Are you a Third Sector Organisation employing Youth and Community Workers?
The Joint Negotiating Committee (JNC) for youth and community workers endorses a range of qualifications in youth and community work. They would value your views on the framework by completing the questionnaire below.
Please reply to david.algie@local.gov.uk
N.B. Individual responses will not be identified in any summary that is produced.
CWVYS - the Council for Wales Voluntary Youth Services is a independent representative body for the voluntary youth sector in wales. To join contact catrin@cwvys.org.uk
( JNC apologise that this is not available in welsh as it will be collated in London)
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28 October 2016
Dear colleague
As you may
know the Joint Negotiating Committee (JNC) for Youth and Community Workers endorses
a range of professional qualifications in youth and community work. While
grading and pay reflect an employee’s duties and responsibilities,
qualifications still form an important part in establishing competence.
Guidance is provided in the JNC Agreement ‘Pink Book’ to support local
discussions on criteria for allocating employees to a particular salary range
with reference to qualifications within the JNC Framework (attached).
The Employers’ Side of the JNC recognises
the value and importance of the qualifications
framework and has confirmed its support for it. We are interested to explore its
operation in both the statutory and voluntary sectors as part of our review of
the JNC. We would therefore be grateful if you could give consideration to the
attached questions or refer this form to the appropriate contact in your organisation.
Please
could you reply to these questions by 2
December by returning the form to david.algie@local.gov.uk
Please
note that individual responses will not be identified in any summary we produce.
Thank
you
Yours
sincerely
David Algie
Employers' Side Secretariat
JNC Youth and Community Workers
JNC
QUALIFICATIONS FRAMEWORK QUESTIONS
Name
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Organisation
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- Do you use the Framework as part of your
recruitment and selection process for Youth and Community roles within
your service?
Yes/No
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If you have answered ‘No’ please briefly indicate why you do not use
it. You need answer no further questions.
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If you have answered ‘Yes’ please state whether it applies to the youth
support worker range and professional range.
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- Are there
particular aspects of the Framework which are helpful?
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- Are there
particular aspects of the Framework which are unhelpful or lack clarity?
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4.
Please
summarise below any other purposes for which you use the Framework that are not
covered by your previous answers e.g. work allocation in a multidisciplinary
team.
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- Please can you state if you apply pay scales
for your youth and community roles and if so which (e.g. JNC, Local
Government NJC, or other locally determined scales?
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- Would you
support the extension of the JNC Qualification Framework to include job
roles at a broader range of qualification levels? (note: currently job
roles link to level 2/3 Youth Support Worker and level 6 Youth Worker only).
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- Would you
continue to apply the JNC Qualifications Framework if the endorsement of
the Framework were to transfer from the JNC to another joint negotiating
body?
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Thank you for completing the survey.
It should be returned to david.algie@local.gov.uk.
by 2 December 2016.
JOINT
NEGOTIATING COMMITTEE
FOR
YOUTH AND COMMUNITY WORKERS
GUIDANCE
ON LINKING SKILLS, COMPETENCIES AND QUALIFICATIONS WITHIN THE JNC FRAMEWORK IN
ENGLAND AND WALES
Introduction
The Joint Negotiating Committee for Youth and Community Workers (JNC),
the Confederation of Heads of Young Peoples Services (CHYPS), the National
Council for Voluntary Youth Services (NCVYS), the Association of Directors of
Education Wales (ADEW), the Principal Youth Officers’ Group and the Council for
Wales of Voluntary Youth Service (CWVYS) have a commitment to retain and
develop JNC terms and conditions as the most appropriate to youth and community
work. JNC terms and conditions are applicable in both the statutory and
voluntary community sectors.
This guidance draws on the grading criteria within the JNC framework and
the National Occupational Standards for Youth Work[i]
in
order to effectively link the skills and competencies required to fulfil a
youth and community work post in England and Wales with the:
·
Higher Education (HE) qualifications in youth and
community work recognised by the JNC as conferring professionally qualified
status[ii],
or the
·
Youth support work qualifications contained within
the Qualifications and Credit Framework[iii]
(QCF)
as identified in the Sector Qualifications Strategy (SQS) for Youth Work.
Youth support work qualifications are approved by
the Office of the Qualifications and Examinations Regulator (Ofqual), the Department
for Education (DfE) of the Welsh Government, the organisations with statutory
responsibility for regulating external qualifications in England and Wales.
