NCFE Level 5 NVQ Diploma in Management and Leadership

Learner Overview

NCFE Level 5 NVQ Diploma in Management and Leadership (601/4034/3)

 Qualification content, structure, and outcomes

This Level 5 qualification aims to provide you with the skills you will need to operate as a successful manager. This practical qualification will confirm the competence of those already fulfilling a senior managerial role. It will also allow you to develop skills in a range of areas relevant to senior managerial roles, such as business process, strategic change, and risk management.

The objectives of this qualification are to:

develop skills and qualities valued in employees by
understand and work on your strengths and weaknesses as a

You will need to complete 4 mandatory units to achieve this qualification. The mandatory units are:

Unit01 Contribute to the development of a strategic plan (5 credits)
Unit02 Design business processes (5 credits)
Unit03 Manage strategic change (7 credits)
Unit04 Provide leadership and management (5 credits)

There are also a number of optional units for you to choose from depending on your interests and requirements. You need to complete 53 credits to achieve this qualification. Please see the ‘Unit breakdown’ tab on the qualification page of our website for further information.

Similar qualifications

This is the only competency-based Level 5 management and leadership qualification offered by NCFE. It has been designed to support progression from the Level 4 management qualification.

The only similar qualification NCFE offers is the NCFE Level 5 Diploma in Principles of Management and Leadership (601/8032/8) which is a knowledge-based qualification.

This qualification has 40 credits and 240 guided learning hours.

This qualification provides the underpinning knowledge someone in a leadership or managerial role may require but does not include skills-based learning outcomes.

Other ways you could achieve the same outcome.

You could also complete this qualification as part of the Higher Apprenticeship in Management as the NCFE Level 5 NVQ Diploma in Management and Leadership is the competence-based element of the apprenticeship.

How the qualification supports the identified outcome

This practical, work-based qualification will confirm the competence of those already fulfilling a managerial role. The qualification is assessed via a portfolio of evidence which should strengthen your learning as you will be gathering evidence over time, allowing time for reflection. The portfolio is a tangible piece of evidence that you could take to a future interview, which could support progression to employment in a managerial role.

You could progress to employment in the following job roles:

• Manager
• SeniorManager
• Head of Department
• Director

This qualification could also provide progression to further qualifications at Level 5 or above. The nature of the qualification means that it may be useful to learners looking to work in a wide variety of sectors and industries, but it may be particularly useful to learners studying in the following sectors:

• Business
• Customer service
• Retail
• Leisure, travel, and tourism

Support for this qualification

The qualification is supported by:

• NTSGroup
• LearningCurve Group

UCAS points

As this qualification is already at the Higher Education level (Level 4 or above), UCAS points are not applicable.