Cskills Awards · RQF Level 3
CSkills Awards Level 3 Diploma in Site Carpentry (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits146
- Guided learning120 hours
- Units in this qualification17
Awarded by Cskills Awards · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Cskills Awards registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Building methods and construction technology 3Real unit · Cskills Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Appreciate new technology and methods used in construction
- Appreciate energy efficiency in new construction buildings
- Apply sustainable methods and materials in construction work
Carry out first fixing operationsReal unit · Cskills Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Fix frames and linings
- Fit and fix floor coverings and flat roof decking
- Erect timber stud partitions
- Assemble, erect and fix straight flights of stairs including handrails
Carry out safe working practices in constructionReal unit · Cskills Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Apply health and safety regulations, roles and responsibilities.
- Use relevant signs and safety notices.
- Apply accident, emergency and reporting procedures.
- Identify hazards on construction sites.
- Implement health and hygiene in a construction environment.
- Handle materials and equipment safely.
- Use basic working platforms.
- Work with electricity in a construction environment.
- Use personal protective equipment (PPE) correctly.
- Carry out fire and emergency procedures.
Carry out second fixingReal unit · Cskills Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Install side hung doors and Ironmongery
- Install mouldings
- Install service encasements and cladding
- Install wall, floor units and fitments
Construct a Traditional Hipped Roof With DormerReal unit · Cskills Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Determine lengths and bevels.
- Construct a hipped roof.
- Repair structural timbers and form an opening for a dormer.
Erect complex structural carcassing componentsReal unit · Cskills Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Erect trussed rafter roofs
- Construct verge and eaves finishes
- Form dormer windows
- Construct a traditional cut roof with hips and valleys
Information, quantities and communicating with others 3Real unit · Cskills Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Produce drawn information
- Estimate quantities and price work
- Ensure good working relationships
Know how to carry out first fixing operationsReal unit · Cskills Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Fix frames and linings
- Fit and fix floor coverings and flat roof decking
- Erect timber stud partitions
- Assemble, erect and fix straight flights of stairs including handrails
Know how to carry out safe working practices in constructionReal unit · Cskills Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Know the health and safety regulations, roles and responsibilities.
- Know the accident and emergency procedures and how to report them.
- Identify hazards on construction sites.
- Know about health and hygiene in a construction environment.
- Handle materials and equipment safely.
- Know about basic working platforms.
- Work with electricity in a construction environment.
- Use personal protective equipment (PPE) correctly.
- Know the fire and emergency procedures.
- Know about signs and safety notices.
Know how to carry out second fixingReal unit · Cskills Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Install side hung doors and ironmongery
- Install mouldings
- Install service encasements and cladding
- Install wall, floor units and fitments
Know how to erect complex structural carcassing componentsReal unit · Cskills Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Erect trussed rafter roofs
- Construct verge and eaves finishes
- Form dormer windows
- Construct a traditional cut roof with hips and valleys
Know how to maintain non-structural and structural componentsReal unit · Cskills Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain joist coverings
- Maintain doors, windows and ironmongery
- Maintain structural timbers
- Replace broken glass
- Maintain surface finishes
Know how to set up and use fixed and transportable machineryReal unit · Cskills Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Inspect and maintain fixed and transportable power machinery and equipment
- Use machinery efficiently and safely
Knowledge of building methods and construction technology 3Real unit · Cskills Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Know about new technology and methods used in construction
- Know about energy efficiency in new construction buildings
- Know about sustainable methods and materials in construction work
Knowledge of information, quantities and communicating with others 3Real unit · Cskills Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Know about producing drawn information
- Estimate quantities and price work
- Ensure good working relationships
Maintain non-structural and structural componentsReal unit · Cskills Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain joist coverings
- Maintain doors, windows and ironmongery
- Maintain structural timbers
- Replace broken glass
- Maintain surface finishes
Set up and use fixed and transportable machineryReal unit · Cskills Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Inspect and maintain fixed and transportable power machinery and equipment
- Use machinery efficiently and safely
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 3 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
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Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
Where this can lead
Construction Safety Specialist
Your journey in safety is really what you make it. We're here to provide the opportunities, the support, and the challenges to help you build a truly impactful and rewarding career. The most important thing is that you keep learning, stay curious, and never lose sight of why we do what we do: to keep people safe.
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Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for CSkills Awards Level 3 Diploma in Site Carpentry (QCF)
17 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Cskills Awards.
- Building methods and construction technology 3
- Carry out first fixing operations
- Carry out safe working practices in construction
- Carry out second fixing
- Construct a Traditional Hipped Roof With Dormer
- Erect complex structural carcassing components
and 11 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.