Apprenticeship Gardener

You will develop skills to a high standard of general garden maintenance and services for our customers. This will be your first step towards a career at Gardenia Gardens Ltd.

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

Requirements

• Physically fit
• Can-do attitude
• Honest and punctual
• Flexible as working hours can change to cover clients needs, including weekends

Responsibilities

• General maintenance eg., grass cutting, hedge trimming, clearing leaves
• Horticulture activities, e.g., planting, pruning, and seeding
• Operate light power tools
• Undertake Vehicle and cutting equipment checks
• Weeding, turning borders
• Mowing
• Strimming
• Edging lawns

Benefits

• Learn on the job by getting hands-on experience
• Opportunity to work towards additional qualifications
• Functional Skills included, if required
• Apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know
• Earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship
• Opportunity to join the team full-time after the apprenticeship is completed
• High-quality college bus service provided by Reaseheath College

Application Process

• Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience.

About Gardenia Gardens Ltd

We are a garden maintenance business maintaining gardens and local parish council to a very high standard. Due to demand we are now expanding. We also maintain Commercial/Private grounds.

Contact

Training provider: REASEHEATH COLLEGE Training course: Horticulture or landscape construction operative (level 2)

Career options:

• Hard landscaper
• Decorative landscaper
• Grounds maintenance operator
• Grounds commercial growers

What you'll learn

Course contents:

• Apply health and safety processes and procedures including risk assessments and or construction design management (CDM), manual handling, legislative requirements and organisational policies. Follow safe systems of work and safety information in line with employer requirements or site context (for example clearing their route before transporting materials).
• Apply environmental mitigation measures including storage and disposal of waste, for example sorting materials for recycling or composting, acting in compliance with legal requirements, organisational policies and pollution controls.
• Select, undertake a pre start check, set up, clean, store and safely operate tools, equipment and machinery (including pedestrian controlled and handheld) in line with current legislation and business policies.
• Communicate with technical (for example supervisors or managers) and non-technical audiences (for example clients or the public) using language appropriate to the audience.
• Identify plants commonly grown in the UK by scientific names including genus species and or cultivar.
• Maintain the correct phytosanitary and bio-security procedures for the site, in accordance with legal requirements.
• Identify and report symptoms and or signs of commonly found UK plant pests, pathogens and disorders.
• Maintain plant health for example providing for basic needs such as water, nutrition (either organic or inorganic), light.
• Cultivate, improve and preserve soils by mechanical methods and or by hand including amelioration and mulching (these might be imported or natural).
• Clear unwanted vegetation, selecting techniques to be used (for example weeding).
• Remove unwanted or damaged growth from plants using a pruning cut.
• Plant shrubs and a tree using a simple tree pit.
• Install turf for situation.
• Mow turf using pedestrian controlled powered driven mower.
• Maintain or protect hard surfaces, features or structures for example painting, re-gravelling, removing weeds from paving, drain clearance, cleaning.
• Use digital tools and techniques for research, collaboration, continuous professional development and resolution of problems.