Essential Skills revalidation

What does the OCQ(V) - ESr (Essential Skills revalidation) involve?

To complete the revalidation process for Essential Skills, you will be required to:

1. Enrol on the revalidation course from your Personal Training Dashboard. This will cost £99 + VAT.
2. Complete the pre-course self-evaluation.
3. Complete the online training course on Moodle. This equates to 3 hours of CPD.
4. Complete the post-course self-evaluation.
5. Nominate an invigilator, who must then accept their role.
6. Pass the online examination. This will comprise of 10 multiple choice questions to be completed in 30 minutes.
7. Update your CPD log. You must document at least 10 hours of relevant CPD that you have undertaken over the course of the last revalidation cycle.
8. Sign the final declarations.

Essential Skills revalidation timings

• Revalidation for the OCQ(V) - ES (Essential Skills) qualification is due every 4 years.*
• You will begin to receive email reminders from 6 months before your revalidation due date. It is your responsibility to ensure that your email address is kept up to date so that you will receive these reminders.
• You may enrol on the revalidation course and start the revalidation process at any time. There will be a 6-month window before the expiry date, in which you can complete the revalidation (by signing the declarations) without changing your future revalidation date.

Useful facts for OCQ(V) - ESr

• You are not required to complete certification exercises or case logs for this revalidation course.
• You must log at least 10 hours of CPD from the last 4 years that is relevant to Essential Skills. This can include the 3 hours gained from completing the online training.
• If your OCQ(V) - ES is expired or suspended, you must not use it or any of the other OCQ(V)s for which it is a prerequisite until your OCQ(V) - ES authorisation has been granted.
• The cost of the revalidation course is £99 + VAT.
• Should you fail the online examination, you will have 2 opportunities to retake it. The cost of each retake is £49 + VAT.
• There is a process of internal verification for 10% of candidates. ISVPS will conduct this within 1 month of completion of revalidation requirements.

* The only exceptions to the 4-year revalidation cycle are those who had 'grandfather rights', or who had already studied and been awarded the OCQ(V) - ES before 30th June 2019, whose revalidation will be due 5 years from the date that they passed the online exam and completed the declarations. However, for those who were awarded or have revalidated the OCQ(V) - ES since 30th June 2019, your next revalidation will be due 4 years from the date that you passed your online exam and completed your declarations.