Apprenticeship training course
Carpentry and joinery (level 2)
Using timber products to create and install building components.
- Qualification level
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2
Equivalent to GCSE. - Typical duration
- 24 months
- Apprenticeship category
- Construction and the built environment
- Maximum funding
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£13,000
Maximum amount government will fund
for apprenticeship training. - Also known as
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- Architectural joiner
- Site carpenter
- Skills
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Skills an apprentice will learn
- Comply with health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Identify and use safety control equipment, for example, RPE, dust suppression, PPE and LEV.
- Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
- Comply with industry regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Prepare and maintain a safe working area.
- Interpret and use information from drawings and specifications.
- Estimate required materials and produce a cutting list.
- Verbally communicate with others, applying construction terminology.
- Select, use and store hand tools.
- Select, use and store power tools.
- Maintain and sharpen hand tools.
- Produce jigs.
- Identifies well-being support available to self and others.
Full information on Carpentry and joinery (level 2) is available from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.