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Marine pilot (level 5)

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Information about Marine pilot (level 5)

Safely navigating vessels from sea to berth or berth to sea within the ports jurisdiction.

• Knowledge, skills and behaviours:
  View knowledge, skills and behaviours

  Knowledge

  • Navigation, bridge equipment and navigational aids
  • Weather, and the effects of wind and current on the vessel
  • Vessel handling and hydrodynamics including towage where required
  • Bridge resource management
  • Local, national and international legislation, codes of practice and guidance; for example knowing how and when to report deficiencies of the pilotage vessel.
  • Vessels systems, including stability, strength, and construction
  • Emergency response and personal safety
  • Correct communications (e.g. vessel to vessel, vessel to shore) using standard marine vocabulary in relation to completing an act of pilotage safely.
  • Health, Safety and survival techniques
  • Marine environmental protection including responsibility to the vessel and port jurisdiction.
  • Different types and designs of vessel
  • Constraints and limitations of other craft on the water
  • Planning an act of pilotage from boarding to disembarkation. Including but not limited to:
  • weather conditions
  • vessel draft
  • proposed use of tug
  • proposed use of mooring boats and
  • time the berth is available.
  • Continuing Professional Development

  Skills

  • Plan an Act of Pilotage
  • Embark and Disembark a vessel whilst underway and whilst alongside
  • Assess standards on the piloted vessel
  • Work effectively with the bridge team
  • Liaise and communicate within the port jurisdiction, including correct use of the vessels communication and navigational equipment.
  • Safely transit the pilotage district
  • Manoeuvre vessels in harbours and their approaches
  • Respond to problems and emergency situations
  • Manage personal & professional conduct & development

  Behaviours

  • Strive to achieve the best results in all they do; maintain a positive attitude and approach to their work even when priorities and working patterns change
  • Take responsibility for own and others health, safety and security at all times
  • Demonstrate integrity, credibility, honesty and personal drive; embody the organisations values, a belief in the services it offers and an interest in the industry
  • Take ownership for own performance and training
• Apprenticeship category (sector): Transport and logistics
• Qualification level: 5; Equal to higher national diploma (HND)
• Course duration: 30 months
• Maximum funding: £18,000 ; Maximum government funding for ; apprenticeship training and assessment costs.

View more information about Marine pilot (level 5) from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.