New Entrant Electrical Installer Course Gold Training Package

The New Entrants Domestic Electrical Installer starts with basic electrical installation and safety, covering everything required to install and maintain electrical installations in a domestic setting, such as re-wiring a house or simple jobs such as new sockets and light fittings.

Firstly, we suggest that candidates look to complete their Essential Site Skills Course and gain a range of essential trade skills, with essential insights into key basics.

Candidates will then complete the Foundation Course over 27 days. The core module takes place over 4 weeks and includes the fundamental theory and skills and the Domestic Electrical Installer course.

Following this, they will then look to complete the Advanced Course. This includes the LCL Awards Level 3 Certificate in Installing, Testing and Ensuring Compliance of Electrical installations in Dwellings is completed over a further 20 days plus an on-site portfolio.

Candidates will carry out a full domestic installation within the practical training area.

The Essential Site Skills Course takes 5 days to complete, with training consisting of workshop-based sessions.

The Domestic Electrical Installer Course Foundation Course takes 27 days and can be completed as a weekday or weekend-only course. Training is delivered in three flexible parts, allowing candidates to spread the course over a timeframe that suits them:

• Fundamental Electrical knowledge and installation skills – 20 Days (Northolt, Luton, Basildon or Sittingbourne centre) this includes the Domestic Electrical Installer (Part P) Qualification
• 18th Edition Wiring Regulations Qualification – 3 days (Northolt, Luton, Basildon or Sittingbourne centre)
• Initial Inspection, Testing and Certification of Electrical Installations Qualification – 4 days (Northolt, Luton, Basildon or Sittingbourne centre)
• 5 Health & Safety courses (see below) – online at a time to suit you

The New Entrants Domestic Electrical Installer Advanced Course takes 4 weeks (plus design assignment and onsite portfolio) – based on a candidate that has already completed all elements of the Foundation Course.

Foundation Course

• Electrical wiring regulations, standards and associated documents
• Competent Persons Schemes (CPS), why they are needed and how to register
• Safe working and isolation
• Basic electrical theory, including OHMS Law, power laws and resistance
• Building Regulations – Part P and Part M
• Understanding wiring and circuit diagrams
• Electrical components, including consumer units and safety devices
• Installation techniques and correct use of tools
• Cable calculations, types, connecting and terminating
• Use of electrical test meters and subsequent calculations
• Testing, fault finding, earthing and bonding
• Electricity containment, trunking and conduits
• Electrical applications – lighting circuits, showers, spurs and cookers
• Initial verification, testing and certification of electrical installations, including
• Three-phase testing
• Health and Safety Courses (online) – asbestos awareness, manual handling, fire safety, working safely, and working at heights.

Advanced Course

Units covered will include:

• Health & safety legislation, practices and procedures in electrical installations.
• Environmental legislation, working practices and the principles of environmental technology systems associated with electrical installations.
• Practices and procedures for overseeing and organising the work environment when installing electrical installations.
• Electrotechnical occupational competence – approval of electrical installations.
• Planning, preparation and selection of wiring systems and electrotechnical equipment.
• Principles, practices and legislation for diagnosing and correcting electrical faults in electrical installations.
• Installation and connection of wiring systems and electrotechnical equipment.
• Inspection, testing, commissioning, approving and certification of electrical installations.

Candidates will be required to undertake:

• An independent electrical installation design assignment.
• A domestic electrical installation carried out in-centre.
• Onsite portfolio, including at least two electrical installations.

All electrical installations are documented using our e-portfolio system.

Essential Site Skills

Practical skills, including:

• Safe site working (locating cables and pipes)
• Building Structures, materials, components & fixings.
• Building regulations (altering, drilling, and notching structural areas)
• Safe use of hand and power tools
• Essential wall fixing methods and materials
• Essential Carpentry (lifting floorboards, creating access hatches in floors and ceilings, drilling and notching timber joists)
• Chasing solid brick and block walls for pipes and cables, including making good.
• Plasterboard wall repair and access.
• Ceramic tile repair, cutting around electrical sockets and switches)

There is no formal assessment. Upon completing the course, you will receive a Logic4training Certificate in Property Maintenance.

Upon successfully completing the New Entrants Domestic Electrical Course, students will receive competence certificates for the different technical elements.

This course includes the following qualifications:

• 18th Edition Wiring Regulations – City & Guilds (2382-22, Level 3) qualification
• Initial Verification, Testing and Certification of Electrical Installations – LCL Awards Level 3 RQF qualification
• Domestic Electrical Installer (Part P) – LCL Awards qualification
• Asbestos Awareness – online course certificate
• Manual Handling – online course certificate
• Fire Safety – online course certificate
• Working at Heights – online course certificate
• Working Safely – online course certificate
• LCL Awards Level 3 Certificate in Installing, Testing and Ensuring Compliance of Electrical installations in Dwellings

After completion of the Advanced Course, those who want to join a competent person scheme (i.e. NAPIT or NICEIC) will be able to as they will have achieved the LCL Awards Level 3 Certificate in Installing, Testing and Ensuring Compliance of Electrical installations in Dwellings which is a necessary requirement for joining a Part P CPS for electrical installations in domestic properties and to notify under Approved Document Part P.

You will also be required to demonstrate a minimum of 2 years experience.

Click here to book a FREE induction. Come in, speak to our team and see where you will be training.

Download Logic4training’s Domestic Electrical Installer New Entrant guide for more information.

To see all course options and prices, please download our course brochure.

Reading material and textbooks will be supplied by Logic4training on the first day of attendance.

The cost of this course includes the following books and manuals:

• The IET 18th Edition Wiring Regulations BS7671
• The IET On-Site Guide
• The IET Electrician’s Guide to the Building Regulations
• The IET Guidance Note 3 (GN3) – Testing and Inspection
• The Level 2/3 training manual for the Diploma in Electrical Installations