Advanced Apprenticeship Diploma in Plumbing and Heating

Amersham & Wycombe College – a leading provider of vocational courses and training in Buckinghamshire

Students of all ages and backgrounds study with us each year; whether you are a young person soon to leave school or an adult looking to retrain or enhance your job prospects by gaining new skills, then we have something for you.

Your Apprenticeship Qualification will enable you to progress to a Foundation Degree.

The Advanced Apprenticeship framework programme consists of four elements:

Knowledge element
This element will enable you to learn the essential plumbing knowledge to take into the workplace. There is 1 mandatory unit:
• Understand how to organise resources in building services engineering
Employment Rights and Responsibilities
You will complete a workbook which covers all aspects of your rights and responsibilities.

Diploma NVQ
You will complete the above Diploma at Level 3 which will be assessed in the work place by a college assessor and will recognise your workplace competence.
• Understand and carry out electrical work on domestic plumbing and heating systems and components.
• Install, commission, service and maintain domestic plumbing and heating.
• Understand and apply domestic cold water system installation, commissioning, service and maintenance techniques.
• Understand and apply domestic hot water system installation, commissioning, service and maintenance techniques.
• Understand and apply domestic cold central heating installation, commissioning, service and maintenance techniques.
• Understand and apply domestic sanitation system installation, commissioning, service and maintenance techniques.

Key Skills
If you do not have the required GCSE grades, you will complete key skills, both in the College and the workplace, and you may be required to take an exam depending on your current qualifications in:
• English 2
• Maths 2
• ICT 1

On completion of the four elements above you will be accredited with an Apprenticeship Certificate.