NOCN · RQF Level 3
NOCN Level 3 Diploma for Craft Bricklayers
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits85
- Guided learning690 hours
- Units in this qualification6
Awarded by NOCN · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
Qualification Number 610/3883/0 Total Qualification Time (TQT) 850 Credits 85 Minimum Age 19 Level Level 3 Registration Start Date 1/8/2025 Current Tariff £127.00 The purpose of this qualification is to equip learners with the knowledge and understanding to progress on to a higher level supervisory or management qualifications e.g., Level 4 NVQ Diploma in Construction Site Supervision or progress into employment in their chosen trade. Employment opportunities could include: • Craft Bricklayer • Construction Supervisor / Team leader
These are the units NOCN 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.
Communication, Quantities, Costings and Information in a Construction EnvironmentReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Produce and interpret relevant construction information
- Use construction drawings
- Estimate quantities of materials for construction projects
- Estimate the price for construction projects
- Communicate effectively in a construction environment
- Build and maintain positive working relationships
Constructing Decorative BrickworkReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret the information required to construct decorative finishes and features
- Prepare the work area to construct decorative finishes and features
- Prepare the resources to construct decorative finishes and features
- Construct decorative finishes and features
- Complete works following construction of decorative finishes and features
Constructing Complex Masonry StructuresReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret the information required to construct complex masonry structures
- Prepare the work area to construct complex masonry structures
- Prepare the resources to construct complex masonry structures
- Construct complex masonry structures
- Complete works following construction of complex masonry structures
Construction Health and SafetyReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Know about legislation and organisational policies and procedures related to health and safety.
- Know about the hazards and risks within the construction industry.
- Know about incident reporting procedures.
- Know how hazards and risks are controlled.
- Know about own responsibilities and behaviours necessary when working in construction.
- Know about welfare and personal hygiene in construction.
- Know about first aid in construction.
- Know about the importance of security arrangements in construction.
- Know the hazards, risks and health and safety requirements of manual handling.
- Know about the hazards, risks and health and safety requirements of working at heights.
- Know about the hazards, risks and health and safety requirements for hazardous substances.
- Know about the hazards, risks and health and safety related to the use of plant and equipment in the construction industry.
- Know about the hazards, risks and health and safety requirements of confined space working.
- Know about the hazards, risks and health and safety requirements relating to fire and firefighting equipment.
- Know about the hazards, risks and health and safety requirements relating to working with, and around, electrical equipment.
Craft Bricklaying KnowledgeReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Work with bricklaying stock (components and materials).
- Know the key principles of bricklaying used in building construction.
- Know the standards, regulations and quality assurance requirements applicable to bricklaying.
- Know the heritage principles applicable to bricklaying.
- Construct fireplaces and chimneys.
Sustainable ConstructionReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse the impacts that construction has on the environment.
- Know the technical aspects of construction related to sustainability.
- Know the modern methods of construction used in the industry.
- Know how construction can affect social and economic sustainability.
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
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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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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
Learners will develop skills to communicate effectively and manage quantities and costings in a construction environment. The unit covers producing and interpreting construction information and drawings, estimating materials and prices, and maintaining positive working relationships.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for NOCN Level 3 Diploma for Craft Bricklayers
6 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by NOCN.
- Communication, Quantities, Costings and Information in a Construction Environment
- Constructing Decorative Brickwork
- Constructing Complex Masonry Structures
- Construction Health and Safety
- Craft Bricklaying Knowledge
- Sustainable Construction
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.