Apprentice Painter & Decorator
East Midlands Housing and Regeneration Ltd
Ilkeston (DE7 4BR)
Closes in 13 days (Wednesday 27 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 13 August 2025
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Summary
As an Apprentice Painter & Decorator, you will work with our Trade Operatives on a day-to-day basis conducting painting and decorating tasks in emh homes properties and other related properties. Please note that although the location address is listed as Ilkeston, you will be required to travel to various sites as informed by the company.
- Wage
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£24,746 a year
- Training course
- Painter and decorator (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday - Thursday, 8.00am - 4.00pm and Friday, 8.00am - 3.30pm. Half an hour unpaid lunch break each day.
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Wednesday 1 October 2025
- 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
The Property Services, Internal Maintenance Service (IMS) are responsible for conducting high quality repairs and maintenance on our customers’ homes across the geographical footprint of emh homes.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
- To work in an effective and efficient manner at all times and to inform line management at the earliest opportunity, or any other nominated person, where this is not possible
- To be responsible for keeping a clean and tidy appearance and ensuring that any IMS vehicles or equipment are kept clean in good order, if allocated one.
- Every attempt must be made to prevent theft of vehicle and equipment
- To use existing and future technology as necessary to effectively carry out work or improve the efficiency of the service
- To meet the Apprentice Mentor/Team Leader/Works Manager as required, at a specified time to receive work instruction
- To participate at team meetings to ensure continuous improvement of performance at Property Services and be willing to learn and contribute to the development of the IMS as and when required throughout the duration of the apprenticeship.
- To make and receive telephone calls/messages as required. To acknowledge these calls and respond accordingly
- To be aware of responsibilities when entering properties, (including to keep tenants informed, and on completion of job to leave tenants property in a clean and tidy condition)
- To attend a designated college course and work to and achieve all theoretical and practical requirements set out by the college
- You will be expected to undergo designated training sessions as necessary, which may be out of normal working hours and/or at other establishments as may be required
To ensure all duties carried out comply with:
- Current Health and Safety issues
- Working conditions normally inherent in the job
- Customer care standards
- EMH homes and EMH group policies and procedure, specifications, quality standard and work rules
You will be expected to contribute and work towards on-going polices on Community Development, Value for Money, Environmental Issues, Crime and Disorder and Equal Opportunities.
To carry out reasonable additional duties/responsibilities where necessary and to accept other such duties as requested by the Works Manager/Team Leader/Apprentice Mentor.
Where you'll work
EMH Homes
Longfield House
Hallams Field Road
Ilkeston
DE7 4BR
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
NOTTINGHAM COLLEGE
Training course
Painter and decorator (level 2)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Comply with health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Select and use personal protective equipment (PPE), respiratory protective equipment (RPE) and dust suppression.
- Check and safely use working at height equipment for example steps, hop-ups, and podiums.
- Identify hazards and comply with risk assessments, method statements, control measures and safe systems of work and report to manager when required.
- Read and interpret information for example from drawings, specifications, work instructions, manufacturer’s safety data sheets and manufacturer’s information such as colour charts and notations.
- Ensure materials are used efficiently and sustainably including suitable disposal of waste.
- Prepare work area: remove and store furnishings, fixtures and equipment and reinstate.
- Protect and prepare a safe working area, surrounding surfaces and environment.
- Select and use hand tools and equipment.
- Maintain and store hand tools.
- Select, use, maintain and store power tools.
- Prepare internal and external untreated surfaces ready to receive finishing systems for example: trowelled finishes plaster or render, plasterboard, timber and timber sheet materials; metals (ferrous and non-ferrous).
- Prepare internal previously coated surfaces ready to receive finishing systems for example trowelled finishes plaster or render, plasterboard, timber and timber sheet materials.
- Prepare external previously coated surfaces ready to receive finishing systems for example trowelled finishes plaster or render, timber and timber sheet materials; metals (ferrous and non-ferrous).
- Prepare and apply surface coatings to untreated external surfaces for example brick, stone, render, wood, metal using a brush and roller.
- Apply solvent borne and water borne coating systems using brush and roller to ceilings, walls, linear work (skirting board and architrave) doors: flush and panelled and opening windows.
- Prepare and apply foundation paper: Cross lining around socket and switches, internal and external angles.
