Carpentry & Joinery Apprentice
EAST CLEVELAND YOUTH HOUSING
Skelton in Cleveland (TS12 2LQ)
Closes in 17 days (Sunday 24 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 6 August 2025
Contents
Summary
To provide carpentry and joinery-related building maintenance on properties and projects as indicated by East Cleveland Youth Housing Trust. To develop the knowledge, skills and competences to follow a career in carpentry and joinery-related trades and work towards a recognised qualification.
- Wage
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£11,778 to £19,047.60, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
- Training course
- Craft carpentry and joinery (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday (Usually between the hours of 8.00am - 4.00pm)
30 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 September 2025
- Duration
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1 year 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
This list is provided to give guidance to the role and is not written in order of importance. Additionally, this list is not exhaustive but gives an overall outline of the main duties:
- To work in accordance with the information, instruction and training given by ECYHT
- To work for the employer to the best of their ability and in accordance with ECYHT's terms and conditions
- To adhere to all policies, codes, rules, regulations and guidance of ECYHT and other training providers
- To learn and develop practical construction skills through the participation of classes, training workshops and on site maintenance and renovation projects
- Take ownership of your own learning records to ensure that all necessary development activities are completed. E.g.; evidence of training, coursework, assignments and exams
On completion of this apprenticeship, carpentry and joinery workers will be able to carry out all the activities undertaken by a carpenter and joiner, but also be able to:
- Work safely and proactively in the application of good health and safety practice in their work area, to protect self and others.
- Understand the programme and work schedule for their work area and plan their work accordingly
- Develop and maintain good working relationships with managers, supervisors and work colleagues
- Determine the best way of carrying out the work and ensure this is communicated clearly to colleagues
- Interpret technical specifications and ensure compliance with legislation/guidance relevant to the work being done
- Select the required quantity and quality of resources required for carrying out complex and non-standard work, including timber, tools and fixings
- Be prepared to take a lead when working in a team, especially when complex or non-standard work is involved
- Understand, in more detail, the key aspects of health, safety and welfare good practice and how to apply these to create a safe and healthy working environment
- Understand how to plan and carry out work effectively, taking into account complex environmental and task related challenges
- Understand how to develop and maintain excellent working relationships with others
- Understand how to access data needed to plan and execute work tasks accurately and its impact on construction based projects
- Understand their broader responsibilities under current legislation and guidance in undertaking construction work
- Understand the importance of team working and being prepared to take a lead where possible
Where you'll work
Skelton Industrial Estate
Alum Way
Skelton in Cleveland
TS12 2LQ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
THE EDUCATION TRAINING COLLECTIVE
Training course
Craft carpentry and joinery (level 3)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
What you'll learn
Course contents
- Comply with health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Identify and use safety control equipment including RPE, dust suppression, PPE and LEV.
- Implement and monitor safe systems of work and control measures.
- Interpret and extract information using paper based or digital techniques from drawings, specifications and provide work instructions.
- Calculate resource and cost quantities from site measurements.
- Apply environmental and sustainable principles in compliance with regulations, standards and systems for example segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
- Apply planning, work scheduling and time management techniques to identify and agree production plan targets.
- Apply quality assurance procedures.
- Select, check and use hand and power tools.
- Complete documentation - paper based or digital. For example, job sheets, time sheets, risk assessments, method statements, equipment service records, handover documents, work sheets, checklists, incident reports, requisition sheets, quality records.
- Communicate and report in written form any issues against the production plan and contribute to the solutions.
- Obtain, monitor and rotate stock and supplies.
- CSC: Apply craft site first fix carpentry techniques and practices to install timber stud partitions with standard and non-standard (non–90 degree) turns.
- CSC: Apply craft site carpentry techniques and practices to install complex first fix elements: 1. fire door linings, 2. floor coverings with non-standard (non–90 degree) returns and 3. structural partitions.
