Apprentice Joiner

HIGHBURY HOMES (YORKSHIRE) LIMITED

BRIGHOUSE (HD6 1SN)

Closes in 15 days (Sunday 3 August 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 18 July 2025

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Summary

We are looking for a dedicated and enthusiastic Apprentice Joiner to join our team. This apprenticeship offers a fantastic opportunity to learn the joinery trade through hands-on experience and formal training. You will work alongside experienced joiners on a variety of projects on residential/commercial properties for insurance companies.

Wage

£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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Training course
Carpentry and joinery (level 2)
Hours
Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm

40 hours a week

Start date

Friday 12 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

Where you'll work

HIGHBURY HOUSE
OAKHILL ROAD
BRIGHOUSE
HD6 1SN

Training

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

Training provider

BRADFORD COLLEGE

Training course

Carpentry and joinery (level 2)

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What you'll learn

Course contents
  • Comply with health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
  • Identify and use safety control equipment, for example, RPE, dust suppression, PPE and LEV.
  • Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
  • Comply with industry regulations, standards, and guidance.
  • Prepare and maintain a safe working area.
  • Interpret and use information from drawings and specifications.
  • Estimate required materials and produce a cutting list.
  • Verbally communicate with others, applying construction terminology.
  • Select, use and store hand tools.
  • Select, use and store power tools.
  • Maintain and sharpen hand tools.
  • Produce jigs.
  • Identifies well-being support available to self and others.
  • Site carpenter: Apply first fix techniques and practices for: 1. structural carcassing (load bearing studwork), 2. straight timber or metal partition walls, 3. floor joists 4. floor joist coverings and 5. straight flights of stairs.
  • Site carpenter: Install structural fixings.
  • Site carpenter: Size timber from sizing tables.
  • Site carpenter: Apply site second fix techniques and practices for: 1. service encasement, 2. cladding 3. wall and floor units and fitments, 4. handrails and spindles to straight flights of stairs, 5. internal and external doors, 6. skirting boards and architrave, 7. window boards.
  • Site carpenter: Apply site carpenter techniques and practices to construction of rafter roofs, including trussed (prefabricated) and traditional (built on site) including the construction of verge, eaves and fitting loft access.
  • Site carpenter: Use and store laser levels for example cross line laser.
  • Site carpenter: Form connections, for example, using joints, nails, screws, bolts and adhesive.
  • Site carpenter: Apply measuring, marking out, cutting (square and angled), mitring, hinging and recessing techniques.
  • Site carpenter: Carrying out splicing and scribing techniques.
  • Architectural joiner: Produce setting out details, including setting rods, and mark out for timber products.
  • Architectural joiner: Produce basic woodworking joints including dovetail, bridal, mortise and tenon and halving.
  • Architectural joiner: Form connections using dowels, biscuit, staples and adhesives.
  • Architectural joiner: Apply techniques and practices to the manufacture and assembly of a timber window with casement including glazing rebates and associated ironmongery.
  • Architectural joiner: Apply manufacture and assembly techniques for first fix products: 1. straight staircases, 2. door frames and linings.
  • Architectural joiner: Apply manufacture and assembly techniques for second fix products: 1. timber doors, 2. wall and floor units, 3. timber mouldings, 4. staircase spindles and balustrades.
  • Architectural joiner: Fit ironmongery including door locks, door handles, door hinges, latches and draw runners.
  • Architectural joiner: Inspect, prepare and operate fixed machinery.
  • Comply with health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
  • Identify and use safety control equipment, for example, RPE, dust suppression, PPE and LEV.
  • Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
  • Comply with industry regulations, standards, and guidance.
  • Prepare and maintain a safe working area.
  • Interpret and use information from drawings and specifications.
  • Estimate required materials and produce a cutting list.
  • Verbally communicate with others, applying construction terminology.
  • Select, use and store hand tools.
  • Select, use and store power tools.
  • Maintain and sharpen hand tools.
  • Produce jigs.
  • Identifies well-being support available to self and others.

Training schedule

This training schedule has not been finalised. Check with this employer if you’ll need to travel to a college or training location for this apprenticeship.

Requirements

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

About this employer

From humble beginnings as a family-run company of home builders in West Yorkshire, to award-winning building refurbishment and maintenance specialists, offering the complete building solution to deliver high-quality project management and efficient in-house building services; Highbury has come a long way. On the back of exponential growth, we proudly added additional regional offices to the Highbury family, North West in 2022, to further support our clients' needs across the Insurance, Social Housing, Residential, Commercial, Education sectors and more. Despite this expansion, we remain firmly committed to our family values at Highbury, proudly continuing our culture of a friendly, family-run business that looks after both its colleagues and customers. Professionalism, reliability and trust underpin everything we do. With over 20 years’ experience we're dedicated to managing the unexpected, providing client-focused, dynamic project management, and building solutions across Northern England. Handling more than 1600 property insurance claims per annum, our highly experienced and fully accredited team ensure peace of mind that our customers and properties will be kept in safe and professional hands.

Disability Confident

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

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

BRADFORD COLLEGE

Will Cooke

w.cooke@bradfordcollege.ac.uk

07776 965378

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000332485.

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Closes in 15 days (Sunday 3 August 2025 at 11:59pm)

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