Maydencroft Horticulture/Landscape Operative - Apprenticeship

Maydencroft offers a Horticulture Apprenticeship level 2  through Shuttleworth college . Successful applicants would be offered the opportunity to be employed as a Landscape Operative, duration of the course is 24 months.  College attendance is once a week at Shuttleworth College with a Year 1 Salary is £8,580 per year.

 

During this apprenticeship you will study a range of topics, which could include:

  • Monitoring and maintaining health and safety
  • Maintaining and developing personal performance
  • Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with others
  • Clearing horticultural and landscaping sites
  • Maintain moisture levels for crops or plants
  • Provide nutrients to crops or plants

 

What applicants should expect their working environments to be like, information taken from the Apprenticeship Standard supplied by the government;

 

Horticulture/Landscape Operative

Could be employed to work in public parks and gardens, green spaces and historic gardens, private gardens and estates or in production nurseries and retail outlets. Many businesses will be specialised in their activities, such as grounds maintenance (soft-landscape) or landscape construction (hard-landscape). Soft-landscaping includes the establishment and maintenance of plants and cultivated areas. Hard-landscaping includes establishment of hard surfaces and structures in addition to the establishment of plants in cultivated areas.

For further information please look at the Horticulture/Landscape Assessment Plan.

If you would like to apply please send your contact details and CV to hr@maydencroft.co.uk or call 01462 420851. To find out more about Maydencroft please visit their website www.maydencroft.co.uk.

 

If you would like some tips on writing a CV please visit horticruitment's cv and cover templates.

by ruth

Ground Control - Horticulture Landscape Operative Apprenticeship

 

Professional Development Level Two
Course: Horticulture Landscape Operative - 
Course Reference: SFA/L2/001
Delivered By: Capel Manor / Writtle College
Time: 24 months programme

 

    • Course Details:

      • This course is for operatives employed to work in public parks and gardens, green spaces and historic gardens, private gardens and estates or in production nurseries and retail outlets, including soft and hard landscaping. This role manages a site with minimum supervision. The course covers:

Knowledge:

        • Industry knowledge and understanding business
        • Communication
        • Health, Safety and environmental
        • Plant growth and development
        • Tools, equipment and machinery
        • Vegetation control
        • Biosecurity
        • Plant identification and classification
        • Soils, growing media and plant health

Skills:

        • Communication
        • Team work
        • Health, safety and environmental
        • Planting, plant growth and development
        • Soil cultivation
        • Tools, equipment and machinery
        • Vegetation control
        • Maintain hard structures
        • Site presentation
    • Plus specific Horticulture or Lanscaping modules

Behaviours:

            • Health and Safety
            • Customer care
            • Attitude
            • Decision Making

Qualification:

      • n/a

Cost

        • : Fully funded and exempt from Training Agreement (Value of funding £2000)
          If you would like to apply please send your contact details and CV to Nicola Dole at

nicola.dole@ground-control.co.uk . 

        • To find out more about Ground Control please visit their website

 www.ground-control.co.uk

The standard:

Horticulture Landscape Operative Standard

If you would like some tips on writing a CV please visit horticruitment's cv and cover templates.

 

by ruth