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Able Skills

 
Location #1: London
Town: Dartford
Contact name: Gary Measure

Unit K5 Riverside Industrial E
Riverside Way
Dartford Kent
Kent
DA1 5BS
Tel: 01322 280 202
Email: gary@ableskills.co.uk

http://www.ableskills.co.uk

Company overview

How Do You Decide Who To Train With?

How do you know which training provider to choose when there are so many to choose from? Some areas to consider could be:

1. Look at who they are accredited by
2. Look at their staff and their qualifications
3. Look at the price – are they too dear or even too cheap?Any VAT?
4.Can you visit the Training Provider without an appointment?
5.Space available

Accreditations

Able Skills is an accredited centre securing approval to deliver qualification training from City & Guilds, Construction Awards Alliance, EAL, NICEIC and CITB for gas training and assessment. We are amongst the few training providers who can offer you progression and if qualifications are your choice – take you from novice to expert.

Staff & Facilities

All of our Instructors are time served and construction specific qualified but each tutor has also achieved the required teaching and assessing awards. All of our Instructors work full time at Able Skills and only deliver the courses which they are qualified to do. We are very proud of the staff employed at Able Skills; please visit our staff page to see potentially who your instructor may be. Having full time dedicated staff allows us to run all of our courses all of the time in dedicated training areas. We do not share work areas with other trades for example: you will not be falling over a Bricklayer whilst undertaking your Plumbing training and so on.

Price

All of the training available varies in price; we are not the cheapest but we are not the most expensive. We do believe in providing a value for money service and we have no hidden costs, no extras to pay and all of our costs include VAT. We do believe that everyone should have access to training which is why we offer the most reasonable payment plans. Even if these are not within your financial range, we can provide you with details of available adult funding options.

Summary

We do not hard sell, cold call or visit your home – We do not employ a Sales Team!
We do however believe in honesty and will not attempt to recruit you under false pretences.

When you call or visit with an enquiry, we will always make it clear as to what you can expect from the training you are seeking and also provide you with details of what your options are should you choose to take your training to the next level.

We have flexible training programmes to fit in with just about every possible working scenario, flexible payment plans to try to suit everyone’s financial circumstances, large subject specific Training Centres and as previously stated, qualified, full time, dedicated staff.

We take pride in everything we do from our non accredited training courses right through to qualification based courses. We are aware that not everyone is seeking a qualification but we continue to ensure that even these programmes are taught by qualified instructors so you are assured that you are treated with the same dedication as those training for qualifications.

If qualifications are your aim, Able Skills has the relevant approvals in place to progress you. We can offer qualifications at levels 1, 2 and 3 and as an NVQ assessment centre we fully understand the processes in place to obtain an NVQ. Some training centres will lead you to believe that an NVQ can be achieved within a training environment or without underpinning knowledge, this is not the case. For the correct guidance on achieving an NVQ, please visit the relevant pages within this site.

If we can’t offer you what you want, we will tell you and try and redirect you to the best of our ability. We can guide you in the right direction once we know what you are looking to achieve, your options vary dependent upon what trade you are interested in, whether you are considering employment or self employment and what kind of time you have available to you. We know the construction industry well and consistently remain up to date with changes and practices to ensure the highest level of training is available at Able Skills.

We hope that this has helped you choose the right Training Centre for YOU

Cost/Location/Training

Our training patterns are amongst the most flexible available. We can provide weekend training, separated blocks of training and the flexibility to spread the training over a period of up to 18 months.

Our office staff will deal with any enquiry you have and if you choose Able Skills then you will have made a great choice. If Able Skills does not deliver the kind of training you require, we wish you the very best in tracking down the training provider who does.
Course title

Able Skills - Carpentry Courses

Course description

We can provide you with Short Courses, Qualification Courses, Weekend Courses and much more..
Able Skills is an approved training provider and has accreditation to offer qualifications on behalf of: City & Guilds, Construction Awards Alliance (formerly CITB), NICEIC & EAL for Domestic Installer qualifications and CITB for gas training and assessment.
Due to our management of quality, we have achieved ISO 9001 certification and are also associated with IPHE (Institute of Plumbers and Heating Engineers).
We are in a position to cover every aspect of construction training and can provide courses to teach you to whatever level you choose to go to.

Qualifications offered

We are also approved to deliver NVQs which means that once your training is finished and you are working within your chosen industry, Able Skills dedicated NVQ assessors are able to assess you onsite, at your place of work with a view to you obtaining NVQ level 2, a National requirement for site workers by 2010.
Our various Training Centres all employ full time Instructors, Assessors and Internal Verifiers and equal facilities are available to everyone, regardless of whether you train with us on a short term basis or longer for the purposes of gaining a qualification. We are open 7 days every week throughout the year and all courses run every week without fail. We have the largest and best training facilities in the UK but we also have the correct amount of staff in place to cope with the demand for training and to deliver the courses in the correct manner.
All Able Skills staff are time served tradesmen with recognised qualifications within their field of expertise. Additionally, all staff employed by us have also undergone the relevant training to provide them with the correct teaching and assessing qualifications and additionally, the qualifications required to internally verify that all training undertaken at Able Skills is done to the high standards imposed by our Governing Bodies.
 

Course Calendar

Gas Training Courses - from Able Skills
Intensive Bricklaying Courses from Able Skills
Able Skills - Carpentry Courses
Plumbing Courses from Able Skills
Plastering Courses from Able Skills
Intensive Tiling Courses from Able Skills
Electrical Courses from Able Skills
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Various course dates throught the year, please contact us for details.
 
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