Level 2 NVQ Glass Processing

No. There is no classroom and no exam. Everything is assessed on the glass processing you already do, through photographs and records from your own shifts, 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 processors finish inside a few months alongside the job, because a normal working week produces most of the evidence.

Not on its own. Glass processing is factory work and the GQA card scheme, which issues the CSCS cards for the glass industry, opens the Blue Skilled Worker card to Level 2 glass processors only where they have completed the in situ glass surface restoration unit, GP28. If you do that work on customers' premises, we build the unit into your plan, you pass the CITB Operatives test and you apply to GQA for the card. If you never leave the plant, you do not need a card and the qualification stands on its own.

Only if in situ glass surface restoration is part of your work. If your site work is fitting splashbacks, applying window film, fitting secondary glazing or maintaining windows and doors, the Level 2 for Glass Related Occupations is built for it and leads to the Blue card. If you install glass into frames, it is the Level 2 Glazing. The initial assessment on this page points you to the right one.

The ones your line already evidences. You need at least 7 credits, so cutting on its own is enough, as is warehousing, or a pair such as toughening and edge sealing, or assembling units and UV bonding. Most processors evidence more than the minimum without trying, and the extra units are listed on the certificate. The initial assessment on this page works it out from what you click.

Photographs of the work at each stage, from the stock sheet to the finished product, works orders and job sheets, cutting lists and unit specifications, quality check sheets and reject records, delivery notes for glass and materials, witness testimony from your supervisor or shift leader, the RAMS and toolbox talk records you signed, and the CoSHH sheets for sealants, adhesives and cleaners. Your assessor maps each one to a unit and tells you what is missing.

You carry on from the next shift. Evidence can come from more than one order and more than one process, and your assessor plans the units around what your line will produce next. Anything you cannot evidence yet is something we plan with you and your employer, and the initial assessment shows it before you pay.

Yes. Employers can be invoiced and can put a whole shift through as one booking, which is how most glass processors do it. A CITB grant may be available to CITB registered employers, which most glass processing plants are not, and we check what applies before you commit. Individuals 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 glass processor already cutting, toughening or making sealed units 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 set up and run the 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.