Your work situation must give you the opportunity to be involved in a range of learning support, facilitation, design, evaluative and management related tasks, which may include:

• working with individuals to identify their learning aims and agree learning programmes
• designing and developing learning programmes
• preparing resources to support learning
• managing the contribution of other people to the learning process
• carrying out presentations, demonstrations, instruction and coaching
• evaluating and improving programmes
• supporting and advising individual learners
• candidate assessment
• providing basic skills training.

To achieve the qualification the candidate must complete twelve units in total. These are drawn from eight mandatory units and four optional units.

7 mandatory units:

• Contribute to learning with the organisation (G2)
• Evaluate and develop own practice (G3)
• Design learning programmes (L4)
• Agree learning programmes with learners (L5)
• Manage the contribution of other people to the learning process (L8)
• Create a climate that promotes learning (L9)
• Evaluate and improve learning and development programmes (L17)

Plus either of the following two units:

• Identify the learning and development needs of the organisation (L2)
• Identify individual learning aims and programmes (L3)

And 4 optional units from:

• Prepare and develop resources to support learning (L7)
• Enable group learning (L13)
• Support learners by mentoring in the workplace (L14)
• Support and advise individual learners (L15)
• Monitor and review progress with learners (L16)
• Respond to changes in learning and development (L18)
• Provide learning and development in international settings (L19)
• Support competence achieved in the workplace (L20)
• Plan how to provide basic skills in the workplace (L21)
• Introduce training for basic skills in the workplace (L22)
• Assess candidates using a range of methods (A1)
• Assess candidates' performance through observation (A2)
• Conduct internal quality assurance of the assessment process (V1)