The most popular of these training courses is the CIWM / WAMITAB Level 4 qualification, which is often referred to as the CoTC – Certificate of Technical Competence. Every waste management or recycling facility must have an accredited professional working on site for at least 20% of the time.

This must be someone who has the required training, knowledge and skill to govern safe working procedures.

WAMITAB is now integrated into the CIWM – Chartered Institution of Wastes Management – so any qualifications completed or in progress are equally recognised by all bodies.

CIWM WAMITAB qualifications demonstrate that you have the level of knowledge and skills required for ensuring that a waste site fully complies with the Environmental Permitting Regulations (2007).

CIWM / WAMITAB Approved Centre

Learning Light is an approved CIWM / WAMITAB Centre providing Statutory and Non-Statutory (Voluntary) qualifications that are listed on the Quality Curriculum Framework (QCF).

We offer accredited training that is evidenced by the learner with traditional paperwork, but we are also able to deliver the WAMITAB / CIWM qualification online if you prefer. An on-site assessor visit is required at the start and final assessment, plus any additional points in the process where support is required.

This can make WAMITAB training much more convenient for the learner and much less disruptive for the employer.

As well as making training and assessments as convenient as possible alongside your work, we ensure that WAMITAB and CIWM courses with Learning Light are competitively priced.

Site Owners / Managers

If you do not hold a CoTC, you or a designated person will be required to demonstrate competence based on the Risk Tier for your facility.

High risk

Typical businesses are full-service waste transfer stations, including those that deal with hazardous waste, such as asbestos.
You will be required to achieve a 12 Unit QCF qualification.
£2987 including learner registration, training and assessment.

Medium risk

Typical companies are non-hazardous waste transfer stations, such as car breakers.
You will be required to achieve a 6 Unit QCF qualification.
£1793 including learner registration, training and assessment.

Low risk

Such as scrap dealers and rock or metal recovery companies.
You will be required to achieve a 4 Unit QCF qualification.
£1395 including learner registration, training and assessment.

All prices are exclusive of VAT.

Please note – assessors will be travelling from Sheffield and travel time is charged at £35 per hour and £0.45 per mile. Travel and mileage is not subject to VAT.
We make every effort to ensure that travel time is kept to a minimum. 

For more information, Contact Us at Learning Light for a no-obligations discussion about your needs.

We have provided CIWM / WAMITAB training and qualifications in most regions of the UK:

• Scotland
• Northern Ireland
• East of England, including Cambridgeshire and Norfolk
• Midlands – including Birmingham, Shropshire and Staffordshire in the West Midlands, and Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire in the East Midlands
• Yorkshire (North, South, East, West) – including Leeds, Bradford and Wakefield in West Yorkshire, and Sheffield in South Yorkshire
• North East – including Tyne & Wear, Northumberland and County Durham
• North West – including Manchester, Cheshire, Lancashire and Liverpool / Merseyside
• South East – including London, Essex and Hampshire.

Please email info@learninglight.com for more information or call us on: 0114 307 2358 to check on the right course for your role and facility.

Learning Light is CIWM & WAMITAB approved centre number 139/88.

Can We Help You?

Get in touch for an initial, no-obligation chat about your waste management training needs.

Just Need the Continuing Competence / CoTC Refresher?

The WAMITAB Continuing Competence – also known as the CoTC Refresher course – is conducted directly through the WAMITAB website and is bookable online here.

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Learning Light is an approved CIWM WAMITAB Centre, providing a range of qualifications for differing needs – contact us to discuss your requirements.

Medium Risk Facilities

CIWM WAMITAB Level 4 Medium Risk Operator Competence for Non-Hazardous Waste Treatment and Transfer – Code: MROC1

Suitable for:

• Non-hazardous transfer with treatment
• Material Recovery Facilities
• Treatment of land for reclamation, restoration or improvement of
  land
• Metal recovery Site (wet scrap e.g. oily metal)
• Treatment of waste wood for recovery
• Use of waste to manufacture timber or construction products
• Mobile plant for treatment of land for land reclamation,
  restoration or improvement
• Other mobile treatment facilities (non-hazardous)

The above WAMITAB course – MROC1 – is for Site Managers and Supervisors, Consultants and Technically Competent Managers (TCM).

CIWM WAMITAB Level 4 Medium Risk Operator Competence for Physical Treatment – Code: MROC2

Suitable for:

• End of Life Vehicle facilities (vehicle storage, depollution and
  dismantling)
• Mobile plant permit for the treatment of asphalt waste containing
  coal tar
• WEEE ATF – physical treatment

The above course – MROC2 – is for Site Managers and Supervisors, Consultants and Technically Competent Managers (TCM).

