<div><div style=""><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">New Opportunities for 2025&nbsp; to join our highly successful Installations apprenticeship programme.&nbsp;</font></div><div style=""><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div style=""><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Are you interested in learning a new profession, gaining new skills and experience to launch your career with the UK’s leading home improvement retailer?</font></div><div style=""><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div style=""><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Do you have plumbing qualifications and want to establish yourself as a Bathroom Installer through an apprenticeship?</font></div><div style=""><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div style=""><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">We’re looking to recruit new colleagues onto our established 18 month programme.&nbsp; The apprenticeship offers a unique opportunity within the trade sector, tapping into life and trade skills with mentoring support and, on completion, a nationally recognised qualification (Level 2 Fitted Interiors)</font></div><div style=""><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div style=""><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Wickes work with over 2000 installers across the UK, and the apprenticeship programme can open doors to many great careers in the industry and opportunities for people in a sector that can be flexible around them and deliver the potential to go on to set up their own business.</font></div><div style=""><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></div><div style=""><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">During your apprenticeship, you will work alongside a Wickes Approved Installer and will be installing Wickes bathrooms into our customers’ homes. This gives you a fantastic opportunity to experience the working environment and put all of your learning into practice.&nbsp;</font></div><div style=""><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div style=""><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The formal training element of your apprenticeship will be delivered by our approved training provider together with a skills college, they will be focused on the technical aspects of fitting a bathroom, behaviour, customer services and setting up your own business. WEBS are a well established independent training provider serving the furniture manufacturing sector for more than 50 years.&nbsp; &nbsp;</font></div><div style=""><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div style=""><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Throughout your programme you will have a personal training officer, as well as support from your Line Manager, who can help you to plan your exciting future following your apprenticeship.&nbsp;</font></div><div style=""><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div style=""><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">To be part of this phenomenal opportunity we ask you to bring a genuine interest in a trade focused career, the energy to thrive in an environment where no day is the same.&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></div><div style=""><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div style=""><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><strong>Alongside this you will need some other tools for the job:</strong></font></div><div style=""><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div style=""><ul><li><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Excellent practical skills and an awareness of health and safety</font></li><li><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">A ‘can-do’ attitude with good problem solving skills and ability to complete work to deadlines</font></li><li><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Great communication skills and customer focus</font></li><li><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">A driven and determined attitude to succeed</font></li></ul></div><div style=""><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div style=""><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">As an apprentice you will be required to travel to customer's homes, so it will be necessary for you to hold a valid driving licence and have access to a vehicle to travel to work.</font></div><div style=""><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div style=""><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><strong>What can we offer you?</strong></font></div><div style=""><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Wickes are a digitally led, service enabled organisation with a project in every home.</font></div><div style=""><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div style=""><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">With more than 230 stores nationwide, our kitchen and bathroom showroom has a wide collection of ranges offered with a complete design and installation service. Wickes have been offering a fully installed service to our kitchen and&nbsp; bathroom customers for over ten years; we are currently the only kitchen and bathroom retailer to offer this complete service, giving us an advantage in the marketplace.&nbsp;</font></div><div style=""><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div style=""><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Wickes’ culture is a best kept secret; it’s a collaborative, down to earth, fun and inclusive environment where people feel part of a winning team. All our colleagues come from different backgrounds, but what we all have in common is a determination to succeed and a passion for being the best we can be. If that sounds like you, we’ll make you feel right at home.</font></div><div style=""><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div style=""><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Here, you can make the most of your talent. If that sounds like you, we’ll make you feel right at&nbsp;</font><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Home.</span></div><div style=""><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div style=""><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">With a Wickes apprenticeship, you not only learn from the best, but can become one of the best.</font></div><div style=""><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div style=""><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><br></div></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Vacancy Reference #</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Please contact us&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.wickescareers.co.uk/reasonable-adjustments" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.wickescareers.co.uk/reasonable-adjustments&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1665218416227000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2727RLDdu25CVf4RaodB8R" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">here</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">&nbsp;if you require any adjustments within the application process.&nbsp; If you require any reasonable adjustments at the interview stage you will have an opportunity to inform us when we invite you to interview. 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