Flood Risk Apprentice

Are you passionate about the environment, flood risk management, and sustainable drainage? Do you want to contribute towards shaping the future of a growing city? Stoke-on-Trent City Council is looking for a Flood Risk Management Apprentice to help us tackle the increasing challenges of flood risk and surface water management.

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

What you'll do at work

• Assist in delivering the Council’s duties as a Lead Local Flood Authority (LLFA)
• Assist in investigating local flooding incidents and drainage issues
• Assist with responding to planning applications, land drainage consents, flooding incidents
• Assist with data collection, reporting, and analysis of key flood risk infrastructure in across the city
• Assist with the development of flood alleviation projects and studies
• Familiarise, learn, and apply relevant legislation and industry standards
• Collaborate with key stakeholders and contribute towards managing flood risk

Where you'll work

Civic Centre
Glebe Street
Stoke-on-Trent
Staffordshire
ST4 1HH

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

UNIVERSITY OF KEELE

Training course

Environmental practitioner (Degree) (level 6)

What you'll learn

Course contents

• Apply complex environmental principles and methods to projects that integrate with the built or natural environment.
• Design, develop or manage safe and sustainable environmental solutions, be able to identify challenges these solutions pose, and assess the opportunities to deliver practical solutions that integrate with the built or natural environment.
• Balance views of potentially conflicting drivers related to environmental, social and financial constraints, and demonstrate critical analysis in the design, development or management of environmental projects.
• Apply and comply with policies and regulations, including those relating to the environment, health and safety, legal, planning and equality and diversity, and with their organisation’s formal procedures and practices.
• Determine and manage the collection, analysis, and evaluation of data used in the development or delivery of environmental solutions drawing appropriate conclusions and making practical recommendations.
• Apply, analyse and evaluate a broad range of environmental methods (utilising appropriate software and digital solutions), to inform and enable decision making within the development or delivery of environmental solutions. This includes assessing data suitability, validity, quality, and accuracy relative to its intended application.
• Effectively and safely manage tasks or projects, within environmental, legal, contractual and statutory requirements, to agreed time and resource budgets, and to agreed quality standards, through the application of appropriate project management tools and techniques.
• Deliver high quality accurate, well-structured documents and recommendations for the work for which they are responsible and are appropriate to those for whom they are intended.
• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with stakeholders and colleagues and support and guide team members to enable them to achieve the team’s objectives as well as their own. Actively seek and provide feedback, support decision making processes, and manage any conflicts that may arise in their work with integrity, fairness and consistency in decision making.
• Communicate effectively orally and in writing in both formal and informal contexts, and with a variety of stakeholders. Listen actively to ensure the views of others are considered appropriately.
• Manage their own work independently within the limits of their ability, authority and responsibility, making use of support and specialist expertise when appropriate. Seek feedback on their performance, looking for ways to improve it.
• Develop their own professional competence, regularly updating and reviewing their CPD records and develop an extended network to support their professional development and maintain the required standard of, ethical behaviours and codes of conduct, associated with the environmental profession.