Level 4 Diploma in Advice and Guidance.pdf

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Level 4 Diploma in Advice and Guidance
Who is it for?
A qualification in Advice and Guidance can assist you in providing impartial
and confidential services in advice, guidance and advocacy, which plays an
essential role in encouraging and enabling people to manage their own lives.
The qualifications are relevant to those employed within, for example, career
guidance, the Connexions Service, children’s information services, youth work
and youth justice, housing and IAG partnerships, thereby enhancing the
quality of service delivered to clients.
The level 4 qualification is aimed at fully developed and experienced
practitioners who provide guidance and formal advocacy. Level 4 can take
up to 18 months to complete.
Level 4 Units:
Level Unit credit
Mandatory units
Develop interactions with advice and guidance clients 3 4
Manage personal case load 4 4
Evaluate and develop own contribution to the service 4 3
Operate within networks 4 3
Understand the importance of legislation and procedures 3 3
Optional units
Support clients to make use of the advice and guidance
service 2 3
Assist advice and guidance clients to decide on a course
of action 4 3
Prepare clients through advice and guidance for the
implementation of a course of action 4 3
Assist clients through advice and guidance to review their
achievement of a course of action 4 3
Advocate on behalf of advice and guidance clients 5 6
Prepare to represent advice and guidance clients in
formal proceedings 5 6
Present cases for advice and guidance clients in formal
proceedings 5 6
Negotiate on behalf of advice and guidance clients 5 5
Liaise with other services 3 3
Enable advice and guidance clients to access referral
opportunities 3 3
Undertake research for the service and its clients 4 5
Design information materials for use in the service 4 4
Provide and maintain information materials for use in the
service 4 3
Identify and promote the contribution of Careers
Education Guidance (CEG) within the organization 5 4
Integrate Careers Education Guidance (CEG) within the
curriculum 4 4
Promote Careers Education Guidance (CEG) 3 3
Negotiate and maintain service agreements 4 3
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Optional units cont Level Unit credit
Facilitate learning in groups 4 3
Prepare and set up mediation 4 4
Stage and manage the mediation process 5 8
Enable learning through demonstrations and instructions 3 3
Provide support for other practitioners 4 5
To achieve a Level 4 Diploma, learners must complete a minimum of 37 credits, of
which 17 credits must from mandatory Group A. The remaining minimum 20 credits
from the optional units in Group B. A minimum of 19 credits must be from Level 4 units.
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