Experienced Dry Liners who need NVQs

With the 2010 requirement for all site workers to hold Experienced Worker cards or Skilled Worker cards, the need for experienced tradesmen to gain NVQs has never been more important. Without the right qualification, you will be unable to gain access to site to undertake your work in Dry Lining

As a result, the Construction Awards Alliance has developed a fast track programme for those experienced Dry Liners to achieve NVQ without the need for site visits.

This fast track route to the right level of qualification in Dry Lining is available to all time served and skilled Dry Liners, those of you who have never previously had the time or the opportunity to gain a qualification to reflect your Dry Lining ability.

Able Skills has approval from Construction Awards Alliance and City & Guilds to assist skilled Dry Liners in gaining an NVQ. This process is non complicated and can be completed in a relatively short time frame if all of the evidence required is readily available.

If you have been working as a Dry Liner for quite some time and you are competent in your Dry Lining ability and have a very good general knowledge in all areas of Dry Lining, then come along to Able Skills to meet with one of our Dry Lining Assessors to discuss your route to gaining a Dry Lining qualification.

A short meeting to establish your competence could put you well on your way to obtaining a Dry Lining NVQ, a requirement for any construction site worker for 2010.

The Dry Lining NVQ is available as 2 separate qualifications: Fixing & Finishing. Able Skills will provide you with the opportunity to achieve both qualifications in a single process.

We have all of the required assessment procedures in place: qualified staff, excellent facilities and all of the support and guidance to help you obtain a Dry Lining/Interior Systems NVQ.

EWPA for Interior Systems NVQ level 2 Fixing & Finishing Fees are £995 all inclusive payable in 3 Installments

Candidate Criteria

This is a fast route open through the Construction Awards Alliance / City & Guilds awarding bodies. It is available for workers with a minimum of five years experience and who do not need any further Dry Lining training.

All EWPA candidates must:

•    Be site experienced in all the stated skills of the Interior Systems NVQ
•    Have sufficient experience of the skills of the NVQ, so that planning your working day, problem solving and decision making and working to deadlines (with regard to Dry Lining) are a usual day-to-day activity
•    Have an ability to cope with the demands of an intensive practical assessment process
•    Have an ability to work safely at all times
•    Have an ability to discuss your work activities with others

The following mandatory units make up the Level 2 Dry Lining – Fixing and you will be required to provide evidence of:

VR01: Conform to general workplace safety
VR02: Conform to efficient work practices
VR03: Move and handle resources
VR129: Install Dry Lining Partition Systems:
Endorsements (one of)

•    Metal Stud Partitions
•    Service Shaft Partitions
•    Metal Firring Ceilings

VR130: Install Dry Linings and Encasements:
Endorsements (one of)

•    Cladding to Timber
•    Cladding to Metal Firrings
•    Direct Bonding
•    Framed and Frameless Encasements

The following mandatory units make up the Level 2 Dry Lining – Finishing and you will be required to provide evidence of:

VR01: Conform to general workplace safety
VR02: Conform to efficient work practices
VR03: Move and handle resources
VR131: Finish Dry Lining Joints
Endorsements (one of)

•    Hand Methods
•    Mechanical Methods

The 4 Steps of EWPA

Step 1: Upon contacting Able Skills, we will arrange a profiling appointment for you and make recommendations of the kind of information and evidence you may wish to bring along to support your application as an experienced Dry Liner.

Step 2: At your profiling appointment (which will last for approximately 2 hours) our Dry Lining assessor will introduce you to the process and make an initial assessment to ensure you are suitable to qualify through this method.

They will look over any items of ‘evidence’ you may have with you, evidence you provide can be in a written form, such as witness statements from customers or supervisors worked with in the past, or it can take the form of photographs of your work, site plans, qualifications or proof of employment.

If there is insufficient evidence but it is clear that you are a competent Dry Liner, you will be advised of what additional evidence is required. You will also be required to sit a health & safety test for your CSCS card if you haven’t done so already.

Step 3: Once all of the required portfolio evidence is complete, you will undertake a practical assessment of your skills which will be observed by our Dry Lining assessor. This will be followed by a recorded professional discussion to assess your knowledge of Dry Lining; we will aim to complete this process over a period of 2 days, weekends are available.

Step 4: If you are successful, you will receive your full, Experienced Worker CSCS card and your NVQ certificate. If you do not pass the assessment all is not lost: the work you have done can still count towards your qualification through OSAT.

EWPA Summary

The entire EWPA process can be completed quite quickly if all of the evidence is in place and as Able Skills is open 7 days every week, you can choose when you would like to complete the varying aspects of this award so if weekends suit you better, no problem.

Whether you are looking to gain an NVQ for the purposes of obtaining an Experienced Worker CSCS card or if you are considering emigrating and taking your Dry Lining  skills to another country, this experienced worker fast track option is a fantastic route to gaining that all important qualification.

This is an opportunity for you to have the paperwork that is sometimes an official requirement to prove that you are an experienced and skilled Dry Liner.

NVQs are the requirement for 2010 for any site based employment, without the qualification and the CSCS card, you will not be able to continue working in the way that you have been.

EWPA and CSCS

Registering for the EWPA NVQ route will generate a:

Red Card - EXPERIENCED WORKER 

Registration will take place at PROFILING stage and as long as you sit/have sat a Construction Skills health and safety test., this card will be generated. The card is issued on a temporary basis, while the NVQ is being achieved.

The card is valid for one year and is non-renewable.

An Experienced Worker Card cannot be replaced by a Construction Site Operative or a Basic Skills Green Card.

Blue Card - SKILLED WORKER

You may qualify for a blue skilled card once you have successfully completed the EWPA process and achieved the NVQ level 2

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