Countryside Worker Apprenticeship
The Countryside Worker Apprenticeship focuses on practical skills to assist countryside management and community environmental projects.
Within this Apprenticeship, you will learn the skills to work with communities, organise conservation projects, and understand how to restore, develop, and maintain countryside or urban spaces. The Apprenticeship can be tailored to your job and the needs of the environment that you work in due to the wide range of optional modules available. You will need good communication skills, excellent problem-solving skills, and manual dexterity. You can use this Apprenticeship as a springboard to train for senior roles such as a Senior Ranger, Ecologist, Senior Estate Worker or Environmental Management Officer.
As part of the Apprenticeship, you will have monthly workplace visits from a Learning Development Advisor, with 6 hours per week off the job training which will be tracked. You will build a portfolio showing your work-based evidence.
What you will study
- Conservation
- Ecology
- The principles of boundary management
- The principles of access management
- Common farming practices
- Land management
- Surveys
- Countryside legislation
- Designations
- Climate change
- Sustainability
- Map reading
- Health and safety
- First Aid
- Pollution
- Manage habitats
- Construct or repair boundaries
- Construct or maintain access ways, for example a path surface
- Manage vegetation
- Construct and /or maintain site furniture
- Use a range of hand tools and powered tools
- Problem solving
- Identify a range of British flora and fauna
- Undertake surveys
- Write a simple dynamic risk assessment
- Communicate effectively
- Enthusiasm for the countryside and environment
- Work ethic
- Work constructively
- Flexibility and adaptability
- Skills development
- Communication and behaviour
- Safety conscious
What's Next?
Careers
- Ranger
- Parks Manager
- Estate Manager
- Woodland Manager
- Ecologist
- Conservation Officer
- Gamekeeper
