Apprenticeship training course
Plasterer (level 2)
Preparing walls and ceilings for decoration and finishing.
- Qualification level
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2
Equivalent to GCSE. - Typical duration
- 24 months
- Apprenticeship category
- Construction and the built environment
- Maximum funding
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£13,000
Maximum amount government will fund
for apprenticeship training. - Skills
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Skills an apprentice will learn
- Core: Comply with health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Core: Identify and use personal protective equipment (PPE).
- Core: Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
- Core: Use access equipment for example, hop ups, podiums or low-level scaffolding.
- Core: Interpret information from drawings and specifications.
- Core: Store materials considering date order for rotation of stock.
- Core: Prepare and maintain a safe working area.
- Core: Check, use and store power tools and equipment, escalate faults or defects.
- Core: Move and handle materials and equipment manually and with lifting equipment.
- Core: Protect finished work and the surrounding area.
- Core: Verbally communicate with others, for example colleagues, other tradespeople, managers and customers.
- Core: Applies team working principles to their own and the wider build team.
Full information on Plasterer (level 2) is available from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.