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Level SCQF 5

Delivery Face-to-Face | Friday, 9am to 3.30pm

Course content...

The course aims to: 

• Inspire and enthuse learners to consider a career in the built environment or construction crafts sectors.
• Give learners the opportunity to gain a broad knowledge and understanding of, and develop skills in, the built environment and construction crafts sectors. Broad knowledge and skills that should be developed as learners undertake the qualification are:
  (a) Study skills, including basic processes, materials and terminology.
  (b) The ability to define and solve problems.
  (c) Ability to be flexible while working alone or co-operatively with others.
  (d) Oral, written and graphical skills.
  (e) Practical craft skills and dexterity.
  (f) Numerical and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) skills.
• Support progression to a more specialised SCQF level 6 academic or vocational qualification.
• Give learners the potential opportunity in due course, to enter employment within a wide range of entry-level job roles across the built environment or construction crafts sectors.
• Develop construction craft skills to enable completion of a range of practical construction activities.
• Identify and take account of some of the consequences directly relating to sustainability.
• Develop a basic awareness of the construction industry in terms of work sectors, careers and types of buildings found in built environments in the UK.
• Use, with guidance, given stages of construction affecting health and safety, construction materials and carry out construction methods.