Apprentice Scaffolder
ROSE SYSTEM SCAFFOLDING LIMITED
Chadderton (OL9 0LR)
Closes on Friday 26 September 2025
Posted on 21 August 2025
Contents
Summary
Rose System Scaffolding are a growing NW based scaffold contractor working for some of the leading construction companies and housebuilders. We can offer a fantastic apprenticeship opportunity due to the rapid growth of the business whilst working to highest standards of Health and Safety regulations.
- Wage
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£15,311.40 to £24,761.88, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
- Training course
- Scaffolder (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday - Thursday, 7.30am - 4.30pm and Friday, 7.30am - 3.30pm.
39 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 6 October 2025
- Duration
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3 years 6 months
- Positions available
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4
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
- Assisting the yard team to forfil material orders for sites
- General Housekeeping
- Bi annual Stock takes
- Assisting in the erecting and dismantling process of scaffolds on various construction sites
Where you'll work
Hunt Lane
Chadderton
OL9 0LR
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
SIMIAN RISK MANAGEMENT LIMITED
Training course
Scaffolder (level 2)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Follow procedures in line with health and safety regulations, standards, and scaffold guidance (quality).
- Comply with risk assessments, method statements and safe systems of work.
- Inspect and select serviceable scaffold materials, components, and tools before use and escalate defects.
- Follow procedures in line with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
- Carry, raise, lower, scaffold materials on a working platform.
- Move and store components tools and equipment.
- Install scaffold cantilevered structural components according to requirements of industry guidance and manufacturer’s instructions.
- Protect others within the working vicinity. For example, the public through signage, barriers.
- Install spurs and supports on cantilever sections.
- Select, space, and install the correct number of ties to restrain un-sheeted scaffolds to industry guidance and manufacturer’s instructions.
- Determine the component requirements for independent scaffolding.
- Organise materials to operate within the industry and manufacturers configurations and tolerances.
- Use lifting equipment safely to haul up scaffold components and equipment to working platform.
- Lay out materials, set out scaffolds to erect and dismantle scaffolds in a safe sequence.
- Inspect scaffolds prior to hand over.
- Use access and work at height equipment in accordance with training, relevant regulations and employer’s and manufacturer’s instructions.
- Erect and dismantle independent with cantilever section to a maximum height of 2m working platform.
- Erect and dismantle independent scaffolds, with features for example, towers, birdcages, chimney stacks, loading bays with or without beams, truss outs with beams, splays, and bridging sections with beams and gantry scaffolds.
- Communicate with others verbally for example, internal and external customers, colleagues, and managers.
- Apply team working principles.
- Interpret information from drawings and specifications.
- Follow equity, diversity and inclusion guidelines.
- Follow procedures in line with health and safety regulations, standards, and scaffold guidance (quality).
- Comply with risk assessments, method statements and safe systems of work.
- Inspect and select serviceable scaffold materials, components, and tools before use and escalate defects.
- Follow procedures in line with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
- Carry, raise, lower, scaffold materials on a working platform.
- Move and store components tools and equipment.
- Install scaffold cantilevered structural components according to requirements of industry guidance and manufacturer’s instructions.
- Protect others within the working vicinity. For example, the public through signage, barriers.
- Install spurs and supports on cantilever sections.
- Select, space, and install the correct number of ties to restrain un-sheeted scaffolds to industry guidance and manufacturer’s instructions.
- Determine the component requirements for independent scaffolding.
- Organise materials to operate within the industry and manufacturers configurations and tolerances.
- Use lifting equipment safely to haul up scaffold components and equipment to working platform.
- Lay out materials, set out scaffolds to erect and dismantle scaffolds in a safe sequence.
- Inspect scaffolds prior to hand over.
- Use access and work at height equipment in accordance with training, relevant regulations and employer’s and manufacturer’s instructions.
- Erect and dismantle independent with cantilever section to a maximum height of 2m working platform.
- Erect and dismantle independent scaffolds, with features for example, towers, birdcages, chimney stacks, loading bays with or without beams, truss outs with beams, splays, and bridging sections with beams and gantry scaffolds.
- Communicate with others verbally for example, internal and external customers, colleagues, and managers.
- Apply team working principles.
- Interpret information from drawings and specifications.
- Follow equity, diversity and inclusion guidelines.
Training schedule
- Apprentices will work towards their NVQ Level 2 in Layher Scaffolding
- Training will be provided at Simian Risk in Warrington
- Individual training plan based on competency and company training structure
More training information
- COTS (Construction Operative Training Scheme)
- Part 1 Layher Scaffolder
- Part 2 NVQ Layher Scaffolder
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade Level 2)
- Maths (grade Level 2)
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
- Team working
- Physical fitness
About this employer
Rose System Scaffolding are a leading NW contractor, based in Oldham, providing professional scaffolding services across the region. We use Layher Allround system scaffolding and have a great team with ambitions to be the best company in the NW.
After this apprenticeship
- Advanced Layher Training
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
ROSE SYSTEM SCAFFOLDING LIMITED
Chris Morris
chrism@rosessl.co.uk
07442619511
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000338445.
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Closes on Friday 26 September 2025
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