Apprenticeship
Site Carpentry Level 2 Apprenticeship
The broad purpose of the occupation is working with wood-based materials and associated products to create and install building components. This typically involves shaping and cutting materials, installing finished materials like partitions, doors, staircases, window…
Course overview
The broad purpose of the occupation is working with wood-based materials and associated products to create and install building components. This typically involves shaping and cutting materials, installing finished materials like partitions, doors, staircases, window frames, mouldings, timber floor coverings and erecting structural components such as floor joists and roofs.
A Site Carpenter will prepare and install basic building components e.g. doors, straight staircases, wall and floor units and erecting structural carpentry and roof structures on a building site or in domestic and commercial premises.
Who is this course for?
If you have a keen interest in site carpentry and joinery and would like to learn a highly skilled trade, then this apprenticeship may be the right course for you. You should be employed or have a current offer of employment in the site carpentry and joinery sector.
What you’ll learn
The apprenticeship is made up of:
- college based technical diploma
- routine reviews of learning including evidence of knowledge, skills and behaviours
- coaching and training to prepare you for EPA
- functional Skills in English and Maths
- recording of 20% off the job
- work-based NVQ
Entry requirements
Apprentices will be required to have or achieved a Level 1 in English and Maths by the end of their apprenticeship if they do not already have a GCSE Grade 1 – 9 in both subjects.
Where an apprentice has a Level 1 or equivalent, then they will be required to work towards achieving their Level 2 Functional skills during their apprenticeship.
The duration of the apprenticeship is determined by a number of different factors such as experience and prior learning. The minimum time of an apprenticeship is 12 months with the maximum being identified on an individual basis.
How is the course delivered and assessed?
Apprentices will be required to have or achieved a Level 1 in English and Maths by the end of their apprenticeship if they do not already have a GCSE Grade 1 – 9 in both subjects.
Where an apprentice has a Level 1 or equivalent, then they will be required to work towards achieving their Level 2 Functional skills during their apprenticeship.
The duration of the apprenticeship is determined by a number of different factors such as experience and prior learning. The minimum time of an apprenticeship is 12 months with the maximum being identified on an individual basis.
Future career and study
On successful completion of the course you will be able to progress to the Level 3 Apprenticeship in Site Carpentry and Joinery. You could also obtain employment in the carpentry industry.
Additional costs
<p>As a City of Bristol College apprentice, you may incur additional costs on your apprenticeship. For example, it is likely you may need to pay for travel and stationery, and for some apprenticeships you may need to purchase specialist equipment.</p>
