Level 3 Horticulture Supervisor Apprenticeship

BERKSHIRE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE
LEVEL 3

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Course Overview

Horticulture supervisors can be employed to oversee 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.

The employment area will dictate the option pursued. Working and learning in the horticulture and landscape industries is rewarding, offers a diverse range of employment opportunities and includes a range of skills that are transferable into other industries following further studies.

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Course Code

Z22CB015

Entry Requirements

Employers will ultimately determine the entry requirements, the apprentice needs to be in a supervisory role and ideally have a L2 qualification. The ap...

Course information

What will I study?

– Business; supervise a project including project processes, planning and specification. – Proactively solve practical problems by using experience and judgement to make decisions. – Be adaptable to different priorities, environments, conditions and technologies.
– Communication; Managing teams to deliver customer service. The impact of costumer care on the organisation. – Supervision; how to communicate with a team and provide work instructions. – How to manage a team’s performance and provide feedback to team members and managers
– Health and safety & Environmental regulations. – Plant identification and classification. Plant growth and development; plant nutrition and plant requirements.

Duration of the course

36 Months

How will this course be delivered?

A mix of online learning with scheduled on-campus sessions

How will I be assessed?

Assessment overview –
Skills, knowledge and behaviours are assessed by competencies being displayed in the workplace, observations, employer feedback, assessor progress reviews, evidence collating and the employer enabling you to fulfil the requirements of your Apprenticeship.

On programme assessment will include various coaching and mentoring assessment methods. These assessments are designed to review the behaviours, knowledge and skills against set gateway criteria.

In addition you, your employer and the college are required to maintain an off the job training log evidencing new skills and knowledge being learnt over the duration of the apprenticeship.

The final grading of the apprenticeship will be carried out through an End Point Assessment, by an independent assessor.

What qualification will I get?

A Graded Apprenticehip Certificate
Level 2 Award in the Safe Application of Pesticides using Pedestrian Hand held Equipment.

What industry experience will I gain?

Level 2 Award in the Safe Application of Pesticides using Pedestrian Hand held Equipment.

Where can this course lead?

Deputy Manager, Assistant Manager

Course Level

Level 3

What else do I need to know?

– Health and safety; leadership of proactive health and safety culture by personal example and supervision of teams and work sites. – Work ethic; have a positive and motivated attitude towards work, including having pride in one’s work. Committed to self-development through continuing professional development. Be a conscientious, dependable, flexible staff member with a can-do attitude. – Change; be adaptable to different
environments, conditions and technologies.