- Prepare and apply Wallcoverings: Free match or random match finishing papers, vertical hanging, around socket and switches, internal and external angle.
- Carry out minor repair for example third party damage or post application defect.
- Apply team working principles.
- Verbally communicate with others, applying construction terminology.
- Communicate in writing with others for example, internal and external customers, colleagues.
- Follow equity, diversity and inclusion guidance.
- Comply with health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Select and use personal protective equipment (PPE), respiratory protective equipment (RPE) and dust suppression.
- Check and safely use working at height equipment for example steps, hop-ups, and podiums.
- Identify hazards and comply with risk assessments, method statements, control measures and safe systems of work and report to manager when required.
- Read and interpret information for example from drawings, specifications, work instructions, manufacturer’s safety data sheets and manufacturer’s information such as colour charts and notations.
- Ensure materials are used efficiently and sustainably including suitable disposal of waste.
- Prepare work area: remove and store furnishings, fixtures and equipment and reinstate.
- Protect and prepare a safe working area, surrounding surfaces and environment.
- Select and use hand tools and equipment.
- Maintain and store hand tools.
- Select, use, maintain and store power tools.
- Prepare internal and external untreated surfaces ready to receive finishing systems for example: trowelled finishes plaster or render, plasterboard, timber and timber sheet materials; metals (ferrous and non-ferrous).
- Prepare internal previously coated surfaces ready to receive finishing systems for example trowelled finishes plaster or render, plasterboard, timber and timber sheet materials.
- Prepare external previously coated surfaces ready to receive finishing systems for example trowelled finishes plaster or render, timber and timber sheet materials; metals (ferrous and non-ferrous).
- Prepare and apply surface coatings to untreated external surfaces for example brick, stone, render, wood, metal using a brush and roller.
- Apply solvent borne and water borne coating systems using brush and roller to ceilings, walls, linear work (skirting board and architrave) doors: flush and panelled and opening windows.
- Prepare and apply foundation paper: Cross lining around socket and switches, internal and external angles.
- Prepare and apply Wallcoverings: Free match or random match finishing papers, vertical hanging, around socket and switches, internal and external angle.
- Carry out minor repair for example third party damage or post application defect.
- Apply team working principles.
- Verbally communicate with others, applying construction terminology.
- Communicate in writing with others for example, internal and external customers, colleagues.
- Follow equity, diversity and inclusion guidance.
Training schedule
- You will be attending Nottingham College (Basford Campus, 664 Nutthall Rd, Nottingham NG8 6AQ) one day a week for day release for 2 academic years, so will need to consider how you will get to and from campus
- College starting from September 2025 - exact start date of college to be confirmed
- You can start employment with the company before college starts, so if you are interested please do not delay in applying as the vacancy maybe closed early depending on the number of applications received
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Patience
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
The planned interview date for this apprenticeship is the 2nd week after the vacancy closes. Re the planned start employment date, onboarding the successful candidate will be maximum of a month after job offer being sent out.
About this employer
emh homes is part of emh, one of the largest and most successful providers of affordable housing and housing-related support services in the East Midlands. We have been providing good quality affordable homes to individuals and families in the East Midlands since 1946. Company Benefits: • A generous annual leave entitlement, increasing from 34 days to 39 days, over 5 years (including bank holidays and closure days). • Company sick pay entitlements for absences, increasing to 6 months full pay and 6 months half pay, over 5 years. (The first week of any absence is paid at statutory rates for the first two years of employment) • BHSF health cash plan – allowing you to claim money back towards health-related costs such as dentistry and eye tests. • BHSF employee assistance line – confidential 24-hour helpline offering emotional support, financial and legal advice, and referrals to counselling. • Paid time off to undertake charity work: Up to 2 days per year.
https://www.emh.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
annual leave entitlement, increasing from 34 days to 39 days, over 5 years (including bank holidays and closure days). Company sick pay entitlements for absences
After this apprenticeship
- Potential of ongoing employment with the company upon successful completion of the apprenticeship programme.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
NOTTINGHAM COLLEGE
Nottingham College Apprenticeship Team
business@nottinghamcollege.ac.uk
0115 9457260
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000336520.
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Closes in 13 days (Wednesday 27 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
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