Apprentice Property Maintenance Operative
London and Quadrant Housing Trust
London, Slough
Closes in 10 days (Friday 19 September 2025)
Posted on 9 September 2025
Contents
Summary
We are looking for four Apprentice Property Maintenance Operatives to join L&Q in our maintenance team and to gain experience in multi-trades. You will be carrying out routine maintenance tasks, minor planned and responsive repair works to L&Q housing stock throughout the West Neighbourhood.
- Wage
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£25,466 a year
- Training course
- Property maintenance operative (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, 08:00 to 17:00.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Friday 3 October 2025
- Duration
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2 years 6 months
- 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
As an apprentice within the West Neighbourhood.
We want our apprentices to have a great experience whilst on the job and will always aim to place successful candidates in an area conveniently located for them to travel to. We will discuss this at interview stage. As an Apprentice Property Maintenance Operative, you will receive training to enable you to support the team in providing a first-class service to our customers and will be expected to assist in a broad range of fundamental trade skills including carpentry, joinery, plumbing, plastering, brick and block work, external works and associated finishing trades including tiling, painting, and decorating to L&Q’s housing stock throughout the London region.
The successful candidates will be working under instruction and supervision. With the aim for being about to eventually taking responsibility for their own work (where appropriate, and within their assessed abilities and skill set). These apprenticeship roles offer a 2.5-year fixed term contract during which time you will undertake a Level 2, Property Maintenance Operative.
The apprenticeship learning will support your development and chosen career path. Whilst undertaking your learning programme, your manager will help guide your development and day-to-day work, a mentor will provide extra support throughout your role, and you'll be working alongside experienced colleagues to learn hands-on, work-based skills. Please note if you have already completed or partially completed a level 2 or 3 qualification in Carpentry, Site Carpentry or Joinery your application cannot be considered as you will not qualify for Apprenticeship funding. If you are unsure if you’re eligible for funding please feel free to contact us before applying.
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:
- 29-35 West Ham Lane, London, E15 4PH
- 225 Berwick Avenue, Slough, SL1 4QT
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
THE WINDSOR FOREST COLLEGES GROUP
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
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4/C)
- Maths (grade 4/C)
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
- Presentation skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
L&Q’s West neighbourhood services will be within the following areas: Brent, Harrow, Ealing, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Reading, and Basingstoke, with some travel to parts of Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire required occasionally. A full UK Driving Licence is not a requirement for application of this apprenticeship programme, however following completion, a full UK Driving Licence will be required to be considered for progression to a ‘Trainee’ position.
About this employer
L&Q is one of the UK’s leading housing associations and developers. We house around 250,000 people primarily across London, the south east and north west of England. Our charitable Foundation supports the communities our residents create, awarding grants to support good causes which promote aspiration and opportunity, and providing free financial advice and support with employment and training opportunities. Our vision is that everyone deserves a quality home that gives them the chance to live a better life. This echoes our purpose to provide homes and neighbourhoods everyone can be proud of. We will do this by delivering safe, high-quality homes, services and support for all our residents. We are creating opportunities for the people who need new homes and the passionate, talented people who will join us to help achieve our ambitions.
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
Possibly permanent employment.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
THE WINDSOR FOREST COLLEGES GROUP
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000340208.
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Closes in 10 days (Friday 19 September 2025)
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