Description
Our Next Cohort Starts October 2023 – Please call 01473 744412 or email apprenticeships@eastern.rooftraining.co.uk
What is an apprenticeship?
An apprenticeship is a paid job where the employee learns and gains valuable experiences.
Alongside on-the-job training, apprentices spend at least 20% of their working hours completing classroom-based learning us which leads to a nationally recognised qualification.
An apprenticeship includes:
- paid employment with holiday leave
- hands-on-experience in a sector/role of interest
- at least 20% off-the-job training
- Apprentice studies towards a Level 2 Apprenticeship Standard in Slate & Tile Roofing. Apprentices studies include theory and practical training.
- For further information on the new standard, please see:https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/apprenticeship-standards/roofer/
Who Should Attend?
This course is for employees who want to gain significant skills in roofing and have an employer who is able to release them for 1 day per week.
We are especially keen to have school leavers and those between 16-18. The course is open to any age group, but normally our ceiling is 24 years old.
Course Overview
The apprenticeship will consist of:
- Carry out a range of job tasks including measuring, marking out, fitting, finishing, positioning and securing
- Install plain tiles, interlocking tiles, natural slates and fibre-cement slates
- Install underlay, battens and related roofing components
- Install pre-formed lead and/or proprietary flashings
- Install dry and wet fixed products to verges, hips, ridge and valleys
- Install insulation and ventilation products for warm and cold roof construction
- Install roof windows and flashing kits
On completion of this apprenticeship, slaters and tilers will have knowledge of:
- The principles of slating and tiling and how they are applied in routine tasks, such as, setting out roofs, installing insulation, underlay and other background materials, installing main roof coverings, fixings, fittings and components, ventilation and dry fix systems, roof windows, mixing and applying mortar and installing pre-formed lead and/or proprietary flashings
- How to use key dimensions relating to batten gauges and minimum and maximum head lap
- How to strip and reclaim slates, tiles and fittings for re-use
- How to check areas to be covered, including correct installation of cavity trays, fascia board height, barge boards, hip and valley construction, penetrations, and masonry
- How to requisition slating and tiling materials, such as tiles, slates, underlay, battens, fixings and related materials, fittings and components
Full course overview here: https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/apprenticeship-standards/roofer/
Duration
This course covers a period of 12-18 months depending on prior experience and candidates will attend day release off the job training at the roofing college/ roof training centre once a week. The remainder of the time is spent with the employer on site, gaining the experience necessary for the end point assessment that is taken at the end of the apprentices learning.
At the end of the 12 – 18 month period, the apprentice passes a ‘gateway’ and then is independently assessed by an End Point Assessment Organisation.
Funding
All funding for apprenticeships now goes through the Digital Apprenticeship Service. https://accounts.manage-apprenticeships.service.gov.uk/service/index?
If you are are in Suffolk or Norfolk, we will help to arrange a levy transfer for you which will go through the DAS above. This is where a bigger company gives excess funding to a smaller company.
The government pays up to £11,000 per learner. There can be a co-investment of 5% from an employer depending on your apprentice and circumstances. It is possible to request direct funding from the government through the DAS.
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