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Counselling Skills (RQF) Level 3
- Grasp a comprehension of counselling skills
- Study the various approaches used in counselling
- Gain an understanding of self-development
- Start studying towards a new career
- Gain a nationally-recognised qualification
- Enhance your employability
About your Diploma
Talk therapies, like counselling, help people all over the country work through their mental health issues. Counselling is reflective, encouraging individuals to look at their past or process traumatic experiences. Whatever the root cause of someone’s issues, it can be a difficult – often painful experience and counselling helps the individual work through it.
By studying a level 3 Diploma in Counselling Skills you will get the opportunity to study how to approach relationships and communication with this approach in mind.
You will develop highly sophisticated communication skills to develop positive relationships alongside the core concepts of counselling. These skills and core concepts will help you should you wish to train to be a counsellor in the future.
This course includes the ethics and the issues of diversity and discrimination in relation to counselling.
Getting Started
This course will help you develop counselling skills and provide you with an understanding of how they can help individuals experiencing mental health issues.
The insight this course offers will help you in your interactions as well as possibly help someone experiencing difficulties. Please note, however, this course does not make you a qualified counsellor.
To start your studies all you need to do is enrol with Stonebridge Associated Colleges, a leading UK online learning provider. All your learning material will be waiting for you, just log in and start studying.
Because the course is all online, you are free to learn at the pace that suits you and your circumstances best. So, you can get your qualification in a matter of months should you choose to.
You will also get the support of a dedicated tutor who will mark your assignments, provide feedback and answer questions.
Qualification: NCFE Level 3 Diploma in Counselling Skills (RQF)
On successful completion of our NCFE Level 3 Diploma in Counselling Skills (RQF) course you will receive a qualification listed on the RQF at level 3 (Qualification Reference Number: (600/0727/8). This course has also been assigned 40 credits.
Professional Membership
On completion of this course you will be eligible to join the following Professional Associations(s):
Stonebridge is a NCFE CACHE registered Centre
NCFE CACHE is the UK's longest established awarding body, recognised as a highly professional and responsive organisation, committed to maintaining excellent customer service and a friendly approach.
NCFE CACHE is one of the UK’s fastest growing national awarding bodies, designing and awarding qualifications that are nationally recognised to meet the needs of learners and employers.
Accreditation by NCFE CACHE is a guarantee of quality. It means that the college has been inspected and approved by an independent and experienced education professional and is quality audited biannually by NCFE CACHE. The centre delivering the programmes has been licensed by NCFE CACHE on the basis of its own quality systems. At the end of an accredited course, successful learners will also receive an NCFE CACHE Award certificate of achievement.
NCFE CACHE provide a wide range of qualifications accredited by Ofqual at different levels and in a variety of subject areas. NCFE CACHE also offer NVQs, Key Skills, Basic Skills and Entry Level qualifications.
Accreditation by NCFE CACHE is a guarantee of quality. It means that the college has been inspected and approved by an independent and experienced education professional and is quality audited biannually by NCFE CACHE . The centre delivering the programmes has been licensed by NCFE CACHE on the basis of its own quality systems. At the end of an accredited course, successful learners will also receive an NCFE CACHE Award certificate of achievement.
Our NCFE CACHE accredited courses are accredited to various levels (from level 1 – level 5). These courses lead to a nationally recognised NCFE CACHE certificate for successful learners. That means that the course is independently accredited at a level of learning equivalent to that level on the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) for England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Last year over a quarter of a million learners from almost 1000 training organisations chose NCFE CACHE as the awarding body to help them move their careers forward.
If you would like to visit NCFE CACHE ’s website, please click here.
As this is a Level 3 qualification, learners will need to have a good standard of written and verbal communication skills (written skills, for example, would need to be at Level 2+).
Minimum age restriction
Learners must be age 16+ to enrol.
Average completion timeframe
You have 24 months to complete your course.
Assessement requirements
There is no practical placement involved in this course, however, learners will need to work with willing 'clients' in order to provide the correct audio/visual evidence, where necessary, throughout the units. You will need to complete case studies and various role play assessments.
Placement or Practical required
This course consists of online theory and roleplay activities.