- CSC: Apply craft site second fix carpentry techniques and practices to install double side hung doors with associated ironmongery and lining. Non-standard (non–90 degree) mouldings.
- CSC: Apply craft site carpentry techniques and practices to install complex second fix elements: 1. bespoke wall and floor units (commissioned order with features or like for like replacement), 2. worktops with masons mitre, 3. cornices and fitments, 4. spindles and handrails to stairs with turns, 5. fire doors. 6. service encasements with access panels, 7. non-standard (non-90 degree) door linings.
- CSC: Apply craft site carpentry techniques and practices to erect trussed or traditional roofs rafter roofs with hips, valleys and dormers.
- CSC: Form non-standard (non–90 degree) joints.
- CSC: Replace or repair carpentry work, for example, structural timbers doors, glazing, window frames and sills, mouldings, timber guttering and fixings or sash window cords.
- CAJ: Set out, mark out and form curved joinery products.
- CAJ: Form shaped wood working joints.
- CAJ: Set up and use CNC machinery to produce joinery products.
- CAJ: Apply craft architectural joinery techniques to manufacture and assemble a window frame with, curved head and non-standard (non–90 degree) window bars.
- CAJ: Apply craft architectural joinery techniques and practices to manufacture and assemble complex timber second fix products: 1. fire doors 2. shaped , non-standard doors 3. bespoke wall and floor units (commissioned order with features or like for like replacement).
- CAJ: Apply craft architectural joinery techniques and practices to manufacture and assemble complex timber first fix products: 1. staircases with turns 2. fire door linings, 3. bespoke windows with non-standard (non–90 degree) angles, 4. shaped, non-standard door linings.
- CAJ: Apply craft architectural techniques to create shaped work using specialist jigs and fixed machinery.
- Comply with health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Identify and use safety control equipment including RPE, dust suppression, PPE and LEV.
- Implement and monitor safe systems of work and control measures.
- Interpret and extract information using paper based or digital techniques from drawings, specifications and provide work instructions.
- Calculate resource and cost quantities from site measurements.
- Apply environmental and sustainable principles in compliance with regulations, standards and systems for example segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
- Apply planning, work scheduling and time management techniques to identify and agree production plan targets.
- Apply quality assurance procedures.
- Select, check and use hand and power tools.
- Complete documentation - paper based or digital. For example, job sheets, time sheets, risk assessments, method statements, equipment service records, handover documents, work sheets, checklists, incident reports, requisition sheets, quality records.
- Communicate and report in written form any issues against the production plan and contribute to the solutions.
- Obtain, monitor and rotate stock and supplies.
Training schedule
- Level 3 Craft Carpentry & Joinery at Stockton Riverside College
- Functional skills maths and English, if required
More training information
This will be one day a week at Stockton Riverside College
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade A*-C/9-4)
- Maths (grade A*-C/9-4)
Other in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Problem solving skills
- Active listening
- Able to follow instructions
- Time management
- Interested in construction
- Willingness to learn
- Motivated to work
- Safety conscious
- Self managment
- Critical thinking skills
- Keen to engage with education
Other requirements
All work they undertake is within and around the villages of East Cleveland. You must be able to travel to this area and Stockton Riverside College once a week.
About this employer
East Cleveland Youth Housing Trust works to help young people improve their lives in the community where they live and work, through offering a diverse range of opportunities and experiences. The aim of the Trust is to provide people living locally with: A network of affordable, supported accommodation for young people in housing need Opportunities for personal development and support to develop life and social skills Training opportunities in construction related trades through the renovation of empty properties, work undertaken in community buildings and with other voluntary sector organisations
After this apprenticeship
- An opportunity for a full-time position at the end of the apprenticeship
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
THE EDUCATION TRAINING COLLECTIVE
Anna Reeves
anna.reeves@the-etc.ac.uk
07436795883
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000335475.
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Closes in 17 days (Sunday 24 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
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