Recruitment for our 2022 placements is open. Find out more here.
You can apply for more than one trainee position. Simply complete a separate online application form for each position you are interested in.
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Business Admin Childcare Customer Services Degree Apprenticeships Housing ICT Streetscene Trades (Housing Assets)
Flintshire Trainee – Business Administration - Benefits Service
What the Service does:
- The Benefits service is a busy, front line service which administers a variety of benefits and grants, this includes Housing Benefit, Council Tax Reduction, Free School Meals, Uniform Grants, Blue Badges, Discretionary Housing Payments, Isolation Payments and various one-off Welsh Government Grants.
- We are responsible for assessing eligibility and awarding these benefits and grants. We also maintain the software systems for processing some of these grants and recover overpayments of Housing Benefit.
- We provide help, guidance and welfare advice to customers.
- We help customers review their household income and expenditure to ensure they are receiving all they are entitled to.
What you will get involved with:
- Deal directly with customers providing guidance and answering their queries, on the telephone and by email or letter.
- Assess eligibility for, and where appropriate award, various grants and benefits.
- Compile and return accurate quarterly government statistical returns.
- Maintain team email system on a daily basis.
- Updating customer records securely and accurately using a document imaging system.
- Provide back office support, maintain databases, spreadsheets and customer records and produce system reports.
Qualification:
Business Administration Level 2 / 3
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Flintshire Trainee – Business Administration - Capital Works Team Admin Apprentice
What the team do:
- Ensure all the Council’s homes are up to the Welsh Government standard.
- Support the whole team by keeping records updated and then – making plans for future works.
- Act as the first point of call to our tenants and other people calling in with queries.
- Support our Inspectors as they go out to tenanted and empty properties.
- Assist in the maintenance of our Building Safety section’s databases.
What you will get involved with:
- Take calls from all over the county from tenants and other parties,
- Logging incoming mail and distributing to all Sections within Capital Works,
- Using spreadsheets to log and monitor annual leave,
- Keep all our Handover Packs scanned and logged into our system,
- Help set out plans for all our future work programmes working in various IT systems,
- Provide general Admin/IT support for the Capital Works team
- Support the system team in maintaining Compliance databases including Asbestos Register, Fire Risk assessments and Mechanical/Electrical systems,
- Work in a vibrant, exciting and growing team,
- And much more!
Qualification
Business Administration level 2 & 3
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Flintshire Trainee – Business Administration - Social Services
What the teams do
- Provide administrative and clerical support to Social Services for Adults, Social Services for Children, Corporate Services such as Legal, ID and mobile phones and generic support to Public Protection teams.
- Support Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Financial Assessment Officers, Solicitors, Planners, and Environmental Health Officers to carry out their roles.
- Act as first point of call on the telephones
- Oder stationery and carry out general office duties.
What you will get involved with
- Answering calls form the public and professionals
- Logging incoming mail and ensuring it is distributed correctly. Ensuring outgoing mail is dealt with promptly
- Using spreadsheets to monitor expenditure
- Scanning and filing
- Using databases that are purpose built for Social Services, Financial Assessment, Time Recording
- Ordering stationery and office supplies for the Portfolio
- And much more!
Qualification:
Business Administration level 2 & 3
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Flintshire Trainee – Business Administration - North East Wales Archives
What the team does:
- Collects historical records relating to North East Wales, and preserves them for future generations.
- Encourages people to come to our search-rooms and use the records in person.
- Does research and makes copies of documents for people who are unable to visit.
- Engages with people online via our website and social media.
- Engages with people in person by holding events at our two branches in Hawarden and Ruthin, and by participating in other events such as local history fairs.
What you will get involved with:
- Preserving historical documents by cleaning and packaging documents under the supervision of our conservator.
- Expanding the content of our website by using digitisation equipment to scan documents and upload the images.
- Learning to read old handwriting in order to make typed transcripts of documents.
- Contributing towards the content of our social media channels.
- Keeping statistics and dealing with our general admin.
- And much more!
Qualification:
Business Administration level 2 & 3
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Flintshire Trainee - Business Admin – Housing Capital Works
What the team do:
- This is a small general team who provide administrative and clerical support to the wider Housing teams, based in County Offices, Flint
- Providing support to our 109 Trades who do not have access to a computer and ensure communications are sent out to all the Trades when necessary. Also first point of call when Trades come into the offices with queries.
