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About the Role
You will assist and learn alongside an experienced carpenter who will teach you the day to day tasks and support your progress. Having a Carpentry qualification or experience on site is desirable.
Wage
£18,895.50 a year
Training course
Carpentry and joinery (level 2)
Hours
Monday- Friday, 7.30am - 4.00pm with an hour paid lunch. 42 hours 30 minutes a week
Start date
Monday 7 September 2026
Duration
2 years
Positions available
1
What you'll do at work
- Learn to use hand tools
- Learn to use power tools
- Interpret and use information from drawings and specifications
- Apply first and second fix techniques and practices
Where you'll work
Unit 18, Liss Business Centre
Station Road
Liss
GU33 7AW
Training provider
CITY OF PORTSMOUTH COLLEGE
Training course
Carpentry and joinery (level 2)
Understanding apprenticeship levels
What you'll learn
Course contents
- 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.
- Site carpenter: Apply first fix techniques and practices for: 1. structural carcassing (load bearing studwork), 2. straight timber or metal partition walls, 3. floor joists 4. floor joist coverings and 5. straight flights of stairs.
- Site carpenter: Install structural fixings.
- Site carpenter: Size timber from sizing tables.
- Site carpenter: Apply site second fix techniques and practices for: 1. service encasement, 2. cladding 3. wall and floor units and fitments, 4. handrails and spindles to straight flights of stairs, 5. internal and external doors, 6. skirting boards and architrave, 7. window boards.
- Site carpenter: Apply site carpenter techniques and practices to construction of rafter roofs, including trussed (prefabricated) and traditional (built on site) including the construction of verge, eaves and fitting loft access.
- Site carpenter: Use and store laser levels for example cross line laser.
- Site carpenter: Form connections, for example, using joints, nails, screws, bolts and adhesive.
- Site carpenter: Apply measuring, marking out, cutting (square and angled), mitring, hinging and recessing techniques.
- Site carpenter: Carrying out splicing and scribing techniques.
- Architectural joiner: Produce setting out details, including setting rods, and mark out for timber products.
- Architectural joiner: Produce basic woodworking joints including dovetail, bridal, mortise and tenon and halving.
- Architectural joiner: Form connections using dowels, biscuit, staples and adhesives.
- Architectural joiner: Apply techniques and practices to the manufacture and assembly of a timber window with casement including glazing rebates and associated ironmongery.
- Architectural joiner: Apply manufacture and assembly techniques for first fix products: 1. straight staircases, 2. door frames and linings.
- Architectural joiner: Apply manufacture and assembly techniques for second fix products: 1. timber doors, 2. wall and floor units, 3. timber mouldings, 4. staircase spindles and balustrades.
- Architectural joiner: Fit ironmongery including door locks, door handles, door hinges, latches and draw runners.
- Architectural joiner: Inspect, prepare and operate fixed machinery.
- 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.
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Training schedule
A 24-month apprenticeship programme delivered on a day-release basis (one day per week) at City of Portsmouth College's North Harbour Campus in North Harbour, Portsmouth. Time spent training will come under the working hours per week. Your Apprenticeship Liaison Officer will liaise with you to set up mutually convenient times for consultation and assessment visits at your place of work.
Learning and assessment:
An EPA is an assessment at the end of your apprenticeship. It will assess you against the knowledge, skills, and behaviours in the occupational standard, your training will cover these. The EPA is your opportunity to show an independent assessor how well you can carry out the occupation you have been trained for.
Assessment methods:
- Multiple-choice test: It will be closed book, meaning you will not have access to any books or reference materials. The test will have 40 multiple-choice questions. You will have 60 minutes to complete it.
- Practical assessment with questions: You will be observed by an independent assessor completing a set of tasks. It will last 12 hours. They will ask you at least 5 questions.
- Interview underpinned by a portfolio of evidence: You will have an interview with an independent assessor. It will last at least 60 minutes. They will ask you at least 10 questions. The questions will be about certain aspects of your occupation. You will compile a portfolio of evidence throughout your apprenticeship, before the EPA gateway. You can use it to help answer the questions.
The overall grades available for this apprenticeship are:
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- Pass
- Merit
- Distinction
When you pass the EPA, you will be awarded your apprenticeship certificate.
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What does the programme include?
This occupation is found in both the new build and refurbishment construction sector. The construction industry is central to creating the homes, schools, hospitals, energy and transport infrastructure society needs. There is growing demand for carpenters and joiners to help meet the need for the transition to modern methods of construction and sustainability
The broad purpose of the occupation is working with wood-based materials and associated products 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
In their daily work, an employee in this occupation interacts with other construction roles such as bricklayers, plasterers and plumbers, supervisors, site management, architects, designers, contractors and customers
An employee in this occupation will be responsible for using machinery and tools under supervision to create structures or components from the designs, plans and specifications of architects and designers that meet the clients’ expectations. On site these could include roof structures, floors, partitions and second fix work such as door frames and skirting
Types of work needed for evidence:
Below is a list of different tasks an apprentice will be asked to perform in the workplace. You will need to collect photo and video evidence of you undertaking the work and upload the evidence to your portfolio during the apprenticeship
Structural Carpentry:
Chamber joists with herring bone strutting or solid noggins. Trimming for openings, flat roofing, furring strips, upstands, cutting and fixing decking, lantern opening, floor laying, including adhesive and fixings, truss roofing, gable ladders, bracing, hangers, truss clips, cut roofing, hips and valleys, dorma roofs, porch roofs, gallows brackets, verge and eaves, soffit, fascia barge boards, timber or plastic, timber frame standup, shuttering/formwork
1st Fix Carpentry:
Staircases, straight flight or kite winders, stud work, bulkheads, door linings, double door linings hatch way, noggins, ceilings, pattress’s for plumbing/electrical fittings, Window boards (pre-plaster), grounds of cladding (external), cladding (external) timber, cement board, plastic, window and door frames (external), pipe boxings (pre-plaster)
2nd Fix Carpentry
Door hanging (internal) plus door stops, latches, locks, bathroom locks, keeps, mouldings, architrave, skirting, dado, picture rail, curtain battens/coat hook rail, handrail and balustrading, spindles, base rails newel caps, mop stick handrail and brackets, grounds for cladding/panelling (post-plaster) (internal), cladding/panelling (post-plaster) (Internal), kitchen fitting, worktop, plinths, cornice,
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