Advanced Carpentry and Joinery Apprenticeship Standard Level 3

Entry require­ments of GCSEs at grade C/3 and above includ­ing Maths and Eng­lish or an equiv­a­lent func­tion­al skills qual­i­fi­ca­tion. You will also be required to have com­plet­ed a Lev­el 2 Car­pen­try and Join­ery Appren­tice­ship or equiv­a­lent qualification. 

Please note you may also be asked to com­plet­ed Maths and Eng­lish qual­i­fi­ca­tions as part of your Appren­tice­ship pro­gramme.

You will also need a suit­able sup­port­ive employ­er who will guide you through your Appren­tice­ship. We strong­ly advise that you com­plete a min­i­mum of 2 weeks work expe­ri­ence with your cho­sen employ­er to ensure the con­struc­tion indus­try is right for you. 

If you do not cur­rent­ly have an employ­er, you can apply for Appren­tice­ship Vacan­cies are adver­tised on our web­site — https://​www​.peter​bor​ough​.ac​.uk/​a​p​p​r​e​n​t​i​c​e​s​h​i​p​s​/​a​p​p​r​e​n​t​i​c​e​s​h​i​p​-​v​a​c​a​n​cies/

Please only apply for this Appren­tice­ship course if you already have an employer. 

After com­plet­ing this Appren­tice­ship you will gain a Lev­el 3 NVQ Diplo­ma in Wood Occu­pa­tions. The achieve­ment of this stan­dard will meet the require­ments of the Con­struc­tion Skill Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion Scheme (CSCS) ​‘Skilled Work­er’ stan­dard, which is wide­ly recog­nised as a ​‘licence to oper­ate’ in a skills con­struc­tion industry. 

Can­di­dates also have the oppor­tu­ni­ties to con­tin­ue to work with­in the car­pen­try indus­try, gain pro­mo­tion or start their own business.

On this Appren­tice­ship you will the cov­ers skills, knowl­edge and behav­iours required for advanced site car­pen­try and joinery. 

Knowl­edge:
• Under­stand the tech­ni­cal prin­ci­ples of advanced site car­pen­try, such as effec­tive and appro­pri­ate instal­la­tion prac­tices, being able to apply this knowl­edge in prepar­ing and fix­ing com­plex, non-stan­dard tim­ber based prod­ucts and com­po­nents, such as erect­ing inclined roofs, mak­ing, assem­bling and erect­ing com­plex roof struc­tures, includ­ing hip and dormer cut roofs, main­tain­ing and repair­ing non-stan­dard join­ery prod­ucts.
• Under­stand how to car­ry out advanced cal­cu­la­tions and work out cut­ting angles for com­plex car­pen­try work such as using a roof­ing square to cal­cu­late roof spar lengths and using a slid­ing bev­el to mark out splayed joints.
• Under­stand how to form com­plex joints asso­ci­at­ed with advanced site car­pen­try work, such as splayed and plumb.

Skills:
• Utilise a range of advanced trade skills which allow them to car­ry out com­plex car­pen­try work to high­ly skilled stan­dards and tol­er­ances, to include mea­sur­ing, mark­ing out, fit­ting, cut­ting, splic­ing, fin­ish­ing, posi­tion­ing and secur­ing.
• Install com­plex and non-stan­dard doors and win­dow frames, shaped door and hatch lin­ings, par­ti­tions with open­ings and changes of direc­tion and stair­cas­es with turns.
• Install acces­si­ble ser­vice encase­ments, bespoke wall/​floor units and fit­ments, pan­elling and stair com­po­nents (e.g. balustrades, handrails and spin­dles with turns).
• Erect inclined roofs with gables, roof verges and eaves, includ­ing finishing’s, joists and roof cov­er­ings.
• Repair and or replace frames, mould­ings, floor or flat roof joist cov­er­ings, door and win­dow iron­mon­gery, win­dow com­po­nents, struc­tur­al joists and rafters, win­dow com­po­nents, gut­ter­ing and downpipes.

Behav­iours:
• Effec­tive com­mu­ni­ca­tion, team work­ing and lead­er­ship.
• Inde­pen­dent work­ing and adapt­abil­i­ty.
• Log­i­cal think­ing.
• Work­ing effec­tive­ly and time management.

On com­ple­tion of this course you should be able to work in the capac­i­ty of a ful­ly trained arti­san, and super­vise low­er grade trades­men and in addi­tion you will be able to:
• Instruct in car­pen­try and wood­cut­ting machin­ery
• Esti­mate and cost in rela­tion to trade
• Read and inter­pret scale work­ing draw­ings
• Plan and progress work

Appren­tices are expect­ed to attend col­lege 1 day a week as part of their 20% off-the-job train­ing. Addi­tion­al off-the-job train­ing hours are expect­ed to be com­plet­ed with­in the workplace.

Please note you may also be asked to com­plete Maths and Eng­lish as part of your Appren­tice­ship programme.