Domestic Electrician

The Domestic Electrician EWA is the assessment process to recognise occupational competence for people who have been working as a domestic electrician for over three years but haven’t been able to complete an apprenticeship, achieve an equivalent, recognised Level 3 vocational qualification or have qualifications from outside of the UK.

It’s designed for practising electricians who are working across the full scope of activity set out in the skills scan and can readily generate the evidence required. It is an assessment process, not training, and must be completed within a maximum of 18 months. Candidates who are unlikely to be able to generate the required evidence within this timeframe should take a different route such as the Level 3 NVQ.

It’s available now from City & Guilds and EAL training centres across England, Northern Ireland and Wales.

Achievement of the Domestic Electrician EWA and its assessment of competence—the AM2ED—meets the criteria for an ECS Domestic Electrician gold card application. It will be recognised in the Electrotechnical Assessment Specification as equivalent to the Domestic Electrician apprenticeship.

The EWA was developed by an industry group comprising ECA, JIB, NET, Unite, Certsure, ECS, NAPIT, City and Guilds, EAL and the IET.

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