Learning basics of the trade and gaining work experience.

Test days and opportunities to take tests may come in Level 1, but by the end of Level 2 & Extension, trainees should have had the opportunity to take tests and acquire some or all of:

• Chainsaw
  • Maintenance
  • Cross-cutting
  • Felling up to 15″
  • Ariel rescue
  • Climbing (handsaw)
  • Rope & harness (chainsaw)

• Hedgecutter and Strimmer tickets
• Spraying ticket
• Driving Theory
• Health & Safety
• Manual handing
• Working at Heights
• Emergency First Aid

Examples of dept skills you can learn:

• Cut a hedge safely and tidy up afterwards
• Use a chemical sprayer competently
• Undertake a range of chainsaw work
• Mow a section of grass competently with straight lines
• Weed and prepare an area of ground for planting out plants with even spacing
• Strim an area safely taking into account windows and trees
• Drive a tractor with trailer and carry out pre-start checks
• Working on ladders and platforms safely
• Put harrows on a tractor and harrow a field
• Put topper on tractor and top a field
• Roll a field
• Measure out and complete a fencing job
• Rotovate an area for seeding

Increasing work experience and skill level.

Test days and opportunities to take tests may come in Level 1, but by the end of Level 2 & Extension, trainees should have had the opportunity to take tests and acquire some or all of:

• Chainsaw
  • Maintenance
  • Cross-cutting
  • Felling up to 15″
  • Ariel rescue
  • Climbing (handsaw)
  • Rope & harness (chainsaw)

• Hedgecutter and Strimmer tickets
• Spraying ticket
• Driving Theory
• Health & Safety
• Manual handing
• Working at Heights
• Emergency First Aid

Examples of dept skills you can learn:

• Cut a hedge safely and tidy up afterwards
• Use a chemical sprayer competently
• Undertake a range of chainsaw work
• Mow a section of grass competently with straight lines
• Weed and prepare an area of ground for planting out plants with even spacing
• Strim an area safely taking into account windows and trees
• Drive a tractor with trailer and carry out pre-start checks
• Working on ladders and platforms safely
• Put harrows on a tractor and harrow a field
• Put topper on tractor and top a field
• Roll a field
• Measure out and complete a fencing job
• Rotovate an area for seeding

Trainees who prove themselves and for whom it is deemed appropriate there may be opportunities to extend the placement and achieve a deeper level of work experience and skill.
Trainees might get the opportunity to work toward or achieve some part of the following:

• Opportunity to continue work experience through the remaining 2 seasons and gain experience of every season
• Further opportunity to pass some or all of the tests listed above
• Opportunity for practical driving lessons