Painting and Decorating Apprentice
ST MONICA TRUST
Bristol, BRISTOL, Winscombe
Closes in 13 days (Wednesday 20 August 2025)
Posted on 6 August 2025
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Summary
Start your career in painting and decorating! Learn hands-on skills, earn while you learn, and build your future by transforming spaces with colour and creativity. No experience needed—just energy, enthusiasm, and a keen eye for detail. This is your chance to work on real projects, gain valuable experience, and take pride in what you create
- Wage
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£21,196 a year
- Training course
- Painter and decorator (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday 8am to 4pm
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 15 September 2025
- Duration
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2 years
- Positions available
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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
- Preparation and application on new and/or pre-decorated surfaces.
- Removal of previous coatings and coverings. Repair surfaces by appropriate methods.
- Working with water-borne, solvent borne and epoxy products, on a variety of surface by multiple application methods.
- Drying, curing and recoating
- Preventing & correcting common problems
- Understand and adhering to safe working practices.
- Build strong relationships and work collaboratively with other functions/teams.
- Travel and work across all sites.
- Manage decoration equipment, stock and re-order supplied when needed
Where you'll work
You can select which locations you want to apply for in your application on Find an apprenticeship.
This apprenticeship is available in these locations:
- The Chocolate Quarter, Trajectus Way, Keynsham, Bristol, BS31 2GJ
- Westbury Fields Retirement Village, Cricket Lane, Bristol, BS10 6TW
- Monica Wills House, Cromwell Street, Bristol, BS3 3NH
- ST. MONICA TRUST, COTE LANE, BRISTOL, BS9 3UN
- Sandford Station Retirement Village, Station Road, Winscombe, BS25 5AA
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND STROUD COLLEGE
Training course
Painter and decorator (level 2)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Comply with health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Select and use personal protective equipment (PPE), respiratory protective equipment (RPE) and dust suppression.
- Check and safely use working at height equipment for example steps, hop-ups, and podiums.
- Identify hazards and comply with risk assessments, method statements, control measures and safe systems of work and report to manager when required.
- Read and interpret information for example from drawings, specifications, work instructions, manufacturer’s safety data sheets and manufacturer’s information such as colour charts and notations.
- Ensure materials are used efficiently and sustainably including suitable disposal of waste.
- Prepare work area: remove and store furnishings, fixtures and equipment and reinstate.
- Protect and prepare a safe working area, surrounding surfaces and environment.
- Select and use hand tools and equipment.
- Maintain and store hand tools.
- Select, use, maintain and store power tools.
- Prepare internal and external untreated surfaces ready to receive finishing systems for example: trowelled finishes plaster or render, plasterboard, timber and timber sheet materials; metals (ferrous and non-ferrous).
- Prepare internal previously coated surfaces ready to receive finishing systems for example trowelled finishes plaster or render, plasterboard, timber and timber sheet materials.
- Prepare external previously coated surfaces ready to receive finishing systems for example trowelled finishes plaster or render, timber and timber sheet materials; metals (ferrous and non-ferrous).
- Prepare and apply surface coatings to untreated external surfaces for example brick, stone, render, wood, metal using a brush and roller.
- Apply solvent borne and water borne coating systems using brush and roller to ceilings, walls, linear work (skirting board and architrave) doors: flush and panelled and opening windows.
- Prepare and apply foundation paper: Cross lining around socket and switches, internal and external angles.
- Prepare and apply Wallcoverings: Free match or random match finishing papers, vertical hanging, around socket and switches, internal and external angle.
- Carry out minor repair for example third party damage or post application defect.
- Apply team working principles.
- Verbally communicate with others, applying construction terminology.
- Communicate in writing with others for example, internal and external customers, colleagues.
- Follow equity, diversity and inclusion guidance.
- Comply with health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Select and use personal protective equipment (PPE), respiratory protective equipment (RPE) and dust suppression.
- Check and safely use working at height equipment for example steps, hop-ups, and podiums.
- Identify hazards and comply with risk assessments, method statements, control measures and safe systems of work and report to manager when required.
- Read and interpret information for example from drawings, specifications, work instructions, manufacturer’s safety data sheets and manufacturer’s information such as colour charts and notations.
- Ensure materials are used efficiently and sustainably including suitable disposal of waste.
- Prepare work area: remove and store furnishings, fixtures and equipment and reinstate.
- Protect and prepare a safe working area, surrounding surfaces and environment.
- Select and use hand tools and equipment.
- Maintain and store hand tools.
- Select, use, maintain and store power tools.
- Prepare internal and external untreated surfaces ready to receive finishing systems for example: trowelled finishes plaster or render, plasterboard, timber and timber sheet materials; metals (ferrous and non-ferrous).
- Prepare internal previously coated surfaces ready to receive finishing systems for example trowelled finishes plaster or render, plasterboard, timber and timber sheet materials.
- Prepare external previously coated surfaces ready to receive finishing systems for example trowelled finishes plaster or render, timber and timber sheet materials; metals (ferrous and non-ferrous).
- Prepare and apply surface coatings to untreated external surfaces for example brick, stone, render, wood, metal using a brush and roller.
- Apply solvent borne and water borne coating systems using brush and roller to ceilings, walls, linear work (skirting board and architrave) doors: flush and panelled and opening windows.
- Prepare and apply foundation paper: Cross lining around socket and switches, internal and external angles.
- Prepare and apply Wallcoverings: Free match or random match finishing papers, vertical hanging, around socket and switches, internal and external angle.
- Carry out minor repair for example third party damage or post application defect.
- Apply team working principles.
- Verbally communicate with others, applying construction terminology.
- Communicate in writing with others for example, internal and external customers, colleagues.
- Follow equity, diversity and inclusion guidance.
Training schedule
- Training will take place both at your place of work and day release at South Gloucestershire and Stroud (SGS) College, Filton and Horizon Campus
- After your induction, you will be working 37.5-hours per week with protected time to complete apprenticeship work
- Support from your team, line manager, the apprentice lead and apprenticeship provider
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Patience
Other requirements
Passing a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check This role requires the successful applicant to work across multiple sites across Bristol and North Somerset. They will need a driving license and access to their own vehicle
About this employer
Since the Trust was founded we have been dedicated to enriching the lives of older people. Over 1,200 colleagues work hard together to continue and develop the ideals that Monica Wills had back in the 1920’s. Thanks to the income we receive from our endowment fund we’ve made amazing things happen over the years. Today, we’re still as forward thinking and innovative as we’ve ever been. We now deliver care and well-being in five retirement villages in and around the Bristol area. Our fifth, The Chocolate Quarter, recently opened in Keynsham – on the site of the old Cadbury chocolate factory! Each of these villages is there to offer high quality care and support for older people in various stages of their life. Yes, each village offers a care home or sheltered accommodation. But they also offer something much more valuable: independence. The villages have things like shops, a gym, a hairdresser, restaurants… everything to give our residents a real feeling of freedom and a good quality of life.
Company benefits
Access to free gym and pool (where applicable). Discounts on shopping, holidays, insurance and days out. Blue Light card. Subsidised staff meals.
After this apprenticeship
- While not guaranteed, the apprenticeship may lead to a permanent position with St Monica Trust after completion of your apprenticeship
- A qualification that you can use to support other work and progression opportunities
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
ST MONICA TRUST
Stacey Payne
stacey.payne@stmonicatrust.org.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000335820.
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Closes in 13 days (Wednesday 20 August 2025)
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