NVQ Level 2 Multi-Trade Building Maintenance

No. There is no classroom and no exam. Everything is assessed on the repairs and refurbishment you already do, through photographs and documents from your own jobs, an observation of you working and a professional discussion with your assessor.

As long as you take. There is no fixed duration, no cohort and no term dates: you register any week and the qualification is led by you. Most multi-traders finish inside a few months alongside the job, because a week of housing repairs produces evidence in two or three trades at once.

The Blue Skilled Worker card, valid five years. You need the Level 2 certificate plus a pass in the CITB Health, Safety and Environment test for Operatives, or GQA's own health and safety test, within the last two years, then the card application, which we make to GQA for you.

Yes, in case you need one. GQA issue a temporary card as soon as we register you and post it to you direct, at our cost. We need your HS&E test result report, a passport style photograph and the exact address to send it to. It is not a free Blue card: the Blue card follows the certificate.

You need at least two of the six trade groups, and you pick the ones your jobs already evidence: carpentry and joinery, painting and decorating, tiling, plastering, roofing or trowel. Each group has its own minimum credits, so plastering needs both of its units, tiling needs tiling plus surface preparation, and trowel needs just the masonry repairs unit. A third group is listed as additional credits if you evidence it. The initial assessment on this page works it out from what you click.

No. If your week is one trade, the single trade NVQ is the honest fit: Wood Occupations for carpentry and joinery, Plastering, Trowel Occupations for bricklaying, or Decorative Finishing for painting and decorating. They lead to the same Blue card and the evidence is the same kind. The multi-trade is for the person whose week genuinely crosses trades.

Photographs of each repair before, during and after, job sheets, works orders and completion records, the specifications you worked to, delivery notes, witness testimony from the site manager or the repairs supervisor, the RAMS and toolbox talk records you signed, the CoSHH sheets for adhesives, paints and plaster, and customer sign-offs. Your assessor maps each one to a unit and tells you what is missing. Evidence can come from more than one job, so anything you cannot evidence yet is something we plan with you and your employer around the next one.

Yes. Housing providers, facilities contractors and maintenance firms can be invoiced and can put several operatives through as one booking. A CITB grant may be available to CITB registered employers, and we check what applies before you commit. Self employed multi-traders pay direct, with interest free instalments if you want them.

£850 + VAT. That is the whole qualification: registration with the awarding body, your assessor, the visits, the portfolio and the certificate. There is no separate exam fee and no course fee on top, because there is no course to attend. The CSCS card is applied for separately and CSCS charge their own fee for it.

Yes, and for a maintenance operative who turns their hand to several trades every week that is the normal route. There is no set length. You are assessed on the work you are already doing, so the pace is set by how quickly the evidence comes together rather than by a timetable. People who already have photographs, job records and a supervisor who will sign a witness statement often finish inside a few weeks. Nobody is held back waiting for a term to start.

Your assessor comes to you, on your own jobs, in your own working week. They watch you work, take photographs, ask you why you did it that way, and record it against the units. Between visits you upload evidence and your assessor tells you what is still missing. There is no college, no classroom and no written exam.