Plumbing Diploma Level 1

You will be required to under­take 1 week work expe­ri­ence on a con­struc­tion site, in a work­shop or in a con­struc­tion relat­ed field. You will also be expect­ed to take part in com­mu­ni­ty projects.

4 GCSEs at grades 3/D or above includ­ing Eng­lish and maths, or a con­struc­tion relat­ed Entry Lev­el course.

Wor­ried about your grades?

What­ev­er your results, we want to assure you that exten­u­at­ing cir­cum­stances will be con­sid­ered should you not have the grades indi­cat­ed above. 

We will review each appli­ca­tion on a case-by-case basis to ensure you get a place on the course most suit­able for you.

One of the ways we do this is through a very effec­tive ​‘6 weeks to suc­cess pro­gramme’ that oper­ates from the first day you start your course. This includes sup­port such as (but not lim­it­ed to):

• Allow­ing you to change cours­es if you change your mind in the first 6 weeks
• Mov­ing you between course lev­els if you are find­ing your cur­rent lev­el too easy / too hard
• Incor­po­rat­ing Eng­lish and maths GCSE resits in to your timetable if you don’t meet the grades you need
• One-to-one reviews with your aca­d­e­m­ic tutor to ensure you are pro­gress­ing and achiev­ing well

Our course enquiries and admis­sions team are avail­able remote­ly through­out this unprece­dent­ed peri­od. They can be con­tact­ed at enquiries@​stamford.​ac.​uk should you have any fur­ther questions.

You will be assessed through writ­ten paper based assess­ments which will take place at the end of each the­o­ry unit. Ongo­ing prac­ti­cal assess­ments will be com­plet­ed through a series of tasks to spec­i­fi­ca­tion which will increase in com­plex­i­ty through the year.

You will require a uni­form con­sist­ing of steel toe capped boots and over­alls which can be pur­chased from our web­site. Dur­ing your inter­view you will also sit an online suit­abil­i­ty assess­ment. The result of this, plus your pre­vi­ous aca­d­e­m­ic achieve­ments and matu­ri­ty will deter­mine the lev­el of course you are offered.

On suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion of this course, you can progress to the Plumb­ing Diplo­ma Lev­el 2, or to job roles such as a Plumb­ing and Domes­tic Heat­ing Tech­ni­cian Apprentice.

You will cov­er many top­ics including: 

• Struc­ture of the Con­struc­tion Industry
• Fun­da­men­tal Safe Work­ing Practices
• Envi­ron­men­tal and Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Mea­sures in Domes­tic Dwellings
• Site Prepa­ra­tion for Work­ing in the Con­struc­tion Industry
• Above Ground Drainage
• Cop­per Pipework
• ;Plas­tic Pres­sure Pipework
• Low Car­bon Steel Pipework
• Instal­la­tion, Repair and Main­te­nance of Plumb­ing Systems
• Plumb­ing Science