Ascentis Entry Level Certificate in Skills for Employment in the Construction Industries (Entry 3)

Qualification Overview

The Ascentis Entry 3 Certificate in Skills for Employment in the Construction Industries provides the learner with an excellent initiation into the world of construction in order to enable them to decide whether this is a sector within which they feel they wish to choose to work in the future. The qualification also promotes the development of wider employment skills, emphasising the importance of appropriate conduct and dress within a work area, customer service, customer care and safe working practice.

Aims

The aims of the qualification are to enable learners:

• To encourage the development of generic employability skills
• To promote the gaining of work-related skills within construction
• To prepare learners for further training within construction

Target Group

Young people age 14+ and adults who have an interest in following a career within the construction industry

Assessment Method

Most units are assessed via internal assessment through the building up of a portfolio of evidence to cover all the assessment criteria. One unit is assessed through the completion of a practical task carried out under supervised conditions.