Bricklaying Apprentice
Toby Jasper Bricklaying
Plymouth (PL1 5JJ)
Closes in 28 days (Friday 1 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 4 July 2025
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Summary
Offering a bricklaying apprenticeship. You should apply if you're looking for a long, fruitful career in bricklaying.
- Wage
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£11,778 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Bricklayer (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm, shifts
30 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 September 2025
- Duration
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2 years 3 months
- Positions available
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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
- Setting out work areas and planning material requirements
- Mixing mortar by hand or using a cement mixer
- Ensuring surfaces are clean and ready for laying bricks or blocks
- Spreading mortar evenly
- Laying bricks, blocks, or stone in the correct position
- Ensuring rows are level, plumb, and properly aligned using a spirit level or laser
- Cutting bricks to fit corners, edges, or around openings using hand tools or power saws
- Ensuring worksite is tidy and tools are maintained
Where you'll work
15 Neswick Street
Plymouth
PL1 5JJ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
GREENLIGHT TRAINING LIMITED
Your training course
Bricklayer (level 2)
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What you'll learn
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
Bricklayer Level 2.
Training will take place on-site with an employer and 4-days a month within the training centre with your training provider.
Requirements
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
- Attention to detail
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
This job will involve working outdoors and/or lifting heavy objects.
About this company
At Toby Jasper Bricklaying, we specialise in delivering expert brickwork services throughout Plymouth and the surrounding areas. With a strong reputation built on reliability, craftsmanship, and honest service, we take pride in every project from small garden walls to large-scale extensions and full builds. With years of hands-on experience, our team is dedicated to providing high-quality workmanship that stands the test of time. We work closely with our clients to understand their vision and deliver results that meet both budget and expectations.
After this apprenticeship
- Self-employed subcontractor
- Full-time employee
- Start your own business
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
GREENLIGHT TRAINING LIMITED
Alice
learning@greenlightsc.co.uk
01752 604713
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000329849.
Apply now
Closes in 28 days (Friday 1 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
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