ProQual Level 5 Award in Leading Innovation in the Water & Environmental Industries Course in Islamabad || Registration Open

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Introduction

The Level 5 Award in Leading Innovation in the Water and Environmental Industries is aimed at candidates who wish to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of Innovation within the Water and Environmental Industries.

The Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF) is the single framework for regulated qualifications, the regulatory body for this qualification is the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual). This qualification is accredited onto the RQF.

Qualification Profile

Qualification title                      ProQual Level 5 Award in Leading Innovation in the

Water and Environmental Industries

Ofqual qualification number     603/4170/1 Level Level 5

Total qualification time             20 hours Credits   2 credits

Guided learning hours               16

Pass or fail

Assessment

Assessed and verified by centre staff

External quality assurance by ProQual verifiers

Qualification start date             25/2/2019 Qualification end date

Entry Requirements                                                                  

There are no formal entry requirements for this qualification. Centres should carry out an initial assessment of candidate skills and knowledge to identify any gaps and help plan the assessment.

Qualification Structure

To achieve the qualification candidates must complete ONE Mandatory unit.

Centre Requirements

Centres must be approved to offer this qualification. If your centre is not approved please complete and submit form ProQual Additional Qualification Approval Application.

Staff

Staff delivering this qualification must be appropriately qualified and occupationally competent.

Assessors/Internal Quality Assurance

For each competence-based unit centres must be able to provide at least one assessor and one internal quality assurance verifier who are suitably qualified for the specific occupational area. Assessors and internal quality assurance verifiers for competence-based units or qualifications will normally need to hold appropriate assessor or quality assurance verifier qualifications, such as:

• ProQual Level 3 Certificate in Teaching, Training and Assessing
• Award in Assessing Competence in the Work Environment
• Award in Assessing Vocationally Related Achievement
• Certificate in Assessing Vocational Achievement
• Award in the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practices
• Certificate in Leading the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practices

Support for Candidates

Materials produced by centres to support candidates should:

• enable them to track their achievements as they progress through the learning outcomes and assessment criteria;
• provide information on where ProQual’s policies and procedures can be viewed;
• provide a means of enabling Internal and External Quality Assurance staff to authenticate evidence

Assessment

Candidates must demonstrate the level of knowledge and/or skills described in the units.

Assessment is the process of measuring a candidate’s knowledge and understanding against

the standards set in the qualification.

Each candidate is required to produce evidence which demonstrates their achievement of all of the learning outcomes and assessment criteria for each unit.

Evidence could include:          –     observation report by assessor

• assignments/projects/reports
• professional discussion
• witness testimony
• record of oral and written questioning
• Recognition of Prior Learning

Learning outcomes set out what a candidate is expected to know, understand or be able to do. Assessment criteria specify the standard a candidate must meet to show the learning outcome has been achieved.

Learning outcomes and assessment criteria for this qualification can be found from page 7 onwards.

To achieve this qualification all candidates must produce evidence which demonstrates their achievement of all of the assessment criteria.

There must be valid, authentic and sufficient for all the assessment criteria. However, one piece of evidence may be used to meet the requirements of more than one learning outcome or assessment criterion.

Simulations are permitted where candidates, during the course of their qualification, are not able to provide evidence from naturally occurring events.

Internal Quality Assurance

An internal quality assurance verifier confirms that assessment decisions made in centres are made by competent and qualified assessors, that they are the result of sound and fair assessment practice and that they are recorded accurately and appropriately.

Adjustments to Assessment

Adjustments to standard assessment arrangements are made on the individual needs of candidates. ProQual’s Reasonable Adjustments Policy and Special Consideration Policy sets out the steps to follow when implementing reasonable adjustments and special considerations and the service that ProQual provides for some of these arrangements.

Centres should contact ProQual for further information or queries about the contents of the policy.

Results Enquiries and Appeals

All enquiries relating to assessment or other decisions should be dealt with by centres, with

reference to ProQual’s Enquiries and Appeals Procedures.

Certification

Candidates who achieve the requirements for qualifications will be awarded:

• A certificate listing the units achieved, and
• A certificate giving the full qualification title –

ProQual Level 5 Award in Leading Innovation in the Water and Environmental Industries

Claiming certificates

Centres may claim certificates for candidates who have been registered with ProQual and who have successfully achieved the requirements for a qualification. All certificates will be issued to the centre for successful candidates.

Unit certificates

If a candidate does not achieve all of the units required for a qualification, the centre may claim a unit certificate for the candidate which will list all of the units achieved.

Replacement certificates

If a replacement certificate is required a request must be made to ProQual in writing. Replacement certificates are labelled as such and are only provided when the claim has been authenticated. Refer to the Fee Schedule for details of charges for replacement certificates.

Learning Outcomes and Assessment Criteria

1        Understand Innovation and its purpose within their organisation

• Understand the stages of the innovation process
• Understand how personal skills and behaviours can promote innovation

• Provide a definition of innovation and concise explanation of the nature innovation
• Explain drivers for innovation within the water or environmental industry, to include regulatory, political, environmental, financial,
• Provide examples of innovation within the water or environmental industry, at a company and departmental level
• Explain the difference between various aspects of innovation, including:
  1. Process and technical innovation
  2. Radical/disruptive and incremental/ optimisation
  3. Business led (“Top down”) and individually proposed (“Bottom up”)
• Explain how each stage of the innovation process can be successfully applied to include:
  1. Identification of opportunity or need for innovation
  2. Identification of possible options/solutions for innovation (developing ideas and possibilities)
  3. Exploration and evaluation of options/possible solutions for innovation and the associated importance of iterative consultation with key stakeholders within the business to establish initial proposal
  4. Evaluation of scale, benefits and risks associated with proposed innovation
  5. Development and promotion of a business case and proposal for innovation and the associated importance of engagement with key stakeholders within the business
• Explain how organisation culture can support and promote the innovation process
• Explain specific innovation tools to apply at different stages of the innovation process
• Explain how personal skills and behaviours can be applied to promote innovation
• Critically evaluate their own innovation skills and behaviours in the context of their role

• Apply the principles and processes of innovation within their own role
• Establish a personal development plan to enhance their own innovation skills and behaviours
• Apply the innovation process in a manner relevant to their role
• Evaluate the outcome
• Identify lessons for future applications of the innovation process within their role and for the organisation as a whole

Assessment

There must be valid, authentic and sufficient for all the assessment criteria. However, one piece of evidence may be used to meet the requirements of more than one learning outcome or assessment criterion.

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