CIPD Intermediate Level 5 certificate programme

Course Overview

The CIPD Level 5 Intermediate Certificate is designed to provide a bridge between the CIPD Level 3 Foundation Certificates and postgraduate level study in human resource management/development. It will provide you with a set of transferable business skills that can be used to improve performance and effectiveness in today’s competitive environment. The course comprises of core and common option modules plus a range of specialist human resource management/development option modules. The modules develop many of the themes studied at Level 3 to a greater depth and provide a firm grounding in the academic skills that graduates would have acquired while studying for a degree.

As a student member of the CIPD other benefits will include online access to the CIPD online student resources, copies of the CIPD’s People Management magazine plus access to networking, mentoring and other opportunities via the CIPD branch network.

Although the course content is delivered in the classroom the emphasis is on the application of the theory, knowledge and skills into the workplace. Your employer will benefit as you progress throughout the course from your increasing awareness of the business environment in which the management and development of human resources takes place, and from the coursework you undertake as part of the programme.

CIPD membership and qualifications are widely acknowledged to enhance career development and job prospects. They are nationally recognised as a benchmark for professionalism and are a requirement for many personnel and development roles.

Course content

The course is based on three core modules:

• Developing professional practice
• Business issues and the contexts of human resources
• Using information in human resources
• Contemporary developments in human resource development
• Managing and coordinating the human resources function
• Employment law

Entry Requirements

The CIPD Level 5 Intermediate Certificate is aimed at students who have completed Level 3 Foundation courses (CHRP) or equivalent and who have some relevant workplace experience but have not studied at degree level and want to progress to a postgraduate-level qualification. This includes candidates who have successfully completed one of the following qualifications: Level 3 NVQ/SVQ A/AS levels CIPD level 3 certificate-level programme (CHRP) or equivalent Candidates holding a UK first degree or an equivalent in a non-related subject will also find the Level 5 Certificate useful when preparing to study for a postgraduate-level business qualification.

Delivery & Assessment methods

Continuous assessment is used throughout the course by a variety of written assignments, skills activities and workplace evidence, plus a written exam.

Progression

The qualification you will achieve if you are successful is the CIPD Level 5 Intermediate Certificate in Human Resource Management or Human Resource Development. It is possible to enrol for further modules to top-up a Level 5 Intermediate Certificate qualification to a Level 5 Intermediate Diploma qualification, especially for those students who wish to continue their studies at this level but do not feel ready to progress to a post-graduate level of study. Modules for both certificates equate to 32 credits at Level 5 on the new QC Framework. Once you have successfully completed the CIPD Level 5 Intermediate Certificate you will be eligible to progress to the Level 7 Advanced Postgraduate Diploma.