Carpentry Apprenticeship Persimmons (Wessex) Vacancy Wantage/Didcot

PERSIMMON HOMES LIMITED

Didcot (OX11 6LB)

Closes in 16 days (Friday 14 August 2026 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 28 July 2026

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Summary

Carpentry & Joinery Apprenticeship is gained by attending ACE Training 1 day a week, every week to develop the skills and knowledge required to complete your EPA. Alongside completing the NVQ while on site, assessed by ACE assessor.

English and maths Functional skills are required if you have not passed GCSE or equivalent.

Wage

£15,808 to £25,114.96, depending on your age

National Minimum Wage

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After this apprenticeship

Should you prove yourself over the course of a successful apprenticeship, you could progress onto the Advanced Apprenticeship and develop your skills further.

Training course
Carpentry and joinery (level 2)
Hours
Monday - ACE 8.00am- 4.30pm Tuesday - On Site 8.00am- 4.30pm Wednesday - On Site 8.00am- 4.30pm Thursday - On Site 8.00am- 4.30pm Friday - On Site 8.00am- 3.00pm 38 hour week Duration: 18 months Positions available: 1 in Wantage and 1 in Didcot

38 hours a week

Start date

Tuesday 1 September 2026

Duration

1 year 6 months

Positions available

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

Work: As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work:

  • Providing assistance to an Experienced Carpenter
  • Developing skills learned at ACE Training whilst working on site
  • Assisting with site Housekeeping Tasks

Where you’ll work:

Wantage or Didcot Site

Training:

  • An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisatio
  • At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying

Where you'll work

Valley Park
Didcot
OX11 6LB

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

ACE TRAINING AND CONSULTANCY LIMITED

Training course

Carpentry and joinery (level 2)

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What you'll learn

Course contents
  • Comply with health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
  • Identify and use safety control equipment, for example, RPE, dust suppression, PPE and LEV.
  • Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
  • Comply with industry regulations, standards, and guidance.
  • Prepare and maintain a safe working area.
  • Interpret and use information from drawings and specifications.
  • Estimate required materials and produce a cutting list.
  • Verbally communicate with others, applying construction terminology.
  • Select, use and store hand tools.
  • Select, use and store power tools.
  • Maintain and sharpen hand tools.
  • Produce jigs.
  • Identifies well-being support available to self and others.
  • Site carpenter: Apply first fix techniques and practices for: 1. structural carcassing (load bearing studwork), 2. straight timber or metal partition walls, 3. floor joists 4. floor joist coverings and 5. straight flights of stairs.
  • Site carpenter: Install structural fixings.
  • Site carpenter: Size timber from sizing tables.
  • Site carpenter: Apply site second fix techniques and practices for: 1. service encasement, 2. cladding 3. wall and floor units and fitments, 4. handrails and spindles to straight flights of stairs, 5. internal and external doors, 6. skirting boards and architrave, 7. window boards.
  • Site carpenter: Apply site carpenter techniques and practices to construction of rafter roofs, including trussed (prefabricated) and traditional (built on site) including the construction of verge, eaves and fitting loft access.
  • Site carpenter: Use and store laser levels for example cross line laser.
  • Site carpenter: Form connections, for example, using joints, nails, screws, bolts and adhesive.
  • Site carpenter: Apply measuring, marking out, cutting (square and angled), mitring, hinging and recessing techniques.
  • Site carpenter: Carrying out splicing and scribing techniques.
  • Architectural joiner: Produce setting out details, including setting rods, and mark out for timber products.
  • Architectural joiner: Produce basic woodworking joints including dovetail, bridal, mortise and tenon and halving.
  • Architectural joiner: Form connections using dowels, biscuit, staples and adhesives.
  • Architectural joiner: Apply techniques and practices to the manufacture and assembly of a timber window with casement including glazing rebates and associated ironmongery.
  • Architectural joiner: Apply manufacture and assembly techniques for first fix products: 1. straight staircases, 2. door frames and linings.
  • Architectural joiner: Apply manufacture and assembly techniques for second fix products: 1. timber doors, 2. wall and floor units, 3. timber mouldings, 4. staircase spindles and balustrades.
  • Architectural joiner: Fit ironmongery including door locks, door handles, door hinges, latches and draw runners.
  • Architectural joiner: Inspect, prepare and operate fixed machinery.
  • Comply with health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
  • Identify and use safety control equipment, for example, RPE, dust suppression, PPE and LEV.
  • Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
  • Comply with industry regulations, standards, and guidance.
  • Prepare and maintain a safe working area.
  • Interpret and use information from drawings and specifications.
  • Estimate required materials and produce a cutting list.
  • Verbally communicate with others, applying construction terminology.
  • Select, use and store hand tools.
  • Select, use and store power tools.
  • Maintain and sharpen hand tools.
  • Produce jigs.
  • Identifies well-being support available to self and others.

Training schedule

College or training organisation

ACE TRAINING Kidlington Oxford

Your training course: 

  • Carpentry and Joinery
  • Equal to Level 2 (GCSE)

Your training plan

A Carpentry Apprentice you will attend ACE 1 day a week, every week and you will complete:

  • A NVQ level 2
  • A Diploma Level 2
  • English and maths Functional Skills level 2 (Required if you did not pass GCSE or equivalent)
  • Apprenticeship Standard certificate in Site Carpentry

More training information

ACE Training is based in Kidlington Oxford with all the facilities in one location for you to access all the training and expertise you will need to complete your Apprenticeship. We will work closely with your employer (persimmons) to ensure you are making the progress they require you to achieve. 

You will attend 1 day a week (Monday) in order to complete all the requirements of your Apprenticeship. This includes skills, knowledge and behaviours that will make you an effective Carpenter.

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade 4 or above)
  • Maths (grade 4 or above)

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
  • Customer care skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Initiative

Other requirements

Other requirements:

This is a job that will require you to work inside and out in all weathers, be prepared to do anything required from tidying, sweeping, dealing with deliveries to working on carpentry skills. When on site we work as a team to get the job completed to the required standard and on time. You need to be someone who is proud of their work and can work effectively.

About this employer

Persimmon (Wessex) are looking to employ a Carpentry Apprentice who ideally has their own transport or be able to get to a site location in Didcot and/or Wantage. Applicants are required to attend college one day per week in Kidlington. You'll be learning how to properly handle materials, craft components and the correct means of measuring and fitting for a variety of house building wood works from timber frame erection through to doors and finishes. Ideally applicants will be hardworking and willing to learn.

http://www.persimmonshomes.com (opens in new tab)

Company benefits

Persimmon Wessex is a division of Persimmon Homes, a leading national housebuilder.  We are committed to developing the talent for the future of the industry and would like offer the successful applicants a chance to work alongside our carpentry contractors to develop the skills and knowledge to a build a career and future for themselves.

 

 

 

After this apprenticeship

Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).

After this apprenticeship:

Should you prove yourself over the course of a successful apprenticeship, you could progress onto the Advanced Apprenticeship and develop your skills further.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

ACE TRAINING AND CONSULTANCY LIMITED

Lisa Marie Perkins

lisa@acetraining.co.uk

07399801081

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000045131.

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Closes in 16 days (Friday 14 August 2026 at 11:59pm)