Ascentis Level 1 Certificate in Employability

Qualification Overview

This qualification is designed to build the confidence and self-esteem of learners. It also seeks to encourage the development of values, personal attributes and interpersonal skills that contribute to success in the workplace. As this qualification focuses on generic workplace skills, it also meets the needs of employers for staff by developing learners’ understanding of relationships in the workplace and employer expectations.

This qualification incorporates mandatory units in key areas such as presentation, communication and team working and offers further transferable skills in its optional units which include such topics as money management, health and safety, customer care and problem solving.

There are several features of this qualification that make it very appropriate for its target learners:

• Unit certification is available for each of the units.
• Verification and certification can be offered throughout the year, allowing maximum flexibility for centres.
• Can be delivered either as a classroom-based course or as a blended learning programme.
• Evidence can be generated within a wide range of organisational contexts allowing the qualification to meet the specific occupational requirements of the learners.

Aims

The aims of this qualification are to:

• give learners confidence.
• enable learners to overcome barriers to entering the workplace.
• provide essential skills for further learning or for the workplace.
• improve work prospects and cultivate positive attitudes to work.

Target Group

• Learners who may have been out of work for a long period of time
• Learners who need to update their skills to re-enter the workplace
• Learners needing to demonstrate readiness for the workplace
• Learners who may be entering the workplace for the first time

Assessment

All units are internally assessed through the learner building up a portfolio of evidence that covers the relevant assessment criteria, internally assessed and verified by the centre and then externally verified by Ascentis.