Apprentice Scaffolder
CONNECT SCAFFOLDING LIMITED
Hertfordshire (CM23 1JH)
Closes in 3 days (Wednesday 30 April 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 10 December 2024
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Summary
If you love the outdoors, the thought of working at height doesn't phase you and you want a physical job working in a team, an Apprentice Scaffolder role could be the job for you! You'll have the fantastic benefit of attending college (whilst being paid) to gain your qualification & once qualified, the earning potential could be up to £50k plus!
- Wage
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£26,000 a year
- Training course
- Scaffolder (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, 7:30am to 3:30pm. Overtime may be offered at weekends.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 September 2025
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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6
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
- Manual handling
- Working in a team to help erect and dismantle scaffolding
- Adhere to Health & Safety guidelines on site
Where you’ll work
Hadham Park
Hadham Road
Bishop's Stortford
Hertfordshire
CM23 1JH
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
CITB
Your training course
Scaffolder (level 2)
Equal to GCSE
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.
Your training plan
Training takes place at the National Construction College, either at Bircham Newton or Erith.
You will go to college on block release, which will be 2 weeks every 3-4 months. You will stay Monday - Friday both weeks and will have accommodation provided whilst at college, as well as all food paid for, and travel contributed to.
More training information
- Scaffolder Level 2
- The training course is split into 6 blocks and takes roughly 18 months to complete.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Team working
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
It’s important to remember before applying for this role that being a scaffolder is a physically demanding job which has to be done in all weather conditions, so we’re looking for people who enjoy working hard, work well in a team and have a positive and respectful attitude come rain or shine! Please note, you will need to be 18 years old to apply.
About this company
Connect Scaffolding is an award winning access and scaffolding contractor operating across London and the South East. We are proud to work with many of the UK's leading businesses and have experienced specialist teams operating across a wide range of industries including Construction, Rail, Aviation, Asbestos removal, Refurbishment, Restoration of Historic buildings, Manufacturing and Industrial. We have been ranked in the Top 50 Apprenticeship Employers in the country for 2024.
https://connectscaffolding.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
• Excellent rates of pay with regular overtime opportunities • Long run of continuous work • Variety of work ranging from commercial to events • Supported training • Company workwear provided • Support with travel costs
After this apprenticeship
- You will become a qualified Scaffolder, which could take you down many different career paths, including into Commercial, Design etc.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
CONNECT SCAFFOLDING LIMITED
Emma Lunnun
careers@connectscaffolding.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000291309.
Apply now
Closes in 3 days (Wednesday 30 April 2025 at 11:59pm)
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