Site Joinery Apprenticeship Level 3 (September 2025 Entry)
Apprenticeship Standard
This advanced apprenticeship trains you to use timber products to create and install building components.
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Level 3
Attendance - Full-time
Duration - 18-24 months
Start date - September
Where - Brunel Construction Centre
Course Overview
To be an apprentice you need to be employed for a minimum of 30 hours a week and be
able to attend college one day a week. On an advanced apprenticeship, you will be expected to be responsible for managing your own work and create more complex and non-standard work. Examples of complex tasks include curved products, irregular joints and bespoke work.
The units cover a range of advanced trade skills that will allow you to carry out complex carpentry work to a high standard and includes measuring, marking out, fitting, cutting, splicing, finishing, positioning and securing. You will learn to install complex and non-standard door and window frames, door and hatch linings and staircases with turns. You are taught to install bespoke wall and floor units and fitments.
You will normally work on a building site, or in domestic and commercial premises preparing and installing complex and often bespoke building components. This can include high quality doors, shaped linings, staircases with turns, complex wall and floor units. You will also learn about erecting bespoke structural carpentry, including inclined roofs and joists and erecting complex roof structures, including inclined roofs with hips, valleys and dormers.)
You will be taught health, safety and welfare good practice and how to apply these to create a safe and healthy working environment. You will also gain an understanding of current legislation and guidance in undertaking construction work. By the end of your apprenticeship, you will be able to select the required quantity and quality of resources required for carrying work, including timber, tools and fixings.
To be an apprentice you need to be employed for a minimum of 30 hours a week and be
able to attend college one day a week. On an advanced apprenticeship, you will be expected to be responsible for managing your own work and create more complex and non-standard work. Examples of complex tasks include curved products, irregular joints and bespoke work.
You will normally work on a building site, or in domestic and commercial premises preparing and installing complex and often bespoke building components. This can include high quality doors, shaped linings, staircases with turns, complex wall and floor units. You will also learn about erecting bespoke structural carpentry, including inclined roofs and joists and erecting complex roof structures, including inclined roofs with hips, valleys and dormers.)
The units cover a range of advanced trade skills that will allow you to carry out complex carpentry work to a high standard and includes measuring, marking out, fitting, cutting, splicing, finishing, positioning and securing. You will learn to install complex and non-standard door and window frames, door and hatch linings and staircases with turns. You are taught to install bespoke wall and floor units and fitments.
You will be taught health, safety and welfare good practice and how to apply these to create a safe and healthy working environment. You will also gain an understanding of current legislation and guidance in undertaking construction work. By the end of your apprenticeship, you will be able to select the required quantity and quality of resources required for carrying work, including timber, tools and fixings.
Core Skills Gained:
An appropriate Level 2 qualification, and GCSE English and maths at grade 4 or above.
To start your apprenticeship you must have secured employment that the college has agreed is suitable.
To start your apprenticeship you must have secured employment that the college has agreed is suitable.
Level 4 qualification
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Apprentices must cover the knowledge, skills and behaviours within the training plan whilst carrying out off-the-job training (OFTJ) and produce a portfolio of work based evidence.
End Point Assessment
Once all assessments are completed the apprentice will go through the final stage of the apprenticeship which will involve a multiple-choice exam and one day practical assessment.
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