Apprentice Site Operative
FORELAND FIELDS SCHOOL
KENT (CT12 6RH)
Closes in 12 days (Monday 22 September 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 10 September 2025
Contents
Summary
We are looking for a motivated, enthusiastic apprentice to join our school premises team to provide support with the daily running of the school premises, creating a safe learning environment for our pupils.
- Wage
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£19,874.41 a year
- Training course
- Property maintenance operative (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 9.00am - 3.30pm with 30 minutes break.
30 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 6 October 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
The responsibilities set out below may be varied from time to time:
- To be aware of, adhere to and promote the school’s safeguarding procedures
- To present the school in a positive way in the community
- To respect the confidential nature of all information acquired in the performance of the job either verbally or in writing
- To work in a responsible and safe manner, paying attention to all Health and Safety procedures operating within the school
- Undertake training necessary within the role plus all mandatory training
- Participate in yearly Performance Management and regular coaching reviews
- Undertake general repairs and maintenance around the establishment, inside and out, including decorating, repairs on furnishings and buildings
- Maintain security of the site i.e. opening, closing and alarming of the premises
- Ensure safe storage of all equipment in line with COSHH requirements
- Ensure COSHH registers are maintained under site managers guidance
- Provide a porterage service for deliveries to ensure supplies are correctly handled, appropriately delivered, and secured so as to protect school assets
- Assist in the setting up / clearing down of rooms required for training, meetings, school events, etc including setting up and ensuring the safety of relevant equipment
- To assist with the cleaning and organisation at lunchtime including storage of tables and chairs in preparation for use of the hall during the afternoon/evenings
- To assist Site Manager in regulatory testing/maintenance and cleaning of the hydrotherapy pool as required in order to ensure it is compliant
- To ensure that any contractors who work on site when the pupils are present, are chaperoned during their time on site to ensure the safety of all
- Inspecting on a weekly basis and maintaining the grounds for litter and general tidiness
- Commitment to gaining grounds maintenance experience to help with ground marking of pitches
- To report all incidents of vandalism, damage and graffiti to site manager
- Learn to use school’s online maintenance reporting systems
Participate n Health & Safety procedures relevant to the job such as:
- Manual handling
- Safe use of machinery and/or equipment
- COSHH
- First Aid and Hygiene Practice
- Lone working procedures and responsibility
- Working at Heights
- Risk Assessments
- A full, clean driving licence is desirable for this role
Where you'll work
NEWLANDS LANE
RAMSGATE
KENT
CT12 6RH
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
SKILLCERT 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
Property Maintenance Operative Level 2 Apprenticeship Standard:
- This apprenticeship is a work based apprenticeship
- You will have monthly tutor visits and you will be supported by your mentor at the school
- There is no requirement to attend college
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4-9)
- Maths (grade 4-9)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Number skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
There is a requirement for you to pass a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, as per the requirements of the school.
About this employer
We moved into our brand new school in February 2017 which has amazing facilities for the pupils/students both in and outdoors. Foreland Fields School caters for around 220 pupils with Profound, Severe and Complex Needs including ASD (Autistic Spectrum Disorder). Foreland Fields is a happy school where we maximise each learning opportunity and celebrate childrens’ successes every step of the way. We strongly believe that all of our pupils have the capacity to learn and are entitled to the opportunity to learn. Through attending our school, all pupils and students have access to a quality education in order to enable them to learn. Our school ethos promotes ‘Aspirational Personalised Learning’. We see children as individuals with differing needs and strengths. Our aim is to extend and support all children and help them to reach their full potential. We have high but realistic expectations and are ambitious for all of our pupils/students. Through our curriculum pathways we tailor the education to individual need, interest and aptitude so as to fulfil every young person’s potential. Foreland Fields School is a Rights Respecting School. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is at the heart of all our policies and practice. Ofsted rate us as a Good school, but we are not content with that and strive to become Outstanding. We are a friendly, ambitious and inclusive school and work hard to build a positive relationship with each child and their family. We strongly believe in working together with parents and carers and hope you will take advantage of the many opportunities to be involved in school life.
After this apprenticeship
- For the right candidate, and on completion of the apprenticeship, there may be the opportunity to take on a full time role within the organisation
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SKILLCERT LIMITED
Adam Black
adam.black@skillcert.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000340222.
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Closes in 12 days (Monday 22 September 2025 at 11:59pm)
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