Bricklaying Apprentice

Summary

Assisting with general building works including labouring, groundworks and bricklaying.

Wage

£13,741 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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Training course

Bricklayer (level 2)

Hours

Monday - Friday, 8.00am - 4.30pm

35 hours a week

Start date

Monday 28 April 2025

Duration

2 years

Positions available

2

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

Measuring work areas and setting out the first rows of bricks or blocks
Mixing mortar by hand or with a mechanical mixer
Applying mortar with a trowel and laying bricks
Shaping and trimming bricks using hammers, chisels and power tools
Masonry support system
Applying fire barriers

Where you’ll work

This apprenticeship is available in these locations:

Burston Garden Centre, N Orbital Road, St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL2 2DS
Lytton Way, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 3FG

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

College or training organisation

HERTFORD REGIONAL COLLEGE

Your training course

Bricklayer (level 2)

Equal to GCSE

Course contents

Comply with health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
Identify and use personal protective equipment (PPE).
Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
Comply with industry regulations, standards, and guidance.
Read and interpret information from drawings and specifications.
Estimate and select required resources: For example, the quantity of bricks and blocks, mortar, wall ties and insulation.
Prepare and maintain a safe working area.
Select and use hand tools.
Maintain and store hand tools.
Set out brick and block cavity wall to given tolerances, including an opening.
Construct a stretcher bond brick and block cavity wall with return and opening to given tolerances, including installing a lintel with soldiers, brick and edge sill, closure around opening, insulation, fire stopping, cavity tray, damp proof course (DPC) and weep holes.
Apply joint finishes: For example, half round, flush, weather struck and recessed.
Set out and construct a simple brick solid wall with capping.
Gauge and hand mix mortar to ratio.
Measure and cut bricks and blocks using hand tools, to given tolerances.
Carry out a simple repair: For example, replacing damaged bricks.
Protect materials and finished work.
Verbally communicate with others, applying construction terminology.
Follow equity, diversity and inclusion guidance.
Applies team working principles to their own and the wider build team.
Identifies well-being support available to self and others.
Construct a brick wall with raking cut. For example, gable end wall or garden wall with raking cut.
Comply with health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
Identify and use personal protective equipment (PPE).
Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
Comply with industry regulations, standards, and guidance.
Read and interpret information from drawings and specifications.
Estimate and select required resources: For example, the quantity of bricks and blocks, mortar, wall ties and insulation.
Prepare and maintain a safe working area.
Select and use hand tools.
Maintain and store hand tools.
Set out brick and block cavity wall to given tolerances, including an opening.
Construct a stretcher bond brick and block cavity wall with return and opening to given tolerances, including installing a lintel with soldiers, brick and edge sill, closure around opening, insulation, fire stopping, cavity tray, damp proof course (DPC) and weep holes.
Apply joint finishes: For example, half round, flush, weather struck and recessed.
Set out and construct a simple brick solid wall with capping.
Gauge and hand mix mortar to ratio.
Measure and cut bricks and blocks using hand tools, to given tolerances.
Carry out a simple repair: For example, replacing damaged bricks.
Protect materials and finished work.
Verbally communicate with others, applying construction terminology.
Follow equity, diversity and inclusion guidance.
Applies team working principles to their own and the wider build team.
Identifies well-being support available to self and others.
Construct a brick wall with raking cut. For example, gable end wall or garden wall with raking cut.

Your training plan

Working towards completing level 2 Bricklayer Apprenticeship Standard
Functional Skills in Englsih and maths if required
Work based learning with attendance one day per week at Hertford Regional College

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English (grade 1-9)
Maths (grade 1-9)

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
Team working
Initiative

Other requirements

Applicants MUST have a CSCS card.

About this company

At ALB Brickwork we are a team of highly skilled bricklayers who are proficient in all aspects of bricklaying whether that be for commercial projects or residential homes. We work across all sectors and can tailor our services to the needs of the customer.

https://www.albbrickwork.co.uk/services/brickwork (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

There will be opportunities for progression and a permanent position subject to performance

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

HERTFORD REGIONAL COLLEGE

The Apprenticeship Team

apprenticeship@hrc.ac.uk

01992411572

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000309437.

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