Edit Assistant Apprenticeship
SKY PLC
Middlesex (TW7 5QD)
Closes in 16 days (Monday 8 December 2025)
Posted on 19 November 2025
Contents
Summary
Join us as a Post-Production Edit Assistant Apprentice and dive into the world of Broadcast and Post-Production. You’ll support our Edit Operations team, mastering broadcast-specific workflows and techniques.
- Wage
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£27,010 a year
- Training course
- Post production technical operator (level 4)
- Hours
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5 days a week. Days and times to be confirmed.
38 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 7 September 2026
- Duration
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2 years
- Positions available
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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
Learn what it means to be an Edit Assistant, gain invaluable technical knowledge, and build strong relationships with clients and peers in a supportive environment. Work closely with our Editing, Grading, and Audio departments to expand your post-production skills.
Tasks include:
- Provide support across all aspects of post-production within your scope of responsibility
- Developing a thorough knowledge of interdepartmental workflows and end-to-end process to support and aid the editing department
- Manage incoming media for Entertainment & Sport shows
- Log and report support and workflow issues
- Ingest of footage that has been captured on location from production and exporting viewing links of footage
- Preparing Edited sequences for Audio turnovers
- Participate & contribute to general technical discussions
- Help to advise clients when logistical and technical issues arise.
Where you'll work
Grant Way
Isleworth
Middlesex
TW7 5QD
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY
Training course
Post production technical operator (level 4)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Work in line with agreed workflows, adapting to operational changes as they occur.
- Multitask on simultaneous projects, often for different clients, prioritising the work to ensure that all tasks are completed on schedule.
- Analyse and interpret the work order and technical specification to complete the scheduled tasks.
- Use process documentation and work order reporting systems for efficient, accurate and timely communication with other departments about the progress of the work in hand.
- Work accurately with a high degree of attention to detail.
- Analyse and advise on the quality of audio, video and data throughout the post production process to colleagues, customers and suppliers.
- Follow post production processes to ensure the necessary quality is achieved.
- Access and interpret the relevant information pertaining to technical specifications and client requirements, and apply to the post production process.
- Use appropriate technical vocabulary to document and communicate compliance with, or exceptions from, technical standards.
- Assimilate information from multiple sources and apply to task in hand.
- Ensure data is transferred securely between client supplied sources and post production storage systems, performing data integrity and virus checks.
- Ingest and export media content and metadata to/from post-production systems, syncing the audio to video and applying colour transforms (LUTs) as required.
- Arrange media content in agreed folder structures, using consistent and unambiguous folder and file naming conventions.
- Prepare graphics and still images for ingest using software such as Photoshop where basic manipulation is required.
- Encode and transcode audio and video data to required specifications.
- Export finished content or work-in-progress with metadata from post-production systems to required specifications and naming conventions.
- Provide technical advice to clients and colleagues on an appropriate file specification for a given requirement.
- Dispatch and receive physical assets to/from external organisations and audit the process.
- Use file transfer software for fast, secure and audited delivery of assets to external destinations.
- Communicate work progress to colleagues and clients as appropriate.
- Manage access by clients to shared storage systems according to company protocols.
- Ensure data integrity when moving media between storage systems.
- Backup, archive and restore media, sequences and metadata according to company practice.
- Safely delete media as instructed and complying with company protocols.
- Maintain content security measures, both electronic and physical as required by the employer and their clients.
- Enact business continuity procedures.
- Prioritise the workload to ensure the scheduled tasks are completed on time, liaising with colleagues and clients.
- Provide frontline operational support to clients in editing suites, to ensure that they can find and work with their media.
- Take ownership to resolve and/or escalate faults/incidents to the appropriate person, within agreed governance constraints.
- Connect and set-up post production editing equipment using appropriate cables and connectors.
- Perform and check data conforms of sequences prior to colour grading or online editing.
- Transfer picture data between grading and editing systems, ensuring the data integrity of content and sequences is maintained.
- Relink ingested media to updated sequences as editorial changes occur.
- Prepare and transfer audio data to the dubbing suite.
- Perform basic editing functions necessary for the preparation of media and sequences for creative processes, or for formatting of finished content for delivery (e.g. adding line-up signals, idents, patching in QC fixes, audio laybacks).
- Analyse and interpret the results of reports from audio and video test equipment.
- Consistently assess and identify faults in content, using the correct terminology to accurately describe and record them.
- Use own judgement and discretion to decide what is acceptable and what is not in relation to quality control, depending on the context of the material, its intended use and the required technical specifications and customer requirements.
- Deliver accurate and concise Quality Assessment Reports with clear indications of mandatory failures, advisory warnings and client approved exceptions.
- Provide technical advice on remedial action to correct faults identified.
- Communicate findings to both clients and colleagues accurately, and in a diplomatic manner.
- Comply with company Health and Safety policies and practices, identifying, mitigating and reporting any incidents or risk to the appropriate person.
- Consistently work in a safe manner for self, colleagues and clients.
- Use appropriate legacy media physical handling procedures.
- Carry out basic operation of videotape recorders and audio recorders.
- Digitise tape content into editing systems.
- Playout finished content from editing systems to tape.
- Provide technical advice to clients and colleagues on the implications of using legacy format in contemporary workflows.
- Work in line with agreed workflows, adapting to operational changes as they occur.
- Multitask on simultaneous projects, often for different clients, prioritising the work to ensure that all tasks are completed on schedule.