- Speak to Tenants on a daily basis in relation to booking appointments for Gas and Electrical Servicing for our Council properties.
What you will get involved with:
- Logging incoming mail and distributing to all Sections within Housing Services. Also responsible for collection of outgoing mail and ensuring it is in the Post Room ready to be sent out.
- Assist rest of team in taking calls from Tenants and making appointments for Gas and Electrical Servicing in our Council properties.
- Using spreadsheets to log and monitor Trade’s annual leave and sickness absence and filing away correspondence on personnel files.
- Scan and file away Gas and Electrical Certificates so we have a record of all services completed, also assist with archiving of files.
- Give out Petty Cash to Trades as and when needed and log on spreadsheets, ensuring signatures are obtained for money being given out.
- Assist the team by liaising with Fleet Services to book our Trade’s vehicles for Servicing/Inspections/MOTs.
- Training is an essential part of the role and ensuring it is up to date, providing support to the Training Officer and arranging communications for staff to attend relevant training.
Qualification
Business Administration level 2 & 3
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Flintshire Trainee – Business Administration - Employee Service Centre
What the team do:
- Administer the HR & Payroll service for the Council and external organisations
- Follow policy, employment and payroll/pension legislation and best practice.
- Processes all aspects of the employee life-cycle from recruitment to leavers this includes: applications, interviews, references, medical checks, DBS checks, issuing contracts, salary payments and leavers
- Provide advice and guidance to managers and employees regarding HR & Payroll queries
What you will get involved with:
- Assisting in the administration of the recruitment/selection including liaising with candidates and managers.
- Act alongside an Employee Service Centre Assistant as a first point of contact for enquiries and respond to or refer enquiries as appropriate.
- Answer day to day enquiries from staff through our Employment Services Inboxes and telephone enquiries. Undertaking ad-hoc administration including inputting absence data and scanning documentation.
- Assist in processing contractual and payroll changes into the HR & Payroll system, liaising with line managers for information and making required changes to employee records.
- Issuing contracts and addendums to contracts to employees.
- And much more!
Qualification
Business Administration level 2 / 3
If the candidate shows good progress and aptitude the Council will consider funding the CIPD level 3 in the third year.
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Flintshire Trainee – Business Administration - Revenues Team
What the team do:
- Responsible for the administration and collection of Council Tax, Business Rates, Sundry Debts and Housing and Garage rents totalling over £225 million per annum.
- Speak to taxpayers, ratepayers and tenants on a daily basis over the phone to provide help and support to pay their council tax, business rates, council rent and garage rents on time.
- Advise on relevant discounts/exemptions/reductions that taxpayers, ratepayers and tenants may be able to claim to reduce their Council Tax, Business Rates or rent charges and how to claim them.
What you will get involved with:
- Update customer records using computerised systems
- Support the service by undertaking a varied and interesting range of office activities including referencing and indexing of incoming mail using our Document Management and Workflow system
- Deal with all aspects of direct debit processing
- Creating and maintaining spreadsheets and provide statistical information in a variety of formats
- Regular contact with customers over the phone dealing with routine enquires
- And much more!
Qualification:
Business Administration level 2 & 3
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Flintshire Trainee – Business Administration - Policy and Social Value
What the team do:
- The team increase social value by agreeing community benefits, from companies, who provide goods and services to the Council.
- Social Value benefits can include: community volunteering, donating money to local charitable causes and/or community projects, developing local parks and green spaces, planting trees, lowering carbon emissions and offering jobs, skills and training to local people, amongst others.
- We provide support to Council Officers who buy goods, works or services for the Council to help them include social value returns for the benefit of local communities.
- We also support suppliers to use the Council’s systems and monitor companies to ensure they deliver what they committed as part of the legal contract
- The broader team supports, policy and compliance, i.e. for Welsh Language Standards;
What you will get involved with:
- Using the Council’s IT systems to input and monitoring data,
- Creating and amending records, setting up new contracts within the system, and running data reports.
- Supporting suppliers with social value. Training them on how to use the social value IT system to record their performance
- Updating the social value website and social media platforms, such as Twitter.