Youth Support Work qualifications recognised by the JNC are those that
adhere to the specified rules of combination agreed through consultation with
the sector. These stipulate the specified mandatory units and range of optional
units, and in what formation, that are required for youth work roles graded on
the Youth Support Work range of the JNC framework.
Representatives from the National Youth Agency’s (NYA) Education and Training
Standards Committee (ETS) and ETS Wales contributed
to the development of this guidance.
Recognised
Qualifications
The
key concept is that a post holder appointed to a particular range must be able
to demonstrate competence to fulfil the duties and responsibilities of the
post. Employers will need to take care
in drawing up job descriptions to ensure that the skills and expertise required
of workers match the requirements of the posts.
To
assist employers, the NYA and the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA)
through their respective ETS committees, operate a process of professional
validation/endorsement of HE undergraduate and postgraduate youth work courses.
Validation/endorsement by an ETS Committee confers recognition that HE courses
have met the required standard for professional formation of youth work
students as recognised by the JNC.
Scotland
has a separate but similar process for the approval of higher education
programmes, which is carried out by the Community Learning and Development
(CLD) Standards Council. Similarly, Northern Ireland and the Republic of
Ireland operate an endorsement process for HE courses through the North/South
Education and Training Standards Committee (NSETS). The ETS committees across
the UK and Ireland come together as the Joint ETS to share information, discuss
issues relating to professional endorsement and to agree protocols for working
practices.
The ETS committees in England and Wales also endorse
OFQUAL approved Awarding Organisations (AOs) for the delivery of QCF youth
support work vocational qualifications. Employers are guided to specified youth
work programmes, which are accredited through one of these endorsed AOs as the
endorsement process is based on a relationship between AOs and ETS to secure
standards against the JNC framework.
A full list of recognised courses can be found in
Appendix I of the JNC Agreement and the updated list can be accessed from the following
websites:
- ETS
England: www.nya.org.uk
- ETS
Wales: www.etswales.org.uk
Linking the JNC
framework and qualifications
The following table links the key grading
criteria in the JNC framework with the recognised qualifications described
above.
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JNC FRAMEWORK
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MINIMUM QUALIFICATION
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Youth and
Community Support Worker Range
The early
part of this range provides the salary grades for youth and community
support workers who assist in the delivery of operational youth and community
work. Workers with these responsibilities will receive leadership and
operational guidance from professionally qualified youth and community
workers, or where appropriate from those youth and community support workers
who carry supervisory responsibility for small projects, such as one night a
week clubs (see below).
The later part of this range
provides the salary grades for youth and community support workers who work
on their own initiative or who carry supervisory responsibility for small
projects, such as one night a week clubs. Workers with these responsibilities
will receive leadership and operational guidance from professionally
qualified youth and
community workers.
JNC expects that youth work staff
have access to appropriate professional youth work supervision.
Whilst JNC have identified the
minimum qualification appropriate, employers are strongly encouraged to also
offer CPD to employees within this range, specifically utilising the
available Level 3 Diploma in Youth Work Practice. CPD applied in this way can
support those employees wishing to pursue a career pathway in youth work and
facilitate transition to professional qualification programmes provided through
Higher Education.
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The JNC
recommends that employers provide newly appointed workers with induction and
introduction training as appropriate.
Approved courses in youth support
work are endorsed by the ETS committees on the basis that when qualified,
workers can demonstrate that they can deliver the skills and competences
outlined in the National Occupational Standards for Youth Work1 at
the appropriate level.
QCF Level 2 Certificate in Youth Support Work. (minimum 23 credits) Achievement at level 2
reflects the ability to select and use relevant knowledge, ideas, skills and
procedures to complete well-defined tasks and address straightforward
problems. It includes taking responsibility for completing tasks and
procedures and exercising autonomy and judgement subject to overall direction
or guidance
QCF Level 3 Certificate in Youth Support Work.
(Minimum 24 credits) Achievement at
level 3 reflects the ability to identify and use relevant understanding,
methods and skills to complete tasks and address problems that, while well
defined,
have a
measure of complexity. It includes taking responsibility for initiating and
completing tasks and procedures as well as exercising autonomy and judgement
within limited parameters
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Professionally qualified Youth
and Community Worker Range
This
range provides the salary grades for professionally qualified youth and
community workers who carry responsibility for the delivery, design, and
development of youth work. Professionally qualified youth and
community workers can also be expected to carry operational management
responsibilities.