- Analyse and interpret the work order and technical specification to complete the scheduled tasks.
- Use process documentation and work order reporting systems for efficient, accurate and timely communication with other departments about the progress of the work in hand.
- Work accurately with a high degree of attention to detail.
- Analyse and advise on the quality of audio, video and data throughout the post production process to colleagues, customers and suppliers.
- Follow post production processes to ensure the necessary quality is achieved.
- Access and interpret the relevant information pertaining to technical specifications and client requirements, and apply to the post production process.
- Use appropriate technical vocabulary to document and communicate compliance with, or exceptions from, technical standards.
- Assimilate information from multiple sources and apply to task in hand.
- Ensure data is transferred securely between client supplied sources and post production storage systems, performing data integrity and virus checks.
- Ingest and export media content and metadata to/from post-production systems, syncing the audio to video and applying colour transforms (LUTs) as required.
- Arrange media content in agreed folder structures, using consistent and unambiguous folder and file naming conventions.
- Prepare graphics and still images for ingest using software such as Photoshop where basic manipulation is required.
- Encode and transcode audio and video data to required specifications.
- Export finished content or work-in-progress with metadata from post-production systems to required specifications and naming conventions.
- Provide technical advice to clients and colleagues on an appropriate file specification for a given requirement.
- Dispatch and receive physical assets to/from external organisations and audit the process.
- Use file transfer software for fast, secure and audited delivery of assets to external destinations.
- Communicate work progress to colleagues and clients as appropriate.
- Manage access by clients to shared storage systems according to company protocols.
- Ensure data integrity when moving media between storage systems.
- Backup, archive and restore media, sequences and metadata according to company practice.
- Safely delete media as instructed and complying with company protocols.
- Maintain content security measures, both electronic and physical as required by the employer and their clients.
- Enact business continuity procedures.
- Prioritise the workload to ensure the scheduled tasks are completed on time, liaising with colleagues and clients.
- Provide frontline operational support to clients in editing suites, to ensure that they can find and work with their media.
- Take ownership to resolve and/or escalate faults/incidents to the appropriate person, within agreed governance constraints.
- Connect and set-up post production editing equipment using appropriate cables and connectors.
- Perform and check data conforms of sequences prior to colour grading or online editing.
- Transfer picture data between grading and editing systems, ensuring the data integrity of content and sequences is maintained.
- Relink ingested media to updated sequences as editorial changes occur.
- Prepare and transfer audio data to the dubbing suite.
- Perform basic editing functions necessary for the preparation of media and sequences for creative processes, or for formatting of finished content for delivery (e.g. adding line-up signals, idents, patching in QC fixes, audio laybacks).
- Analyse and interpret the results of reports from audio and video test equipment.
- Consistently assess and identify faults in content, using the correct terminology to accurately describe and record them.
- Use own judgement and discretion to decide what is acceptable and what is not in relation to quality control, depending on the context of the material, its intended use and the required technical specifications and customer requirements.
- Deliver accurate and concise Quality Assessment Reports with clear indications of mandatory failures, advisory warnings and client approved exceptions.
- Provide technical advice on remedial action to correct faults identified.
- Communicate findings to both clients and colleagues accurately, and in a diplomatic manner.
- Comply with company Health and Safety policies and practices, identifying, mitigating and reporting any incidents or risk to the appropriate person.
- Consistently work in a safe manner for self, colleagues and clients.
- Use appropriate legacy media physical handling procedures.
- Carry out basic operation of videotape recorders and audio recorders.
- Digitise tape content into editing systems.
- Playout finished content from editing systems to tape.
- Provide technical advice to clients and colleagues on the implications of using legacy format in contemporary workflows.
Training schedule
This Level 4 apprenticeship gives you the chance to develop technical skills in post-production while working with Sky’s expert teams.
You’ll spend 80% of your time learning on the job and 20% receiving structured training from London South Bank University (LSBU), supported by ScreenSkills. You’ll learn how to manage media files, support creative teams, deliver content securely, and check the quality of finished work.
The programme is approved by Skills England.
As an apprentice, you will be involved with 80% on-the-job training with Sky Post Production plus 20% off-the-job learning from the registered and approved training provider. Apprentices undergo an external independent assessment at the end to demonstrate whether they have achieved full operational competence and receive an officially recognised qualification.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Organisation skills
- A awareness of editing tools
- Curiosity about video content
- An openness to learning
- Strong work ethic
- Effective time management
- Calm in high-pressure
Other requirements
You’ll be above the statutory school-leaver age by September 2026. You won’t have completed a qualification or degree in the subject you are applying to. You’ll have completed any current education by September 2026 and don’t plan to be undertaking any education throughout the duration of the apprenticeship. You’ll have resided in the UK or Republic of Ireland for three years by September 2026. If you are on a time-limited visa, your visa will not expire at any point during the apprenticeship programme.
About this employer
Sky Plc is a British-based pan-European satellite broadcasting, on-demand Internet streaming media, broadband and telephone services company
https://www.skygroup.sky/ (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
Our fantastic range of benefits really are something special. Here are our highlights: free Sky Q (for the TV you love all in one place), a generous pension, 25 days paid annual leave, discounted Mobile and broadband and private health care.
After this apprenticeship
Edit Assistant.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000001299.
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Closes in 16 days (Monday 8 December 2025)
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