Certification Timeframe
Learners typically receive their certification within 12 weeks, though this can be longer if an EQA sample is required.
All course fees, inclusive of all payment plans including our Premium Credit Limited option, must be settled before certification can be ordered.
*You will have access to the course for 24 months.
The units are broken down for you here so that you can see what your qualification will include. However, the assignments you complete have been designed so that you can complete multiple tasks together where possible and you will see a different number of assignments in your personal portfolio; you will still be completing the whole qualification.
Unit 1: Developing Counselling Skills
Upon completion of this unit you will:
- Understand how to establish a relationship using counselling skills
- Be able to establish a relationship using counselling skills
- Understand how to develop a relationship using counselling skills
- Be able to develop a relationship with counselling skills
- Understand how to conclude an interaction using counselling skills
- Be able to conclude an interaction using counselling skills
- Understand the development of own counselling skills
Unit 2: Theoretical Approaches in the use of Counselling Skills
Upon completion of this unit you will:
- Understand the core concepts of the main theoretical approaches to counselling
- What is meant by the integrative model
- Understand the importance of counselling theory
- Be able to apply theories in the use of counselling skills
- Be able to self-reflect using theoretical approaches
Unit 3: Working Ethically with Counselling Skills
Upon completion of this unit you will:
- Understand what is meant by an ethical framework
- Know how an ethical framework relates to the use of counselling skills
- Understand the importance of the setting in which counselling skills are used
- Understand the concepts of ethical referral
Unit 4: Counselling Skills and Diversity
Upon completion of this unit you will:
- Understand the meaning of discrimination
- Understand issues of diversity
- Understand power issues within the counselling process
Unit 5: Counselling Skills and Personal Development
Upon completion of this unit you will:
- Know own development needs
- Understand the process of personal development
- Understand group dynamics
- Understand the impact of personal development on others
- Be able to plan self-development
To be awarded the Level 3 Diploma in Counselling Skills learners are required to complete 5 mandatory units.
After each unit, there will be a question paper which needs to be completed and submitted to your assessor for marking.
This method of continual assessment ensures that your assessor can consistently monitor your progress and provide you with assistance throughout the course.
You should allow at least 1 - 2 hours of study to complete each question paper. The approximate amount of time required to complete the course is 400 hrs.
What's Included
- All study materials
- Study Guide
- Full Tutor and Admin support
- The course fee includes the awarding body registration and certification fee (valued at up to £75.00).
OUR PASS RATE
Healthcare
85.5%
(National Average 61.8%)
Counselling Skills (RQF) Level 3
- Grasp a comprehension of counselling skills
- Study the various approaches used in counselling
- Gain an understanding of self-development
- Start studying towards a new career
- Gain a nationally-recognised qualification
- Enhance your employability
About your Diploma
Talk therapies, like counselling, help people all over the country work through their mental health issues. Counselling is reflective, encouraging individuals to look at their past or process traumatic experiences. Whatever the root cause of someone’s issues, it can be a difficult – often painful experience and counselling helps the individual work through it.
By studying a level 3 Diploma in Counselling Skills you will get the opportunity to study how to approach relationships and communication with this approach in mind.
You will develop highly sophisticated communication skills to develop positive relationships alongside the core concepts of counselling. These skills and core concepts will help you should you wish to train to be a counsellor in the future.
This course includes the ethics and the issues of diversity and discrimination in relation to counselling.
Getting Started
This course will help you develop counselling skills and provide you with an understanding of how they can help individuals experiencing mental health issues.
The insight this course offers will help you in your interactions as well as possibly help someone experiencing difficulties. Please note, however, this course does not make you a qualified counsellor.
To start your studies all you need to do is enrol with Stonebridge Associated Colleges, a leading UK online learning provider. All your learning material will be waiting for you, just log in and start studying.
Because the course is all online, you are free to learn at the pace that suits you and your circumstances best. So, you can get your qualification in a matter of months should you choose to.
You will also get the support of a dedicated tutor who will mark your assignments, provide feedback and answer questions.
