Apprentice Property Maintenance Handyperson Team

Contract Type: 2.5 Year Fixed Term Contract, 35 hours per week

Reporting Office: West Ham Lane, Stratford, London

Working Location: London North Region

Benefits:

• Excellent pension plan (up to 6% double contribution)
• 28 days Annual Leave rising to 31 days with length of service + Bank Holidays
• Westfield Health Cash Plan
• Non-contributory life assurance
• Up to 21 hours volunteering paid days
• Lifestyle benefits
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Many more

Overview:

The L&Q Apprenticeship Programme has been designed to help you get the career you have always wanted. This role provides the opportunity to start a new career path with a valued-led organisation that will support you to learn and develop throughout the programme and beyond. We are currently recruiting for three Apprentice Handyperson roles across the London North region.

As an Apprentice you’ll carry out a range of basic repairs, maintenance and improvement tasks across L&Q properties, helping to ensure homes and communal areas are safe, well‑maintained, and provide a positive experience for residents.

Responsibilities:

As an Apprentice Handyperson, you will receive training to enable you to support the team in providing a first-class service to our customers. You will be expected to assist in a broad range of fundamental trade skills, including carpentry, joinery, plumbing, plastering, brick and block work, external works. You will also be doing associated finishing trades, including tiling, painting, and decorating. The successful candidates will be working under instruction and supervision, with the aim of eventually taking responsibility for their own work (where appropriate, and within their assessed abilities and skill set). This will include carrying out day‑to‑day repairs, working with wood‑based materials and associated products to learn to create and install building components assisting with installations and repairs. This role offers a 2.5‑year fixed term contract during which time you will undertake a Level 2, Property Maintenance Operative Apprenticeship.

What you’ll bring:

• Enthusiasm for the role and L&Q
• Willingness to learn and grow with a positive attitude to working within a busy maintenance team
• Desire to deliver high quality work, customer focused and right first‑time attitude
• Willingness to study to gain a qualification and be keen to learn new skills to progress their career
• Ability to use own initiative, to work independently, as well as being a good team player
• Good problem‑solving skills
• Responsible and enthusiastic attitude
• Desire to work within a diverse forward‑thinking environment with diverse internal and external customers
• Interest in using electronic media, (PDA /Email) and associated IT systems
• A flexible and organised approach to work
• GCSEs in English and Maths, Grade C / Grade 4 or above preferred but not essential

Other essential information:

• Must be able to work in the UK
• To qualify for apprenticeship funding, the individual must have a valid and eligible residency status. This usually requires residency in the UK for at least 3 years prior to the start of the apprenticeship
• Candidates will be given a start date in August
• If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage during this process, including application stage, please email lqcareers@lqgroup.org.uk
• For this post the successful candidate will need to apply for or be in possession of a basic Disclosure Barring Service certificate (DBS) to enable them to work within the team.

About L&Q:

We’re one of the UK’s leading housing associations and developers. We were founded on a simple belief: high quality housing is vital for people’s health, happiness and security. Everyone deserves a quality home that gives them the chance to live a better life. 250,000 people call our properties ‘home’, and we’re proud to serve diverse communities across London, the South East and North West of England. People are at the heart of our business and our success depends on employing the best people and getting the best from them. The foundation of everything that we are is built on our corporate values, which outline our core expectations and should be demonstrated at all times, and all levels, when representing L&Q. At L&Q, we know that diversity and inclusion make us stronger – and they’re at the heart of everything we do. When we recruit, we look at what really matters: your skills, experience, and potential. We’re proud to be recognised for creating an inclusive workplace. We’re a Disability Confident Leader (Level 3) and we’ve introduced our own Recruitment Advocate scheme to make sure every step of our hiring process is fair, transparent, and consistent. It’s all part of our commitment to ending discrimination and making L&Q a place where everyone feels welcome. Sustainability is also at the heart of what we do. We recognise the responsibility we hold as one of the UK’s largest housing associations.