More CIWM-WAMITAB Level 4 Medium Risk Operator Competence courses for Site Managers and Supervisors, Consultants and Technically Competent Managers (TCM) working in facilities related to:

Composting in Open Windrows – MROC3

Closed Vessel Composting – MROC4

Anaerobic Digestion – MROC5

Storage of Non-Hazardous Wastes – MROC6b

Open Inert Landfill – MROC7

Open Inert Landfill Single Waste Stream – MROC8

Closed Inert Landfill – MROC9

Non-Hazardous Sludge and Land Spreading – MROC10a (Non-Hazardous Waste), MROC10b (Biological Waste – Sewage Sludge)

Dredgings – MROC11

Non-Hazardous Waste Transfer – MROC12

Contaminated Land Remediation – MROC13

Household Waste Recycling Centres – MROC14a (Hazardous Waste), MROC14b (Non-Hazardous Waste)

Storage of Hazardous Waste – MROC17

Mechanical Biological Treatment – MROC18

High Risk Facilities

CIWM WAMITAB Level 4 High Risk Operator Competence courses for Site Managers and Supervisors, Consultants and Technically Competent Managers (TCM) working in facilities related to:

Managing Transfer of Hazardous Waste – HROC4a, HROC4b (Clinical Waste)

Managing Thermal Treatment of Hazardous Waste – HROC5a

Managing Physical and Chemical Treatment of Hazardous Waste – HROC6

CIWM-WAMITAB Level 4 Cost

Below are details of the CIWM-WAMITAB Level 4 Cost of training, which varies according to risk / type of facility:

High risk

Typical businesses are full-service waste transfer stations, including those that deal with hazardous waste such as asbestos.
You will be required to achieve a 12 Unit QCF qualification.
£2987 including learner registration, training and assessment.

Medium risk

Typical companies are non-hazardous waste transfer stations, such as car breakers.
You will be required to achieve a 6 Unit QCF qualification.
£1793 including learner registration, training and assessment.

All prices are exclusive of VAT.

Please note – prices have been increased from 1st January 2018 to reflect increases in CIWM-WAMITAB registration and certification charges. The fee increases are broadly in line with inflation.

Assessors will be travelling from Sheffield and travel time is charged at £35 per hour and £0.45 per mile. Travel and mileage is not subject to VAT.
We make every effort to ensure that travel time is kept to a minimum. 

We offer training that is evidenced by the learner with traditional paperwork, but we are also able to deliver the CIWM-WAMITAB qualification online if preferred, with an on-site assessor visit just at the start and final assessment points in the process.

This can make CIWM-WAMITAB training courses much more convenient for the learner and much less disruptive for the employer.

email info@learninglight.com  for more information or call: 0114 307 2358 to check on the right course for your role and facility.

CIWM-WAMITAB Approved Centre

Learning Light is an approved CIWM-WAMITAB Centre (Number 139/88) providing Statutory and Non-Statutory (Voluntary) qualifications listed on the Quality Curriculum Framework (QCF).

Can We Help You?

Get in touch for an initial, no-obligations chat about your waste management training needs.

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While a small number of assessor visits will still be necessary to complete the qualification, our online tools allow learners to speak with their assessor and upload evidence remotely.

This ensures that learners may continue work on their qualification, while reducing the amount of face-to-face contact with your assessor.

By going online, learners can work on their qualification at times that best fit around their busy schedules and most of the learner-assessor communication needed can be done by Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet or phone calls to suit your needs and preferences.

Completing your WAMITAB course online means better communication with assessors, as meetings can be set up quickly with documents shared on screen and feedback provided by the assessor.

Furthermore, going online will mean fewer assessor visits are necessary. These visits will be much more productive as the focus will be on competencies rather than on the paperwork.

So how does the Learning Light online system work?

The Learning Light online system allows you to upload evidence for your portfolio quickly and easily.

Evidence uploaded can be photographs, videos and documents which then can be viewed by your assessor as you proceed through the qualification. Your assessor can easily monitor these files to ensure you are on the right track.

The online system will also allow for the assessor to give more focused and effective assessments and feedback on your work.

Assessors can then set up online calls and meetings through a range of platforms Learning Light uses, such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams or Google Meet, and speak with you directly as they would with a face-to-face site visit.

Therefore, you will still receive the crucial feedback and guidance that your assessor is there to provide when using the Learning Light online systems.

Choice is important…working with you

There are many ways we help you achieve your qualification online: by uploading documents or pictures for the assessor to review, by emails or online meetings, and of course – phone calls.

How you chose to proceed with your qualification can be discussed with your assessor during your induction. However, if you still chose to use our traditional paper workbook approach that is just fine and there is no pressure to use our online systems if they do not suit you.

