Property Maintenance Operative Apprentice
RUSHCLIFFE CARE LIMITED
Loughborough (LE11 4JS)
Closes in 26 days (Monday 6 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 10 September 2025
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Summary
This is a great opportunity to join our Estates team as an apprentice, ensuring that Rushcliffe Care Group premises are safe, secure, and well maintained. The postholder will complete the Level 2 Property Maintenance Operative apprenticeship while starting a career in building and facilities maintenance.
- Wage
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£14,722.50 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 - Friday, 8.30am - 4.30pm (flexibility may be required depending on the needs of the service i.e. working different hours, including some weekends or public holidays).
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 20 October 2025
- Duration
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2 years 3 months
- 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
- Carrying out day-to-day maintenance tasks across the site, including basic plumbing, electrical work, decorating, and general repairs.
- Completing regular safety, compliance, and equipment checks, keeping accurate records, and supporting audits.
- Working with contractors, colleagues, and the apprenticeship programme to develop skills and ensure maintenance tasks are completed to a high standard.
Where you'll work
Thorpe House
Knightthorpe Road
Loughborough
LE11 4JS
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
LOUGHBOROUGH 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
- Attendance to Stephenson Campus (Coalville) block release.
- Apprenticeship session to assist with portfolio building and preparation for End Point Assessment.
- Diarised visits from dedicated Trainer/Assessor.
- Attendance to Stephenson Campus for Functional Skills (if required).
- On-the-job training.
- Off-the-job training.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
Other in:
Desirable 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
- Problem solving skills
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Approachable
- Respectful
Other requirements
A full UK driving licence is essential, as the role may require travel between sites. You will also be working in a care environment, so it is important to be approachable, respectful, and comfortable working around vulnerable adults.
About this employer
Rushcliffe Care Group has over 35 years of experience providing specialist health and social care across the Midlands and South Wales. We support adults with complex needs, including mental health conditions, learning disabilities, autism, and behaviours that may challenge. As an employer, we are committed to creating supportive workplaces where staff feel valued, with access to structured training, professional development, and regular supervision. Our work is guided by four values: Reputable Care, Respect and Compassion, Robust Communication, and Real Commitment.
http://www.rushcliffecare.co.uk (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
We offer opportunities for progression and professional development, alongside a standard annual leave package and supportive working environment.
After this apprenticeship
This apprenticeship is designed to lead into a Maintenance Person role within the team, providing long-term career opportunities in building and facilities maintenance.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
LOUGHBOROUGH COLLEGE
Sophia Cleaver
apprenticeships@loucoll.ac.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000341331.
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Closes in 26 days (Monday 6 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
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