Cskills Awards · RQF Level 3
Cskills Awards Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Trowel Occupations (Construction) (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits161
- Guided learning120 hours
- Units in this qualification15
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.
Confirming Work Activities and Resources for an Occupational Work Area in the WorkplaceReal unit · Cskills Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Identify work activities, assess required resources and plan the programme of work.
- Obtain clarification and advice where the resources required are not available.
- Evaluate the work activities and the requirements of any significant external factors against the project requirements.
- Identify work activities which influence each other and make the best use of the resources available.
- Identify changed circumstances that require alterations to the work programme and justify them to decision makers.
Confirming the Occupational Method of Work in the WorkplaceReal unit · Cskills Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Assess available project data accurately to determine the occupational method of work.
- Obtain further information from alternative sources in cases where the available project data is insufficient.
- Identify work methods that makes best use of resources and meet project, statutory and contractual requirements.
- Confirm and communicate the selected work method to relevant personnel.
Conforming to General Safety in the WorkplaceReal unit · Cskills Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Identify hazards associated with the workplace and record and report in accordance with organisational procedures.
- Comply with all workplace safety legislation requirements.
- Comply with and maintain all organisational security arrangements and approved procedures.
- Comply with all emergency procedures in accordance with organisational policy.
Developing and Maintaining Good Occupational Working Relationships in the WorkplaceReal unit · Cskills Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Develop, maintain and encourage working relationships to promote good will and trust.
- Inform relevant people about work activities in an appropriate level of detail, with the appropriate level of urgency.
- Offer advice and help to relevant people about work activities and encourage questions, requests for clarification and comments.
- Clarify proposals with relevant people and discuss alternative suggestions.
- Resolve differences of opinion in ways that minimise offence and maintain goodwill, trust and respect.
Erecting Complex Masonry Structures in the WorkplaceReal unit · Cskills Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret the given information relating to the work and resources when erecting complex masonry structures.
- Comply with relevant legislation and official guidance when erecting complex masonry structures.
- Maintain safe working practices when erecting complex masonry structures.
- Select the required quantity and quality of resources for the methods of work to erect complex masonry structures.
- Minimise the risk of damage to the work and surrounding area when erecting complex masonry structures.
- Complete the work within the allocated time when erecting complex masonry structures.
Erecting Masonry Cladding in the WorkplaceReal unit · Cskills Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret the given information relating to the work and resources when erecting masonry cladding.
- Comply with relevant legislation and official guidance when erecting masonry cladding.
- Maintain safe working practices when erecting masonry cladding.
- Select the required quantity and quality of resources for the methods of work to erect masonry cladding.
- Minimise the risk of damage to the work and surrounding area when erecting masonry cladding.
- Complete the work within the allocated time when erecting masonry cladding.
- Comply with the given contract information to erect masonr
Erecting Masonry Structures in the WorkplaceReal unit · Cskills Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret the given information relating to the work and resources when erecting masonry structures.
- Comply with relevant legislation and official guidance when erecting masonry structures.
- Maintain safe working practices when erecting masonry structures.
- Select the required quantity and quality of resources for the methods of work to erect masonry structures.
- Minimise the risk of damage to the work and surrounding area when erecting masonry structures.
- Complete the work within the allocated time when erecting masonry structures.
- Comply with the given contract information to
Erecting Thin Joint Masonry Structures in the WorkplaceReal unit · Cskills Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret the given information relating to the work and resources when erecting thin joint masonry structures.
- Comply with relevant legislation and official guidance when erecting thin joint masonry structures.
- Maintain safe working practices when erecting thin joint masonry structures.
- Select the required quantity and quality of resources for the methods of work to erect thin joint masonry structures.
- Minimise the risk of damage to the work and surrounding area when erecting thin joint masonry structures.
- Complete the work within the allocated time when erecting thin joint m
Laying Domestic Drainage in the WorkplaceReal unit · Cskills Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret the given information relating to the work and resources when laying domestic drainage.
- Comply with relevant legislation and official guidance when laying domestic drainage.
- Maintain safe working practices when laying domestic drainage.
- Select the required quantity and quality of resources for the methods of work to lay domestic drainage.
