Multi-Trade Maintenance Apprentice
ST QUENTIN RESIDENTIAL HOMES LTD
NEWCASTLE (ST5 0LZ)
Closes in 30 days (Sunday 20 September 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 21 August 2026
Contents
Summary
The Multi-Trade Maintenance Apprentice will support the HMT Facilities Team in maintaining and improving St Quentin and other care homes while completing a recognised apprenticeship. Under supervision, they will develop skills in multiple trades and assist with planned and reactive maintenance to help provide safe, welcoming environments.
- Wage
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£15,600 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Property maintenance operative (level 2)
- Hours
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Typical working days will be Monday - Friday. Exact hours to be confirmed.
Some evening / weekend work may be required where maintenance work cannot take place during usual working hours.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 5 October 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
Your day-to-day will include:
- Attend Stoke-on-Trent College and all other required apprenticeship training sessions in accordance with the agreed apprenticeship programme and maintain satisfactory attendance throughout the apprenticeship
- Complete all required coursework, assignments, practical assessments, examinations and portfolio / evidence requirements within the timescales set by the College and apprenticeship provider
- Participate fully in apprenticeship progress reviews involving HMT, the College / training provider and the apprentice
- Work towards achieving competence across the relevant trade areas, including carpentry, plumbing, electrical maintenance, plastering, bricklaying, painting and decorating and tiling, in accordance with the apprenticeship programme
- Undertake additional training required by HMT for working within a healthcare / care-home environment, including health and safety, fire safety, infection prevention and control, safeguarding, manual handling and other relevant mandatory training
- Report defects to buildings, equipment and facilities and assist with appropriate repairs within their level of competence and under supervision
- Assist with the maintenance of external areas, including grounds, outbuildings, waste areas, gritting, grass cutting, flowerbeds and external signage
- Assist with painting, decorating and general building fabric repairs as required
- Assist with routine fire safety checks and testing under supervision, including fire alarm call points, fire doors, door retaining devices and emergency lighting, with appropriate records maintained
- Assist with routine maintenance and cleaning of accessible ventilation equipment and lighting, including replacement of lamps and diffusers where safe and within competence
- Assist the Facilities Team with fire safety activities and evacuation drills as required
Where you'll work
SANDY LANE
NEWCASTLE
ST5 0LZ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
STOKE ON TRENT COLLEGE
Training course
Property maintenance operative (level 2)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
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
Training will take place one day per week at Stoke-on-Trent College's Burslem Campus (ST6 1JJ).
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade Grade C/4 or above)
- Maths (grade Grade C/4 or above)
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
- Customer care skills
- Team working
- Non judgemental
- Patience
Other requirements
- Candidates may be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service check
- Candidates will need to be comfortable working around residents which may have various needs
About this employer
At the Healthcare Management Trust, we are obsessed with achieving our Vision, “to be the most innovative and best quality provider of niche health and social care services.”
Our Purpose is, “to make every contact count, ensuring every resident and patient receives the best possible experience and outcome.
We aim to provide services which value collaboration and place our residents, patients and people at the heart of all we do. We will always do the right thing for our residents, patients and people.
We will be outwardly connected to the most innovative practices and service offerings in the market. We will do things differently and will be bold with our ambition to change things for the better.
We are passionate about what we do and so are our people. Bringing their most authentic selves to work and seeking joy and fun in what we do.
We will deliver care and clinical interactions compassionately and tailor them to individual needs.”
We achieve this by living our business Values each and every day:
- We are caring
- We are enterprising
- We are resourceful
- We are authentic
- We are accountable
As a result, we are able to give back to the people and communities we serve by delivering on our Charitable Mission to, “Provide quality and innovative care solutions to those with complex needs within marginalized community settings.”
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
Upon completion of the apprenticeship the right candidate may have the opportunity to stay on as a permanent member of staff.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
STOKE ON TRENT COLLEGE
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000049355.
Apply now
Closes in 30 days (Sunday 20 September 2026 at 11:59pm)