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Course code: P03316
Subject area: Carpentry & Joinery
Study level: Apprenticeship
Course level: 3
Course time:
Course date:
1st Aug 2025 - 31st Jul 2030
Course location:
Bicester Construction Skills CentreDuration:
• 13 months practical training period, plus 3 months for End Point Assessment
Delivery model:
• Work-based training with your employer
• Day release during term time (approximately 1 day per week for 13 months)
• Approximately 5 on-site visits per year
• Level 2 Functional Skills in Maths and English (7 days at college for each, if required)
• Off the job training will count for at least 6 hours a week of an apprentice’s time at work
Qualifications included:
• Level 2 Functional Skills in English and Maths
• SiteRight Fire Door Installation Awareness
End Point Assessment:
• Multiple choice knowledge test
• Practical test
• Professional discussion based on a portfolio of evidence
• Health & safety in more detail than level 2
• Plan/ carry out complex work well
• Develop/ maintain excellent working relationships
• Plan/ execute work tasks accurately
• Importance of team working/ being prepared to take a lead
• Advanced carpentry: erecting inclined roofs, complex roof structures, including hip/ dormer cut roods, maintaining/ repairing non-standard joinery products
• Carry out advanced calculations and work out cutting angles
• Complex joints eg. splayed and plumb
What skills will apprentices gain?
• Working safely
• Understand/ plan work schedules
• Developing/ maintaining good relationships with colleagues
• Determining the best way of carrying out/ communicating work
• Interpreting technical specifications/ compliance with legislation
• Selecting quantity/ quality of resources for non-standard/ complex work
• Leading a team on complex/ non-standard work
• Skills for complex work: measuring, marking out, fitting, cutting, splicing, finishing, positioning and securing
• Installing complex/ non-standard doors/ window frames, shaped door/ hatch linings, partitions with openings/ changes of direction, staircases with turns
• Installing accessible service encasements, bespoke wall/ floor units/ fitments, panelling and stair components
• Erecting inclined roofs with gables, roof verges/ eaves, including finishings, joists and roof coverings
• Repairing/replacing frames, mouldings, floor or flat roof joist coverings, ironmongery, structural joists/ rafters, window components, guttering and downpipes
What behaviours will apprentices develop?
• Effective communication
• Effective team/ independent working
• Logical thinking
• Working effectively
• Time management
• Adaptabili
• Level 2 Functional Skills in English and Maths
• Level 3 Advanced Carpentry & Joinery Apprenticeship