Apprentice Painter and Decorator
HARGREAVES & STOCKS LTD
DONCASTER (DN2 4LP)
Closes in 13 days (Monday 21 April 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 20 March 2025
Contents
Summary
Hargreaves & Stocks LTD are looking to recruit a new painting & decorating apprentice. We are looking for a self-motivated individual, aiming for a successful career in domestic and commercial decorating.
- Wage
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£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Painter and decorator (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday – Friday, shifts to be confirmed.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 22 April 2025
- Duration
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2 years
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you’ll do at work
To be a painter and decorator, you should have good practical and creative skills. You will need strong attention to detail and be someone who takes pride in their work. You’ll also need to be comfortable working at height.
Your main tasks would include:
- Measuring surface areas to work out how much paint or wall covering you need.
- Stripping off old wallpaper or paint.
- Filling holes and cracks and making sure surfaces are level.
- Preparing surfaces with primer and undercoat.
- Mixing paint to the right shade, either by hand or computerised colour-matching equipment.
- Tidying up after finishing a job.
Where you’ll work
3 WHEATLEY HALL ROAD
DONCASTER
DN2 4LP
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
DN COLLEGES GROUP
Your training course
Painter and decorator (level 2)
Equal to GCSE
Course contents
- Comply with health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Select and use personal protective equipment (PPE), respiratory protective equipment (RPE) and dust suppression.
- Check and safely use working at height equipment for example steps, hop-ups, and podiums.
- Identify hazards and comply with risk assessments, method statements, control measures and safe systems of work and report to manager when required.
- Read and interpret information for example from drawings, specifications, work instructions, manufacturer’s safety data sheets and manufacturer’s information such as colour charts and notations.
- Ensure materials are used efficiently and sustainably including suitable disposal of waste.
- Prepare work area: remove and store furnishings, fixtures and equipment and reinstate.
- Protect and prepare a safe working area, surrounding surfaces and environment.
- Select and use hand tools and equipment.
- Maintain and store hand tools.
- Select, use, maintain and store power tools.
- Prepare internal and external untreated surfaces ready to receive finishing systems for example: trowelled finishes plaster or render, plasterboard, timber and timber sheet materials; metals (ferrous and non-ferrous).
- Prepare internal previously coated surfaces ready to receive finishing systems for example trowelled finishes plaster or render, plasterboard, timber and timber sheet materials.
- Prepare external previously coated surfaces ready to receive finishing systems for example trowelled finishes plaster or render, timber and timber sheet materials; metals (ferrous and non-ferrous).
- Prepare and apply surface coatings to untreated external surfaces for example brick, stone, render, wood, metal using a brush and roller.
- Apply solvent borne and water borne coating systems using brush and roller to ceilings, walls, linear work (skirting board and architrave) doors: flush and panelled and opening windows.
- Prepare and apply foundation paper: Cross lining around socket and switches, internal and external angles.
- Prepare and apply Wallcoverings: Free match or random match finishing papers, vertical hanging, around socket and switches, internal and external angle.
- Carry out minor repair for example third party damage or post application defect.
- Apply team working principles.
- Verbally communicate with others, applying construction terminology.
- Communicate in writing with others for example, internal and external customers, colleagues.
- Follow equity, diversity and inclusion guidance.
- Comply with health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Select and use personal protective equipment (PPE), respiratory protective equipment (RPE) and dust suppression.
- Check and safely use working at height equipment for example steps, hop-ups, and podiums.
- Identify hazards and comply with risk assessments, method statements, control measures and safe systems of work and report to manager when required.
- Read and interpret information for example from drawings, specifications, work instructions, manufacturer’s safety data sheets and manufacturer’s information such as colour charts and notations.
- Ensure materials are used efficiently and sustainably including suitable disposal of waste.
- Prepare work area: remove and store furnishings, fixtures and equipment and reinstate.
- Protect and prepare a safe working area, surrounding surfaces and environment.
- Select and use hand tools and equipment.
- Maintain and store hand tools.
- Select, use, maintain and store power tools.
- Prepare internal and external untreated surfaces ready to receive finishing systems for example: trowelled finishes plaster or render, plasterboard, timber and timber sheet materials; metals (ferrous and non-ferrous).
- Prepare internal previously coated surfaces ready to receive finishing systems for example trowelled finishes plaster or render, plasterboard, timber and timber sheet materials.
- Prepare external previously coated surfaces ready to receive finishing systems for example trowelled finishes plaster or render, timber and timber sheet materials; metals (ferrous and non-ferrous).
- Prepare and apply surface coatings to untreated external surfaces for example brick, stone, render, wood, metal using a brush and roller.
- Apply solvent borne and water borne coating systems using brush and roller to ceilings, walls, linear work (skirting board and architrave) doors: flush and panelled and opening windows.
- Prepare and apply foundation paper: Cross lining around socket and switches, internal and external angles.
- Prepare and apply Wallcoverings: Free match or random match finishing papers, vertical hanging, around socket and switches, internal and external angle.
- Carry out minor repair for example third party damage or post application defect.
- Apply team working principles.
- Verbally communicate with others, applying construction terminology.
- Communicate in writing with others for example, internal and external customers, colleagues.
- Follow equity, diversity and inclusion guidance.
Your training plan
Training will be at Doncaster College on block release where you will access a wide range of facilities on offer.
You will undertake The Painter and Decorator Level 2 standard.
https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/apprenticeship-standards/painter-and-decorator-v1-2
You will undertake Functional Skills for English and/or Maths if needed.
You will undertake both on and off the training by a team of industry qualified professionals to give you the best skills, knowledge, and experience.
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade C/4 or above)
- Maths (grade C/4 or above)
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Number skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Patience
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
You must be able to travel to and from work and college. As part of the role you will also be required to work at height and happy to travel nationally for contracts. Apprentices are paid for their normal working hours and training that's part of their apprenticeship (usually one day per week). The Apprenticeship National Minimum Wage guide is updated every April (ANMW): https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates
About this company
H&S was formed early 2015, initially, we had a workforce of 5 including us 2 but over the years this has now risen to around 10 with apprentices used with Doncaster college over the last 2 years. Initially we were doing a lot of private work (front rooms/kitchens) with the odd small commercial job but now 4 years later with hard work and great connections we are more than comfortable taking on large commercial work which represents 80% of our business as seen on the website, our business has been on built on a reputation for delivering high standards, on time schedules and product knowledge, the last 3 years has seen the company work nationwide with works from as far as Jersey South and Dundee North.
After this apprenticeship
- Successful completion of the apprenticeship could lead to a higher-level apprenticeship or full-time employment for the right candidate.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
DN COLLEGES GROUP
Asa Buckley
asa.buckley@don.ac.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000310837.
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Closes in 13 days (Monday 21 April 2025 at 11:59pm)
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