Maintenance Apprentice
ROWCROFT HOUSE FOUNDATION LIMITED
Torquay (TQ2 5LS)
Closes in 11 days (Wednesday 3 September 2025)
Posted on 20 August 2025
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Summary
Our Vision is to make every day the best day possible for our patients and their families in South Devon. Working as part of a small Estates team, this role will deliver our vision by participating in the maintenance of the fabric and structure of all the Hospice buildings, as well as contributing to various on-going grounds maintenance work.
- Wage
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£14,918.80 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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Monday to Friday, 7.5 hours a day, shifts TBC.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 15 September 2025
- 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
- Carry out repairs to the fabric of a building, e.g. repairs to walls, doors, doorframes, skirting boards or plaster damage to internal walls.
- Maintain plumbing and drainage systems e.g. WC systems, leaking taps and unblocking drains.
- Maintain electrical distribution, safe repair of electrical installation to legal requirements e.g. replacing damaged sockets, plugs, lights and fuses.
- Maintain plant, safety systems and equipment.
- Maintain grounds and external fabrication of a building, such as drainage and guttering.
- Carry out repairs and reactive maintenance.
- Assist with the collection of patient medication from the hospital, and undertake the collection of patients notes and medication equipment.
Where you'll work
Rowcroft House Avenue Road
Torquay
TQ2 5LS
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
SOUTH DEVON 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
You will learn a wide range of property maintenance skills as well as health and safety, in particular you will:
- Demonstrate the importance of health and safety in the workplace.
- Understand and demonstrate the importance of working safely at height.
- Understand and maintain plumbing and drainage systems e.g. WC systems, leaking taps and unblocking drains.
- Understand and maintain electrical distribution, safe repair of electrical installation to legal requirements e.g. replacing damaged sockets, plugs, lights and fuses.
- Understand and maintain plant, safety systems and equipment.
- Understand and maintain grounds and external fabrication of a building, such as drainage and guttering.
- Understand and demonstrate the safe use of hand tools e.g. screwdrivers, power drills, pliers, paper strippers and a variety of other tools used in plumbing and carpentry.
- Understand and demonstrate the principles of Planned Preventative Maintenance.
- Understand the importance of customer service
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
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
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
- Initiative
Other requirements
UK Driving Licence & A Full enhanced DBS check.
About this employer
Rowcroft Hospice is an independent charity that provides comfort, support and specialist care to over 2,000 patients and their loved ones across South Devon each year. Our Vision is to make every day the best day possible for patients, and those closest to them, living with life-limiting illnesses in South Devon.
After this apprenticeship
Potential progression within Rowcroft
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SOUTH DEVON COLLEGE
Colette Dalton
colettedalton@southdevon.ac.uk
01803540823
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000338150.
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Closes in 11 days (Wednesday 3 September 2025)
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