Derek Clarke

A summary of my working life. My father was a bricklayer, so as a child I used to work weekends with him, which led me to decide to become a bricklayer.
I served my time with a local firm, then became self-employed at 20 yrs of age, and worked in the construction industry for 32 yrs. 
I had to retire from construction in 2006 because of health reasons, so I decided to be a brickwork tutor. I feel I have good knowledge of the building industry, and wanted to help young people to be able to make their way into construction.
I have been a brickwork and construction tutor, delivering up to level 3 in city and guilds, and also worked as a prison tutor and city and guilds assessor. 
For the last few years, I have been doing various part time tasks, as this allowed me to attend clinic appointment that needed to attend.
With the experience gained working in the education sector, and the construction industry. I feel that I have the customer service skills for this roll. I am flexible and adaptable to working in different environments, and have gained administration skills from my various rolls.
I feel with my experience that I now have excellent and proven communication skills across written and spoken, and am able to work in any area that would be required, and to make sure the service required is attained to the highest standard possible.

Time served Level 3 Bricklayer who has worded on new build houses, commercial builds, and refurbs.

The years i have been in education, i have delivered Btec L1, assessed city and guilds apprentice up to level 3, and mymost recent role is L1 6705 brickwork city and guilds.

1983 City and Guilds Level 3 Advanced craft in Brickwork. 

1998 Computer literacy and information technology Stage 1

1999 RSA integrated business technology Stage 2

2009 PTLLS Preparing to teach in the live long sector.

2009 Level 3 Assessing award, assessing candidate using a range of methods.

2009 Awareness training seminar.

2009 OCR Level 2 in adult Literacy and Numeracy.

2010 CTLLS Certificate in teaching in the lifelong sector.

2010 Edexcel Level 2 in driving goods vehicles.

2011 DTLLS Certificate of education in teaching in the learning and skills sector, University of Chester.

2011 HABC level 3 award in Health and Safety in the workplace (QCF)

2011 Assessing risks in the workplace.

2012 Level 4 Award in the Internal Quality assurance of assessment processes