Carpentry
Our Carpentry Department can help you to...
- Get your licence to work on sites (CSCS Card)
- Get Working at Heights, Manual Handling & Emergency First Aid qualifications
- Create frames, studwork and joists
- Learn door lining and hanging
- An NVQ L2 for trainees who prove themselves
- No prior experience is necessary as full training is given
Our Programme
Our Level 1 course lasts 3 months. Level 2 is a further 3-month placement. Please read the ‘Length of Stay’ section on our Referrals page for more information.
Level 1 is about learning the basics of the trade and gaining work experience.
Level 2 is about Increasing your work experience and skill level.
By the end of Level 2, trainees will usually have had the opportunity to take tests and acquire:
- CSCS
- Driving Theory
- Emergency First Aid
- Manual handling
- Working at Heights
- Health & Safety
- Abrasive Wheels (Grinders)
Examples of dept skills you can learn;
- Producing a range of basic joints
- Using and maintaining different hand tools
- Using and maintaining power tools
- Site skills
- Frames
- Studwork
- Door lining
- Door hanging
- Helping design and create pieces
For trainees that prove themselves and for whom it is deemed appropriate, there may be opportunities to extend the placement and achieve a deeper level of work experience and skill.
Trainees might get the opportunity to work toward or achieve some of the following:
- Driving practical
- Carpentry NVQ
Carpentry Department Highlights
Learning how to construct stud walls and door frames in #carpentry
Learning how to do stud walls in #carpentry
Halloween is coming! Our #carpentry trainees have been making coffins especially for the occasion! Disadvantaged young people can come to our Foundation to learn skills and get amazing qualifications, as well as do cool jobs like coffin manufacture 😉
Getting creative in #carpentry while learning skills and a trade
Making a bespoke desk in #carpentry where trainees learn a wide range of skills to enter the trade
Fixing window frames in #carpentry where disadvantaged young people learn the trade and can get qualifications all the way up to an NVQ. Visit cameliabotnar.com for more info
Building a tower while doing a Working at Heights course. One of the many certificates you can get at www.cameliabotnar.com if you do #carpentry #building #painting and decorating #estate maintenance #metalwork or #horticulture
Installing a new cupboard carcass bookcase for #carpentry as part of the live site and situation training and work experience we deliver at www.cameliabotnar.com
Terry crowning his incredible.milk store #carpentry
