Level 3 Landscape/Horticulture Supervisor Apprenticeship
Course Details
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Department
Horticulture -
Qualification
Level 3 -
Length
2 Years -
Location(s)
York
Course at a glance
As a Horticulture or Landscape Supervisor, you will choose either the Horticulture or Landscaping route, based on your employer needs.
Entry Requirements
GCSEs
As a minimum requirement, all new Apprentices are expected to: have level 1 functional skills in maths and English or GCSE at grades 3 or D.
Cost for students aged Under 19
Free
for students over the age of 19 please contact us
Course summary
This job role involves ensuring… This occupation is found in a wide range of outdoor spaces. This may include public parks and gardens, green spaces, schools, tourist attractions, business and retail parks, historic gardens, private gardens, and estates. The horticultural spaces may be privately or publicly owned.
Work may be carried out on a variety of locations that might include domestic gardens, construction sites, retail and business parks.
Employers will vary in size and type and can include charities, commercial businesses or governmental organisations. Many organisations will be specialised in their activities, such as grounds maintenance or landscape construction.
The broad purpose of the occupation is to plan, oversee and carry out horticultural or landscaping operations to create and maintain horticultural spaces. The work involves both the soft landscaping aspects (plants and soil) and the hard landscaping (surfaces, features, and structures).
Horticulture or Landscaping Supervisors will be employed in an occupation that specialises in either horticulture or landscaping.
Horticultural Supervisors plan the maintenance of established horticultural areas. They oversee and carry out hard and soft landscaping maintenance operations and ensure that the site is maintained in line with the design, purpose and business objectives. They will have an advanced skill set, enabling them to undertake a wide range of horticultural operations.
Landscaping Supervisors will plan, oversee and undertake activities required to install landscapes to meet customer specifications. This might be complex landscapes with high values and a range of features including ornamental, horizontal and vertical structures, or smaller scale domestic gardens such as patios, retaining walls, water features, decking or pergolas.
Horticulture or Landscaping Supervisors frequently work outdoors, year-round and in all weathers. They sometimes work at heights, for example pruning taller plants and hedges.
Horticulture or Landscape Supervisors will require certificates of competence and or training to undertake particular activities and use specialist machinery.
The nature of the industry will present technical challenges ranging from simple planting tasks to the supervising a group of workers or volunteers, If you like to be constantly challenged and to work in varied environments, enjoy horticulture or landscaping – and want to make a difference – then a career in the industry is the perfect choice for you.
Key Information
Through your daily work with your employer and your training sessions with the college, you will learn the requirements of the horticulture or landscaping level 3 requirements competently including:
- Duty 1 Supervise health, safety and welfare for undertaking horticultural activities, including key documentation, site safety planning and ensuring communication is sufficient for work to be completed safely.
- Duty 2 Supervise environmental and heritage protection on a horticultural site.
- Duty 3 Establish, maintain and care for plants in different environments.
- Duty 4 Manage and optimise soil condition relevant to the environment and planting requirements including the prevention of damage from traffic and works.
- Duty 5 Develop and implement work plans to deliver projects and achieve desired quality of work.
- Duty 6 Develop and supervise the implementation of site biosecurity measures and invasive species management.
- Duty 7 Oversee horticultural site-based projects, organise resources, budgets and people. To include environmental protection, keeping records and using digital technology.
- Duty 8 Provide customer care to all stakeholders.
- Duty 9 Supervise a team of staff or volunteers undertaking horticultural or landscaping maintenance activities.
- Duty 10 Manage own performance and development.
- Duty 11 Supervise, maintain and operate tools equipment and machinery.
- Duty 12 Plan and implement the assessment, maintenance and repair of horticultural structures for safety, longevity and aesthetics.
Option duties:
Horticulture Supervisor duties
- Duty 13 Plan, schedule and undertake maintenance for soft landscape elements.
- Duty 14 Propagate plants and choose appropriate growing media
Landscaping Supervisor duties
- Duty 15 Plan and install landscape features, ensure resources are present and that activities meet the specification.
- Duty 16 Survey sites for landscaping.
On successful completion of the training period, you will move through End Point Assessment Gateway and be in a position to undertake the assessments required in order to achieve your apprenticeship.
The End Point Assessment will only start once the employer is satisfied that you are consistently working at or above the level set out in the occupational standard, the pre-requisite gateway requirements have been met and that they can be evidenced to an End Point Assessment Organisation.
The End Point Assessor will be an independent person, who will judge the quality of your work. All work in college and at work, will leads towards preparation for assessment and your future career.
For this apprenticeship the End Point Assessment will include.
· Component 1:
- Project report – to complete an 8-week project in the workplace, complete a PPP and report to present to the assessor and complete a Q&A session afterwards.
Component 2: practical tasks –
- Task one: Soil Assessment
- Task two: Plant Identification.
- Task three: plant health, biosecurity and selection.
Component 3:
- Professional discussion underpinned by a portfolio.
Your apprenticeship will be graded Fail, Pass or Distinction.
The duration of the apprenticeship is based on a skills analysis and the development opportunities within the business.
The maximum duration for this apprenticeship training period is 3 years, with up to a further 6 months to undertake the End Point Assessment.
Individual employers will set their own selection criteria, when they interview all candidates to be employed.
As a minimum requirement, all new Apprentices are expected to: have level 1 functional skills in maths and English or GCSE at grades 3 or D.
All apprentices will be required to pass level 2 functional skills in maths and English during the 2 years if not already gained in previous education.
Employers pay for apprenticeship training, where fees are applicable. We will discuss this with your employer when we complete a set-up with them.
The fees charged for the apprenticeship include any awarding body registration costs, all on-programme teaching, assessment and support delivered by the college, support materials, access to college facilities such as the Learning Resource Centre, Student Moodle, and access to wider college student support services where required.
There may be additional costs to the employer, should there be any need to re sit assessments on programme or end point assessments.
Employers must pay apprentices at least the minimum rate set out by current National Minimum Wage Legislation. This includes payment for all off-job learning and any associated costs such as travel and accommodation.
Click here to find more information about the National Minimum Wage.
Employer involvement
Your employer must enable you to spend a minimum of 20% of your usual work hours undertaking off-job learning. This is defined as learning which is undertaken outside of the normal day-to-day working environment and leads towards the achievement of the apprenticeship. This can include training that is delivered at your normal place of work but must not be delivered as part of your normal working duties, and must be directly relevant to the apprenticeship standard.
Off-job learning could include the following:
- Teaching of theory such as lectures, role playing, simulation exercises, online learning or manufacturer training
- Practical training such as shadowing experienced staff or mentoring, industry visits and attendance at competitions
- Study support and time spent writing assessments/assignments
Your employer must commit to supporting you in the workplace, participating in progress review meetings, providing use of ICT facilities so you can access your e-portfolio and agreeing/ensuring your readiness for the End Point Assessment. They may be required to provide further supporting evidence/endorsements about your performance, which form part of the End Point Assessment.
Further details of the End Point Assessment will be made available to you during your induction.
College input
We will support you through regular Apprenticeship Progress Review meetings with you and your manager, provide well planned vocational training and theory delivery by block release model and support your theory learning in the workplace with a range of learning materials.
This programme is delivered at our York Campus on Block-release.
How to apply
Applications should be made using the college application form or via the college website.
This form can be found at: https://www.askham-bryan.ac.uk/application/register.
Upon receipt of your application you will have an interview with the Course Manager.
Further information
Further information about the apprenticeship standard is available:
Landscape or horticulture supervisor / Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education
Further information about the industry:
Or, for more information, contact the Apprenticeship Admin team on:
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York Campus
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