- Responding to telephone calls and emails about social value.
- Organising meetings with suppliers and/or Officers and taking notes of these.
- Organising social value events.
- Other general administrative tasks, such as helping to create presentations.
Qualification
Business Administration Level 2 / 3
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Flintshire Trainee – Business Administration - Streetscene Regulatory Services team
What the team do:
- Streetscene & Transportation are a fast paced and ambitious service which provide an extensive range of frontline services to the residents of Flintshire.
- The Regulatory Services Team includes Car parking and Environmental Enforcement, Waste permitting and disposal compliance, Environmental and recycling engagement, Landfill Management, Business Support, Support Services and Compliance & Training providing support to the wider Streetscene service departmental operations.
What you will get involved with:
- You’ll provide administrative and business support to the regulatory service team by updating spreadsheets and records
- Work with departmental service managers and teams to provide general administrative support including, typing, minute taking, filing, archiving and, scanning
- Assist in taking telephone calls and responding to queries and emails.
- Assist in carrying out room booking and scheduling of events.
- Gain experience and knowledge of using computerised databases and systems.
Qualification
Business Administration level 2 & 3
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Flintshire Trainee – Business Administration - Youth Justice Service
What the team do:
- There is a Youth Justice Service (sometimes called a Youth Offending Team or YOT) in every local authority in England and Wales. In Flintshire, the Youth Justice Service is based in Mold.
- Flintshire Youth Justice Service works together with families and other agencies to make sure each young person gets access to the help they need. The primary role of the youth justice service is to prevent offending by children and young people
- As part of Flintshire Youth Justice, Sorted are the team that works with young people who may be involved with drugs or alcohol, and offers programmes of education to schools and colleges.
- The service is made up of lots of different professionals from social work, youth work, health, and police, and together we support young people through prevention interventions, or through their court orders.
- We believe in the ethos “Children first, offender second” and work hard to guide children and young people away from offending and further offending in a supportive environment.
What you will get involved with:
- To assist Youth Justice and Sorted practitioners and managers in the administration aspects of their work including making up court files, scanning, archiving, minuting meetings.
- To be one of the first points of contact for emails and calls from young people, families and professionals.
- To assist administrators in adding young people’s information onto the client management systems
- To attend and assist Education Workers with outreach work in schools and the community, and assisting in arranging events, activities for young people and other projects
- To periodically attend Youth Court and recording the Court outcomes
Qualification
Business Administration level 2 & 3
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Flintshire Trainee – Childcare - Flintshire Crèche and Childcare
Garden City Childcare, Sealand Youth and Community Centre, Sandy Lane, Garden City, CH5 2JH
What the team do:
- Make sure the Council provides an inclusive enriched play environment, so that, children can develop physically, mentally and socially
- Supervise the children at all times, ensuring that all policies and procedures are adhered to in accordance with legislation, regulation and CIW minimum standards.
- Prepare the materials and activities in the room to aid the children’s play experiences and learning outcomes• Provide healthy snacks, meals and drinks to the children within the Healthy Preschools Initiative
- Work within the Welsh Government programmes e.g. Flying Start, Childcare Offer to ensure that each child’s individual needs are respected.
What you will get involved with:
- Work with the Lead, Supervisor and Assistant to provide an inclusive enriched play environment.
- Assist in preparing the materials and activities in the room to aid the children’s play experiences and learning outcomes.• Assist with the supervision of the children.
- Assist with the preparation of healthy snacks and drinks.
- Help to ensure that all children are given the opportunity to participate and give their opinions, and are listened to and treated with respect
Qualification
Level 2 Diploma in Children’s Care, Learning and Development
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Flintshire Trainee - Customer Services – Contact Centre
What the team do:
The Contact Centre is the first point of contact for many people when dealing with the Council. Our aim is to make things easy for customers when contacting the Council via phone, email, web form and in the future live chat. We do this by:
- Answering calls from our customers - helping to solve their queries at the first point of contact.
- Maintaining and updating customer account details.
- Processing emails and online enquiry forms / applications for various Council Services.
- Providing support, information and guidance to customers for service across the Council.
- Managing the reception in one of the Council buildings
What you will get involved with:
- Reception, meeting and greeting customers and directing them to their meeting rooms, taking and recording parcel deliveries.