- Minimise the risk of damage to the work and surrounding area when laying domestic drainage.
- Complete the work within the allocated time when laying domestic drainage.
- Comply with the given contract information to lay domestic drain
Maintaining Slate and Tile Roofing in the WorkplaceReal unit · Cskills Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret the given information relating to the work and resources when maintaining slate and tile roofing.
- Comply with relevant legislation and official guidance when maintaining slate and tile roofing.
- Maintain safe working practices when maintaining slate and tile roofing.
- Select the required quantity and quality of resources for the methods of work to maintain slate and tile roofing.
- Minimise the risk of damage to the work and surrounding area when maintaining slate and tile roofing.
- Complete the work within the allocated time when maintaining slate and tile roofing.
- Comp
Placing and Finishing Non-specialist Concrete in the WorkplaceReal unit · Cskills Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret the given information relating to the work and resources when placing and finishing non-specialist concrete.
- Comply with relevant legislation and official guidance when placing and finishing non-specialist concrete.
- Maintain safe working practices when placing and finishing non-specialist concrete.
- Select the required quantity and quality of resources for the methods of work to place and finish non-specialist concrete.
- Minimise the risk of damage to the work and surrounding area when placing and finishing non-specialist concrete.
- Complete the work within the allocate
Plastering and Rendering Surfaces in the WorkplaceReal unit · Cskills Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret the given information relating to the work and resources when plastering and rendering surfaces.
- Comply with relevant legislation and official guidance when plastering and rendering surfaces.
- Maintain safe working practices when plastering and rendering surfaces.
- Select the required quantity and quality of resources for the methods of work to plaster and render surfaces.
- Minimise the risk of damage to the work and surrounding area when plastering and rendering surfaces.
- Complete the work within the allocated time when plastering and rendering surfaces.
- Comply with t
Repairing and Maintaining Masonry Structures in the WorkplaceReal unit · Cskills Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret the given information relating to the work and resources when repairing and maintaining masonry structures.
- Comply with relevant legislation and official guidance when repairing and maintaining masonry structures.
- Maintain safe working practices when repairing and maintaining masonry structures.
- Select the required quantity and quality of resources for the methods of work to repair and maintain masonry structures.
- Minimise the risk of damage to the work and surrounding area when repairing and maintaining masonry structures.
- Complete the work within the allocated time
Setting Out Complex Masonry Structures in the WorkplaceReal unit · Cskills Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret the given information relating to the work and resources when setting out complex masonry structures.
- Comply with relevant legislation and official guidance when setting out complex masonry structures.
- Maintain safe working practices when setting out complex masonry structures.
- Select the required quantity and quality of resources for the methods of work to set out complex masonry structures.
- Minimise the risk of damage to the work and surrounding area when setting out complex masonry structures.
- Complete the work within the allocated time when setting out complex ma
Setting Out Masonry Structures in the WorkplaceReal unit · Cskills Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret the given information relating to the work and resources when setting out masonry
- Comply with relevant legislation and official guidance when setting out masonry structures.
- Maintain safe working practices when setting out masonry structures.
- Select the required quantity and quality of resources for the methods of work to set out masonry structures.
- Minimise the risk of damage to the work and surrounding area when setting out masonry structures.
- Complete the work within the allocated time when setting out masonry structures.
- Comply with the given contract informatio
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
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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
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Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
Meet all twelve tutorsWhere this connects
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.
- Confirm the Occupational Method of Work
- Contribute to setting out basic masonry structures
- Erect Masonry Cladding Legacy
- Erect complex masonry structures Legacy
- Erect detailed complex masonry structures
- Maintain slate and tile roofing
- Place and finish concrete
- Set out and erect thin joint masonry structures
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 own work
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Cskills Awards Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Trowel Occupations (Construction) (QCF)
15 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Cskills Awards.
- Confirming Work Activities and Resources for an Occupational Work Area in the Workplace
- Confirming the Occupational Method of Work in the Workplace
- Conforming to General Safety in the Workplace
- Developing and Maintaining Good Occupational Working Relationships in the Workplace
- Erecting Complex Masonry Structures in the Workplace
- Erecting Masonry Cladding in the Workplace
and 9 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.
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