Get qualified. Get on bigger sites. Get paid more.
NVQs, tests and CSCS card applications for people who are already good at the job - assessed around your working week, not instead of it. You keep earning while you get qualified.
Why do this at all?
Because on most sites now, the card is the difference between walking through the gate and being turned round at it. It isn't about learning your trade. You already know your trade.
No card, no gate
Main contractors check at the entrance. Without a valid card you don't get on, whatever you can do with your hands.
More jobs now demand it
It's written into more contracts every year. The jobs that don't ask for it tend to be the ones that pay least.
Your skills aren't on paper
You've done the work for years. An NVQ doesn't teach it to you - it puts your name to it so somebody else can see it.
Why is this an investment, not a cost?
Because you spend once and it pays you back every week you're on site. More work comes your way, and the work that comes is better paid.
- More work
Sites that were closed open up
The bigger contractors and the bigger jobs are exactly the ones that check hardest. Hold the right card and you're eligible for work you currently can't quote for.
- More money
Better paid work, first refusal
Qualified, carded people get offered the good jobs first - and the day rate follows the card.
- Long term
It stays with you
Once your skills are formally recognised, that recognition follows you from job to job and from firm to firm.
Think of it as an investment in your next ten years on site - not a day in a classroom.
How does it work?
Four steps. We do most of the paperwork, and you don't lose a day's earnings doing any of it.
A phone call
Ten minutes. We work out which card you need - and whether you need one at all.
Step 1 of 4We fit it round you
Session times set around your shift pattern and your site.
Step 2 of 4You're assessed
On the work you already do. We collect the evidence with you.
Step 3 of 4Your card application
Test results come back the same day. Pass, and we administer your card application - cards are issued by the scheme.
Step 4 of 4What are people saying?
Fantastic Customer service, really professional staff, very competent and up to date with procedures. I was impressed about the whole experience and teaching session. Well done and keep up the great work.
I had a good experience was recommended from a friend- Excellent service for the green cscs card and test- Andrei great trainer
One of the best taught courses i have attended in a long time the trainer i had Andrew presented the class extremely well and explained everything amazingly from start to finish I struggle with exams and classroom environments but I was so relaxed during both will definitely recommend anybody looking to get there foot in the door as a labourer for construction
Why choose us?
- 01
You don't lose a day's work
Training and assessment fit your working week. No sitting in a classroom for a week you can't afford to take off.
- 02
Assessed on the job you already do
We look at your actual work. You're not learning a trade - you're proving one.
- 03
Training, test and card application in one place
GQA centre and CITB test centre under one roof, and we administer your card application. No chasing three organisations.
- 04
Someone actually answers
You get a person on the phone who knows your name and where you're up to. Most of our work comes from people who've sent their mates.
Cristina.
She started Happy People because she kept meeting people who were brilliant at their trade and had nothing on paper to show for it - and who'd been made to feel small by the process of trying to fix that.
So she built it the other way round. She's on sites most weeks, in a hard hat, talking to the people doing the work. She'll learn what you actually do before she tells you which card you need. If English isn't your first language, she probably speaks yours, or someone here does.
People come back to her, and they send their mates. That's not an accident - it's the whole point.
“Nobody should feel stupid for not having a piece of paper. You know your trade. My job is to get that written down properly.”
Qualify your team and claim most of it back.
You pay the CITB levy every year. Most firms never claim any of it back. If you're levy-registered, putting a worker through an eligible NVQ means the Short Qualification Grant reimburses £600 of what you spent.
- We prepare and submit the grant claim on your behalf
- Nobody comes off site for a week
- Rolling assessment - put one through, or twenty
- One point of contact who knows your job names and your deadlines
The detail: the grant is a reimbursement paid back to you after the qualification is achieved - not a discount off the invoice. It applies to CITB levy-registered employers who are up to date with Levy Returns, for eligible qualifications and directly employed staff. Prices exclude VAT. We'll check your eligibility before you commit to anything.
Keep in touch
Get In Touch
Reach out anytime. A super happy member of our team is ready to answer any question you might have.
Address
27 Freetrade House Lowther Road Stanmore HA7 1EP, UK
Phone
020 3488 5582Email
hello@hplcentre.com