Modern Apprenticeship: Parks, Gardens and Green Space SCQF Level 5

What is special about this course?

Launch or advance your career in horticulture with a Modern Apprenticeship and gain your SVQ in Parks, Gardens and Green Space at SCQF Level 5. Learn on the job and work towards a qualification that progresses your career while still earning a living. You to gain a recognised qualification for work that you are already carrying out on a day-to-day basis. This course doesn't require you or your employer to organise any day release because our assessors visit you so you can open up promotion possibilities without any inconvenience.

Work towards a qualification which will be recognised by employers such as Mount Stuart, Scone Palace, Achamore Gardens, and the wider business sector.

Entry requirements

No prior qualifications are required to undertake this qualification; however, candidates must be in a suitable job role, where they are carrying out relevant tasks and responsibilities, which allow them to gather the required evidence, and have been so for a minimum of 12 weeks prior to commencing the qualification. 

This qualification has been designed in partnership with the Sector Skills Council and Lantra to ensure relevance to the sector. 

The Modern Apprenticeship is made up of 4 elements:

1. SVQ Parks, Gardens and Green Space SCQF Level 5
2. Core Skills (embedded in qualification)
3. Meta Skills
4. Mandatory Enhancement (Emergency First Aid at Work must be achieved and one other enhancement)

Candidates must complete 11 units in total – 7 mandatory and 4 optional.

The 7 mandatory units are: 

• Monitor and Maintain Health, Safety and Security
• Establish and Maintain Working Relationships with Other
• Agree How to Manage and Improve Own Performance in a Business Environment
• Establish Crops and Plants
• Maintain the Growth of Crops or Plants
• Maintain Grass Surfaces
• Prepare and Use Equipment and Machinery

You will engage in practical learning experiences within the workplace, where you'll create evidence-based submissions for your e-portfolio. Additionally, a college assessor will visit to conduct observations to further evaluate your skills and progress.

Fees

Skills Development Scotland contribute to the funding of Modern Apprenticeships. 
UHI Argyll have fully funded places available for those aged 16-to-24-years old, and part-funded places for those aged 25 and over. An employer contribution fee is required for those aged 25 years and over. 
To be eligible for an apprenticeship, candidates must be in paid employment, contracted to work a minimum of 21 hours per week.