Lead IQA Award (6317-42)

Designed for senior quality assurers, this course equips you to manage and oversee assessment processes, ensuring consistency and excellence across your organisation.

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Course Overview

The Lead IQA course is officially known as the City & Guilds Certificate in Leading the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice, and is a great step for those looking to take on more responsibility and make a bigger impact in the field of quality assurance.

The Lead IQA course builds on the existing knowledge and skills of qualified IQAs, and introduces planning and leadership strategies to help guide other IQAs to take charge of quality assurance processes and manage internal verification duties effectively.

Booking Your Award

To book a Lead IQA Award course or to enquire for further information, please contact bookings@assesstech.com, where a member of the AssessTech team will be happy to assist.

Pre-requisites

Candidates will need to be a qualified IQA and hold a level 4 IQA Award.

Recommended for

This course is recommended for:
Experienced IQAs progressing into leadership or coordination roles
Those responsible for overseeing quality across multiple functions or teams
Individuals managing a group of IQAs within an organisation

Whats covered in the course

A refresher of the IQA Award: ensuring you are up to date with current practices
Tailored to your standards: The Lead IQA course is delivered in line with your company’s verification standards, using language and grading criteria familiar to your team for maximum relevance and clarity.
AssessBook account: To store all necessary evidence for achieving the Lead IQA Certificate with City & Guilds.
City & Guilds Registration: Each new candidate will be registered with City & Guilds, allowing you to build on existing knowledge and skills. Once completed, you’ll gain an internationally recognised qualification that you can use across jobs and sectors.
Workplace Assessment: Assessed by an AssessTech IQA
Portfolio Verification
Ongoing Support: Full trainer support from experienced AssessTech IQAs
Award Certification: Successful candidates receive a City & Guilds Lead IQA certificate.

Core training content

A refresher of the IQA Award, ensuring you are still up to date with current practices, including planning and implementing verification sampling, collecting and verifying evidence using a range of methods and producing concise, honest verification records to support Assessors.

The IQA refresher is then followed by:

Setting aims and objectives
Building an IQA plan
Supporting and developing IQA’s
Monitoring and reviewing the IQA plan
Showing evidence of own competence
Understanding company standards

Units of Competence

Successful candidates will achieve a City & Guilds Level 4 Award comprising a single unit of competence:

Unit 403 – Plan, Allocate and Monitor work in own area of responsibility.

There are 4 Learning outcomes to this unit. The learner will:

Be able to produce a work plan for own area of responsibility.
Be able to allocate and agree responsibilities with team members.
Be able to monitor the progress and quality of work in own area of responsibility and provide feedback.
Be able to review and amend plans of work for own area of responsibility and communicate changes.

How will this unit be achieved?

The evidence for this unit will be completed, via uploading evidence of you working as a Lead IQA and demonstrating competence against the unit criteria. It will be up to the AssessTech trainer to decide what is most appropriate to the candidate’s needs.