Maintenance Operative Apprentice

ST PETER'S HOSPICE

BRISTOL, BS10 6NL

Closes in 5 days (Friday 28 February at 11:59pm)

Posted on 4 February 2025

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Summary

This is an apprenticeship opportunity. Alongside this role, you will be completing a Level 2 Property Maintenance Operative apprenticeship. This role will provide the right person with the opportunity to develop into a maintenance role. The role will focus on general building maintenance and ensuring a safe working environment.

Wage
£18,000 a year

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Training course
Property maintenance operative (level 2)
Hours
Monday – Friday, 37.5 hours a week. Times to be confirmed.

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Possible start date

Monday 10 March

Duration

1 year 6 months

Positions available

1

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • You'll be based at the hospice in Brentry (BS10), and support our portfolio of shops across Bristol and the surrounding areas.
  • You’ll work in partnership with volunteers and other staff members to ensure routine and operational maintenance tasks are completed.
  • Ensuring the hospice environment is maintained to a high standard.
  • Ensuring that all areas of maintenance compliance are achieved.
  • Establish and maintain communication with people regarding routine and operational daily activities, overcoming any difficulties in communication between the people involved.
  • Monitor and maintain health and safety, security of self and others in working areas.
  • Assist in maintaining and developing services.
  • Ensure your own actions promote quality and alert others to quality issues.
  • Prepare and maintain facilities using appropriate equipment for the task.
  • Participate in partnership working with volunteers and other staff members.
  • Accurately maintaining records of planned preventive maintenance and reactive requests.
  • Ensuring maintenance schedule tasks are completed.
  • Support for our shop’s portfolio.
  • Learning from and supporting the rest of the Maintenance team.
  • Active participation in the Apprenticeship Programme of structured learning. 

Knowledge & Experience

Essential:

  • Knowledge of basic tools.
  • Evidence of commitment to continuous professional development.
  • Understanding of working with health and safety.

Skills

  • Effective communication.
  • Flexible approach to issues.
  • Good organiser.
  • Prioritise workload.
  • Reliable and punctual.
  • Smart, clean appearance.
  • To comply with health and safety policies and procedures.
  • Ability to work in a healthcare environment.
  • Attention to detail.
  • Effective maintenance skills.
  • Readiness to learn.
  • A positive, can-do attitude, acting as an ambassador to the team and the hospice.
  • Good customer service skills, used to putting the customer at the heart of what they do.

Personal Attributes

  • Adaptable.
  • An understanding and empathy for the work of the Hospice.
  • Friendly and approachable manner.
  • A will to get the job done.
  • Flexible working attitude.
  • Motivated to progress and development.
  • Proactive and enthusiastic.

Where you’ll work

ST. PETERS HOSPICE

CHARLTON ROAD

BRENTRY

BRISTOL

BS10 6NL

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND STROUD COLLEGE

Your training course

Property maintenance operative (level 2)