- Meeting room housekeeping, ensuring rooms have the right equipment in them and reporting any faults.
- Answer emails and website queries from customers, for a range of services, such as giving information such as where to collect Waste Recycling bags or a code to collect from a Household recycling Centre.
- Answer the phones for some of the simpler services / enquiries.
Qualification
Customer Service level 2 & 3
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Flintshire Trainee – Degree Apprenticeship - Climate Change team
What the team do:
- Oversee and manage the Council’s climate change programme with the commitment to become net zero carbon by 2030.
- Identify and develop projects that help to reach this goal, eg. renewable energy schemes, procurement processes, carbon sequestration, decarbonisation of buildings, moving fleet to electric vehicles.
- Work with local businesses and communities to encourage them to decarbonise.
- Work with external organisations to share best practice.
- Report on annual carbon emissions to Welsh Government.
What you will get involved with:
- Doing research and helping to write reports to secure funding for projects
- Helping with projects by monitoring and problem solving, eg. renewable energy schemes, procurement processes, carbon sequestration, decarbonisation of buildings.
- Helping to plan public and employee communication and engagement activities.
- Managing communication streams within the climate change programme – social media, email and website.
- And much more!
Qualification
BEng (Hons) Low Carbon Energy, Efficiency & Sustainability (Degree Apprenticeship)
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Flintshire Trainee – Degree Apprentice - Performance and Risk Management Team
What the team do:
- Responsible for Performance & Risk Management data of the organisation
- Leads coordination of Business Planning for the organisation
- Leads coordination of external audits with Audit Wales to ensure/ work towards best practice
- Lead the organisations Corporate Self-Assessment to drive performance improvement
- Administrator of the ICT system for Performance and Risk Management
What you will get involved with:
- Use the ICT system to produce statistics reports
- Assisting the PRM team with business planning for the organisation by capturing and analysing data and information
- Support the team with the production of key documents and reports
- Carrying out research and analysis to produce advice for team members, officers and members.
- Work across the organisation on different data sets
- Anything else that involves analysing data
Qualification
BSc Applied Data Science (Degree Apprenticeship)
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Flintshire Trainee - Housing - Homeless and Prevention Service
What the team do:
- Try to prevent homelessness by offering advice and assistance to allow customers to remain in their home
- Helping people find alternative accommodation by looking at all the available housing options, including securing accommodation in the private sector or helping customers with a deposit bond.
- Take responsibility for the central Housing Register (housing list) shared by Flintshire County Council and all local Housing Associations.
What you will get involved with:
The Trainee will assist the Housing & Prevention Service in all areas which the service covers.
You will be communicating and helping residents in Flintshire in the following areas:
- Homeless Prevention Services
- Tenancy Support
- Social Housing Register
- Financial Support
- Housing Support Gateway
- Private rented - Bond Scheme
Qualification
Level 2 / 3 CIH Certificate in Housing practice
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Flintshire Trainee – Housing - Housing Management team
What the team do:
- Act as the landlord function for 7,300 council properties
- Deliver a housing service to include: allocating and letting of properties, tenancy management, tenancy enforcement (dealing with anti-social behaviour), tenancy sustainment and customer involvement
- Liaise with all of our tenants either by telephone, email or face to face visits
- Work in partnership with other agencies, for example, North Wales Police
What you will get involved with:
- Help co-ordinate customer engagement meetings
- Assist with setting up new digital initiatives for tenants to be more involved, ie. Social media etc.
- Scan tenancy house files on to EDM
- Inputting and updating cases on the ReACT case management system in relation to anti-social behaviour and other tenancy enforcement issues
- Dealing with customer enquires on the telephone
- Be involved in new initiatives for marketing hard to let properties
Qualification
Level 2 /3 Housing practice
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Flintshire Trainee - ICT - Workplace Technologies
What the team do:
- Responsible for provision and support of desktop and laptop computing facilities for 2485 IT users consisting of 170 desktops and 2500 laptop computers.
- Management, support and provision of mobile computing equipment and software consisting of 1650 devices.
- Provide and support client and application software.
- Manage and support of client device security.
- Provision, support and management of printing facilities consisting of 120 multifunction devices and printers.
