Qualified Supervisor NVQ requirements.

[SirKit Breaker]

Yet another money making scam is born.

From April 2013 it will be a requirement for anyone appointed after this date to the position of QS in companies who are on the Part P schemes to hold a NVQ level 3. I have looked at the draft for this.

There are 7 mandatory units to the NVQ, and my reckoning at £350 per unit is going to cost in the region of £2400 plus the VAT. I am so glad that i am no longer in the trade, but a s deliver NVQ training i maybe about to get a whole lot busier.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

Cheers...........Howard

 

[AP Electrical]

Yet another money making scam is born.

From April 2013 it will be a requirement for anyone appointed after this date to the position of QS in companies who are on the Part P schemes to hold a NVQ level 3. I have looked at the draft for this.

There are 7 mandatory units to the NVQ, and my reckoning at £350 per unit is going to cost in the region of £2400 plus the VAT. I am so glad that i am no longer in the trade, but a s deliver NVQ training i maybe about to get a whole lot busier.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

Cheers...........Howard

Pressume they will have to have grandfather rights for existing scheme members, and how will Electrical Trainee get on without the tech certs ? Can they just do the nvq level 3 also?

 

[Guest123]

Is that any NVQ 3 or a specific QS type one???

 

[Guest55]

Is that any NVQ 3 or a specific QS type one???

standard NVQ L3.

 

[Rauer]

Knew about this a couple of months ago so I got in quick!!

 

[Guest55]

agree with rauer , this was announced months ago tbh.

 

[Engineer54]

Pressume they will have to have grandfather rights for existing scheme members, and how will Electrical Trainee get on without the tech certs ? Can they just do the nvq level 3 also?

Grandfather rights should only apply to fully qualified and trained electricians, not to under qualified go fast DI's

 

[Sparky Ninja]

Have you heard further on the development on the Domestic NVQ Level 3 Howard?

Since my submission of information for the assessment I have heard nothing, even my useless C&G EV hasn't heard of it!

 

[Rauer]

Grandfather rights should only apply to fully qualified and trained electricians, not to under qualified go fast DI's

So, how would I be classed?
I put myself through college doing the 2330 but whilst doing so I was sub contracting to a spark and learning off him, ( in a way an unconventional apprenticeship) then I worked for a company for 2 years did my 17th, then worked for another company for 2 years and now work for myself , registerd with a scheme, so would I be classed as a time served or not?!

 

[Engineer54]

I would say If you have your core full 2330 L3 then you have the standard minimum academic qualification to call yourself an electrician. You also have the experience to endorse that L3 qualification. I class the 17th, as purely an add-on qualification, any fool or his dog can pass those things. All they show, is that you can find your way around the BGB... Which really makes you wonder, when that is the main and only electrical qualification these fast track DI boy's possess...

I don't think you would be classed as ''time served'' in conventional terms, (but then few are these day's) But your certainly an electrician...

 

[Rauer]

So what would be required to become time served? An nvq ( to be honest, doesn't seem to prove anything considering you can do an online nvq in ten weeks!) , or just more time in the field?

 

[i=p/u]

im suppose to be starting mine next week, but the more ive learnt about this trade, isit worth it

 

[Rauer]

im suppose to be starting mine next week, but the more ive learnt about this trade, isit worth it

In a word ..... No!!

 

[i=p/u]

guys trying to offer you £7.50 an hour and say will go up when get electricians card, bullshat....


il fit a light for 30

 

[Engineer54]

So what would be required to become time served? An nvq ( to be honest, doesn't seem to prove anything considering you can do an online nvq in ten weeks!) , or just more time in the field?

I think your getting the wrong end of the stick.... A recognised ''Timed Served'' electrician is one that has gone through an indentured apprenticeship including collage day/time release with a company. The closest thing to that would be basically the same type of apprenticeship but without being under an indentured contract. I'm sure there are many types of apprenticeship, including as you have described, but you would need paperwork from all those companies, confirming dates and times etc, of your employment status with them....

How long were you working in that unconventional apprentice situation, ...and how long have you been working as an actual electrician, rather than in any trainee/apprentice position.