Scaffolding Apprenticeship
PREMIER SCAFFOLDING LIMITED
Stockport (SK6 2BN)
Closes in 29 days (Sunday 8 February 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 8 January 2026
Contents
Summary
Scaffolding Apprentice in the Bredbury/Woodley Area
Level 2 Construction Diploma in Scaffolding
- Wage
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£15,311.40 to £24,761.88, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
- Training course
- Scaffolder (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday to Thursday, 8.00am to 4.30pm.
Friday, 8.00am to 3.30pm.
39 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 9 February 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
- Assist in loading & unloading scaffolding materials
- Support qualified scaffolders with erectin scaffolding structures
- Support in dismantling & cleaning of the scaffold
- Follow risk assesments & method statements
- Maintain a safe & tidy work area
Where you'll work
Stockport Road West
Bredbury
Stockport
SK6 2BN
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
TOTAL PEOPLE LIMITED
Training course
Scaffolder (level 2)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
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
- Training will be undertaked via Total People at the Wythenshaw Campus
- Training is every 3-4 months
More training information
- The training course is structured as per the College's training programme
- Each course is for 10 days
- 5 courses in total with a 2 day training assesment at the end
Requirements
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
DBS Checks are carried out on our workforce due to working on schools etc.
Working at height.
About this employer
Premier Scaffolding has been trading since 2005.
We have over 40 years of Scaffolding experience
http://www.premierscaffolding.ltd (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
- Company Pension Scheme
After this apprenticeship
Upon qualification a few years experience will be required in order to progress.
This can lead to advanced scaffolder courses & scaffolding supervisor courses.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
TOTAL PEOPLE LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000007631.
Apply now
Closes in 29 days (Sunday 8 February 2026 at 11:59pm)