Property Maintenance Operative Apprentice
Cleeve School
CHELTENHAM (GL52 8AE)
Closes in 13 days (Thursday 30 April 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 16 April 2026
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Summary
We are looking for a motivated Property Maintenance apprentice to join our busy team, learning all aspects of working in a maintenance environment whilst studying towards your property maintenance apprentice qualification.
- Wage
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£15,392 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
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With an opportunity to increase upon completion of the apprenticeship and be offered a full time role.
- Training course
- Property maintenance operative (level 2)
- Hours
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The premises team work a three shift pattern (7.00am - 3.30pm, 8.00am - 4.00pm and 10.30am - 7.00pm), covering the school’s main opening times of 7.00am - 7.00pm.
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 7 September 2026
- Duration
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1 year 9 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
Job duties will include:
Security:
- Opening and closing of the school premises and grounds at appropriate times
- Setting and un-setting of the school alarm systems
- Checking and securing the school premises including the locking of all doors and all windows
- Register as a key holder and be a point of contact for an emergency call out if required out of normal hours
- Responding to emergency alarm call outs (in line with safe working practices)
- Re-setting alarms
- Liaising with the police and school alarm company and making emergency repairs if required
Heating, Light & Water:
- Day to day control of the boiler houses and plant to ensure their efficient operation
- Overseeing the provision and use of supplementary heating/cooling systems where required
- To ensure all heating and lighting are working efficiently and to take appropriate action to rectify if not (where appropriate and safe)
- To undertake compliance checks as part of the routine maintenance
General Maintenance:
- To undertake work in accordance with the school maintenance plan
- Carrying out repairs and improvements to buildings, fixtures, furniture and fittings
- Cleaning and tidying of the internal school building in designated areas
- Litter picking of site and daily emptying of all litter bins
- Sweeping and removal of debris from external areas, as directed by the line manager
- Cleaning gutters, down-pipes, rainwater gullies, grease traps in designated areas
- Painting and decoration, as directed by the line manager
- Report any other defects of buildings, furniture, fittings and equipment to the line manager via the Every Help Desk system
- Maintaining and developing the whole school site
- To provide professional, efficient and knowledgeable assistance to all stakeholders, referring where necessary to the appropriate senior member of staff
Where you'll work
TWO HEDGES ROAD
BISHOPS CLEEVE
CHELTENHAM
GL52 8AE
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
GLOUCESTERSHIRE 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
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 1)
- Maths (grade 1)
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
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
- A Premises Officer will, on occasion, be required to work overtime to allow the school to hold external or internal events.
About this employer
We are one of the most innovative, forward-thinking and dynamic schools in the region, and are very much becoming the school of choice for families and staff. Over the next few years, our student numbers are set to move towards 2000, which includes up to 400 students in our state-of-the-art Sixth Form Centre of Excellence. Scale brings amazing opportunities, for teaching breadth and also for career development. Our Support Staff are an essential part of our success and our infrastructure delivers a high support service for our students and school community. In joining Cleeve, you would be joining a rapidly growing, values-driven school, that places staff training and development at the heart of everything we do. By getting this right, we know the education offer for our students will be exceptional. Student outcomes are becoming stronger and stronger and our partnerships with some highly esteemed industry-based partners and the broader educational sector are truly transformational because they open doors to a rich eco-system of networking, opportunity and development. Our Sixth Form Centre of Excellence cost in excess of £5 million, our Training Centre cost £1 million and we are planning for an Astro pitch to further enhance our facilities, which further underlines our vision for growth, opportunity and excellence. We are a large family, but also one with huge warmth and care, where every person matters, and we celebrate diversity.
After this apprenticeship
- Potential position upon completion of the apprenticeship
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
GLOUCESTERSHIRE COLLEGE
GC Employer Training & Apprenticeships
apprenticeshipvacancies@gloscol.ac.uk
0345 155 2020
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000026696.
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Closes in 13 days (Thursday 30 April 2026 at 11:59pm)