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Course Overview

An option for reducing your carbon footprint if you are using oil, electricity, liquid gas, or solid fuels to heat your home, the installation of a heat pump may be a good way to mitigate any excess usage. Both the environmental and financial benefits have fuelled a surge in popularity for domestic heat pump installation – particularly over the last ten years– with an upcoming demand for qualified installation and maintenance operatives

We are now able to offer fully funded with no cost to pay, a nationally recognised Level 3 Award in the Installation and Maintenance of Heat Pumps. This Award is fully recognised by many accreditation bodies of the Microgeneration Certification Scheme.

This short course will provide the knowledge and understanding required to install, commission and maintain groundsource and airsource heat pump systems.

You will explore and develop an understanding of:

  • Health and Safety requirements for the installation of heat pump systems
  • Regulations and legislation relating to heat pumps
  • Installation of heat pumps
  • Servicing and commissioning of heat pumps
  • Basic refrigeration principles
  • Carrying out safety checks
  • Domestic pipework installation
  • Checking system stability
  • Identifying installation faults

PLEASE NOTE: Course participants will not install a heat pump during the actual course. For anyone wanting this type of training, it is recommended that they contact a heat pump manufacturer directly.

Designed for installers, specifiers, building control officers and inspectors and maintenance businesses in particular – the course may be undertaken by all suitably qualified operatives looking to develop a knowledge and practical skills to safely install heat pumps.

Learners must hold one of the following:

  • N/SVQ Level 2/3 in Plumbing or equivalent earlier certification that provides evidence of competence
  • N/SVQ Level 2/3 in Heating and Ventilating (Domestic Installation) or equivalent earlier certification that provides evidence of competence
  • N/SVQ Level 2/3 in Heating and Ventilating (Industrial and Commercial Installation) or equivalent earlier certification that provides evidence of competence
  • N/SVQ Level 2/3 in Oil-Fired Technical Services or equivalent earlier certification that provides evidence of competence
  • N/SVQ Level 2/3 in Gas Installation and Maintenance or equivalent earlier certification that provides evidence of competence
  • Heating installers with experience installing wet central heating systems, evidenced either by Gas Safe (CENWAT), OFTEC (OFT10-105E or OFT15-108W), MCS (Heat Pump or Solar Thermal Hot Water) or HETAS (H004) registration. The experience in these sectors will normally be 3 years, although where the initial assessment confirms the learner has the necessary skills, knowledge and experience which can be evidenced via RPL assessment this duration may be reduced.

In addition, if not included in the above current certification learners must hold:

  • WRAS Water Regulations/Water Byelaws or equivalent

Bournemouth and Poole College can deliver the WRAS ahead of this course for those learners who do not qualify.

If you are unsure about your current eligibility, please contact: parkerd@bpc.ac.uk who will be happy to help.

Assessments will consist of a combination of both practical and theory examinations.

Candidates who complete the course and assessment will receive an LCL Awards Certificate of Competence.

Non applicable

Further Green Skills courses or Electrical courses.

Cost- Fully Funded

This course is fully funded with no charge to those learners meeting the entry requirements.  

Course duration

This is a one-day course only.

Awarding Body:
EAL