Property Maintenance Apprenticeship
Life Education Trust
Essex, Romford
Closes in 21 days (Friday 9 January 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 19 December 2025
Contents
Summary
Established in 2016 the LIFE Trust has 13 schools with 487 employees and approx. 2966 pupils, the organisation as a whole works collaboratively to ensure that everything we do can positively impact the lives of our pupils and staff. We are now looking for a multi-skilled apprentice to join our valued maintenance team.
- Wage
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£14,133.60 to £22,857.12, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
- Training course
- Property maintenance operative (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday between 09:00 to 17:00
36 hours a week.
36 hours a week
- Start date
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Sunday 1 February 2026
- 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
As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.
What you’ll do at work
The apprenticeship will involve the day-to-day maintenance and repair of the school site. This can be routine maintenance through to emergency repairs using a wide range of trade skills. You will be based across 2 schools.
You will work alongside other maintenance staff and skilled tradespeople to complete the jobs. The apprenticeship will provide you with a great opportunity to learn and will give you valuable experience across a number of areas:
- Identify risks and hazards and work to health & safety regulations.
- Complete maintenance and repairs using job sheets or job specifications.
- Use correct hand or power tools for the task.
- Clear away and dispose of waste safely.
- Use carpentry and joinery skills to compete minor repairs such as window and door frames.
- Painting and decorating a range of surfaces.
- Minor plastering repairs.
- Plumbing and drainage repairs, identify faults.
- Use a variety of materials for wall and floor tiling.
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:
- Benhurst Avenue, Elm Park, Hornchurch, Essex, RM12 4QS
- North Road, Havering-Atte-Bower, Romford, RM4 1PS
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
IXION HOLDINGS (CONTRACTS) 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
An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.
More training information
This will be a blended delivery, a mixture of Microsoft Teams and face-to-face. All training will take place on-site and within your working hours.
Ixion Holdings will complete functional skills where necessary and will ensure Health & Safety, British Values and Equality & Diversity are embedded throughout the course.
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade Grade 4/C or above)
- Maths (grade Grade 4/C or above)
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
- Problem solving skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Physical fitness
- Can do attitude
- Able to drive
Other requirements
DBS required.
About this employer
Established in 2016 the LIFE Trust has 13 schools with 487 employees and approx. 2966 pupils, the organisation as a whole works collaboratively to ensure that everything we do can positively impact the lives of our pupils and staff. We are now looking for a multi skilled apprentice to join our valued maintenance team.
https://lifeeducationtrust.com (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
DBS required.
21 days plus bank holidays.
After this apprenticeship
Potential for further training and roles.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
IXION HOLDINGS (CONTRACTS) LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000005911.
Apply now
Closes in 21 days (Friday 9 January 2026 at 11:59pm)