Hospitality Supervision and Leadership Principles qualifications and training courses

Last Updated: 26 Jul 2022

The Award in Hospitality Supervision and Leadership Principles can help you get a supervisory or management job in hospitality.

You'll develop your existing knowledge and gain valuable skills in leadership and management.

This qualification also forms the technical certificate within the Level 3 Hospitality Supervision and Leadership apprenticeship.

The Award in Hospitality Supervision and Leadership Principles is for anybody who already works in hospitality and wants to take on more responsibility.

You will need some experience in the industry ideally.

Available to deliver in the following:

England
Wales – please check QiW website for available funding
Scotland
Northern Ireland

Interested in delivering this qualification?

Find out more about how to become an approved City & Guilds centre or fill out our online customer application form.

General Information

What Is Involved In Studying This Course?

You'll cover things like:

the structure of the hospitality industry
communication
leading a team
supervision of customer service
stock control
the effective use of resources.

This qualification gives you greater flexibility when studying and allows you to transfer credits across qualifications. You will be awarded credits for each course of study you complete.

Is this level right for me?

Level 3

Your working or about to take a role in the hospitality industry - you have plenty of experience, and you might already supervise others or manage resources. You want to develop your knowledge and gain new skills, to progress your career in the hospitality sector.

What Careers Can This Lead To?

The Award in Hospitality Supervision and Leadership Principles can help you find work in a variety of roles including:

Bar person/manager
Catering/restaurant manager
Hotel manager
Kitchen supervisor/manager
Leisure centre manager
Supervisor/team leader.

Once you have completed the qualification you could move on to:

Level 3 Diploma in Hospitality Supervision and Leadership (NVQ)
Foundation and hospitality degree programmes.

You could also move onto further management qualifications from the ILM.

What Is Involved With Delivering This Course?

In order to offer the Award in Hospitality Supervision and Leadership Principles you will need suitably qualified staff to carry out training and assessment.

You will also need suitable facilities to carry out the required training to enable learners to achieve industry standards.

To find all the resource requirements, download the qualification handbook from the centre documents section.

You can get fast-track approval if you offer:

Level 3 Hospitality Supervision and Leadership (7250)

Centres currently offering the 7250-02 can gain fast track approval to offer the 7108-12.

Anyone can take this qualification, but you must make sure all your learners can access the resources they need to complete it.

Ideally learners will already be in a role within the hospitality industry as much of the learning takes place in the workplace.

Level 3

Your working or about to take a role in the hospitality industry - you have plenty of experience, and you might already supervise others or manage resources. You want to develop your knowledge and gain new skills, to progress your career in the hospitality sector.

At this level you complete two core units:

Principles of leading a team in the hospitality industry
Supervision of operations in the hospitality industry.

What Careers Can This Lead To?

The Award in Hospitality Supervision and Leadership Principles can help you find work in a variety of roles including:

Bar person/manager
Catering/restaurant manager
Hotel manager
Kitchen supervisor/manager
Leisure centre manager
Supervisor/team leader.

Once you have completed the qualification you could move on to:

Level 3 Diploma in Hospitality Supervision and Leadership (NVQ)
Foundation and hospitality degree programmes.

You could also move onto further management qualifications from the ILM.

Level 3 Award in Hospitality Supervision and Leadership Principles (7108-12)

Last Registration Date: 31 Aug 2026

Level 3 Award in Hospitality Supervision and Leadership Principles

Accreditation No: 600/0554/3 This is a reference number related to UK accreditation framework
Type: Credit based qualification This is categorisation to help define qualification attributes e.g. type of assessment
Credits: 11 Credits are a measure of the size of the qualification
Guided Learning Hours: 78 - 78 This is the average contact time a centre would typically commit
Total Qualification Time: 110 The total time for the qualification
Key Stage: Data unavailable This shows the equivalent Key Stage level.
Last Certification: 31/08/2029 This is the last date that a certificate can be issued
Qualification fees in the UK: £69.00 Our typical price is the one that is most often paid by a centre for a completed learner. Some prices are made up of multiple charging points so action like taking difference units or specialisms to complete and resitting assessments may mean the cost for some learners differs.

Here you can find all documents related to this suite of qualifications.

By clicking on the section headings below, you can access a variety of documents such as the qualification handbooks and assessment materials, Statements of Purpose, and recognition letters from industry and employers.

Some documents may be password protected. Passwords can be retrieved by logging in to Walled Garden and visiting the Administration section of the relevant qualification catalogue page.

Interested in delivering this qualification?

Find out more about how to become an approved City & Guilds centre or fill out our online customer application form.

7108 Level 3

Assessment materials

Centre documents

7108-12 L3 Award Hospitality Supervision and Leadership Principles QHB v2-1 pdf 470 KB 24 Jul 2018

Hospitality Supervision and Leadership Principles (7108)