Scaffolding Apprenticeship

ONGO HEATING & PLUMBING LIMITED

Scunthorpe (DN16 1UJ)

Closes in 4 days (Friday 3 October 2025)

Posted on 18 September 2025

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Summary

We are looking for a motivated and hardworking individual to join our team as a Scaffolding Apprentice. This is an excellent opportunity to develop practical skills, work outdoors, and build a career in the scaffolding industry. As an apprentice, you will work alongside experienced scaffolders, gaining hands-on experience .

Wage

£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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Training course
Scaffolder (level 2)
Hours
Monday - Friday, Shifts to be confirmed.

40 hours a week

Start date

Monday 13 October 2025

Duration

8 months

Positions available

2

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

  • Load and unload scaffolding materials, including scaffolding tubes, boards, and fittings
  • Assist with erecting and dismantling scaffolds under supervision
    Secure structures using clips, ties, and braces
  • Prepare sites by clearing debris and setting up safety barriers
  • Maintain scaffolding equipment, cleaning and checking components for safety

Where you'll work

33 Northampton Road
Scunthorpe
DN16 1UJ

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

NORTHERN REGENERATION CIC

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

You will also study towards a Level 2 Scaffolding Apprenticeship, lasting approximately 18 months (including the end-point assessment)

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

Maths and English (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
  • Problem solving skills
  • Number skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Initiative
  • Patience
  • Physical fitness

About this employer

This apprenticeship opportunity will be delivered in partnership with Ongo, working with Ashbridge Roofing alongside their experienced scaffolding team in Scunthorpe.

After this apprenticeship

  • This is an excellent opportunity to develop practical skills, work outdoors, and build a career in the scaffolding industry

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

NORTHERN REGENERATION CIC

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000342762.

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Closes in 4 days (Friday 3 October 2025)

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