Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on‑the‑job by getting hands‑on experience.
Start date: Thursday 1 October 2026.
Wage: £16,640 for your first year, could increase depending on your age.
Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:00am–5:00pm (on site). 40 hours per week.
What you’ll do at work
- Minor and major repairs to tenanted properties
- Hands on experience of other trades
- Reacting to emergency work (with a mentor)
- Use of IT to record job information
- Ordering of materials to complete tasks
- Adhering to CDM regulations and company H & S policies
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
- 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.
- Identify well‑being support available to self and others.
- Site carpenter: Apply first‑fix techniques and practices for structural carcassing (load‑bearing studwork), straight timber or metal partition walls, floor joists, floor joist coverings and straight flights of stairs.
- Site carpenter: Install structural fixings.
- Site carpenter: Size timber from sizing tables.
- Site carpenter: Apply second‑fix techniques and practices for service encasement, cladding, wall and floor units and fitments, handrails and spindles to straight flights of stairs, internal and external doors, skirting boards and architrave, window boards.
- Site carpenter: Construct rafter roofs (trussed or traditional), including verge, eaves and loft access.
- Site carpenter: Use and store laser levels (e.g., cross‑line laser).
- Site carpenter: Form connections using joints, nails, screws, bolts and adhesive.
- Site carpenter: Apply measuring, marking, cutting (square and angled), mitering, hinging and recessing techniques.
- Site carpenter: Carry 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 – dovetail, bridal, mortise and tenon and halving.
- Architectural joiner: Form connections using dowels, biscuit, staples and adhesives.
- Architectural joiner: Manufacture and assemble timber windows with casement, including glazing rebates and associated ironmongery.
- Architectural joiner: Manufacture and assemble first‑fix products – straight staircases, door frames and linings.
- Architectural joiner: Manufacture and assemble second‑fix products – timber doors, wall and floor units, timber mouldings, staircase spindles and balustrades.
- Architectural joiner: Fit ironmongery – door locks, handles, hinges, latches and draw runners.
- Architectural joiner: Inspect, prepare and operate fixed machinery.
- You will be working towards a Level 2 Carpentry & Joinery apprenticeship standard.
- You will attend Cornwall College St Austell weekly as part of the apprenticeship training.
- You will receive on‑and off‑the‑job training and support from an assessor and your employer.
Requirements
GCSE in:
- Maths (grade 4/C)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Customer care skills
- Initiative
- Commitment to learn
- Receptive to advice
- Reliable
Other requirements
The applicant will need to be able to get to the Liskeard depot on a daily basis. We may be able to partner the apprentices with a tradesman to pick up from home, depending on location.
Contact
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
CORNWALL COLLEGE
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000033942.
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