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We are offering the best training to become the best plasterer you can be if you are willing to put in the hard work.
This will also be a great benefit to you once you are qualified.
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working.
You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
- Apply smooth layers of plaster to walls and ceilings.
- Prep surfaces, mix materials, and fix cracks
- Learn to plasterboard
Where you'll work
The company works across the Midlands, including Leicester and Birmingham.
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
LEICESTER COLLEGE
Training course
Plasterer (level 2)
What you'll learn
Core
- Comply with health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Identify and use personal protective equipment (PPE).
- Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
- Use access equipment for example, hop ups, podiums or low-level scaffolding.
- Interpret information from drawings and specifications.
- Store materials considering date order for rotation of stock.
- Prepare and maintain a safe working area.
- Check, use and store power tools and equipment, escalate faults or defects.
- Move and handle materials and equipment manually and with lifting equipment.
- Protect finished work and the surrounding area.
- Verbally communicate with others, for example colleagues, other tradespeople, managers and customers.
- Applies team working principles to their own and the wider build team.
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Specialist (SP)
- Estimate quantities and select solid plastering and render materials.
- Select, use and store hand tools for solid plastering and rendering.
- Mix materials for solid plastering and render to ratio.
- Apply floating coat plaster to solid back grounds, including the formation of 90 degree angles with bead, consolidation and mechanical key application.
- Apply setting coat plaster.
- Apply plain face render to scratch coat renders, including forming a hard angle.
- Apply scratch coat renders, including mechanical key, dobbing out coats and application of render beads.
- Prepare background surfaces to receive solid plasters, and renders, including the application of solid plastering and render primers and sealers.
- Measure, mark out and cut plasterboard to fit area and obstacles, using hand tools.
- Install plasterboard to timber surfaces and reinforce joints.
- Direct bond plasterboard to solid backgrounds, including sealing around obstacles.
- Carry out solid plaster repair: For example, replace plasterboard, patch plaster to solid background.
Fibrous Plastering (FP)
- Select, use and store hand tools for fibrous plastering applications.
- Estimate quantities and select fibrous plastering materials.
- Prepare and mix fibrous plaster materials, including reinforcement.
- Prepare and mark out background surfaces to receive fibrous plaster components.
- Construct moulds.
- Prepare bench and moulds for casting.
- Run mould and release casts.
- Measure and cut fibrous components to form straight and mitred cuts.
- Set and mark out for cornice installation.
- Fix cornice including straight runs, stops and 90 degree internal and external angles.
- Carry out fibrous plaster repair, for example, replacement or patching.
- Set out for fibrous plaster dados and ceiling centres.
- Fix fibrous plaster dados and ceiling centres.
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Training schedule
You will attend Freemen's Park Campus one day each week and the rest of the week you will spend at work.
Essential qualifications
- GCSE in:
- English (grade 2/D)
- Maths (grade 2/D)
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
- Initiative
- Willing to learn
- Time keeping skills
Midlands trusted plastering experts, specialising in domestic and commercial plastering and rendering with over 20 years of experience
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
There will be a full-time plastering position available within the team to progress into.
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
LEICESTER COLLEGE
Devina Fergus
defergus@leicestercollege.ac.uk
07795331688
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000041866.
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