 Applying
for your SKILLcard |
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There are three main stages in making
your initial application
for an Engineering Services SKILLcard (separate arrangements
apply for renewals of
existing SKILLcards – click on Renewing
your SKILLcard alongside to
the left):
1. The minimum requirement for the issue
of an Engineering Services SKILLcard is that you must fulfil
the health and safety criteria of the scheme.
2. You will need to prove the skills you
possess using one of the accredited methods recognised by
SKILLcard.
3. You must satisfactorily complete the
relevant application form.
You can read more about each of these
stages below.
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Meeting
the Health and Safety Criteria |
Full information about this is contained in Health
and Safety Testing.
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Proving
your Industry Status |
You can demonstrate your industry status dependent on your occupation:
Skilled
Workers
- Skilled worker with NVQ/SVQ Level 2 (Blue
card) or Level 3 (Gold card);
- Skilled worker with an indentured apprenticeship
(Gold card);
- Skilled worker with an informal apprenticeship
and a City and Guilds craft certificate appropriate to your
trade (Blue card);
- Skilled worker with an informal apprenticeship
and a City and Guilds advanced
craft certificate appropriate to your trade (Gold card);
- Skilled worker without recognised
trade qualifications but able to satisfy the conditions of Industry
Accreditation – provided this is done before the closure
of Industry Accreditation for your occupation (Blue Card) –
see Industry
Accreditation and Occupations
Available.
- Skilled worker without recognised
trade qualifications but able to satisfy the conditions of the
Experienced Worker card – because the opportunity for Industry
Accreditation has closed for your occupation (Blue Experienced
Worker card) – see
Blue (Experienced Worker) Card
(under Card
Information) and Occupations
Available
Supervisors and Managers
You can demonstrate you qualify for the issue of a card:
- By achieving a relevant NVQ/SVQ
Level 3, 4 or 5; or
- By being able to satisfy the conditions
of Industry Accreditation – see
under Industry
Accreditation.
Mates and Service & Maintenance
Assistants
If none of the above applies to you – because you are neither
a Trainee, nor a Skilled worker, nor a Supervisor or Manager – you
can apply for a Green SKILLcard.
Ancillary/specialist occupations (linked to specific NVQ/SVQ
Units)
If your occupation is not directly or wholly underpinned by
a relevant NVQ/SVQ, you can demonstrate you qualify for the
issue
of a card:
- By submitting evidence that you are in one
of the Construction Related Occupations recognised by SKILLcard
– see
Dark Green SKILLcard, Construction
Related Occupations (NVQ/SVQ
Unit-based cards) (under Card
Information); and
- By being able
to satisfy the conditions of Industry Accreditation – see
under Card Information, as above.
Ancillary/specialist occupations (with no full NVQ/SVQ
and not linked to specific NVQ/SVQ Units)
You can demonstrate you qualify for the issue of a card:
- By submitting evidence that you are in one
of the ancillary occupations recognised by SKILLcard – see White
("Non-Availability" SKILLcard, Construction Related
Occupations) – under Card
Information.
| Completing
the Application Form |
It will help us get your SKILLcard to you as soon as possible
if you satisfactorily complete the correct application form. Which
form to use will depend on:
- the colour of card you apply for;
- your occupation; and
- whether Industry Accreditation remains available
for your occupation or whether you have to apply via the Experienced
Worker route.
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