Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard in Advanced Carpentry & Joinery
Course Code: P270653
Key Information
Course type:
Apprenticeships
Campus:
North Harbour Campus
Start Date:
September 2025
Duration:
Flexible
Attendance:
One day a week
Fees:
Free
Looking to advance your knowledge and skills to cover more complex carpentry? City of Portsmouth College's Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard in Carpentry and Joinery is the perfect fit.
This course is ideal for you if you already have your Level 2 qualification, and are ready to take responsibility for managing your own – and other people's – work, as well as taking on more complex and non-standard projects.
You will normally work on a building site, or in domestic and commercial premises, preparing and installing complex and often bespoke building components such as high-quality doors, shaped linings, staircases with turns, complex wall and floor units, bespoke structural carpentry and complex roof structures.
Units will include:
- working safely and proactively in the application of good health and safety practice
- understanding the programme and work schedule, and planning work accordingly
- developing and maintaining good working relationships with managers, supervisors and colleagues
- determining the best way of carrying out work and ensuring this is clearly communicated
- interpreting technical specifications and ensuring compliance with relevant legislation/guidance
- selecting the required quantity and quality of resources required
- being prepared to take a lead when working in a team, especially when complex or non-standard work is involved.
To be accepted on this apprenticeship programme, you will need both your maths and English at grade 4 or above or Functional Skills Level 2.
You will be required to attend our North Harbour Campus. College attendance is one day a week.
It is a government requirement for you to spend a minumum of six hours per week of your apprenticeship working towards your off-the-job learning which can consists of college attendance, homework/coursework, project related work, employer training, mentoring and coaching – plus other tasks.
Throughout your apprenticeship programme, you will need to gather work-based evidence and submit this work to your e-portfolio system, Onefile. Your evidence will then be assessed by your lecturer, and feedback will be provided.
It is important you 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 practical delivery and application, and theoretical knowledge, which will help to build your knowledge, skills and behaviours. You will also be required to complete independent study and research.
Your final grade will be determined through endpoint assessment, by a collective performance of three areas:
- online knowledge test
- practical skills test
- professional discussion/interview (to demonstrate that you can apply a broad range of knowledge, skills and behaviours in the standard).
You could progress to a wide range of employment opportunities or move to full or part-time further education.
This standard meets the requirements of the Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) Advanced Skilled Worker standard and is widely recognised as a licence to operate in a skilled construction trade.
Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard in Advanced Carpentry & Joinery
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