Apprentice Plasterer

Summary

Bernicia is offering a fantastic opportunity for anyone looking to start their career as a Plasterer. You will learn all about what it takes to make sure our customers homes are maintained to a high and safe standard. Are you motivated and enthusiastic with a professional approach to work... this could be the ideal role for you

Wage

£14,572 a year

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28 days holiday entitlement

Training course

Plasterer (level 2)

Hours

Monday - Friday, 08:00 - 16:30

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

Working under the direction, guidance and supervision of a fully qualified plasterer to achieve the skills and qualifications required
Deliver all services in line with Bernicia standards ensuring an equitable, high performing customer service is delivered at all times
Undertake all Plastering, Rendering and Tiling and when required multi-skilled works relevant to domestic and commercial property maintenance, to the highest quality and standard in accordance with work requests and pre-determined specifications to a wide range of fixtures and fittings
Where required repairs are to be completed utilising ancillary multi-skill knowledge and experience to provide a one stop shop, first fix, first time service in order to complete a repair

Where you'll work

Oakwood Way
Ashwood Business Park
Ashington
Northumberland
NE63 0XF

Training

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

College or training organisation

NCG

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

Level 2 in Plastering
Comprehensive induction programme
Training in customer excellence, health and safety, equality and diversity, fire safety and introduction to housing

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE or equivalent in:

English (grade Level 4/C or above)
Maths (grade Level 4/C 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
Logical
Team working

About this company

We have been providing and maintaining quality and affordable homes and delivering a range of exceptional services for people in the north east for over 50 years earning us a repuation as one of the country's leading housing associations

http://www.bernicia.com (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

This apprenticeship will equip you with the skills and knowledge to be a plasterer

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

Bernicia Group Ltd

Employability Team

employability@bernicia.com

07515605332

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000326102.

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Closes in 23 days (Monday 7 July 2025 at 11:59pm)

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