Sports Turf Operative (Level 2)
Sports Turf Operative role is responsible for maintaining and renovating sports surfaces to make sure that public and private sports facilities are available for use. It will primarily be carried out in an outdoors environment and sites will range from general grass root sports surfaces, sports clubs, schools, up to international stadiums and training facilities. […]
Level 3 Advanced Sports Turf Technician
Advanced Sports Turf Technician role is responsible for ensuring that the playing surfaces are suitably prepared. They will also have responsibilities across the wider facility. They supervise staff or volunteers and are responsible for ensuring that the playing surface is suitably prepared and maintained in line with the rules of the relevant sport. They will […]
Horticulture and Landscape Operative Apprenticeship (Level 2)
Learn how to transform the outdoors at our Lackham Campus. Whether you want to work in parks and public spaces or historic gardens and estates, learn and specialise in soft- or hard-landscaping depending on your ambitions, and open the doors to a varied, practical and fulfilling industry in horticulture or landscape gardening. Whether you choose […]
Horticulture and Landscape Supervisor Apprenticeship (Level 3)
As a horticulture and landscape supervisor, you could be overseeing 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). Your employment area will dictate which […]
NPTC Level 2 Award in Safe Application of Pesticides Using Self Propelled, Mounted or Trailed Horizontal Boom Sprayers (QCF) (PA2)
Completion of this one day course enables you to meet the legislative requirements for working with a tractor mounted boom sprayer to distribute pesticides. Please contact BusinessDevelopment@wiltshire.ac.uk or 0845 345 2235 Option 1 with any questions or if you are an employer enrolling one or more employees onto this course.
Principles of Safe Handling and Application of Pesticides (PA1)
This Foundation (Theory) Module qualification is a legal requirement in order to progress onto other spraying related modules, such as: PA6 Handheld Knapsack Pesticide Applicator PA2 Tractor Mounted Boom Sprayer If you are an employer and require one or more employees to enrol onto this course please contact 0845 345 2235 or BusinessDevelopment@wiltshire.ac.uk
City & Guilds Award in The Safe Application of Pesticides Using Pedestrian Hand Held Equipment (QCF) (PA6)
If you have passed the Level 2 Principles of Safe Handling and Application of Pesticides (PA1) and use a knapsack sprayer to apply the pesticide, this is the follow-on course for you.
Level 2 Horticulture (Landscape Gardening)
Horticulture isn’t just about gardening: if you have a passion for plants and the outdoors, you could be designing and landscaping parks and sports grounds or developing a golf course. A qualification in horticulture could take you into production, growing and selling plants, or even studying and producing brand-new hybrid varieties. Home to a vast […]