Building Services Assistant Apprentice
ST.PAULS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST
BIRMINGHAM (B12 8NJ)
Closes in 12 days (Sunday 31 May 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 19 May 2026
Contents
Summary
This is a great opportunity for a candidate who has worked in a similar caretaker or maintenance role to assist our facilities and maintenance team in ensuring that our sites are maintained to a high standard.
- Wage
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£24,999 a year
- Training course
- Property maintenance operative (level 2)
- Hours
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You will be expected to work flexibly across a range of shift patterns, which may vary between 07:00 - 15:00 and 11:00 - 19:00, although shift times are not limited to these hours.
Half an hour unpaid lunch break.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 8 June 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
The successful candidate will be a diligent self-starter, competent record keeper with basic IT skills. As a key holder, you will be required to attend occasional alarm call outs and dual use requests.
Duties and responsibilities:
- Experience working in a similar role
- Basic maintenance skills & able to carry our minor repairs
- Basic groundskeeping skills
- Trade skills are desirable but not essential
- Able to work independently or as part of a team
- Enthusiastic and hard working
- Confident key holder
- Enhanced DBS
- Cover cleaning
All staff employed by the Trust have an individual responsibility for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of the children, young people and vulnerable adults whom they are responsible for or come into contact with.
- To be familiar with policies and procedures of the Trust and uphold them, especially those relating to Safeguarding and Child Protection, Health and Safety, GDPR and Equalities
- To participate in the Trust’s performance management scheme
- To undertake personal professional development and training as appropriate
- To assist with organising and running community events in Balsall Heath as appropriate
- To participate in the supervision process including the Probationary Review
- To undertake any other duties commensurate with the role and responsibilities of the post as agreed with your Line Manager
Where you'll work
HERTFORD ST
BALSALL HEATH
BIRMINGHAM
B12 8NJ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
BIRMINGHAM METROPOLITAN COLLEGE
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
Requirements
Essential 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
Other requirements
It is essential that all candidates are deemed suitable to work with children and/or vulnerable people.
You will also be required to attend Erdington Skills Centre every Tuesday for your college day.
Due to the nature of the role, you must be aged 21 or over.
About this employer
At St. Paul’s Community Trust, we believe that everyone is someone.
For over 50 years, this ethos has guided our work, shaping our past, present, and future.
Founded in the early 1970s and formally established in 1979, St. Paul’s was born from a shared commitment to creating opportunities for the people of Balsall Heath. What began as a collective effort—bringing together a nursery, adventure playground, and independent specialist school—has since evolved into a thriving organisation, now extending our impact across Hall Green and citywide education settings.
Balsall Heath is a vibrant, diverse community, and as it has changed, so too has St. Paul’s. We have worked alongside local people, VCFSE partners, and the public sector to adapt, grow, and meet emerging needs.
After this apprenticeship
- There is potential for a full time role within the company upon completion of the apprenticeship
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
BIRMINGHAM METROPOLITAN COLLEGE
Mehr-un Nisa
RECRUITMENT@BMET.AC.UK
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000032076.
Apply now
Closes in 12 days (Sunday 31 May 2026 at 11:59pm)