Plastering Apprentice

Summary

Are you great with people and looking for a construction-based apprenticeship? Halton Housing have an exciting opportunity for a Plastering Apprentice to join our vibrant organisation. Working with skilled tradespeople in our Repairs and Maintenance Teams, you'll master a variety of plastering tasks, providing an excellent service to our customers.

Wage

£25,488 a year

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We offer a competitive salary of £25,488, exceeding the national living wage.

Training course

Plasterer (level 2)

Hours

Monday to Friday, 37 hours per week.

37 hours a week

Start date

Monday 1 September 2025

Duration

2 years

Positions available

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

Assist our technicians in all aspects of work including; repair work, void refurbishments, damp remediation, kitchen/bathroom upgrades, and ceiling repairs.
Ensure that a high standard of customer service is delivered at all times.
Follow safe and reasonable methods of work at all times, utilising tools and technology provided to ensure processes and procedures are followed at all times.
Fully engage with all learning and development activities, with 100% college attendance, completing all portfolios, coursework, tests and examinations.
Promote and represent Halton Housing positively with customers, colleagues and external agencies and partners.

Where you'll work

Waterfront Point
Warrington Road
Widnes
Cheshire
WA8 0TD

Training

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

College or training organisation

ST HELENS COLLEGE

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.
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 Plastering apprenticeship qualification
St Helens College
Day release

More training information

The Apprenticeship will last for up to 24 months and require the apprentice to attend college in person one day a week. The remaining four days will be spent working with our experienced tradespeople applying the practical skills to tasks and activities within our homes.

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE or equivalent in:

English (grade 4 (C) or above)
Maths (grade 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
Team working
Initiative
Physical fitness

Other requirements

Plastering is a physical role requiring good physical fitness, with the ability to work at heights (scaffolding, ladders). Applicants need to be comfortable with bending, lifting, and standing for extended periods with good hand-eye coordination and dexterity. Applicants should possess/be working towards holding a Full UK Driving License.

About this company

With over 7,000 homes and 330 employees, Halton Housing is a business that prides itself on doing things differently. Forward thinking and innovative, our customers sit at the heart of everything we do.

https://www.haltonhousing.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)

Company benefits

Halton Housing provides excellent benefits such as competitive pay and pension scheme, generous holiday entitlement, employee health benefit & assistance programmes and regular health checks.

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

Completion of the Apprenticeship does not guarantee a permanent full-time role at Halton Housing; however, we recruit to the Apprenticeship Programme based on what we believe to be our future workforce requirements.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

HALTON HOUSING

Rhianne Johnson

Rhianne.johnson@haltonhousing.co.uk

07866990559

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000329568.

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Closes in 16 days (Sunday 20 July 2025)

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