Whether online meetings of face to face visits, the Learning Light team aims to make the process of completing your qualification as easy as possible and your assessor is always there to help should you have any queries.

Our customers like online…

Learning Light has years of experience with online systems and knows that many of our customers appreciate the flexibility that online learning provides.

To discuss how we can help make getting your WAMITAB qualification as easy as possible, please contact us here at Learning Light.

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Here we look at a case study from Virtual College – using an LMS and web conferencing software to deliver a Level 3 Apprenticeship in Digital Marketing.

This is a review of an innovative online solution to delivering apprenticeships that offers flexibility to employers and engagement to employees.

Helping to sidestep some of the politics presently surrounding apprenticeships, this is an example of meeting and mitigating employer concerns around “time away from work” and recognising the reality of the modern learner: that classroom chalk and talk is not always that great.

Apprenticeship tutors need high quality digital delivery skills

This review also highlights the need for “apprenticeship tutors” to be experts in their field and have a strong set of skills in making online delivery engaging and effective by selecting the right materials and being able to confidently use all the features of the web conferencing solution.

A real benefit of online delivery is enhanced face to face time

It is also important to note that delivering apprenticeships online does not mitigate against face to face engagement. Indeed, from our interviews with the tutors, employers and apprentices, it appears to enhance the quality of one to one and face to face engagement.

This is the view of the company in question:

online delivery actually enhanced the availability of one to one interactions and allowed more time in the programme for meaningful one-to-one, face-to-face interactions

The apprenticeship tutor also offered a high degree of online availability to the apprentice and employer if needed. The term “on-demand” was used to describe the tutor’s role.

Learning digital communication skills for business is crucial to any apprenticeship

With the apprenticeship in question – Digital Marketing, it would make sense that digital learning environments are used in the delivery of the apprenticeship, but I was struck by the apprentice I interviewed immediately making this observation and in addition pointing out how relevant online meeting skills are to his own day to day role and he hopes future roles in the organisation.

Let’s take a walk through the apprenticeship.

The sign up, while digital, actually requires a face to face meeting, but the induction process takes place in the web conferencing environment – Adobe Connect.

This induction process is a 2 to 2.5 hour long in-depth session in Adobe Connect that is highly moderated by the tutor and serves as both a familiarisation exercise and an induction, with health and safety, safeguarding and other good practices required, communications arrangements made, scheduling agreed and a series of agreed tasks set.

The get to know process is both about getting to understand the web conferencing solution and getting to know the tutor. While numbers of students enrolling are climbing, quite a number of these inductions involve only 1 student, but if multiple apprentices commence from one organisation, this induction process can scale up to a maximum of 10 apprentices it was felt.

After the induction process is complete, there are a series of tests designed to assess the learner’s skills. These are administered using an LMS – Enable from Virtual College. The training is also scheduled and managed via the LMS. Apprentices will receive their training schedule within 2 weeks of induction, while the training itself is 5 x 1 week sessions over the 12 months.

Digital delivery allows for flexibility and alignment

Interestingly, the packages are described as roll on – roll off as they are designed to be flexible and offer a non-linear approach to allow the apprentice to align the learning to current workplace activities. This ensures that the employer is very much a part of the process and the role of business as usual is acknowledged, while the qualification is aligned to the business’s needs.

The principle delivery of the 20 percent “off the job training” takes place in the web conference environment and at present Virtual College are using Adobe Connect.

Intense periods of digital delivery works

The off the job training is very intense and this is delivered in a series of highly engaging 5 full-day sessions. This makes for a high impact week.

For this to work there are a number of pre-requisites required from the tutor.

Preparation and curation of content are key

The tutor should be a practitioner and as such be very familiar with the domain – in this case digital marketing as this is about empowering and enabling learners to contribute and converse, ask questions, present ideas and undertake practical tasks. This is not a chalk and talk webinar.

Indeed, the Virtual College tutors have taken the CIW in Social Media Strategy – a professional qualification that is bundled into this apprenticeship.

Activities over this very intense period must be thoroughly prepared by the tutor, who must have a very firm grasp of the delivery environment and not be phased by the powerful features of Adobe Connect. Preparation and practice matter.

Attention must be paid to curating the content to support the delivery.

Learning materials ranging from elearning modules to videos, case studies and presentations are going to be used and discussed in break out rooms, challenged in whiteboard sessions, and practical examples are presented back by the apprentices as individuals and as teams. Graphics and infographics are used in imaginative ways. Peer to Peer interaction is encouraged.

In addition, there are polls, question and answer sessions and tasks and research activities for the apprentices to undertake in their specific workplace that can be uploaded to Adobe Connect.

