Property Maintenance Apprentice
HALTON HOUSING
Cheshire (WA8 0TD)
Closes in 15 days (Saturday 30 August 2025)
Posted on 15 August 2025
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Summary
Are you great with people and looking for a construction-based apprenticeship? Halton Housing have an exciting opportunity for a Property Maintenance Apprentice to join our vibrant organisation. Working with skilled tradespeople across a variety of trades , you'll master a variety of skills, whilst providing an excellent service to our customers.
- Wage
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£25,488 a year
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We offer a competitive salary of £25,488, exceeding the national living wage.
- Training course
- Property maintenance operative (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, Shifts to be confirmed.
37 hours 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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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
- Assist our technicians in all aspects of work, learning the technical and people skills required to carry out a variety of property maintenance tasks and activities including; Plumbing, Plastering, Joinery, Electrics and Painting
- Ensure that a high standard of customer service is delivered at all times
- Follow safe and reasonable methods of work at all times, utilising tools and technology provided to ensure processes and procedures are followed at all times
- Fully engage with all learning and development activities, with 100% training academy attendance, completing all portfolios, coursework, tests and examinations
- Promote and represent Halton Housing positively with customers, colleagues and external agencies and partners
Where you'll work
Waterfront Point
Warrington Road
Widnes
Cheshire
WA8 0TD
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
PLACES FOR PEOPLE GROUP LIMITED
Training course
Property maintenance operative (level 2)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Plan the sequence of work required to carry out routine property maintenance operations.
- Identify and select the appropriate materials and components for property maintenance tasks, ensuring these are compliant with relevant regulatory requirements and manufacturer's specifications.
- Comply with statutory health and safety regulations and requirements.
- Comply with risk assessments, and organise the workplace, to safeguard themselves and the property.
- Comply with key regulatory and legislative requirements, including building regulations.
- Uses safe working practices when carrying out property maintenance tasks including the use of PPE, signage, barriers, access equipment and ensuring work area is prepared and reinstated.
- Select, and use work tools and equipment for property maintenance tasks, applying all safeguards, and ensuring the correct functioning of equipment.
- Safely isolate and secure electrical or electronic supplies prior to performing property maintenance operations.
- Apply and implement routine emergency system checks, testing and routine maintenance, identifying and reporting faults as required.
- Perform maintenance and repairs to plumbing systems, including fault identification, safe isolation of supply, replacing components and clearing blockages.
- Perform maintenance and repairs to external drainage systems, including clearing blockages and replacing components.
- Perform maintenance and repairs to environmental and energy management systems, including fault identification, safe isolation of supply, replacing components.
- Use carpentry and joinery skills to perform repairs to windows, doors and glazing units, and their associated fittings.
- Perform repairs to plastered surfaces, including surface preparation, fixing and mixing materials and compounds.
- Use painting and decorating skills to prepare surfaces for decoration, apply paint using brushes and rollers, and complete sealing activities using gun appliances.
- Perform tiling repairs, including setting out, surface preparation and cutting around obstacles.
- Perform flooring repairs, including setting out, surface preparation and cutting around obstacles.
- Perform planned, responsive or temporary repairs to buildings or their immediate surroundings, attending to minor defects within either masonry, roofing, fencing or railing, groundwork or landscaping.
- Select and use technical literature and other sources of information and data to address property maintenance problems.
- Record and report information, using digital and written techniques.
- Inspect own work, ensuring it is delivered to the given specifications.
- Comply with environmental regulations and procedures. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
- Use and adapt communication methods for different situations and when, working with colleagues and stakeholders, using industry terminology as appropriate.
- Provide customer feedback whilst maintaining customer service.
- Escalates issues beyond their level of competence and authority.
- Plan the sequence of work required to carry out routine property maintenance operations.
- Identify and select the appropriate materials and components for property maintenance tasks, ensuring these are compliant with relevant regulatory requirements and manufacturer's specifications.
- Comply with statutory health and safety regulations and requirements.
- Comply with risk assessments, and organise the workplace, to safeguard themselves and the property.
- Comply with key regulatory and legislative requirements, including building regulations.
- Uses safe working practices when carrying out property maintenance tasks including the use of PPE, signage, barriers, access equipment and ensuring work area is prepared and reinstated.
