Bricklaying Apprenticeship
Toby Jasper Bricklaying
Plymouth (PL1 5JJ)
Closes in 22 days (Saturday 30 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 8 August 2025
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Summary
A Bricklaying Apprenticeship is a hands-on training programme that combines paid, on-the-job experience with structured learning to develop the skills needed to become a qualified bricklayer. Perfect for those who enjoy practical work and building things from the ground up.
- Wage
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£15,704 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 - Friday, 7.00am - 4.00pm.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 22 September 2025
- Duration
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2 years
- Positions available
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3
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
- Lay bricks, blocks, and stone to build or repair walls, chimneys, and other structures
- Mix and apply mortar
- Interpret construction drawings and plans
- Work safely on construction sites
- Produce high-quality finishes using traditional and modern techniques
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.
Training provider
GREENLIGHT TRAINING LIMITED
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.
Training schedule
Workplace: With employers in and around Plymouth
Training: Delivered at our Plympton, Plymouth training centre
(Attendance is required for 2 days every 2 weeks – employer transport support may be available.)
Requirements
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
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Physical fitness
About this employer
Toby Jasper Bricklaying is a respected and growing bricklaying firm based in Leanway, Saltash (PL12 4SU), serving Devon Cornwall and its surrounding areas. They specialise in a variety of bricklaying tasks including blockwork, general brickwork, extensions, loft conversions, and stonework Skills Group Find an Apprenticeship The company demonstrates a strong commitment to nurturing new talent, having successfully worked with apprentices from Skills Group and is now expanding its workforce with motivated individuals
After this apprenticeship
Work independently on residential, commercial, or heritage sites
Specialise in areas like:
- Facework (decorative brickwork)
- Blockwork (internal walls)
- Heritage restoration
- Refractory brickwork (for industrial settings)
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
GREENLIGHT TRAINING LIMITED
Owen Wilcox
owilcox@greenlightsc.co.uk
01752 604713
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000336266.
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Closes in 22 days (Saturday 30 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
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