Level 3 Diploma In Reflexology

What is the Level 3 Diploma In Reflexology?

The OTHM Level 3 Diploma in Reflexology consists of 5 mandatory units for a combined total of 50 credits. The main aim of the qualification is to enable learners to gain the necessary practical and theoretical skills in order to provide reflexology treatments to the general public and to gain employment in the beauty/complementary therapy industry.

Successful completion of this qualification will equip learners with the underpinning knowledge and skills required to succeed in employment or further studies.

Who is this qualification for?

This Level 3 diploma suits school leavers, career changers and adult learners who want a regulated route into reflexology or into Level 4 study without A-levels.

• Study fully online with tutor support from LSIB, with no fixed timetable.
• Assessment by assignments, so you can evidence learning from your own workplace.

Entry requirements

The OTHM Level 3 Diploma in Reflexology qualification can be offered to learners from age 16. It is recommended that learners hold a Level 2 Diploma in Beauty Therapy or equivalent qualification.

OTHM does not specify entry requirements for these qualifications. OTHM ensures that learners admitted to the programme have sufficient capability at the right level to undertake the learning and assessment.

OTHM centres must ensure learners are recruited with integrity onto appropriate qualifications that will meet their needs, enable and facilitate learning and achievement enable progression. The qualification is offered in English.

English requirements: If a learner is not from a majority English-speaking country must provide evidence of English language competency. For more information visit English Language Expectations page.

Qualification structure and units

The OTHM Level 3 Diploma in Reflexology consists of 5 mandatory units for a combined total of 50 credits, 370 hours Total Qualification Time (TQT) and 250 Guided Learning Hours (GLH) for the completed qualification.

Source: OTHM qualification specification (PDF) · Ofqual qualification number 610/3057/0.

Duration and delivery

Teaching staff

At LSIB the qualification is delivered online: you receive the unit materials, assignment briefs and tutor support through the learning platform and submit assignments when you are ready. There are no fixed lecture times, so you can start in any month.

How you are assessed

OTHM will include a clear outline of the assessment method required for each unit within the qualification specification. Where a particular assessment method can be delivered across a range of units this will be highlighted.

The qualifications are criterion referenced, based on the achievement of all the specified learning outcomes and assessment criteria. Quality assured assessment material are made available to centres by OTHM.

Delivery of this qualification should be a combination of practical and theory activities. Tutors are advised to use a variety of different delivery methods to engage and motivate learners.

Centres are required to undertake standardisation activities between assessors, internal quality assurance staff and evidence made available to OTHM at the time of external quality assurance or upon request.

To achieve a ‘pass’ for this qualification a learner must have successfully achieved all the assessment criteria for each unit of the qualification.

Award will be confirmed following confirmation by OTHM that all assessment has been undertaken appropriately and internal quality assurance has confirmed application of all required reliability and validity of quality procedures.

At this point, OTHM will undertake external quality assurance to confirm that award can be recommended in accordance with the published OTHM Quality Assurance Policy.

Specific assessment guidance and relevant marking criteria for each unit are made available in the Assignment Brief document. These are made available to centres immediately after registration of one or more learners.

Assessment will be both formative and summative and will be recorded in a learner logbook to provide a dynamic learning account.

Formative Assessment

A range of skills must be assessed formatively and summatively. The purpose of formative assessment is to provide opportunities for learners to practice their skills to a level where they are deemed ‘ready’ to be assessed summatively. This is crucially important to minimise the risk of poor practice on real people that will also form part of the learner’s summative assessment.

Centres must provide clear evidence that each learner has practiced all required skills in a suitable environment.

The centre will use an internal assessor to observe the learner’s performance and to sign off learners’ performance.

Learners will receive feedback at each formative opportunity to provide learning opportunities in keeping with the principles of formative assessment.

Formative assessment will also be recorded in a learner logbook to provide a dynamic learning account.

Summative Assessment

Summative assessment is used to evaluate learner competence and progression at the end of a unit or component. Summative assessment should take place when the assessor deems that the learner is at a stage where competence can be demonstrated.

The purpose of summative assessment is to evaluate learners’ competencies and capabilities at the end of a course of study.

This can be achieved using a variety of assessment methods, as follows:

• Observation of Skills – learners will demonstrate their competencies and capabilities across a range of units bringing together their knowledge and skills in order to provide safe and effective consultations, treatments and post-treatment follow up.
• Learner Logbook – learners will record all aspects of consultations, treatments and post-treatment follow up which are observed and supervised. The logbook will also provide a reflective element on practice to demonstrate development and learning. The learner logbook should include learner reflections using images, forms, contemporaneous notes etc. The logbook is mapped to the qualification assessment criteria and will be assessed by centre assessors against these. Feedback will be provided to learners following each activity to provide dynamic and on-going learning from which the learner can benefit.
• Written assignments – these will be used to measure the learner’s knowledge and understanding of the supporting theory and include tasks on health and safety, risk management, client consultations, beauty treatment knowledge and evaluation of performance.
• A&P Pack/Unit Packs – these are questions set to assess knowledge components in the units.
  The completion of the packs are a compulsory assessment task to be set under centre-controlled conditions. The Packs are internally marked and verified by the centre assessor and internal verifier and externally quality assured by OTHM.
  Learners will be allowed a maximum of three attempts to meet these requirements.

  Centres have overall responsibility for the administration of the A&P controlled assessment tasks and must follow the guidance in the OTHM Assessment Policy.

Progression and career routes

Successful completion of the OTHM Level 3 Diploma in Reflexology provides learners with the opportunity for workplace and academic progressions to a wide range of relevant undergraduate programmes including OTHM Level 3 and 4 beauty diplomas.

For more information visit University Progressions page www.othm.org.uk

Fees and how to apply

The enrolment fee is £10 when you submit your application. It is separate from the course fee above.

1. Apply and pay the £10 enrolment fee Use Apply now to open the application form with this programme pre-selected. Complete the form, upload your ID and qualification certificates (or a CV showing relevant experience), and pay the £10 enrolment fee to submit.
2. Application review and course-fee link Admissions review your application within one working day. If you are approved, we email you a secure link to pay the course fee in full or on an instalment plan.
3. Start your course As soon as your course fee (or first instalment, if you chose a plan) is paid, you receive your learning-platform login and can begin the first unit. There is no fixed intake date.

Progression path

1. Level 3 Diploma
2. Level 4 Diploma in Accounting and Business

Related OTHM qualifications

• Level 3 Diploma in Beauty Therapy
• Level 3 Certificate in Principles of Aesthetics
• Level 3 Foundation Diploma in Health and Social Care