Apprentice Site Assistant - Blossom Federation
The Blossom Federation
London (E2 8QH)
Closes in 18 days (Monday 8 September 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 21 August 2025
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Summary
Maintaining clean, safe and secure school and hub premises, which includes buildings and grounds. Carrying out handyperson activities, routine maintenance and refurbishment, porterage, and minor repairs. Promoting health and safety around the school.
- Wage
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£20,512 a year
- Training course
- Property maintenance operative (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday 10am - 6:15pm with one hour for lunch.
29 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
Security
• Assist the Site Manager in safeguarding the school and hub premises, staff, pupils, and visitors by taking all reasonable steps to prevent loss or damage.
Health & Safety
• Keep all areas, especially fire escape routes, clear of obstructions and ensure fire doors are secure and accessible.
• Respond appropriately to fire alarms and emergencies such as leaks, flooding, fires, and breakages.
Maintenance:
• Support the upkeep of the school and hub buildings, grounds, engineering services, and equipment.
• Maintain tools and equipment in safe working order.
• Identify and eliminate hazards from damaged surfaces or fixtures, making areas safe until repairs are completed.
• Conduct visual inspections of electrical fittings; replace bulbs, fluorescent tubes, shades, and domestic fuses.
• Synchronise clocks and time switches.
• Perform minor repairs to furniture and fittings (e.g. desks, chairs, doors, windows).
• Clean and unblock drains, gullies, WCs, basins, and sinks.
• Address defects listed in the site log and notify the Site Manager.
• Support the development and execution of preventative maintenance programmes.
• Install wall-mounted fixtures using appropriate tools and fixings (e.g. shelves, boards, coat hooks).
• Source materials and equipment from local suppliers.
• Carry out basic carpentry tasks, including cutting and fitting timber and board materials.
• Re-secure door hinges, mouldings, and furniture; repair windows, floor coverings, ceramic tiles, and fencing.
• Undertake internal and external redecoration under supervision.
• Conduct minor roof repairs where safe access is available.
• Supervise contractors on site, ensuring compliance with safety rules and specifications.
• Complete and record risk assessments for hazardous activities.
Cleaning
• Maintain cleanliness across the school and hub grounds through daily litter inspection and graffiti removal.
• Clear leaves, snow, moss, and debris; apply salt or other treatments as needed.
• Weed external areas weekly, including the use of approved treatments
Building Engineering Services
• Report unresolved faults and defects to the Site Manager and ensure appropriate follow-up.
• Minimise disruption from heating or lighting failures.
• Replace expired lamps and starters; switch off unnecessary lighting
• Maintain fire and security systems, including replacing damaged break-glass covers.
• Reset electrical circuit breakers and investigate underlying issues.
• Bleed radiators and perform minor plumbing repairs to reduce water waste.
Where you'll work
Audrey Street
London
E2 8QH
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
NEWHAM COLLEGE OF FURTHER EDUCATION
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
This apprenticeship is delivered as a weekly day release. You will be required to attend college once a week at Stratford E15.
- L2 Property Maintenance Operative
- Behaviour, Skills and Knowledge
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4 / C or above)
- Maths (grade 4 / C or above)
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
- Problem solving skills
- Number skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
This role will require you to work in a variety of conditions outdoor.
About this employer
The Blossom Federation (named in July 2022) has been working together in various forms since 2014. The London Borough of Hackney is very pro schools collaborating and have actively encouraged the bringing together of schools. Beginning with Sebright's partnership with Daubeney, then with Lauriston and the formulation of the Children's Centers, Robin Warren joined as Executive Head Teacher in January 2021. Blossom began a partnership with Colvestone Primary School in September 2022, bringing in a new Head of School from within the Federation and providing the support and growth needed to help the school flourish. Sadly, due to falling roll, Hackney decided to close Colvestone in July 2024. This was a very successful partnership for two years and the school was left in a very strong position, including a ‘good’ Ofsted. Many staff from the school also joined our other Blossom Schools.
After this apprenticeship
There is an opportunity to secure a permanent position after successfully completing the apprenticeship. This is dependent on budgets.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
NEWHAM COLLEGE OF FURTHER EDUCATION
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000338314.
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Closes in 18 days (Monday 8 September 2025 at 11:59pm)
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