Proskills: Making Skills Work

Typical Tasks

General Skills required

Experience requested

Qualifications

• Assist and advise in the choice of fabrics and  Sundry materials
• Take measurements
• Calculate material requirements and costs.
• Produce estimates/quotes.
• Marking and cutting out the fabric accurately without waste
• Sewing neatly and accurately by hand and by industrial sewing machines
• Produce curtains, blinds, bedding, quilts, pelmets, cushions or wall hangings.
• Fit tracks and curtains on site.

• Ability to perform manual tasks.
• Normal colour vision.
• Able to work neatly and accurately, often at speed.
• Ability to work patiently in an orderly fashion.
• Interest in fashion and style.
• Basic mathematical ability.
• Customer service skills.
• An eye for detail.
• Able to work as part of a team.
• Physically fit and able.

This will be dependent on the job role at which you enter the industry; however if you have little or no experience 3 or more GCSEs at grade A to C are valued by employers.

A general interest in the craft.

There are no fixed entry level requirements.

Qualifications valued by employers may include:

• GCSE’s, ideally grade A to C
• A Level’s
• NVQ L2/L3 in Making and Installing Furniture.
• NVQ L3 in Making and repairing Hand-Crafted Furniture.
• City and Guilds L4 Creative Arts Higher Professional Development Diploma.
• Furniture Apprenticeship and Advanced Apprenticeship.