Business Administration OCR NVQ Level 3

Summary:

Who is the course for?

The programme is ideal for you if:

- you work in an administrative field;- your work is either paid or voluntary;
- you have skills which you have gained at work but you don't have any formal qualifications to show for them;
- you wish to improve your career prospects with a formal qualification which show your skills and abilities.

There are no other entry requirements.

What is an NVQ?

An NVQ (National Vocational Qualification) formally recognises the skills and achievements you have attained in the workplace.

An NVQ in Business and Administration is not academic study, nor is it undertaken in a classroom environment. There are also no exams. It is a competency-based process whereby you will gather evidence of tasks and achievements from your workplace enrironment.

In order to receive recognition for the work you do, you gather evidence over a period of up to one year.

All the evidence is then placed in a portfolio (folder of work) for assessment.

The evidence may be, for example, emails you have sent; work you've typed up; systems you have implemented or changes you have made at work.

How does it work?

Once you have started on the programme you will be put in touch with an NVQ Assessor who will be your mentor throughout your programme. He/she will visit you at your place of work regularly - normally once per month for about two hours.

During that time you will be shown how to gather evidence and what you need to do. After every visit you will be given a list of action points to follow up on in order for your NVQ to progress.

What are the programme aims?

You will aim to work towards gathering evidence for 6 administrative units overall. Two of these units are set and are mandatory (not optional), then you can choose four more units from a host of options. It is best to choose your optional units so that they best match the work you do. The full list of optional units to choose your four units from are as follows:

- Ensure your own actions reduce risks to health and safety (if you are involved in Health and Safety at work).- Manage diary systems (if you control other people's or room-booking diaries).- Organise business travel and accommodation (if you organise other people's travel arrangements and hotel bookings).- Use IT systems (if you set up hardware, and update software).- Use IT to exchange information (if you use MS Outlook or similar and the internet frequently).- Database software (if you use MS Access or similar frequently and to a high standard).- Presentation software (if you use MS Powerpoint or similar frequently and to a high standard).- Specialist or bespoke software (if you use a company-based database frequently and to a high standard).- Supervise an office facility (if you frequently oversee facilities such as desks/faxes/photocopiers in your place of work).- Procure products and services (if you often call in services such as maintenance people, or bring in products to your workplace such as stationery).- Manage and evaluate customer relations (if you deal with customers a great deal and act on feedback from them).- Managing payroll function.
- Completing year-end procedures.
- Monitor information systems (if you oversee the use of filing systems - paper and/or IT based).- Run projects (if you oversee projects which have targets and a set timescale).- Research, analyse and report information (if you often have to search out information, like statistics and results).- Plan, organise and support meetings.
- Make a presentaiton.
- Organise and co-ordinate events (such as funtions or conferences).- Word processing software Level 3 (if you work frequently on MS Word or similar to an advanced level).- Spreadsheet software (if you work frequently on MS Excel or similar to an advanced level).- Website software (if you have worked on creating/designing websites as part of your job).- Artwork and imaging software (if you work frequently on MS Publisher or Photoshop or similar to produce quality documents).- Design and produce documents (if you often produce leaflets or newsletters to a high visual standard).- Plan and implement innovation and change (you actively work to change and improve situations in your workplace).- Develop productive working relationships with colleagues (you work well with colleagues at all levels).- Provide leadership for your team (you frequently lead others to achieve).- Prepare text from notes (you often have to create type-written documents from others notes).- Prepare text from shorthand.
- Prepare text from audio instruction.

Please contact the Advice Shop for details of costs and start dates.

Please note that although the information given is believed to be correct at the time of publication, course information, costs where applicable and attendance details may change.