- Select, and use work tools and equipment for property maintenance tasks, applying all safeguards, and ensuring the correct functioning of equipment.
- Safely isolate and secure electrical or electronic supplies prior to performing property maintenance operations.
- Apply and implement routine emergency system checks, testing and routine maintenance, identifying and reporting faults as required.
- Perform maintenance and repairs to plumbing systems, including fault identification, safe isolation of supply, replacing components and clearing blockages.
- Perform maintenance and repairs to external drainage systems, including clearing blockages and replacing components.
- Perform maintenance and repairs to environmental and energy management systems, including fault identification, safe isolation of supply, replacing components.
- Use carpentry and joinery skills to perform repairs to windows, doors and glazing units, and their associated fittings.
- Perform repairs to plastered surfaces, including surface preparation, fixing and mixing materials and compounds.
- Use painting and decorating skills to prepare surfaces for decoration, apply paint using brushes and rollers, and complete sealing activities using gun appliances.
- Perform tiling repairs, including setting out, surface preparation and cutting around obstacles.
- Perform flooring repairs, including setting out, surface preparation and cutting around obstacles.
- Perform planned, responsive or temporary repairs to buildings or their immediate surroundings, attending to minor defects within either masonry, roofing, fencing or railing, groundwork or landscaping.
- Select and use technical literature and other sources of information and data to address property maintenance problems.
- Record and report information, using digital and written techniques.
- Inspect own work, ensuring it is delivered to the given specifications.
- Comply with environmental regulations and procedures. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
- Use and adapt communication methods for different situations and when, working with colleagues and stakeholders, using industry terminology as appropriate.
- Provide customer feedback whilst maintaining customer service.
- Escalates issues beyond their level of competence and authority.
Training schedule
- Level 2 Property Maintenance Apprenticeship qualification
- The qualification is delivered in conjuction with Places for People (THRIVE Training Academy) - It will require apprentices to attend their Derby Academy 1 week per month (with travel and accomodation expenses covered)
- The remaining time will be spent working alongside our experienced tradespeople in Halton
- Due to the time spent away at the Academy applicants under the age of 18 must have express permission from a legal guardian
More training information
- The Apprenticeship will last for up to 24 months and has been developed specifically with Social Housing Providers in mind. It will focus on developing the varied technical and people skills required to provide a comprehensive repairs and maintenance service to our customers
- The first academy date is Monday 22nd September so the appointed candidate must be available to commence the apprenticeship week commencing 15th September. This enables a full health and safety induction and introduction into Halton Housing prior to attending the first week at the academy
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE 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
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
Interviews for shortlisted applicants will take place at our Waterfront Point offices on Thursday 4th September. Due to the short turnaround on this vacancy no alternative interview dates will be available. Apprenticeships at Halton Housing are very popular so in the event of high volumes the process can close earlier than advertised. Interested parties are encouraged to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. Property Maintenance is a physical role requiring good physical fitness, with some tasks and activities requiring the ability to work at heights (scaffolding, ladders). Applicants need to be comfortable with bending, lifting, and standing for extended periods with good hand-eye coordination and dexterity. This apprenticeship has been developed by a Social Housing Provider to meet the bespoke needs of Social Housing Repairs and Maintenance. The course focusses on a variety of different technical and people skills. The state of the art, purpose built facility in Derby provides a perfect backdrop to experience and develop skills required for our maintenance technicians now and in the future. When in Derby, Apprentices will be accommodated at a local Hotel, receiving breakfast and evening meal along with travel expenses to and from Derby (Sunday evening to Friday morning). Applicants should possess/be working towards holding a Full UK Driving License.
About this employer
With over 7,000 homes and 330 employees, Halton Housing is a business that prides itself on doing things differently. Forward thinking and innovative, our customers sit at the heart of everything we do.
https://www.haltonhousing.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
Halton Housing provides excellent benefits such as competitive pay and pension scheme, generous holiday entitlement, employee health benefit & assistance programmes and regular health checks.
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
- Completion of the Apprenticeship does not guarantee a permanent full-time role at Halton Housing; however, we recruit to the Apprenticeship Programme based on what we believe to be our future workforce requirements
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
HALTON HOUSING
Karen Lopez
karen.lopez@haltonhousing.co.uk
07962367964
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000336973.
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