Equal to GCSE

Course contents
  • Plan the sequence of work required to carry out routine property maintenance operations.
  • Identify and select the appropriate materials and components for property maintenance tasks, ensuring these are compliant with relevant regulatory requirements and manufacturer's specifications.
  • Comply with statutory health and safety regulations and requirements.
  • Comply with risk assessments, and organise the workplace, to safeguard themselves and the property.
  • Comply with key regulatory and legislative requirements, including building regulations.
  • Uses safe working practices when carrying out property maintenance tasks including the use of PPE, signage, barriers, access equipment and ensuring work area is prepared and reinstated.
  • Select, and use work tools and equipment for property maintenance tasks, applying all safeguards, and ensuring the correct functioning of equipment.
  • Safely isolate and secure electrical or electronic supplies prior to performing property maintenance operations.
  • Apply and implement routine emergency system checks, testing and routine maintenance, identifying and reporting faults as required.
  • Perform maintenance and repairs to plumbing systems, including fault identification, safe isolation of supply, replacing components and clearing blockages.
  • Perform maintenance and repairs to external drainage systems, including clearing blockages and replacing components.
  • Perform maintenance and repairs to environmental and energy management systems, including fault identification, safe isolation of supply, replacing components.
  • Use carpentry and joinery skills to perform repairs to windows, doors and glazing units, and their associated fittings.
  • Perform repairs to plastered surfaces, including surface preparation, fixing and mixing materials and compounds.
  • Use painting and decorating skills to prepare surfaces for decoration, apply paint using brushes and rollers, and complete sealing activities using gun appliances.
  • Perform tiling repairs, including setting out, surface preparation and cutting around obstacles.
  • Perform flooring repairs, including setting out, surface preparation and cutting around obstacles.
  • Perform planned, responsive or temporary repairs to buildings or their immediate surroundings, attending to minor defects within either masonry, roofing, fencing or railing, groundwork or landscaping.
  • Select and use technical literature and other sources of information and data to address property maintenance problems.
  • Record and report information, using digital and written techniques.
  • Inspect own work, ensuring it is delivered to the given specifications.
  • Comply with environmental regulations and procedures. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
  • Use and adapt communication methods for different situations and when, working with colleagues and stakeholders, using industry terminology as appropriate.
  • Provide customer feedback whilst maintaining customer service.
  • Escalates issues beyond their level of competence and authority.
  • Plan the sequence of work required to carry out routine property maintenance operations.
  • Identify and select the appropriate materials and components for property maintenance tasks, ensuring these are compliant with relevant regulatory requirements and manufacturer's specifications.
  • Comply with statutory health and safety regulations and requirements.
  • Comply with risk assessments, and organise the workplace, to safeguard themselves and the property.
  • Comply with key regulatory and legislative requirements, including building regulations.
  • Uses safe working practices when carrying out property maintenance tasks including the use of PPE, signage, barriers, access equipment and ensuring work area is prepared and reinstated.
  • Select, and use work tools and equipment for property maintenance tasks, applying all safeguards, and ensuring the correct functioning of equipment.
  • Safely isolate and secure electrical or electronic supplies prior to performing property maintenance operations.
  • Apply and implement routine emergency system checks, testing and routine maintenance, identifying and reporting faults as required.
  • Perform maintenance and repairs to plumbing systems, including fault identification, safe isolation of supply, replacing components and clearing blockages.
  • Perform maintenance and repairs to external drainage systems, including clearing blockages and replacing components.
  • Perform maintenance and repairs to environmental and energy management systems, including fault identification, safe isolation of supply, replacing components.
  • Use carpentry and joinery skills to perform repairs to windows, doors and glazing units, and their associated fittings.
  • Perform repairs to plastered surfaces, including surface preparation, fixing and mixing materials and compounds.
  • Use painting and decorating skills to prepare surfaces for decoration, apply paint using brushes and rollers, and complete sealing activities using gun appliances.
  • Perform tiling repairs, including setting out, surface preparation and cutting around obstacles.
  • Perform flooring repairs, including setting out, surface preparation and cutting around obstacles.
  • Perform planned, responsive or temporary repairs to buildings or their immediate surroundings, attending to minor defects within either masonry, roofing, fencing or railing, groundwork or landscaping.
  • Select and use technical literature and other sources of information and data to address property maintenance problems.
  • Record and report information, using digital and written techniques.
  • Inspect own work, ensuring it is delivered to the given specifications.
  • Comply with environmental regulations and procedures. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
  • Use and adapt communication methods for different situations and when, working with colleagues and stakeholders, using industry terminology as appropriate.
  • Provide customer feedback whilst maintaining customer service.
  • Escalates issues beyond their level of competence and authority.

Your training plan

South Gloucestershire and Stroud College.

Your training course: Property maintenance operative. Equal to Level 2 (GCSE).

Course contents:

You will work towards the Level 2 Property Maintenance Operative Apprenticeship qualification and Functional skills in maths and English (if required).

This is a day release Apprenticeship which takes place at - Horizon 38, Taurus Rd, Filton BS34 6FE.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • Maths and English (grade 3-9*)

Desirable qualifications

Other in:

  • CGCS (grade completed)

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
  • Presentation skills
  • Number skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Creative
  • Initiative
  • Non judgemental
  • Patience
  • Physical fitness
  • Readiness to learn

Other requirements

• An opportunity to gain practical experience and develop skills • Structured training and support from experienced professionals • Valid full driving license, or intention to learn

About this company

St Peter's Hospice is a local charity that provides care and support to adults who are living with a progressive life-limiting illness in the Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset area. We have been established for over 40 years with the majority of our support provided in people's homes. People receiving our care have a wide range of conditions, including cancer, heart failure, lung disease and neurological illness. Support is focused around the physical, psychological, social and spiritual issues that can arise as a result of serious illness, in order to improve the quality of a person's life. Everyone is unique, and we provide support with that in mind. St Peter’s Hospice Values Excellence - to strive to be the best we can, listen, learn and innovate Compassion - to show understanding and care in everything that we do Respect - to value everyone and embrace the value of our differences Passion - to be proud of our work and the impact we have Collaboration - to work as one team - built on shared goals and effective relationships

https://www.stpetershospice.org/ (opens in new tab)

Disability Confident

Disability Confident

A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.

You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.

After this apprenticeship

Potential for career advancement within the organisation upon successful completion of the apprenticeship programme

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

ST PETER'S HOSPICE

Dean Tucker

Dean.tucker@stpetershospice.org

01179092202

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000299995.

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