Apprentice Electrician

**Come and make a real difference as an Apprentice Electrician**

**Everyone should have a warm, safe, affordable home.**

As an Apprentice Electrician in our Centigen team, you’ll help us provide this for thousands of families in Gloucestershire and the surrounding areas.

You’ll play an important part in helping us deliver a great repairs service for our tenants while you learn, assisting on a range of electrical repairs and maintenance in our homes. This is a great role which will help you understand how to safely service and maintain electrics.

As part of your apprenticeship, you’ll spend one day a week at Gloucestershire College working towards a Level 3 Electrotechnical Qualification. The apprenticeship will last up to four years, ending with an AM2 assessment. You can find more course details on Gloucestershire College’s Website: gloscol.ac.uk.

**What you’ll bring to our team**

Eager to learn and develop your electrical skills, you’ll be ready to get hands on experience as an electrician and gain an understanding in key areas of electrical maintenance. You will work with the wider Two Rivers Housing team, who will help you develop your knowledge of what a community-based housing association does and how #Twogether we make a real difference to the families we serve.

**What we’re looking for**
- You’ll be honest, sincere and focussed on doing the right for our customers.
- You’ll have a keen interest in electrical maintenance.
- You’ll be good with numbers and have great communication skills.
- You’ll be self-driven and able to learn from instruction.
- You’ll be willing to learn and develop your knowledge of the housing sector.
- You’ll enjoy working as part of a team and able to talk to and work with colleagues across the organisation.

**Qualifications**
- GCSE grades A-C/9-4 in Maths, English and Science.
- Full Driving license - desirable

People lie at the heart of Two Rivers Housing’s success and we offer great rewards in return for great contributions from our staff.

We have always been deeply committed to training, motivating and developing our staff in a variety of ways, and our continuing focus on this has been recognised by several prestigious external organisations. We are particularly proud to have earned our place in the Sunday Times ‘Top 100 Best Not for Profit Organisations to Work For’ and we have held the Investors in People ‘Gold’ accreditation for several years now. We’ve also won awards for our apprenticeship training programme.

Here are just a few of the many reasons why we - and others - think Two Rivers Housing is an excellent organisation to work for.
- We’re a not-for-profit community association that makes a real difference to the lives of thousands of people.
- We work in a modern, environmentally-friendly office, which has been nationally-accredited for energy-efficiency, sustainability and workplace safety.
- We offer a flexible approach to working styles and work-life balance, including options to use our flexi-time scheme, agile working policies and our job-share and part-time contracts.
- We run employee engagement initiatives and a reward scheme to recognise individual and team contributions.
- We believe in having fun at work too We run social events, summer barbecues, morning briefings with breakfast thrown in, an annual all-staff awayday and there’s always a plentiful supply of cake to raise money for charity and celebrate special occasions
- We support every member of staff to provide one day each year to support community projects that are really valued by the organisations and charities we help through activities such as gardening, litter-picking and painting.