What you will get involved with:
- Placing orders for new equipment, software etc
- Providing IT support to Flintshire staff, examples are troubleshooting IT hardware and software issues, mobile device issues and printing issues.
- Learning how to configure IT and install equipment for use by Council staff and Elected Members.
- Learn how to upgrade computing equipment, software and mobile devices.
- Assist with the secure disposal of IT Equipment.
- Use software to maintain and update asset registers.
Qualification
ICT level 2 & 3
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Flintshire Trainee - IT Communications Team
What the team do:
- Manage, support and maintain the IT Networks for over 120 sites including Council buildings and schools.
- Manage and support the telephone systems, wireless networks and internet access for all council staff and schools.
- Provide reporting information on mobile phones, telephones and data network usage.
- Manage and support the councils Firewall technologies, including internet access for Council staff, staff in schools and pupils of all ages.
- Configuring and installing network equipment in corporate sites and schools.
What you will get involved with:
- Placing orders for new equipment, phone lines etc
- Providing IT support to Flintshire staff, examples are wireless and wired connection issues, telephone issues and internet access issues.
- Using excel to provide reports on mobile phone usage.
- Learning how to configure network equipment and install it at various council sites and schools.
- Supporting schools to be able to block and allow access to web sites for pupils in schools.
Qualification
ICT Level 2 / 3
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Flintshire Trainee - ICT - Business Support Team
What the team do:
- Provide technical advice and support to users of the Portfolio case management system
- Develop the case management system
- Act as the first point of call for users of the system when experiencing problems or issues
- Provide management information and performance reports
- Provide induction and ongoing training in the use of the case management system
- Develop and improve the Portfolio webpages
What you will get involved with:
- Take calls and monitor helpdesk requests
- Resolve user issues and problems with the case management
- Escalate internally or externally problems that can’t be resolved
- Use Power BI to provide performance reports and management information
- Provide training to users of the system
- Identify development opportunities within the case management system
- Support the Project Manager with development of the case management system
- Update and develop the Portfolio webpages
- And much more!
Qualification
ICT – Level 2 & 3
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Flintshire Trainee - ICT - Infrastructure Delivery Production
What the team do:
- Ensure all IT systems are backed up
- Process feeder files in and out of the payment system
- Process BACS payments in and out of the Authority
- Provide reports for checks to be carried out.
- Provide administrative and technical assistance to the Infrastructure Delivery Team
What you will get involved with:
- Checking overnight backups including movement of tapes to secure locations
- Import feeders for payment and process them through to the Finance system ensuring accurate records are maintained
- Downloading reports from the Banking systems and distributing to the correct sections for action.
- Transmitting payments for creditors and payroll systems ensuring deadlines are met.
- Creating and amending user accounts.
Qualification
ICT level 2 & 3
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Flintshire Trainee - Streetscene - Civil Engineer Technical
What the team do:
- The Technical team provide wide ranging engineering and technical support and advice to all of the services operational within Streetscene & Transportation
- The team support on Highway Maintenance and improvement works, Drainage, Transportation, Active Travel, Rail, Structures, Road Safety, Traffic, Car Parking and Environmental Enforcement, NMWTRA trunk road agency work, Grounds Maintenance, Highways Asset Management, Streetlighting, Waste Collection and Recycling and are required to implement Welsh Government schemes and targets.
What you will get involved with:
- Working as part of the team to provide support on technical aspects of construction and highways design, engineering, project management and problem solving.
- Assist and work alongside the current Technical officers to carry out structural and bridge inspections across the county, ensuring accurate records and systems are maintained.
- Work alongside technical officers to supervise minor contract works on-site to ensure compliance with the Contract Documents and Health & Safety Regulations.
- Use computer software to create CAD drawings and designs.
- Undertake procurement exercises and asset management programmes.
- To to record all assets and details of monitoring and maintenance regimes.
Qualification
Level 3 Diploma in construction and the built environment
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Flintshire Trainee - Highway Construction – Streetscene and Transportation
What the team do:
Based and coordinated from Alltami Depot, the service delivery team are the front line face of Streetscene Services:
- Highway Maintenance operations, including carrying out repairs to potholes that appear in the road, fix gullies, safety barriers and railings, kerb laying, traffic management and setting out road signs.
