programme to focus on youth loneliness and isolation with young people as co-designers and co-facilitators.4.
- Evaluate own practice and approaches to tackling youth loneliness and isolation.
10
Managing a Budget within a Youth Work Setting
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to identify budgetary requirements.2.
- Be able to set a budget.3.
- Be able to manage a budget.4.
- Be able to evaluate the use of a budget.
11
Managing Performance in a Youth Work Setting
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the role, functions and processes of management
- Understand the role of management in a youth work setting
- Understand performance management in a youth work setting
12
Principles of Supporting Young People with regard to Relationships and Sexual Health
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the issues that may affect young people with regard to relationships and sexual health.2.
- Understand how to support young people in regard to relationships and sexual health.
13
Referrals and Signposting in Youth Work Settings
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how youth work supports the referral of young people.2.
- Understand the referral options that are available for young people.3.
- Be able to support young people through a referral process.
14
Reflective Practice in a Youth Work Setting
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the principles of reflective practice in youth work.2.
- Be able to undertake self-directed reflection on own practice and continuing professional development.3.
- Be able to use reflection to develop own and others practice.4.
- Be able to maintain continuous professional development opportunities that support own youth work practice.
15
Safeguarding in a Youth Work Setting
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Know about the importance of safeguarding policies and procedures, in providing a safe environment for young people.2.
- Know about roles and responsibilities in relation to keeping young people, vulnerable adults, self and colleagues safe in youth work settings.3.
- Be able to assess risk in a youth work setting.
- Understand how to safeguard young people when using contemporary technologies.5.
- Understand how youth work can help protect young people.
16
Social Action
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand Social Action.
- Understand key elements of Social Action Projects with young people.
- Understand how to address challenges when delivering Social Action projects.
- Understanding team work and leadership when developing a Social Action project.5.
- Understand the impact of Social Action projects in the community.
- Be able to implement a Social Action project with young people.
17
Supervision in the Youth Work Context
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the range of roles and functions of supervision.2.
- Understand organisational arrangements for providing supervision.3.
- Understand the requirements for a successful supervision environment.4.
- Understand the importance of reflective practice and its application to youth work.5.
- Be able to undertake a supervision session in the supervisor role.
18
Support Young People to Achieve their Learning Potential
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand legislation and policies that affect young people’s education and learning.2.
- Be able to support young people to learn and achieve.3.
- Understand to work with others to support young people to achieve learning outcomes.4.
- Be able to work with young people to make the most of learning opportunities.
19
Support Young People who are Looked After or are Leaving Care
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the issues affecting young people who are looked after or leaving care.2.
- Be able to support young people who are looked after or leaving care.3.
- Know about the statutory and legal frameworks in relation to young people who are looked after or leaving care.
20
Support Young People who are not in Employment, Education or Training or that have been Excluded from School
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the issues affecting young people not in education, employment, training or that have been excluded from school.2.
- Be able to support young people who are not in employment, education or training or excluded from school.
21
Support Young People who are Refugees or Seeking Asylum
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the issues affecting young people who are refugees or seeking asylum.2.
- Understand how to support young people who are refugees or seeking asylum.3.
- Understand the statutory and legal frameworks in relation to protecting young people who are refugees or seeking asylum.
22
Support Young People’s Transition to Independence
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the way that young people move from dependence to independence.2.
- Understand how to support young people to prepare for the practical challenges of independence.3.
- Understand how to prepare young people for the emotional challenge of independence.4.
- Be able to prepare young people to assess personal risks and protect themselves.5.
- Understand how to support young people’s information and guidance needs when moving toward independence.
23
Supporting Young People with Disabilities and/or Diverse Learning Needs within a Youth Work Setting
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the needs of young people with disabilities and/or diverse learning needs.2.
- Know the rights of young people with disabilities and those with diverse learning needs.3.
- Be able to contribute to the inclusion of young people with disabilities and diverse learning needs in the youth work setting.
- Be able to support young people with disabilities and those with diverse learning needs to participate in a full range of activities and experiences.
24
Theory of Youth Work
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the key purpose and role of youth work.
- Understand key principles of youth work.
- Understand the role of youth work in the young person’s local community.
- Understand different models of youth work delivery.
