Prgramme Aim
The Business Support NVQ Level 4 is about providing support to clients who are setting up or developing businesses. Candidates will be maintaining effective business relationships, helping clients to analyse their business and encouraging and supporting clients to implement changes to their business. Candidates will develop business support networks and evaluate and develop their own practice in relation to business support. This qualification will recognise candidates’ existing skills and will develop the skills, knowledge and understanding needed to provide business support.
Business Support Framework
To achieve a full OCR Level 4 NVQ in Business Support, a candidate must complete the following eight mandatory units:
- BS 01 - Maintaining effective business support relationships with clients
- BS 02 - Helping the client to analyse the business and decide the way forward
- BS 03 - Enabling business support clients to implement changes in their business
- BS 04 - Encouraging business support clients to act for themselves
- BS 05 - Developing networks to provide access to information, support and resources
- BS 06 - Evaluating the quality of your the candidate’s practice in business support
- BS 07 - Developing the candidate’s own ability to provide business support
- BS 08 - Monitoring the performance of the business support service
A full specification of the NVQ framework can be found here.
Who are these qualifications for?
This qualification is about providing support to clients who are setting up or developing their business. It is for you if your role includes
- Initiating and maintaining effective business relationships
- Helping your clients to analyse their business and encouraging and supporting them to implement appropriate changes
- Developing your own business support networks
- Evaluating and developing your own practice in relation to business support
The qualification will recognise your existing skills and will develop the skills, knowledge and understanding you need to provide business support.
This qualification also forms part of the Skills Broker Standard.
Qualification Delivery
Every candidate will have a personal assessor allocated to them.
A typical journey towards achieving the qualification will involve:
- An initial meeting with your assessor and review of your existing skills/current role
- Observations by your assessor of you carrying out your role
- Gathering evidence to demonstrate that you meet the requirements of the qualification
- Working with your assessor and using self-study and development time efficiently
- A final professional discussion.
You would normally be expected to complete the qualification within 12 months.
What about development and training?
NVQs are concerned with how you perform at work, they do not depend on attendance on specific courses or programmes of study. Where you find a gap in your knowledge or performance you decide for yourself and/or in consultation with your Assessor and your Manager, how you will fill that gap.
WMQC is able to provide development workshops/mentoring where appropriate.
Want to know more?
If you would like further information or a free visit to discuss any aspect of the qualification, please contact us on:
Programme Manager
Linda Henry
024 7656 1500
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Programme Administrator
Jean Bevis
024 7656 1505
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