Apprentice - Property Maintenance Operative
| Posting date: | 29 April 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £15,000 to £20,000 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £15,704.00 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 May 2025 |
| Location: | HA9 9FX |
| Company: | Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | MTVH190938 |
Summary
Apprentice Property Maintenance Operative
Salary offered is dependent upon age, in line with government guidelines on apprenticeships. Please see below for breakdown of salary per age group.
Apprentice and Under 18: £15,704
18 - 20: £20,800
21 and over: £25,396.80
Are you ready to step into the world of property maintenance? We're on the lookout for enthusiastic individuals to join us as Apprentice Property Maintenance Operatives. This is your chance to learn and contribute to maintaining our properties at the highest level.
Role Overview:
As an Apprentice Property Maintenance Operative, you'll be an integral part of our dedicated maintenance teams. Through hands-on training, you'll develop skills in plumbing, carpentry, decorating, glazing, and grounds maintenance. Your primary focus will be supporting the teams in these essential tasks to uphold our properties' excellence.
Responsibilities:
Assist in various maintenance tasks such as plumbing, carpentry, decorating, glazing, and grounds maintenance.
Perform basic equipment maintenance and ensure proper storage.
Collaborate with experienced professionals to gain practical insights.
Qualifications:
No prior experience is required; we're seeking candidates with a genuine eagerness to learn and a strong interest in property maintenance. Reliability, motivation, and a cooperative spirit are essential.
Join Our Team:
Working alongside skilled experts, you'll gain invaluable hands-on experience. You'll also have the opportunity to work towards completing the Apprenticeship standard for Property Maintenance Operative Level 2, including the end point assessment.
Ready to embark on a fulfilling maintenance career? Apply now to be a part of our dynamic team! To apply, send your resume and a brief cover letter expressing your enthusiasm for the role. Don't miss out on this chance to thrive in a thriving industry.
To meet our commitment to providing safe, high-quality services to our customers we will complete a standard background check with the Disclosure and Barring service, once an offer of employment is made. As standard you will be added to the DBS updating service with a new check being carried out on a 3 yearly basis. The cost of a DBS will be paid for by the organisation.
Please note :- we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.
What’s in it for you?
Our benefits include:-
- 28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year
- 2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities
- An additional ‘Beliefs day’ once a year to have an extra a day off
- Supported family friendly approach with extended parental leave
- Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%
- Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year
- Life assurance cover 3 x your salary
- Cycle2work scheme
- Hybrid Working - Dependent on job role and department
- Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members too
- Tenancy deposit – interest free loan to help with rental deposits and season Ticket loan
- Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform
- Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues
- Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring/coaching programmes, apprenticeships and career planning support
- Employee Assistance Programme- We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation
About us
We are committed to developing and implementing or maintaining sustainability initiatives to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices within MTVH.
Learn more about our benefits and organisation by viewing our attached document
Our promise
Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively ‘Serving people better every day’ to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve. We are also part of the disability confident employer scheme.
We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and other’s wellbeing.
We provide a platform of Network groups for employees to share views, tell us what we’re doing well and recommend improvements. We want to create a real sense of community and a workforce who feel that their opinions are valued. Our Networks groups are:-
- Gender
- Ethnicity
- LGBTQ+
- Disability
Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together!
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme