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    Skills & Training fund

    Did you know that CITB registered SME employers with up to 99 employees can apply for funding of up to £10,000 to cover the cost of their short duration courses? This includes any Site Safety Plus courses. Employers can submit one claim every 12 months.

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  • Training for the construction industry

    The first phase of the changes being made by CITB will see new standards introduced for the following:

    Excavator 360, above 10 tonnes (tracked), Forward tipping dumper (wheeled), Rear tipping dumper/ dump truck: articulated chassis (all sizes), Ride on Roller, Telescopic handler: all sizes excluding 360 slew, Industrial forklift, Plant and Vehicle Marshaller, Slinger, Signaller: all types, all duties

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  • Training for the construction industry

    CITB Approved Training Organisation (ATO)

    As a CITB Approved Training Organisation, as well as the automatic claims for CPCS courses and NVQ's, we can now claim on your behalf for NPORS and In-house courses. The rates are tiered in the same way the CPCS courses are. For more information give one of our sales team a call on 01189700200 or...

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Level 2 NVQ Diploma in Construction Operations and Civil Engineering Services General Construction

general construction skills

Qualification Overview

The qualification has been developed for delivery in a working environment; this means you need to be employed to study this qualification. It has been designed to develop and recognise your skills, knowledge and competence so that you can work in General Construction within the construction industry or progress onto further learning. 

This qualification supports the Learner to attain enabling, fundamental and transferable practical skills with associated underpinning knowledge. Although part of an apprenticeship, this qualification is available outside of an apprenticeship where either the learner’s circumstances prevent them undertaking a full apprenticeship or where their prior skills and knowledge mean they do not require all components of the apprenticeship. In addition, industry will accept the qualification on its own as entry to a job role. 

The learner will learn key practical skills and knowledge in these mandatory units 
- Conforming to General Health, Safety and Welfare in the Workplace
- Conforming to Productive Working Practices in the Workplace
- Moving, Handling and Storing Resources in the Workplace

The learner will also learn key practical skills and knowledge in one of the following optional units:
- Establishing Work Area Protection and Safety in the Workplace
- Segregating the Area for Highways Works in the Workplace
- Placing and Finishing Non-Specialist Concrete in the Workplace
- Installing Drainage in the Workplace
- Reinstating Ground Condition in the Workplace
- Placing and Compacting Concrete in the Workplace
- Erecting and Dismantling Access/Working Platforms in the Workplace
- Installing Street Ironwork in the Workplace
- Preparing and Mixing Concrete and Mortars in the Workplace
- Providing Temporary Excavation Support in the Workplace
- Reinstating Excavation and Highway Surfaces in the Workplace
- Preparing and operating forward tipping dumpers to receive, transport and discharge materials in the workplace
- Preparing and operating ride-on rollers to compact materials in the workplace
- Preparing to and directing and guiding the movement of vehicles, plant or machinery in the workplace
- Preparing for, and arranging and securing plant or machinery for transportation in the workplace
- Preparing and operating powered units, tools or pedestrian plant, machinery or equipment in the workplace
- Slinging and hand signalling the movement of suspended loads in the workplace

The Level 2 NVQ Diploma in Construction Operations and Civil Engineering Services - Construction Operations qualification also has seven associated pathways which you might be interested in viewing:
- Level 2 NVQ Diploma in Construction Operations and Civil Engineering Services - Construction Operations - Modular Pavement Construction
- Level 2 NVQ Diploma in Construction Operations and Civil Engineering Services - Construction Operations - Drainage Construction
- Level 2 NVQ Diploma in Construction Operations and Civil Engineering Services - Construction Operations - Excavation & Reinstatement
- Level 2 NVQ Diploma in Construction Operations and Civil Engineering Services - Construction Operations - General Building Operations
- Level 2 NVQ Diploma in Construction Operations and Civil Engineering Services - Construction Operations – Non-structural Concreting
- Level 2 NVQ Diploma in Construction Operations and Civil Engineering Services - Construction Operations - Structural Concreting
- Level 2 NVQ Diploma in Construction Operations and Civil Engineering Services - Construction Operations - Laying Kerbs & Channels

There are two other Level 2 NVQ Diplomas in this occupational area 
- Level 2 NVQ Diploma in Construction Operations and Civil Engineering Services - Highways Maintenance (Construction)
- Level 2 NVQ Diploma in Construction Operations and Civil Engineering Services - Roadbuilding (Construction)
There are a number of pathways associated with these diplomas, please search for the qualification title within the qualification search.

These NVQ qualifications request the learner to demonstrate, in a real workplace environment, that you are competent against a set of performance statements. You are assessed by an occupationally competent and qualified assessor whose job is to work with you and help you through your programme of learning. 
 

Progression

This qualification will enable and/or prepare the learner to progress in General Construction and on completion of this qualification, progress into employment in their chosen trade or on to one of the following Cskills Awards qualifications: 
- Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Occupational Work Supervision

This qualification also sits within a Construction Apprenticeship Framework in England and Wales. This qualification can be taken alongside the following qualifications in contribution towards achievement of a Level 2 Intermediate Apprenticeship in Construction Operations and Civil Engineering Services:

- Level 2 Diploma in Construction Operations - General Construction
- Level 1 Award in Employee Rights and Responsibilities 

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    Level 2

     

    NUMBER OF NVQ’S

     

      Construction Operations and Civil Engineering Services General Construction  

     3 general construction nvqs

    £795.00

    +VAT PP

    2 general construction nvqs

    £895.00

    +VAT PP

     

    1 general construction nvq

    £995.00

    +VAT PP

Get in contact with us today on 01189 700200 and we will talk you through the NVQ programmes we have available. Our professional and friendly construction training specialists are certain to provide you with the skills and knowledge necessary for you to take your career further.