Take your carpentry career to the next level with the NVQ in Wood Occupations — the industry-recognised qualification that rewards real skill, real experience, and real craftsmanship. Whether you specialise in site carpentry, joinery, timber framing, shopfitting, or heritage restoration, this NVQ proves your competence across the full range of National Occupational Standards, giving employers confidence in your ability and opening doors to higher-level roles.
As you progress through the qualification, you’ll be assessed in your actual working environment, demonstrating the practical skills and knowledge required to meet recognised industry standards.
Assessments cover a full range of mandatory criteria, including:
– Health, safety and welfare compliance on site
– Productive working practices, teamwork and communication
– Moving, handling and storing resources safely
– Confirming work activities, methods and resources (Level 2)
– Maintaining good occupational working relationships in the workplace
Your pathway also includes occupation-specific assessment ranges, such as:
– Site Carpentry: first-fix, second-fix, roofing carcassing, and using transportable cutting/shaping machinery
– Architectural Joinery: precision marking out, manufacturing routine and bespoke joinery components
– Structural Post & Beam Carpentry: heavy timber construction and frame assembly
– Timber Frame Erection & Light Timber Framing: installing, bracing and fixing pre-fabricated timber structures
– Shopfitting (Site & Bench Work): marking out, installing frames/fitments, and producing detailed shopfitting components
– Heritage Pathways: traditional carpentry and joinery techniques for historic building restoration
Our Heritage Construction Skills project aims to support training and development of the skills needed to maintain the historic buildings and places of North Devon, where we live, work, learn and play. These buildings will go on for many years to come if we look after them well, with the right people, the right people, having the right skills, and using the right materials.
This website is a foundation for that work – helping to put the people, the skills, the materials and the old buildings together, for a better future for all.