A unique new plumber training course for the full City & Guilds Qualified Plumber certification previously only available at a few oversubscribed educational colleges, is now available to selected applicants at the Building Trade Skills Centres' state-of-the-art training centres, the largest in Europe. The course also includes the qualification required for CORGI registration making our successful trainees the most highly qualified new plumbers in the UK.
This ground breaking course not only leads to the City & Guilds NVQ Level 3 fully Qualified Plumber certification and the Building Trade Skills Centres' own Master Plumber qualification, but also to the ACS certification in gas required to apply for CORGI registration. On completing the course, trainees become the most highly qualified new plumbers in the UK and are guaranteed employment with one of over 100 plumbing and construction companies waiting for each Centre’s trainees to qualify. For those wanting to travel and work abroad, City & Guilds qualifications are recognised in many parts of the world.
The scheduling of intensive workshop and classroom training in unique separately bookable 5-day modules is designed to make fast-track City & Guilds plumber training available to most employed people around their present job commitments and lifestyle as well as to jobseekers and unqualified plumbers wanting to gain a certification.
Building Trade Skills Centres costing over £2m for each Centre are the largest in Europe and range from 45,000sq.ft to 65,000sq.ft and are already open for those in Southern England at Chessington, Surrey and for those in Northern England at Eccles near Manchester.
Each Centre is near the motorway system and a train station. More centres are planned to open later in 2008 including Birmingham for the Midlands and Edinburgh/Glasgow for Scotland.
The long-term shortage of qualified plumbers continues and City & Guilds have predicted plumbing positions will be the second hardest to fill in 2010 (after electricians) and the hardest in 2015. The latest estimate by the Government-linked Construction Skills Network is that over 4,500 newly qualified plumbers will be needed every single year from 2007 to 2011. Building Trade Skills Centres are being built to meet this urgent and on-going need and to provide both men and women with the opportunity to train for a lifetime skill and long term job security in plumbing, virtually guaranteed by the predicted skill shortages.
These shortages should also ensure plumbers remain well paid. Current average earnings are already over £25,000 a year* and many plumbers running their own plumbing businesses earn up to £40,000 a year.
*£25,485 Office for National Statistics - Nov 2007
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