- Provide emergency response to adverse weather events such as flooding, high winds, snow clearance to ensure the safety of highway users on the roads.
- Grounds maintenance operations, including mowing, strimming, and pruning across grassed areas throughout the county including; tenant’s gardens, verges, parks, cemeteries, football pitches and other open spaces.
- Waste and Recycling Collections, including collecting household waste and recycling from all properties throughout the County of Flintshire. Provide services for clinical waste collections and deliveries of bins and recycling containers.
- Household Recycling Centres, including assisting members of the public with disposal of household recycling across 5 sites in, Buckley, Sandycroft, Oakenholt, Greenfield and Mold.
What you will get involved with:
- You’ll work alongside experienced members of the Highways Maintenance and commercial team to gain the practical skills and experience of a Streetscene employee.
- Assist with carrying out Highway Maintenance works both reactive and planned including pot hole repairs, tarmacking, kerbing, traffic management, pipe laying and slurry sealing
- Assist with and carry out construction works including drainage works and carriageway construction where required
- You’ll learn how to safely operate tools and equipment including small items such as power tools, whacker plates, abrasive saws etc. and progress onto larger items such as Fork Lift Truck and HGV driver where possible into the second year of the apprenticeship programme.
- Complete basic paperwork and assist with members of the public enquires.
Qualification
Civil Engineering in Highway Maintenance Level 2
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Flintshire Trainee – Electrician - Streetscene - Street lighting team
What the team do:
- Responsible for the installation, maintenance and repair of the majority of the County's street lights and maintain lighting on behalf of a number of Community Councils.
- Responsible for installation, maintenance and repair of illuminated bollards and road sign lighting.
- Carry out inspections on all street lights to identify any faults, damage, obstructions to ensure timely rectification.
What you will get involved with:
- You’ll work alongside experienced members of the Streetlighting team to gain the practical skills and experience of a streetlighting electrician.
- Assist with carrying out inspections and repairs to street lamps, columns, bollards, sign lighting
- Assist with the monitoring and recording of streetlighting condition, where required
- You’ll learn how to safely operate tools and equipment including small items such as power tools, abrasive saws etc. and progress onto larger items such as driving and operating mobile operated vehicle lifts and HGV driver where possible into the later years of the apprenticeship programme.
- Complete basic paperwork and assist with members of the public enquires.
Qualification
Electrical level 2 / 3
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Flintshire Trainee - Streetscene Operative - Service Delivery team
What the team do:
Based and coordinated from Alltami Depot, the service delivery team are the front line face of Streetscene Services:
- Grounds maintenance operations, including mowing, strimming, and pruning across grassed areas throughout the county including; tenant’s gardens, verges, parks, cemeteries, football pitches and other open spaces.
- Waste and Recycling Collections, including collecting household waste and recycling from all properties throughout the County of Flintshire. Provide services for clinical waste collections and deliveries of bins and recycling containers.
- Household Recycling Centres, including assisting members of the public with disposal of household recycling across 5 sites in, Buckley, Sandycroft, Oakenholt, Greenfield and Mold.
- Highway Maintenance operations, including carrying out repairs to potholes that appear in the road, fix gullies, safety barriers and railings, kerb laying, traffic management and setting out road signs.
- Provide emergency response to adverse weather events such as flooding, high winds, snow clearance to ensure the safety of highway users on the roads.
What you will get involved with:
- Rotating around 4 areas of the service, you will work alongside members of the team to carry out tasks in Grounds Maintenance, Waste & Recycling collection, Household Recycling Centres and Highways Maintenance to gain the practical skills and experience of a Streetscene employee.
- You’ll learn how to safely operate tools and equipment including small items Strimmer’s, Mowers, Blowers etc. and progress onto larger items such as Fork Lift Truck and HGV driver where possible into the second year of the apprenticeship programme.
- Assist with Grounds Maintenance works including maintenance of grassed areas, pruning, maintenance of hedges, shrubs and tidying up debris from the work areas
- Assist with loading / sorting household waste (wheel bins, recycling sacks etc) on to designated waste vehicles and into the skips provided at Household Recycling Centres.
- Complete basic paperwork and assist with members of the public enquires.
