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Level 3 Craft Carpentry and Joinery | Furness College
Level 3 Craft Carpentry and Joinery

Level 3 Craft Carpentry and Joinery

This is for you if you are looking for employment that involves physical work in a variety of settings and a range of different career pathways.

Course Content

What Modules will you Study?

Advanced Apprentice Level 2
Units studied may include: workplace safety, efficient work practices, moving and handling resources, applying plaster materials to external surfaces, fixing dry lining and plasterboard products to interiors, forming sand and cement screeds, producing plaster components, applying plaster materials in interior surfaces and positioning and securing fibrous plaster components.

Advanced Apprentice Level 3
Units studied may include: Analysing technical information, quantities and communication with others, analysing the construction industry and built environment, applying plaster materials to produce complex internal surfaces, applying render to produce complex external surfaces, health, safety and welfare in construction and associated industries and preparing and running in-situ moulds.

What qualification will I achieve?

  • Along with the successful completion of the advanced Carpentry and joiner standard the apprentice will achieve a Level 3 National Vocational Qualification in their chosen pathway.
    Pathway 1: NVQ Level 3 Diploma in Wood Occupations – Site Carpentry
    Pathway 2: NVQ Level 3 Diploma in Wood Occupations – Architectural Joinery

How long is the course?

  • This apprenticeship standard is generally completed within 12-15 months.

How will I learn?

  • The apprenticeship will largely take place at the site of the employer, using day to day working activities to underpin knowledge that is learnt. A portion of the apprenticeship will take place at Furness College through classroom based learning. This is likely to be as part of a day release from the employer.

How will I be assessed?

  • At the end of the apprenticeship students will be expected to take part in an end point assessment. Here they will have a synoptic end test which will cover the knowledge and skills gained from their apprenticeship and a practical assessment. Throughout the apprenticeship, students will also build up a portfolio of work for discussion, which will compromise of evidence produced in the work place to show the apprentice has met the knowledge, skills and behaviours detailed in the standard.

Entry Requirements

What are the entry requirements?


  • Individual employers set the selection criteria, but this is likely to include 5 GCSEs, including Maths and English, although some employers will accept other relevant qualifications and experience, including a relevant Level 2 qualification. Apprentices without English or Maths at Level 2 must achieve this prior to taking the end point assessment.


Can I get more information?

For more information please contact us: T: 01229 825017 E: info@furness.ac.uk www.furness.ac.uk

Progression

Typical job roles

This apprenticeship is aimed at people currently in the below role or seeking employment in the below roles.

  • Advanced Site Carpenter
  • Advanced Architectural Joiner

What opportunities will this lead to?

Progression comes in a variety of ways after achieving the apprenticeship, which are:

  • Progression onto HE Learning
  • •Progression onto Higher Apprenticeship levels
  • The potential for advancement in their job role
  • The achievement of this standard will meet the requirements of the Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) Advanced Skilled Worker standard which is widely recognised as a licence to operate in a skilled construction trade.

Channelside
Barrow-In-Furness
Cumbria
LA14 2PJ
Rating Lane
Barrow-In-Furness
Cumbria
LA13 9LE
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Email: info@furness.ac.uk
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