- Understand the skills, knowledge, qualities and values required to practice.
- Understand own skills, knowledge, qualities and values required to practice.
25
Trauma Informed Approaches to Youth Work
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the effects of trauma.
- Understand the principle concepts of trauma informed practice.
- Understand the term ‘Adverse Childhood Experiences’ (ACEs)
- Understand how to create open dialogue and engage sensitively with a young person according to their needs.5.
- Understand how to utilise trauma informed approaches to encourage development of resilience and self-esteem.
- Understanding the impact of secondary trauma.
- Understand how to facilitate empowerment.
26
Understand how to Manage Staff in a Youth Work Setting
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the principles of staff management in a youth work setting.2.
- Understand how to promote and maintain effective working relationships.3.
- Understand how to manage conflict within a team.4.
- Understand how to manage staff and volunteers in a youth work setting.5.
- Understand how to review own management role and areas for development.
27
Understand how Youth Work can Support Young People who are Experiencing Poverty
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the factors that can affect young people in relation to poverty.2.
- Understand how youth work can support young people experiencing poverty.3.
- Understand how poverty may impact young people’s development.4.
- Understand how young people can be supported in relation to poverty.
28
Understand how Youth Work can Support Young People who Misuse Substances
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand substance mis
- Understand the impact of substance mis
- use on young people and the youth work provision.3.
- Understand how youth work supports young people who mis
- use substances.4.
- Understand the boundaries that apply to youth workers when working with young people who mis
- use substances.
29
Understand how Youth Work can Support Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the issues affecting young people’s mental health and wellbeing.
- Understand how to support young people’s mental health and wellbeing.
- Know about the statutory and legal frameworks in relation to young people’s mental health and wellbeing.4.
- Understand the role of the youth worker to support young people’s mental health and wellbeing.
30
Understand how Youth Work Supports Young People who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender or Questioning (LGBTQ+)
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the issues affecting young people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and/or questioning (LGBTQ+).2.
- Understand how youth work can support young people who are LGBTQ+.
31
Work with Young People Involved in or Impacted by Youth Violence, Criminal Activities and Exploitation
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the underlying issues contributing to involvement in or impact of youth violence and/or criminal activities.2.
- Understand how to use youth work skills to support young people impacted by youth violence, child criminal exploitation and child sexual exploitation.3. Evidence understanding of the impact of youth violence, youth criminal activity, child criminal exploitation and child sexual exploitation.4.
- Understand the local and national frameworks for working with young people involved in youth violence, criminal activity, child criminal exploitation or child sexual exploitation.
32
Work-based Practice in Youth Work
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to use the principles and practice of participation and empowerment to plan activities with young people in a work based setting.
- Understand the structure of a specific group
- Be able to deliver a youth work programme based on participation processes.4.
- Be able to work effectively within a group activity.5.
- Be able to evaluate practice following the delivery of youth work programmes.
33
Working with Behaviour that Challenges in Youth Work Settings
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand what is meant by conflict and challenging behaviour.2.
- Be able to de-escalate conflict and behaviour that challenges in youth work settings.3.
- Understand the role of feedback in relation to changed behaviour in a youth work setting.4.
- Understand when support is required in managing conflict and behaviour that challenges.5.
- Be able to develop own practice in relation to conflict and behaviour that challenges.
34
Young People’s Development
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how young people develop during adolescence.2.
- Understand how knowledge of adolescence impacts on youth work.3.
- Know where young people can get support during adolescence.
35
Young People’s Participation in Youth Work
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand young people’s participation in a youth work setting.2.
- Understand how young people’s participation is evidenced in youth work.3.
- Be able to support and promote young people’s participation in youth work.4.
- Be able to evaluate personal practice in relation to young people’s participation.
36
Youth Work in Digital Spaces and Places
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand Digital Communities.2.
- Understand how digitalisation and digital transformation impacts young people, the youth work sector and youth work practice.
- Understand key principles in relation to working with young people in digital spaces and places.
Regulatory & Verification Details
- Qualification Number (QN)
- 603/5562/1
- Regulated Status
- Available to learners
- Awarding Body
- SEG Awards
- Qualification Type
- Vocationally-Related Qualification
- Operational Start
- Apr 2020