Duration: 36 months plus 3 months for the End Point Assessment.
Entry requirements
Candidates will typically hold GCSE grade C/4 in Maths and D/3 in English.
You will need to sit the exams for Functional Skills L2 prior to your End Point Assessment (EPA) in Maths and English if you do not have an exemption or equivalent grade.
How you'll be assessed
- Knowledge test
- Competency test
- Professional review on portfolio of evidence
Progression
On successful completion of the apprenticeship, you could progress into employment in the following job roles:
- Plumber
- Multi-disciplined Engineering Operative
- Gas Engineer
- Gas Service Technician
- Gas Service Installer
Throughout the apprenticeship, the apprentice is supported by their work-based tutor, employer mentor and class-based tutor to ensure that they are progressing at the right pace and developing the skills and knowledge expected. This apprenticeship requires you to attend 1 day a week at our Chesterfield campus
Workplace behaviours development
- Ensure personal wellbeing and the safety of customers and others is a priority.
- Demonstrate an awareness of how the work impacts on others in the work environment.
- Be risk aware showing the desire to reduce risks through systematic monitoring and checking information, and the strict compliance with appropriate regulations and normative documents.
- Undertake continuous professional development to enhance knowledge and skills to maintain competence.
Skills and knowledge development
- Electrical awareness and be able to carry out safe isolation and essential electrical safety checks.
- Combustion, combustion analysis, gas properties, carbon monoxide (CO), and types of burners.
- Work in compliance with statutory and normative documentation including building regulations, water regulations and electrical regulations.
- Emergency procedures, including gas escapes, report of fumes and for unsafe situations.
- Demonstrate tightness testing, purging and relight procedures on gas installations.
Off-the-job training
Every apprenticeship must include off-the-job training – equivalent to one day per week. This takes place during time normally spent at work but does not include the usual daily duties and responsibilities carried out as part of their normal role. It can consist of work and tasks ranging from projects, lectures and seminars to day release, blended learning and training to use specialist equipment.
It can form part of regular weekly sessions or be combined for larger blocks of time, depending on the approach that works best for the employer.
Qualifications gained
The apprentice will work towards the Level 3 Gas Engineering Operative Apprenticeship Standard.
They will also work towards the BPEC Domestic Gas Foundation, which includes Gas Safe Registration.
Career progression routes
- Gas engineer
- Trainee gas engineer
- Gas service installer
- Gas service technician
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