Essential Electrician Courses

• Receive 7 Qualifications you need on our Electrician Courses for carrying out house re-wires, install power showers, kitchen circuits, garden lighting & install new sockets.
• Get ‘Part P Qualified, on our electrician courses, self certify your own work and directly join a Competent Person Scheme.
• Gain the industry standard skills you need on these fast track electrician courses.
• Start earning straight away by receiving each qualification as you progress through one of the electrician courses.
• Attend the course Part – Time, these are flexible electrician courses so you attend when you’re ready to, there’s no need to give up your current job or change your lifestyle.

There are many other reasons to choose this course amongst our numerous, tailored electrician courses so we recommend you contact our Electrician Courses Advice Team to find out more and to discuss your individual requirements. These include how we tailor the electrician courses around your personal commitments and offer our famous Pay-As-You-Train Scheme on this course where you only pay as you can attend each part of the electrician courses, the most cost effective way to train and gain the following qualifications:

• EAL Level 2 for Domestic Electrical Installers (Part P Certificate)
• City & Guilds 2382-10 17th Edition Certificate in the Requirements for Electrical Installations (Level 3)
• City & Guilds 2392-10 Fundamental Inspection & Testing (Level 2)
• City & Guilds 2391-10 Inspection & Testing (Level 3)
• PAT Testing City & Guilds 2377-12 Inspection and Testing of Electrical Equipment (Level 3)
• PAT Testing City & Guilds 2377-11 Management of Electrical Equipment Maintenance (Level 3)
• Building Regulations City & Guilds 2393-10 (Level 3)

If you are thinking of getting trained to be an electrician and want to have the skills required to work on any domestic and commercial electrics, be able to re-wire houses, test and inspect existing electrical installations and test and inspect Portable Appliances then enquire with us and find out if these electrician courses are for you.

These electrician courses consist of modules of on-site specialist training plus home based technical study. It requires no previous experience of electrics and is designed for the individual wanting to become a qualified Domestic Electrical Installer. You will be able to not only install, test and inspect your own Domestic work, but be able to test and inspect other people’s existing domestic and commercial work; a highly lucrative and sought after skill. Call today and we’ll tell you how.

The electrician courses start with an introduction to electrical theory and electrical installations, then move on to getting you Part P (Electrical Domestic Installer) qualified and then progresses onto the City & Guilds 2382 17th Edition Wiring Regulations and City & Guilds 2392 (The fundamentals of inspection and testing) giving you recognised qualifications that are highly regarded and in short supply in the industry.

The electrician courses then move onto cover the highly recognised and sought after City & Guilds 2391-10 Inspection & Testing (Level 3) Certificate, the qualification that many in the industry are looking towards.

During the electrician courses you will also learn how to carry out Portable Appliance Testing (PAT Testing) and gain both your City & Guilds 2377-12 and 2377-11 qualifications. These certificates are regarded as the ‘must have’ qualifications as it allows you to test appliances, schedule when this needs to be carried out and covers how you generally administer the asset registers. You will also be able to carry out both visual inspections and carry out testing on other instruments after attending the electrician courses.

Our electrician courses have the electrical training that is designed for you to gain the qualifications that are the ‘bench mark’ and prove your competency in the most user friendly way possible, taught in our own unique manner within class sizes of no more than 8 to an experienced tutor.

A few examples of the types of work you can carry out after completing our electrician courses:

• Performing a house rewire
• Installing a new consumer unit
• Installing a new ring-main into an extension.
• Fitting an electrical shower.
• Installing sockets and lighting in a kitchen.
• Installing garden lighting or heaters.
• Installing new lighting and sockets.
• Carry out the testing of Portable appliance equipment in various work places.
• Carry out tests and inspections of existing circuits.

The electrician courses are a comprehensive blended learning programme. You will be guided from complete beginner to a level of understanding which is comparable to many electricians who already enjoy the benefits of working within the electrical industry.

The electrician courses are specifically designed for people with no prior electrical experience, its aim is to provide you with the theoretical understanding and practical skills required to work in a safe and responsible manner within the electrical installation and testing & inspecting industry.

As well as the home study, you will be spending modules of training whilst on the electrician courses at our training centre to complete the practical training, assessments and exams. You will have up to two years to complete all the qualifications contained within the electrician courses. The electrician courses will enable you to proficiently install your domestic electrical work, compliant with Building Regulations Part P. After gaining your EAL Domestic Electrical Installer Certificate and your 17th edition certificate, you are able to register to become a competent domestic electrical installer, with the ability to install, inspect, test and certify your work in accordance with BS 7671.

After completing our electrician courses you will then be able to register with a Competent Person Self-Certification Scheme such as NICEIC, NAPIT or ELECSA, where you can self-certify your installation work test and inspect existing installations and provide your customers with a Part P compliant certificate. Please note that if you are working on domestic electrical installations and you don’t have this qualification you will need to notify Building Control directly, who then send out an inspector to inspect, test and certificate the installation (a significant additional charge will be incurred for this service, costing hundreds of pounds) so attending this electrician course makes financial sense as well.

