Occupational Certificate: Training and Development Practitioner
Our Occupational Certificate: Training and Development Practitioner course is a one-year, full-time program designed to equip you with the skills needed to excel in the learning and development field. With a focus on practical and theoretical knowledge, this NQF Level 5 qualification prepares you for roles such as corporate trainer, instructional designer, and L&D manager.
Duration:
1 Year Full-Time
NQF Level:
5
SAQA ID:
101321
Subjects
This qualification is made up of the following compulsory Knowledge and Practical Skill Modules:
Knowledge Modules:
- The statutory learning and development environment,
- Learning and development management functions,
- Organisational learning and development needs analysis,
- Facilitation of learning in an occupational context,
- Assessment principles and practices,
- Workplace learning and development planning, evaluation and reporting,
- Work based learning
Practical Skill Modules:
- Manage and coordinate logistics, facilities and financial resources,
- Plan, conduct and report on a learning and development needs analysis,
- Plan the delivery of an occupational learning intervention,
- Facilitate experiential work-based learning,
- Facilitate different methodologies, training styles and techniques within an occupational learning context,
- Plan and conduct the assessment of learner competencies,
- Evaluate the impact of learning within an occupational context
Total number of credits for Practical Skill Modules: 76.
Work Experience Modules:
- Conduct learning and development management practices,
- Conduct skills development facilitation (SDF) processes as required for mandatory grant payments,
- Conduct learning and development planning and implementation processes,
- Facilitate an occupational learning session,
- Facilitate a work-based learning and development process,
- Conduct assessments of learner competence,
- Conduct an evaluation of the impact of learning within an occupational context
Total number of credits for Work Experience Modules: 64.
Exit Level Outcomes
- Analyse learning and development needs, within an occupational context, compile learning and development plans and reports and guide stakeholders on learning and development trends, practices and quality assurance.
- Schedule, coordinate implements and evaluate an occupationally relevant learning and development intervention.
- Coordinate and manage learning and development within an occupational context.
- Facilitate learning in an occupational context utilising adult learning principles and techniques.
- Plan, implement and evaluate work-based learning interventions in an occupational context.
- Plan and conduct assessments in a variety of occupational contexts.
Career opportunities
- Training and Development Specialist
- Corporate Trainer
- Learning and Development (L&D) Manager
- Instructional Designer
- Talent Development Specialist
- Human Resources Development (HRD) Officer
- Vocational Training Facilitator
- E-learning Developer
- Change Management Consultant.
- Organizational Development Consultant
Admission requirements
Level 4 with Communication.
Recognition of Prior Learning:
RPL for access to the external integrated summative assessment: Accredited providers and approved workplaces must apply the internal assessment criteria specified in the related curriculum document to establish and confirm prior learning. Accredited providers and workplaces must confirm prior learning by issuing a statement of result or certifying a work experience record.