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Recognised
courses are validated/endorsed by the ETS committees on the basis that
qualified workers can demonstrate that they can deliver the skills and
competences outlined in the National Occupational Standards for Youth Work1
and the Subject Benchmarks for Youth and Community Work[iv].
FHEQ Level 6 Bachelor's degrees with honours are
awarded to students who have demonstrated:
·
a systematic understanding of key aspects of
their field of study, including acquisition of coherent and detailed
knowledge, at least some of which is at, or informed by, the forefront of
defined aspects of a discipline;
·
an ability to deploy accurately established
techniques of analysis and enquiry within a discipline;
·
a conceptual understanding that enables the
student to be able to devise and sustain arguments, and/or to solve problems,
using ideas and techniques, some of which are at the forefront of a
discipline:
·
an ability to describe and comment upon
particular aspects of current research, or equivalent advanced scholarship,
in the discipline an appreciation of the uncertainty, ambiguity and limits of
knowledge:
·
the ability to manage their own learning and to
make use of scholarly reviews and primary sources (for example, refereed
research articles and/or original materials appropriate to the discipline).
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[1] Current version - Lifelong Learning UK (LLUK) 2008. Refreshed NOS due to be published in 2012 by
the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS)
[1] From September 2010 the minimum professional qualification is a BA (Hons)
degree. There are also post-graduate programmes that confer professionally
qualified status on completion. Those who achieved
their qualification at Dip HE or Foundation Degree on programmes endorsed
before this date will continue to be recognised as professionally qualified youth workers
JOINT
NEGOTIATING COMMITTEE
FOR
YOUTH AND COMMUNITY WORKERS
GUIDANCE
ON LINKING SKILLS, COMPETENCIES AND QUALIFICATIONS WITHIN THE JNC FRAMEWORK IN
ENGLAND AND WALES
Introduction
The Joint Negotiating Committee for Youth and Community Workers (JNC),
the Confederation of Heads of Young Peoples Services (CHYPS), the National
Council for Voluntary Youth Services (NCVYS), the Association of Directors of
Education Wales (ADEW), the Principal Youth Officers’ Group and the Council for
Wales of Voluntary Youth Service (CWVYS) have a commitment to retain and
develop JNC terms and conditions as the most appropriate to youth and community
work. JNC terms and conditions are applicable in both the statutory and
voluntary community sectors.
This guidance draws on the grading criteria within the JNC framework and
the National Occupational Standards for Youth Work[v]
in
order to effectively link the skills and competencies required to fulfil a
youth and community work post in England and Wales with the:
·
Higher Education (HE) qualifications in youth and
community work recognised by the JNC as conferring professionally qualified
status[vi],
or the
·
Youth support work qualifications contained within
the Qualifications and Credit Framework[vii]
(QCF)
as identified in the Sector Qualifications Strategy (SQS) for Youth Work.
Youth support work qualifications are approved by
the Office of the Qualifications and Examinations Regulator (Ofqual), the
Department for Education (DfE) of the Welsh Government, the organisations with
statutory responsibility for regulating external qualifications in England and
Wales.
Youth Support Work qualifications recognised by the JNC are those that
adhere to the specified rules of combination agreed through consultation with
the sector. These stipulate the specified mandatory units and range of optional
units, and in what formation, that are required for youth work roles graded on
the Youth Support Work range of the JNC framework.
Representatives from the National Youth Agency’s (NYA) Education and Training
Standards Committee (ETS) and ETS Wales contributed
to the development of this guidance.
Recognised
Qualifications
The
key concept is that a post holder appointed to a particular range must be able
to demonstrate competence to fulfil the duties and responsibilities of the
post. Employers will need to take care
in drawing up job descriptions to ensure that the skills and expertise required
of workers match the requirements of the posts.
To
assist employers, the NYA and the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA)
through their respective ETS committees, operate a process of professional
validation/endorsement of HE undergraduate and postgraduate youth work courses.
Validation/endorsement by an ETS Committee confers recognition that HE courses
have met the required standard for professional formation of youth work
students as recognised by the JNC.
Scotland
has a separate but similar process for the approval of higher education
programmes, which is carried out by the Community Learning and Development
(CLD) Standards Council. Similarly, Northern Ireland and the Republic of
Ireland operate an endorsement process for HE courses through the North/South
Education and Training Standards Committee (NSETS). The ETS committees across
the UK and Ireland come together as the Joint ETS to share information, discuss
issues relating to professional endorsement and to agree protocols for working
practices.
