Summary
Within Community Operations at South Tyneside Council, we manage, maintain and improve 16,000 Council homes and estates. Our apprentices and staff are at the heart of everything we do. We strive to be an employer of choice, with a motivated, well-trained, and diverse workforce ready to meet the needs of our community now and in the future.
Wage
Competitive
Training course
Plasterer (level 2)
Hours
Monday to Friday Shifts to be confirmed
37 hours a week
Possible start date
Monday 1 September
Duration
2 years
Positions available
1
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
Whether you are finishing school, college or looking for a career change, our award-winning apprenticeships offer a rewarding path.
This is a place where you can be your best, feel like you belong and build a career you are proud of. No experience is needed- you will receive all the training and development you need, plus support from a mentor and college to:
* Gain hands-on experience in tenants homes
* Complete general and emergency repairs, as well as full house renovations
* Collaborate with other trades to solve complex problems
Where you’ll work
Middlefields, Foss Way
South Shields
NE34 0BN
Training
An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.
College or training organisation
NCG
Your training course
Plasterer (level 2)
Equal to GCSE
Course contents
* Core: Comply with health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
* Core: Identify and use personal protective equipment (PPE).
* Core: Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
* Core: Use access equipment for example, hop ups, podiums or low-level scaffolding.
* Core: Interpret information from drawings and specifications.
* Core: Store materials considering date order for rotation of stock.
* Core: Prepare and maintain a safe working area.
* Core: Check, use and store power tools and equipment, escalate faults or defects.
* Core: Move and handle materials and equipment manually and with lifting equipment.
* Core: Protect finished work and the surrounding area.
* Core: Verbally communicate with others, for example colleagues, other tradespeople, managers and customers.
* Core: Applies team working principles to their own and the wider build team.
* SP: Estimate quantities and select solid plastering and render materials.
* SP: Select, use and store hand tools for solid plastering and rendering.
* SP: Mix materials for solid plastering and render to ratio.
* SP: Apply floating coat plaster to solid back grounds, including the formation of 90 degree angles with bead, consolidation and mechanical key application.
* SP: Apply setting coat plaster to floating coat plasters, including forming 90 degree angles with bead.
* SP: Apply setting coat plaster to plasterboard surfaces.
* SP: Apply plain face render to scratch coat renders, including forming a hard angle.
* SP: Apply scratch coat renders, including mechanical key, dobbing out coats and application of render beads.
* SP: Prepare background surfaces to receive solid plasters, and renders, including the application of solid plastering and render primers and sealers.
* SP: Measure, mark out and cut plasterboard to fit area and obstacles, using hand tools.
* SP: Install plasterboard to timber surfaces and reinforce joints.
* SP: Direct bond plasterboard to solid backgrounds, including sealing around obstacles.
* SP: Carry out solid plaster repair: For example, replace plasterboard, patch plaster to solid background.
* FP: Select, use and store hand tools for fibrous plastering applications.
* FP: Estimate quantities and select fibrous plastering materials.
* FP: Prepare and mix fibrous plaster materials, including reinforcement.
* FP: Prepare and mark out background surfaces to receive fibrous plaster components.
* FP: Construct moulds.
* FP: Prepare bench and moulds for casting.
* FP: Run mould and release casts.
* FP: Measure and cut fibrous components to form straight and mitred cuts.
* FP: Set and mark out for cornice installation.
* FP: Fix cornice including straight runs, stops and 90 degree internal and external angles.
* FP: Carry out fibrous plaster repair, for example, replacement or patching.
* FP: Set out for fibrous plaster dados and ceiling centres.
* FP: fix fibrous plaster dados and ceiling centres.
* Core: Comply with health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
* Core: Identify and use personal protective equipment (PPE).
* Core: Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
* Core: Use access equipment for example, hop ups, podiums or low-level scaffolding.
* Core: Interpret information from drawings and specifications.
* Core: Store materials considering date order for rotation of stock.
* Core: Prepare and maintain a safe working area.
* Core: Check, use and store power tools and equipment, escalate faults or defects.
* Core: Move and handle materials and equipment manually and with lifting equipment.
* Core: Protect finished work and the surrounding area.
* Core: Verbally communicate with others, for example colleagues, other tradespeople, managers and customers.
* Core: Applies team working principles to their own and the wider build team.
Your training plan
* You will attend college 1 day per week or on block release
More training information
* All transport and lunch expenses will be fully re-imbursed
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
* English (grade C/4)
* Maths (grade C/4)
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
* Attention to detail
* Team working