Apprentice Plasterer

Summary

Sheffield City Council’s Housing Repairs Service carries out repairs and maintenance to over 50,000 Council homes. This year, we are offering an amazing 16 Apprenticeship opportunities to launch your career in the Trades services with a September 2025 start.

Wage

£19,180.80 a year

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£10.80 per hour in the first year

Training course

Plasterer (level 2)

Hours

Monday to Friday, 37 Hours a week. 8/9am - 4/5pm.

37 hours a week

Start date

Monday 1 September 2025

Duration

3 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

You will - under supervision - undertake and develop an understanding of the duties and responsibilities outlined below:

Identify and undertake appropriate trade work tasks as directed
Work collaboratively as part of a team to meet the service priorities, work targets and plans
Liaise with other employees, team leader/supervisor or managers as necessary in order to complete specified tasks in order meet the required portfolio on site evidence
Carry out and complete work in-line with relevant legislation, regulations or other standards and in a competent manner
Ensure you are aware of, and comply with, all risk assessments, safe systems of work and any other health and safety information, guidance or procedures related to the work activities of the appropriate trade and ask for clarification if this is not fully understood
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Complete appropriate health and safety paperwork/checks
Ensure all accidents/near misses are reported to your team leader/supervisor
Undertake all work/tasks in accordance with current legislation, British Standards, Codes of Practice and recognised industrial standards for such work, and ensure any damage to the fabric of the property or building is minimised in undertaking the relevant repair or maintenance
Receive, plan and complete job orders on time, following the correct procedures to an acceptable standard
Effectively use any relevant ICT equipment and information systems in order to effectively undertake the required duties
Take good care of, and use correctly, all tools, equipment, personal protective equipment and any other resources issued to you
Notify your team leader of any absences from work or college or any other associated issues
Ensure compliance with all SCC Policies and procedures and in particular the Code of Conduct, the Social Networking Policy and Dignity and Respect at Work to ensure behaviour standards are met
To ensure compliance with the, ICT Acceptable Use Policy, Data Protection
Act and other relevant legislation
Ensure you understand and comply with all the customer care and service standards
Create maintain and build constructive working relationships with team members, other members of staff, customers and members of the public
Ensure compliance with any policies procedures or other rules and regulations which are required by your College

Where you'll work

Manor Lane Depot
Manor Ln
Sheffield
S2 1TR

Training

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

College or training organisation

SHEFFIELD CITY COUNCIL

Your training course

Plasterer (level 2)

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What you'll learn

Course contents

Core: Comply with health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
Core: Identify and use personal protective equipment (PPE).
Core: Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
Core: Use access equipment for example, hop ups, podiums or low-level scaffolding.
Core: Interpret information from drawings and specifications.
Core: Store materials considering date order for rotation of stock.
Core: Prepare and maintain a safe working area.
Core: Check, use and store power tools and equipment, escalate faults or defects.
Core: Move and handle materials and equipment manually and with lifting equipment.
Core: Protect finished work and the surrounding area.
Core: Verbally communicate with others, for example colleagues, other tradespeople, managers and customers.
Core: Applies team working principles to their own and the wider build team.
SP: Estimate quantities and select solid plastering and render materials.
SP: Select, use and store hand tools for solid plastering and rendering.
SP: Mix materials for solid plastering and render to ratio.
SP: Apply floating coat plaster to solid back grounds, including the formation of 90 degree angles with bead, consolidation and mechanical key application.
SP: Apply setting coat plaster to floating coat plasters, including forming 90 degree angles with bead.
SP: Apply setting coat plaster to plasterboard surfaces.
SP: Apply plain face render to scratch coat renders, including forming a hard angle.
SP: Apply scratch coat renders, including mechanical key, dobbing out coats and application of render beads.
SP: Prepare background surfaces to receive solid plasters, and renders, including the application of solid plastering and render primers and sealers.
SP: Measure, mark out and cut plasterboard to fit area and obstacles, using hand tools.
SP: Install plasterboard to timber surfaces and reinforce joints.
SP: Direct bond plasterboard to solid backgrounds, including sealing around obstacles.
SP: Carry out solid plaster repair: For example, replace plasterboard, patch plaster to solid background.
FP: Select, use and store hand tools for fibrous plastering applications.
FP: Estimate quantities and select fibrous plastering materials.
FP: Prepare and mix fibrous plaster materials, including reinforcement.
FP: Prepare and mark out background surfaces to receive fibrous plaster components.
FP: Construct moulds.
FP: Prepare bench and moulds for casting.
FP: Run mould and release casts.
FP: Measure and cut fibrous components to form straight and mitred cuts.
FP: Set and mark out for cornice installation.
FP: Fix cornice including straight runs, stops and 90 degree internal and external angles.
FP: Carry out fibrous plaster repair, for example, replacement or patching.
FP: Set out for fibrous plaster dados and ceiling centres.
FP: fix fibrous plaster dados and ceiling centres.
Core: Comply with health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
Core: Identify and use personal protective equipment (PPE).
Core: Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
Core: Use access equipment for example, hop ups, podiums or low-level scaffolding.
Core: Interpret information from drawings and specifications.
Core: Store materials considering date order for rotation of stock.
Core: Prepare and maintain a safe working area.
Core: Check, use and store power tools and equipment, escalate faults or defects.
Core: Move and handle materials and equipment manually and with lifting equipment.
Core: Protect finished work and the surrounding area.
Core: Verbally communicate with others, for example colleagues, other tradespeople, managers and customers.
Core: Applies team working principles to their own and the wider build team.

Your training plan

You will be working towards a Level 2 Plastering qualificaiton
Training will be one day a week
The training will we held at Construction Design Centre, Cricket Inn Road, Manor Lane, Sheffield, S2 1TR

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE or equivalent in:

English & Maths (grade 3/D equivalent 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
Problem solving skills
Presentation skills
Logical
Team working
Creative
Initiative
Non judgemental
Patience
Physical fitness

About this company

Sheffield City Council is the city council for the metropolitan borough of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England.

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After this apprenticeship

Have the potential to secure a permanent job with us upon successful completion of your apprenticeship.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

SHEFFIELD CITY COUNCIL

sccapprenticeships@sheffield.gov.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000319059.

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Closes in 13 days (Friday 23 May 2025)

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