The ETS committees in England and Wales also endorse
OFQUAL approved Awarding Organisations (AOs) for the delivery of QCF youth
support work vocational qualifications. Employers are guided to specified youth
work programmes, which are accredited through one of these endorsed AOs as the
endorsement process is based on a relationship between AOs and ETS to secure
standards against the JNC framework.
A full list of recognised courses can be found in
Appendix I of the JNC Agreement and the updated list can be accessed from the
following websites:
- ETS
England: www.nya.org.uk
- ETS
Wales: www.etswales.org.uk
Linking the JNC
framework and qualifications
The following table links the key grading
criteria in the JNC framework with the recognised qualifications described
above.
|
JNC FRAMEWORK
|
MINIMUM QUALIFICATION
|
|||
|
Youth and
Community Support Worker Range
The early
part of this range provides the salary grades for youth and community
support workers who assist in the delivery of operational youth and community
work. Workers with these responsibilities will receive leadership and
operational guidance from professionally qualified youth and community
workers, or where appropriate from those youth and community support workers
who carry supervisory responsibility for small projects, such as one night a
week clubs (see below).
The later part of this range
provides the salary grades for youth and community support workers who work
on their own initiative or who carry supervisory responsibility for small
projects, such as one night a week clubs. Workers with these responsibilities
will receive leadership and operational guidance from professionally
qualified youth and
community workers.
JNC expects that youth work staff
have access to appropriate professional youth work supervision.
Whilst JNC have identified the
minimum qualification appropriate, employers are strongly encouraged to also
offer CPD to employees within this range, specifically utilising the
available Level 3 Diploma in Youth Work Practice. CPD applied in this way can
support those employees wishing to pursue a career pathway in youth work and
facilitate transition to professional qualification programmes provided
through Higher Education.
|
The JNC
recommends that employers provide newly appointed workers with induction and
introduction training as appropriate.
Approved courses in youth support
work are endorsed by the ETS committees on the basis that when qualified,
workers can demonstrate that they can deliver the skills and competences
outlined in the National Occupational Standards for Youth Work1 at
the appropriate level.
QCF Level 2 Certificate in Youth Support Work. (minimum 23 credits) Achievement at level 2
reflects the ability to select and use relevant knowledge, ideas, skills and
procedures to complete well-defined tasks and address straightforward
problems. It includes taking responsibility for completing tasks and
procedures and exercising autonomy and judgement subject to overall direction
or guidance
QCF Level 3 Certificate in Youth Support Work.
(Minimum 24 credits) Achievement at
level 3 reflects the ability to identify and use relevant understanding,
methods and skills to complete tasks and address problems that, while well
defined,
have a
measure of complexity. It includes taking responsibility for initiating and
completing tasks and procedures as well as exercising autonomy and judgement
within limited parameters
|
|||
|
Professionally qualified
Youth and Community Worker Range
This
range provides the salary grades for professionally qualified youth and
community workers who carry responsibility for the delivery, design, and
development of youth work. Professionally qualified youth and
community workers can also be expected to carry operational management
responsibilities.
|
Recognised
courses are validated/endorsed by the ETS committees on the basis that
qualified workers can demonstrate that they can deliver the skills and
competences outlined in the National Occupational Standards for Youth Work1
and the Subject Benchmarks for Youth and Community Work[viii].
FHEQ Level 6 Bachelor's degrees with honours are
awarded to students who have demonstrated:
·
a systematic understanding of key aspects of
their field of study, including acquisition of coherent and detailed knowledge,
at least some of which is at, or informed by, the forefront of defined
aspects of a discipline;
·
an ability to deploy accurately established
techniques of analysis and enquiry within a discipline;
·
a conceptual understanding that enables the student
to be able to devise and sustain arguments, and/or to solve problems, using
ideas and techniques, some of which are at the forefront of a discipline:
·
an ability to describe and comment upon
particular aspects of current research, or equivalent advanced scholarship,
in the discipline an appreciation of the uncertainty, ambiguity and limits of
knowledge:
·
the ability to manage their own learning and to
make use of scholarly reviews and primary sources (for example, refereed
research articles and/or original materials appropriate to the discipline).
|
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[v] Current version - Lifelong Learning UK (LLUK) 2008. Refreshed NOS due to be published in 2012 by
the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS)
[vi] From September 2010 the minimum professional qualification is a BA (Hons)
degree. There are also post-graduate programmes that confer professionally
qualified status on completion. Those who achieved
their qualification at Dip HE or Foundation Degree on programmes endorsed
before this date will continue to be recognised as professionally qualified youth workers
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