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Join our school as a PMO Apprentice and get hands-on experience helping keep our site safe, welcoming, and running smoothly. Learn practical skills in repairs, maintenance, and building upkeep while working with an experienced team. Kickstart your career, earn a qualification, and make a real impact every day in a supportive environment.
Wage
£15,600 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
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Training course
Property maintenance operative (level 2)
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Hours
Monday - Friday (7.5 hours per day) including training. 37 hours 30 minutes a week
Start date
Wednesday 29 July 2026
Duration
2 years
Positions available
1
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
- Assist with general maintenance and repair work around the school buildings.
- Help with plumbing, electrical, painting, and decorating tasks under supervision.
- Carry out regular checks on heating, lighting, and safety equipment.
- Support the site team with grounds maintenance and minor landscaping.
- Learn to follow health and safety procedures on all tasks.
- Help respond to maintenance requests from staff and students.
- Keep tools, equipment, and work areas clean and organised.
- Shadow experienced colleagues to develop practical trade skills.
Where you'll work
Hollybush Hill
Stoke Poges
Slough
SL2 4QB
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
THE WINDSOR FOREST COLLEGES GROUP
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.
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Training schedule
Attend Slough and Langley College.
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Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- Maths and English (grade A*-C / 9-4 (or equivalent))
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Physical fitness
- Respectful
- Reliable
- Punctual
Other requirements
The successful applicant will be required to complete an enhanced DBS check. Able to carry out tasks that involve manual handling, following training and safety guidance.
The Sikh Academies Trust (SAT), established in 2020 and based in Slough, oversees two faith-inspired schools: Khalsa Primary School (Outstanding – Ofsted, July 2023) and Pioneer Secondary Academy (Outstanding and Good in all areas – Ofsted, September 2024).
Guided by a dedicated Board of Directors, SAT is committed to nurturing well-rounded individuals through faith-inspired education. Our vision is to provide a holistic learning experience promoting academic excellence, personal growth, social responsibility, and spiritual grounding, underpinned by the three pillars of Sikhism: Kirat Karna (honest work), Vand Chakna (selfless sharing), and Naam Japna (spiritual mindfulness).
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay here.
Successful completion of the apprenticeship may lead to a permanent Property Maintenance Operative role within the school or wider trust.
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
THE WINDSOR FOREST COLLEGES GROUP
Bal Powar
b.powar@sikhacademiestrust.com
01753 662009
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000029471.
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