View Unit : Produce staffing schedules to help a retail team to achieve its targets

Unit

Unit Reference Number

K/503/5733

Qualification Framework

QCF

Title

Produce staffing schedules to help a retail team to achieve its targets

Unit Level

Level 3

Unit Sub Level

None

Guided Learning Hours

Unit Credit Value

Date of Withdrawal

SSAs

7.1 Retailing and Wholesaling

Unit Grading Structure

Pass

Assessment Guidance

Workplace assessment of occupational competence is required. This must be carried out in line with the guidance available from the Learning Provider’s section of Skillsmart Retail’s website (www.skillsmartretail.com). The guidance consists of: Assessment Principles; a booklet containing assessment guidance for each unit; and a list of some agreed equivalences between previous and current versions of units.

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Learning Outcomes and Assessment Criteria

Learning Outcome - The learner will:		Assessment Criterion - The learner can:
1	Understand the uses of and constraints upon the staffing schedules for a retail team	1.1	explain the relationship between staffing schedules and the achievement of work targets within a retail team
		1.2	explain the factors other than staffing that may affect progress towards work targets, and the effect these are likely to have
		1.3	explain what can happen if requirements are not complied with when drawing up staffing schedules including: legal requirements organisational requirements contracts of employment
2	Be able to produce staffing schedules for a retail team	2.1	produce staffing schedules that: cover all the operational needs that the team is responsible for meeting take account of the operational constraints that apply take account of the existing skills of staff show how work will be allocated between available staff show the locations where individuals will work show the times when individuals will start and finish work comply with relevant laws, organisational policy relating to working hours and individual contracts of employment attempt to make it easy for team members to understand and use include contingency plans to cope with unusual situations
3	Be able to adjust staffing schedules to take account of changing operational needs and constraints	3.1	monitor the progress of the team towards meeting operational needs
3		3.2	adjust staffing schedules where necessary and possible to ensure that operational needs can be met

Equivalent Units

There are no equivalences to display.