Apprentice Site Team Member
King James Academy Royston
Royston (SG8 7JH)
Closes in 28 days (Friday 21 August 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 21 July 2026
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Summary
To support the Site Team in maintaining a safe, clean, secure, and welcoming environment for students, staff, visitors, and hirers. The apprentice will receive on-the-job training and develop practical skills in site maintenance, health and safety, facilities management, and grounds maintenance.
- Wage
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£15,392 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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Shifts will be flexible between the hours of 7.00am - 10.00pm Monday - Friday, and 8.00am - 5.00pm on Saturday and Sunday.
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 1 September 2026
- 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
Daily Site Duties:
- Support the opening and closing of the school site
- Conduct basic site checks and report any defects or hazards
- Help maintain cleanliness and presentation of the school grounds
- Carry out litter picking across the school site, including playgrounds, pathways, car parks, and sports facilities
- Empty external waste bins as required
- Assist with setting up and putting away tables, chairs, staging, and equipment for lessons, examinations, assemblies, parents’ evenings, and school events
Maintenance and Repairs:
- Learn and assist with basic building maintenance tasks
- Support the Site Team with minor repairs such as fixing furniture, replacing light bulbs, and basic decorating
- Assist with routine inspections of school facilities and equipment
- Learn how to use a range of hand and power tools safely
- Support planned maintenance projects across the school
Grounds Maintenance:
- Assist with keeping outdoor areas tidy and safe
- Support grass cutting, hedge trimming, leaf clearance, and other seasonal grounds maintenance activities
- Help maintain sports facilities and outdoor learning areas
Health and Safety:
- Follow all school health and safety procedures
- Report hazards, accidents, or maintenance issues promptly
- Assist with fire safety checks and emergency procedures as directed
- Learn about risk assessments and safe working practices
Security:
- Support site security by reporting concerns and ensuring areas are secure when required
- Assist with unlocking and locking buildings under supervision
- Help prepare facilities for community hirers and school events
Where you'll work
Garden Walk
Royston
SG8 7JH
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
GLP TRAINING LTD
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
- This course takes a hybrid approach to learning, combining hands-on training with knowledge-based instruction
- Practical skills are delivered over two days every quarter at our purpose-built Building Block construction training centres in Worcester
- Classroom sessions and online masterclasses led by industry experts and cover the theoretical elements
Requirements
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Team working
- Physical fitness
- Reliable & Punctual
- Willingness to learn
- Positive Attitude
Other requirements
- The role involves working both indoors and outdoors in all weather conditions
- The apprentice will be required to undertake a variety of physical tasks including lifting, carrying, moving furniture, and maintaining school grounds
About this employer
At King James Academy, we believe every child deserves the opportunity to excel, and we are committed to ensuring that each student is known, valued, and supported to achieve their very best. Our all-through structure creates a seamless educational journey from Year 5 to Year 11, allowing us to build deep relationships with families and provide consistent, high-quality teaching that nurtures confidence and ambition.
We are proud of our strong academic foundations, but equally of the vibrant enrichment programme that helps our students discover their passions and talents. From sports and performing arts to STEM, outdoor learning, and community initiatives, our pupils benefit from a wide and engaging range of experiences that extend learning far beyond the classroom.
Our school enjoys a reputation for being welcoming, inclusive, and forward looking. We invest in excellent pastoral care, ensuring that children feel safe, supported, and ready to learn each day. Visitors often comment on the calm, purposeful atmosphere across both sites—an environment where students demonstrate pride in their learning and mutual respect for one another.
As a central part of the Royston community, we work closely with local organisations and partners to enrich learning and broaden opportunities for our students. Families appreciate our strong values, our commitment to high standards, and our belief that education should be both joyful and challenging.
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
- An opportunity to progress within the maintenance team for the right candidate
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
GLP TRAINING LTD
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000043969.
Apply now
Closes in 28 days (Friday 21 August 2026 at 11:59pm)