Planning and monitoring work in construction

Duration

8 guided learning hours

Purpose/ scope

The purpose of this standard is to enable the delegate to develop an understanding of effective planning and monitoring of work as required by a practising or potential site supervisor.

Scope:

• working within the organisational guidelines to achieve team goals
• how to plan and allocate work
• how to monitor a team’s performance against the plan

Occupational relevance

Training delivered against this standard would be relevant to the following occupational group(s):

• supervision
• management and leadership

Delegates pre-requisites

There are no delegate pre-requisites as part of this standard.

Instruction/ supervision

As a minimum, course trainers must be able to demonstrate that, in relation to this standard, they have:

• an award in education and training (or equivalent, as per requirements for approved training organisations)
• successfully completed training to this standard (within the last 3 years)
• at least 3 years relevant industrial experience
• a verifiable CV
• knowledge of ILM VRQ learning and assessment processes (desirable)

Delivery

Delivery may be in an on or off the job environment.

All materials and equipment must be of a suitable quality and quantity for delegates to achieve learning outcomes and must comply with relevant legislation.

The class size and delegate/trainer ratio must allow training to be delivered in a safe manner and enable delegates to achieve the learning outcomes. Number of delegates not to exceed 20 per trainer.

The following delivery methods may be used in the delivery of this standard: face to face; virtual.

This standard is considered to contain 51% or more theoretical learning.

This standard is considered to be set at an intermediate level.

Assessment

For the successful completion of training, delegates must complete an end of course assessment that measures all learning outcomes and meets the pass criteria for each.

The method of formal assessment considered appropriate for training delivered against this standard is by a paper of 8 questions based on one question per assessment criteria point within the learning outcomes with a bank of 2 sets of question papers. Delegates must achieve 75% correct answers to pass. For the avoidance of doubt there must be model answers for consistency.

Quality assurance

Assured

Quality assurance against this standard will require initial approval of the training organisation and their content mapped to the standard.

CITB will also conduct an approval intervention, either desk-based or centre visit, to ensure the training organisation can meet the requirements of the training standard.

Approved training organisations (ATOs) will be required to present information on records of training and assessment upon request to CITB for desk-based analysis. They will also be visited annually by the CITB quality assurance team.

Renewal

There are no mandatory renewal or recommended refresher requirements for this standard.

Classification

Lifetime (Please note standards using this classification will only be grant aided once per delegate) 

Approval date 

May 2022

Review cycle

On request or 5 years from approval date.

Learning outcomes

The delegate will be able to:

• explain how to work within the organisational guidelines to achieve team goals
  • Assessment of this learning outcome must cover the delegates ability to:
    • describe an organisational policy that can have an impact on the planning and allocation of work
    • explain how work is allocated in compliance with the policy described in 1.1
    • give an example of a SMART target or objective that a team is working to achieve
      
      
• explain how to plan and allocate work
  • Assessment of this learning outcome must cover the delegates ability to:
    • list the key stages when planning and allocating work in order to explain the method of planning and allocating work
    • describe how work is allocated to meet team objectives
    • describe, in stage-by-stage detail, how to check that team members understand their allocated work
      
      
• describe how to monitor a team’s performance against the plan
  • Assessment of this learning outcome must cover the delegates ability to:
    • describe in detail a method to monitor the team’s performance against the plan, identifying the link between monitoring team performance and their performance against the plan
    • describe an action the team leader could take to rectify underachievement against the plan giving consideration to the short-term and to the long-term prevention of re-occurrence of the sub-standard performance

Additional information about this standard

This training standard is derived from the ILM Level 3 in Leadership and Management Practice for the Construction and Built Environment Sector, unit 8626-202 Planning and Monitoring Work