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
• Learn about different watering and nutrition requirements for each plant
• Pot up plug plants, summer bedding & perennials
• Kit-out grow spaces, lay down capillary matting and weed barriers
• Understand and implement correct nutrition for different plants
• Create displays & develop planting schemes
• Use optical levelling equipment
• Lay paving
• Timber construction for fences & beds

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
• Learn about different watering and nutrition requirements for each plant
• Pot up plug plants, summer bedding & perennials
• Kit-out grow spaces, lay down capillary matting and weed barriers
• Understand and implement correct nutrition for different plants
• Create displays & develop planting schemes
• Use optical levelling equipment
• Lay paving
• Timber construction for fences & beds

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