• Applicable Building Regulations for Domestic Electrical Installation.
• Electrical Safety Legislation, Regulations and Standards.
• Domestic Electrical Installation Pre-work Survey/Inspection.
• Domestic Electrical Installation Safe Isolation Procedures.
• Identifying Unsafe Electrical Situations.
• Domestic Electrical Earthing and Bonding Requirements.
• Electrical Test Procedures.
• Installing and Replacing Electrical Components.
• Checking the Correct and Safe Operation of Installed Electrical Components.
• Recording of Electrical Test Results and Completing Certificates.
• Domestic Electrical Installation in Special Locations.
• Understanding of New Domestic Electrical Circuit Requirements.
• Installing Domestic Lighting Circuits.
• The safe isolation of electrical systems
• Introduction to Initial Verification
• How to conduct a visual inspection and the correct methods
• An introduction to functional testing and the correct procedure
• How to interpret and evaluate electrical test results
• Learning how to use a wide range of test instruments.
• Certification of installations for surveyor's reports.
• Learning how to complete test certificates for clients including landlords and local authorities.

Here are other areas where the electrician courses will allow you to carry out electrical installation work:

• Electrical work in dwellings (houses, flats, apartments etc) i.e. re-wires, installation of kitchen lighting, power showers, moving sockets.
• Combined dwellings and business premises having a common supply (such as shops, pubs etc)
• Common access areas in blocks of flats (but not lifts).
• Shared amenities in blocks of flats (such as laundries, gymnasiums etc).
• Outbuildings, including sheds, garages and greenhouses.
• Garden lighting and power supplies (including spas, security lighting etc).
• Parts of fixed electrical installations external to premises, such as in gardens, (sheds, detached garages etc).
• Extensions and loft conversions (The safety requirement will be applicable to alterations and additions to existing installations, including rewires, as well as to new constructions.)>

After these electrician courses, some students also undertake more advanced qualifications and go further with their training. The Level 3 Design, Erection and Verification of Electrical Installations courses also provide candidates with a route to becoming certified to design electrical installations and gain even more lucrative work in the sector. Or alternatively if you want to become a fully qualified electrician after the electrician courses then please take a look at our design based electrician courses and solar electrician courses:

• City & Guilds 2391-20: Certificate in Design, Erection and Verification of Electrical Installations (Level 3)

This should be a qualification that all those attending electrician courses are aware for consideration. There is a national shortage of electricians that hold this qualification so adding this to one of our electrician courses takes your level of training to an even higher level.

• NICEIC Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Certificate

Gaining this qualification as an addition to your electrician courses will allow you into the current and future green energy markets that will become an area of rapid growth in the coming years. Our Solar PV electrician courses are the finest in the UK as they are commonly regarded as the most comprehensive in the country when compared to other solar PV electrician courses. Access Training is committed to the highest standards of customer focus and technical expertise, with a host of benefits to students attending one of our electrician courses including:

• Specialist, professionally qualified teaching staff with a wealth of industry experience.
• Enhanced Online Assessments, allowing students to sit exams with flexibility to fit their electrician course around their speed of learning.

Our electrician courses students travel to us from all over the UK. These students chose one of our electrician courses as they are the very best in the UK not only for teaching standards but for the realism they provide. If you are considering one of the electrician courses in our curriculum then you can join one of the hundreds that have attended from all over the country and even further afield... we have even trained people on our electrician courses from the USA, France, Germany, South Africa and more. We regularly train students from the following areas:

• South Wales Electrician Courses
  (Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, Bridgend)
• Electrician Courses for The West Country
  (Bristol, Gloucester, Bath, Devon, Cornwall, Exeter, Plymouth, Taunton)
• The M4 Corridor
  (Swindon, Oxford, Reading, Slough, London)
• Electrician courses for The Midlands
  (Birmingham, Hereford, Worcester, Derby, Nottingham, Leicester)
• Northern England
  (Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Hull, Newcastle, Sheffield)

Information regarding our electrician courses is available from our Electrician Courses Advice Team. Please call for advice or leave your details and we’ll contact you! Also, official guidance on complying with the requirement is given in an Approved Document P entitled “Fixed Electrical Installations in Dwellings”. This document specifies the need for electrical installation work to be inspected and tested during and on completion of the work to verify that it complies with BS 7671.

Even if you are only vaguely considering attending one of the electrician courses in the future, we would strongly advise you to speak to our experts in the Electrician Courses Advice Team. The information they will give you will almost certainly help you to understand what you need to do prior to attending electrician courses and establish whether you have transferable skills that will help you through one of our electrician courses. Rest assured, our experts will point you in the right direction so you can choose one of the electrician courses that is completely suited to you as an individual.