Healthcare
OUR PASS RATE
(National Average 61.8%)
85.5%
Qualification: NCFE Level 3 Diploma in Counselling Skills (RQF)
On successful completion of our NCFE Level 3 Diploma in Counselling Skills (RQF) course you will receive a qualification listed on the RQF at level 3 (Qualification Reference Number: (600/0727/8). This course has also been assigned 40 credits.
Professional Membership
On completion of this course you will be eligible to join the following Professional Associations(s):
Stonebridge is a NCFE CACHE registered Centre
NCFE CACHE is the UK's longest established awarding body, recognised as a highly professional and responsive organisation, committed to maintaining excellent customer service and a friendly approach.
NCFE CACHE is one of the UK’s fastest growing national awarding bodies, designing and awarding qualifications that are nationally recognised to meet the needs of learners and employers.
Accreditation by NCFE CACHE is a guarantee of quality. It means that the college has been inspected and approved by an independent and experienced education professional and is quality audited biannually by NCFE CACHE. The centre delivering the programmes has been licensed by NCFE CACHE on the basis of its own quality systems. At the end of an accredited course, successful learners will also receive an NCFE CACHE Award certificate of achievement.
NCFE CACHE provide a wide range of qualifications accredited by Ofqual at different levels and in a variety of subject areas. NCFE CACHE also offer NVQs, Key Skills, Basic Skills and Entry Level qualifications.
Accreditation by NCFE CACHE is a guarantee of quality. It means that the college has been inspected and approved by an independent and experienced education professional and is quality audited biannually by NCFE CACHE . The centre delivering the programmes has been licensed by NCFE CACHE on the basis of its own quality systems. At the end of an accredited course, successful learners will also receive an NCFE CACHE Award certificate of achievement.
Our NCFE CACHE accredited courses are accredited to various levels (from level 1 – level 5). These courses lead to a nationally recognised NCFE CACHE certificate for successful learners. That means that the course is independently accredited at a level of learning equivalent to that level on the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) for England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Last year over a quarter of a million learners from almost 1000 training organisations chose NCFE CACHE as the awarding body to help them move their careers forward.
If you would like to visit NCFE CACHE ’s website, please click here.
The units are broken down for you here so that you can see what your qualification will include. However, the assignments you complete have been designed so that you can complete multiple tasks together where possible and you will see a different number of assignments in your personal portfolio; you will still be completing the whole qualification.
Unit 1: Developing Counselling Skills
Upon completion of this unit you will:
- Understand how to establish a relationship using counselling skills
- Be able to establish a relationship using counselling skills
- Understand how to develop a relationship using counselling skills
- Be able to develop a relationship with counselling skills
- Understand how to conclude an interaction using counselling skills
- Be able to conclude an interaction using counselling skills
- Understand the development of own counselling skills
Unit 2: Theoretical Approaches in the use of Counselling Skills
Upon completion of this unit you will:
- Understand the core concepts of the main theoretical approaches to counselling
- What is meant by the integrative model
- Understand the importance of counselling theory
- Be able to apply theories in the use of counselling skills
- Be able to self-reflect using theoretical approaches
Unit 3: Working Ethically with Counselling Skills
Upon completion of this unit you will:
- Understand what is meant by an ethical framework
- Know how an ethical framework relates to the use of counselling skills
- Understand the importance of the setting in which counselling skills are used
- Understand the concepts of ethical referral
Unit 4: Counselling Skills and Diversity
Upon completion of this unit you will:
- Understand the meaning of discrimination
- Understand issues of diversity
- Understand power issues within the counselling process
Unit 5: Counselling Skills and Personal Development
Upon completion of this unit you will:
- Know own development needs
- Understand the process of personal development
- Understand group dynamics
- Understand the impact of personal development on others
- Be able to plan self-development
To be awarded the Level 3 Diploma in Counselling Skills learners are required to complete 5 mandatory units.
After each unit, there will be a question paper which needs to be completed and submitted to your assessor for marking.
This method of continual assessment ensures that your assessor can consistently monitor your progress and provide you with assistance throughout the course.
You should allow at least 1 - 2 hours of study to complete each question paper. The approximate amount of time required to complete the course is 400 hrs.
What's Included
- All study materials
- Study Guide
- Full Tutor and Admin support
- The course fee includes the awarding body registration and certification fee (valued at up to £75.00).
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