The day is a full day, broken up into 3 chunks. A maximum of 10 students can undertake such a session with 1 tutor. Feedback is that a week works well as duration.

The success of this style depends upon the engagement of the participant apprentices and this highlights the importance of the induction familiarisation process. The skill of the tutor is hugely important, obviously preparation and practice, but also pace and close monitoring of the learners for involvement and engagement.

The initial challenge is getting the learners to speak, but once this is achieved (usually in under an hour) engagement and interaction levels accelerate rapidly. The tutor is however careful about when to introduce additional features and interactions, and takes considerable care as to when to use web cams. Games are used as ice breakers and careful consideration is being given to gamification. Apprentices are encouraged to introduce themselves to their peers, but no Facebook like environment is used outside the Adobe Connect sessions.

So how does this look over the week?

The Virtual College tutors estimate the week is broken down as follows:

• 30 percent of the apprentice’s time is spent working on assigned tasks, typically research often online aligned to reading the prepared case studies and developing presentations to be delivered during the week.
• About 35% of the time is spent with tutor moderated delivery and interaction using whiteboards, polls, short quizzes and group work such as annotations of documents, text chat and discussions.
• The remaining 35% is used up with e-learning modules, videos and time devoted to learner presentations to their cohort of peers and the tutor, along with commentary and discussion.

This intensity of delivery appears to work, engagement levels have appeared high and the ability to keep delivery in context of the day to day disciplines of a working environment appears to be welcomed by the apprentice and employer.

Over the 12 months of the apprenticeship, 5 of these intense weeks are held.

On demand tutor support really works for the employer and apprentice

The benefits of this to the employer is that the apprentice is still in work, not having to traipse to a classroom for a week and lose out on the office buzz and colleague interactions. Secondly, the employer was quick to acknowledge that this model unlocks a series of other benefits around additional 1 to 1 support being available. The apprentice can go online and engage with the tutor almost on–demand. In addition, much more impactful 1 to 1 meetings can be conducted based on the experience of the digital interactions from both tutor and apprentice.

Employer buy in to learning technology

So, this model of delivery is not just about online provision as face to face meetings are held by the tutor 1 to 1 with the apprentice every other month. These are intense meetings about feedback and progress with evidence held in the LMS against tasks set, and experience, performance and relationships evidenced from the Adobe Connect sessions. This is a neat balance of 2 integrated technologies that appears to work well delivering learning engagement and recording very accurately the time spent by the apprentice away from day to day work – the important 20%.

Perhaps the greatest testament to this approach is that the employer in question is actively considering switching their other apprentices (who are using a classroom solution for the off the job training) to this approach.

The reasons are two fold – one the logistics of time away is felt to be disruptive to both the organisation and the apprentice, and secondly, that this is a digital marketing apprenticeship and digital meeting skills and presentations etc are core to the desired skills to be acquired by the apprentice.

In addition, the employer felt involved as they are able to access the tutor and check progress quickly and easily – and indeed raise issues and gain clarity as to the whole apprenticeship process quickly and easily via Adobe Connect. There is no doubt that employer “buy in” is crucial to the success of any apprenticeship programme and apprentice. Therefore, finding modes of easy and on demand employer involvement is crucial – this approach appears to have achieved that.

To the apprentice, the online experience at first is a little scary, but is soon highly valued as they quickly realise it imbues in them an enhanced level of confidence in these crucial business environments. There is also a professional qualification attached to the apprenticeship from the CIW in Social Media Strategy.

The opportunity to build an ongoing relationship with the tutor online and in face to face meetings was hugely welcomed.

Interestingly, both the tutors and employer in question felt that digital skills and specifically digital communication skills are so important to businesses that this model of delivery would work with other apprenticeships, not just as a digital media apprenticeship.

Summary of the Solution

To summarise, this is an imaginative way to deliver an apprenticeship, but one that requires considerable planning by the tutor, good domain knowledge and excellent facilitation and delivery skills in a digital learning environment – such as Adobe Connect coupled with the use of a modern LMS like Enable from Virtual College.

My thanks go to the Apprenticeship delivery team at Virtual College and especially Michael and Matthew (line manager and apprentice respectively) at Advanced Retail Solutions for their time and insight.

Learn more about the apprenticeship delivery solutions offered by Virtual College.
 

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David Patterson

Lead eLearning Consultant

About David

Our lead elearning consultant David Patterson is an expert in training technologies such as learning management systems, and in elearning best practices.

He has helped many public and private sector organisations across the UK, Europe and worldwide to create and deliver engaging, effective elearning.

David is joint author of several research papers including the highly acclaimed Learning Light reports on the UK elearning market.

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