Qualification
Horticulture Level 2
If the candidate demonstrates the right qualities and aptitude and has passed their driving test – The Council will consider funding training for HGV driver in the last year of the apprenticeship
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Flintshire Trainee – Builder - Housing Assets Service
What the team do:
- We undertake Repairs, Maintenance and investment works to Flintshire County Council’s social housing stock (over 7300 homes) and associated assets such as community centres and garages
- We ensure that we deliver a high quality, customer focused service, working with exciting new technologies, materials and modern methods of construction such as our new build and modular building projects
What you would get involved with
- Working in tenanted and empty properties covering a wide range of work, whilst being supported by a Team Leader and highly skilled trade operative
- Gaining knowledge, understanding and experience to undertake work such as:
- Understanding of Health & Safety and the requirements of the work
- Visiting new build development sites and large Capital Investment Programmes of work in Flintshire
- And much more!!!
- Learning how to correctly set out, measure quantities, mix and apply various coatings, using a wide variety of tools and techniques
- Completing minor and major building works which includes repairing defective walls, paths, concrete roof structures, using varied types of brick, stone and construction related materials, mixes and finishes
- Learning how to prepare, form, replace and maintain all types building work
Qualification
Level 2 / 3 Building
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Flintshire Trainee – Painter and Decorator - Housing Assets Service
What the Team do:
- We undertake Repairs, Maintenance and investment works to Flintshire County Council’s social housing stock (over 7300 homes) and associated assets such as community centres and garages
- We ensure that we deliver a high quality, customer focused service, working with exciting new technologies, materials and modern methods of construction such as our new build and modular building projects
What you would get involved with
- Working in tenanted and empty properties covering a wide range of work, whilst being supported by a Team Leader and highly skilled trade operative
- Gaining knowledge, understanding and experience to undertake work such as:
- Learning how to correctly set out, measure quantities, mix and apply various coatings, using a wide variety of tools and techniques
- Completing minor and major decoration works which includes replacing defective wall, ceiling and woodwork finishes
- Learning how to prepare, paint and decorate all types of finishes
- Learning how to apply wall paper and lining paper correctly
- Learning how to select the correct primer and paint in order to achieve a high quality finish
- Visiting new build development sites and large Capital Investment Programmes of work in Flintshire
- And much more!!!
Qualification
Painting and Decorating level 2 / 3
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Flintshire Trainee – Joiner - Housing Assets Service
What The Team do:
- We undertake Repairs, Maintenance and investment works to Flintshire County Council’s social housing stock (over 7300 homes) and associated assets such as community centres and garages
- We ensure that we deliver a high quality, customer focused service, working with exciting new technologies, materials and modern methods of construction such as our new build and modular building projects
What you would get involved with
- Working in tenanted and empty properties covering a wide range of work, whilst being supported by a Team Leader and highly skilled trade operative
- Gaining knowledge, understanding and experience to undertake work such as:
- Working with different types of timber and other materials
- Learning how to correctly measure, cut, drill and fix using a wide variety of tools and techniques
- Working on small and large projects such as replacing floor boards, doors, kitchen units, worktops, windows and fences
- Understanding of Health & Safety and the requirements of the work
- Visiting new build development sites and large Capital Investment Programmes of work in Flintshire
- And much more!!!
Qualification
Joinery level 2 & 3
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Flintshire Trainee – Plasterer - Housing Assets Service
What The Team do:
- We undertake Repairs, Maintenance and investment works to Flintshire County Council’s social housing stock (over 7300 homes) and associated assets such as community centres and garages
- We ensure that we deliver a high quality, customer focused service, working with exciting new technologies, materials and modern methods of construction such as our new build and modular building projects
What you would get involved with
- Working in tenanted and empty properties covering a wide range of work, whilst being supported by a Team Leader and highly skilled trade operative
- Gaining knowledge, understanding and experience to undertake work such as:
- Learning how to correctly set out, measure quantities, mix and apply various coatings, using a wide variety of tools and techniques
- Completing minor and major plastering works which includes replacing defective wall and ceiling finishes
- Repair and replace external rendering
- Renew floor screeds and finishes and lay new wall tiling
- Learn how to Dry-line walls and skim to a high standard
- Understanding of Health & Safety and the requirements of the work
- Visiting new build development sites and large Capital Investment Programmes of work in Flintshire
- And much more!!!
Qualification
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