What you will do in your working day
Main Duties:
* Maintenance and repairs of allocated tasks (“Pinks”)
* Maintaining and replacing College fences
* Shed removal and installation
* Soft and hard landscaping
* Trees and hedge maintenance
* Grass cutting including meadows
* Carry out specific projects as directed
* Learning the safe use and operation of equipment and machinery used in horticultural maintenance
* To adhere to current health and safety legislation and best practice in accordance with the college health and safety policy statement
* To ensure own safety and the safety of others who may be affected by your own actions. Employees must follow instructions and always co-operate with their line manager to enable Eton College to meet its legal responsibilities. Employees must stop work if the nature of the situation involves risk of serious injury to any person and must report and hazardous situation or defective equipment to their line manager without delay
* To undertake any other duties as may reasonably be required of you in the post
* Where required, undertake regulated activity, such as unsupervised contact with children, ensuring that safeguarding procedures are followed and providing safe and effective care at all times
* Good understanding and effective implementation of Child Protection procedures
* Commitment and promotion of equality, diversity and inclusion
* All positions at Eton are classed as ‘regulated activity’ as per the Keeping Children Safe in Education 2023 guidance, therefore a good understanding of safeguarding procedures is essential
* Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, including but not limited to, completing safeguarding training as required, and ensuring any safeguarding updates issued by the College are read and understood
* Understand and comply with procedures and legislation relating to confidentiality
The training you will be getting
* Level 2 Horticulture or landscape construction operative Apprenticeship
* Functional Skills Level 2 in English and maths (unless exempt)
* PA2 - Safe Handling & Application of Pesticides
* Level 3 Emergency First Aid at Work
* (Landscaping construction) City and Guilds NPTC Level 2 Certificate of Competence in the Safe Use of Abrasive Wheel Machines or Lantra Abrasive Wheel Machines Course
* One day a week at the BCA campus
* Assessor will visit learners at the workplace
What to expect at the end of your apprenticeship
L3 Landscape Technician is the next step.