Gateway Qualifications Level 2 Award in Employability Skills

Rules of Combination

Learners must complete a minimum of 6 credits of which 4 credits must be at Level 2.

The units have been clustered according to subject content. All units are optional. Units can be selected from any of the groups or from a single group where there are sufficient credits.

Learners cannot include more than one unit with the same title (e.g. a learner may not include Entry 3 Interview Skills and Level 1 Interview Skills).

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Units

Internal quality assessor requirements

DCS status for centres previously approved to offer the legacy version of this qualification can retain DCS status for this qualification subject to ongoing maintaining standards through external quality assurance monitoring.

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What is the purpose of this qualification?

The Gateway Qualifications suite of Employability Skills qualifications have been developed at Entry 3, Level 1 and Level 2.

The qualifications offer the generic transferrable employability skills needed for employment such as Working in a Team, Communication Skills for Work.

Learners have a free choice of units. This is to ensure that their learning programmes can be tailored to suit their individual needs

The qualifications are designed to enable a learner either to progress directly into employment or into learning at a higher level as part of a progression pathway towards employment in a specific sector. They have been designed to complement learning in specific sectors where there is a need for the learner to obtain additional employability skills alongside sector-specific skills.

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What skills, knowledge, or understanding does this qualification develop?

This qualification has a choice of units that focus on employability skills that are needed in the workplace such as working with customers, managing their time, problem-solving and getting on with colleagues.

There are no mandatory units, enabling learners and providers to work together to select units appropriate to the individual’s needs, interests and aspirations for employment.

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How is this qualification different from other, similar qualifications?

There is a Gateway Qualifications Award and Certificate in Employability Skills at Level 2. The Award is designed to meet the needs of learners who would benefit from a short accredited programme focused on employability skills. It can provide a useful structure for the ‘work preparation training’ component of a traineeship where initial assessment has identified the need for a trainee to focus on employability skills, particularly where the lack of these is seen as a key barrier to gaining work.

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Which sector does this qualification support?

This qualification supports progression to entry-level job roles across sectors.

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Which job roles does this qualification support?

This qualification supports progression to entry-level job roles across sectors.

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Progression & entry requirements

Learners do not need any prior qualifications or specific level of attainment to take this qualification and it is available to learners of any age.

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Funding information

There are now two main sources for funding information, a straightforward ESFA Qualification Search and the more detailed Find a Learning Aim website.

The new Find a learning aim (FALA) service provides a search tool that you can use to check the funding status of any qualification, framework, unit, standard or T Level:

View this qualification on the ESFA’s Find a learning aim website

The Education and Skills Funding Agency search provides funding information on qualifications. It does not provide funding information for units, non-regulated activity and work placements, for this information please use Find a learning aim (FALA).

View this qualification on the ESFA Qualification Funding Search

How to find a learning aim

If you’re not sure how to use the new find a learning aim website, we’ve created a handy walkthrough to help you:

How to Use: Find a learning Aim

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We have done our best to collate and summarise the key information, and wherever possible we alert our providers to changes in funding policy.

This funding information is provided in good faith and it is always advisable to check directly with the funding agencies before committing to delivery.

A free resource pack is available for this qualification.

We have pre-selected some of the most popular units used in short courses for adults and created a resource pack to support online, blended and face-to-face teaching and learning.

Units in this qualification with resources:

• Working in a Team
• Digital Skills for Work

Each pack contains:

• Teacher Delivery Guide – This guide summarises the delivery of the units and helps provide a structured, blended approach to the delivery of the units for face-to-face, remote delivery, or a mixture of both. The teaching and learning activities included can be adapted to meet the diverse needs and profile of learners.
• Learner Pack – This pack includes guidance for learning activities which will help learners to think about what they have been discussing with the teacher and the rest of the group. There are also assessment tasks which can be used as evidence for the qualification. Finally, there are checklists where learners can assess their own skills development and progress and record sheets for activities observed by the teacher.
• Teacher Resource PowerPoint – a ready-to-deliver PowerPoint presentation for each unit, featuring videos and activities for learners, along with comprehensive notes for teaching staff.

These resources are available free of charge to Centres approved with Gateway Qualifications. They can be downloaded from our Prism system and can be found on the “Documents” tab of the relevant qualification.

Watch our short video for step-by-step guidance on how to access them.