Level 2 Apprenticeship Standard in Carpentry & Joinery
Course Code: P249313
Key Information
Course type
Apprenticeships
Campus:
North Harbour Campus
Start Date:
September 2025
Duration:
Flexible
Attendance:
One day a week
Fees:
Free
This apprenticeship is designed to develop you into a carpenter and provide you with the technical knowledge and behaviours you will require to be successful in this role.
Units include:
- health and safety
- high-quality customer service and communication methods
- measuring, marking out, fitting, cutting, splicing, finishing, positioning, and securing
- installing door and window frames, door and hatch linings, floor joist coverings, straight partitions and straight staircases
- installing doors, ironmongery, service encasements, wall and floor units and fitments, cladding and staircase components
- erecting inclined roofs with gables, joists, roof coverings and roof components
- repairing or replacing frames, mouldings, doors, windows, door and window ironmongery, roofing components, guttering and downpipes and window components
- using, maintaining, and storing tools and equipment
- specific joints, such as mitres, butt and halving joints.
The broad purpose is working with building materials (most often wood) 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. All work needs to be carried out safely, using the appropriate tools and to the quality specified.
You will need to have already achieved maths and English grade 4 or above, or Functional Skills Level 2.
You will attend College at our North Harbour Campus. College attendance is one day a week. It is a government requirement for you to spend 6 hours of your apprenticeship working towards your off-the-job learning which can consist of College attendance, homework/coursework, project related work, employer training, mentoring, and coaching – plus a number of other tasks.
You will build a portfolio of work and workplace assessors will be in regular contact to provide support, and to arrange onsite visits to observe your ability and skills in your daily role. It is important for you to take ownership of your own learning by seeking out opportunities to gain new skills on the job with your employer. Learning in College will be delivered through a mixture of classes, work-related activities and independent study and research.
Your final grade will be determined in the endpoint assesment by collective performance in the three areas below:
• online knowledge-based tests
• skills test (knowledge and behaviours are observed in the workplace)
• professional discussion (to demonstrate that you can apply the broad range of knowledge, skills and behaviours in the Standard).
You can progress to a Level 3 Carpentry and Joinery Apprenticeship or a different construction course/apprenticeship.
Level 2 Apprenticeship Standard in Carpentry & Joinery
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