Horticulture or Landscaping Supervisor Level 3 Apprenticeship

Summary

We are an expanding Landscaping company working with high-end clients in London and are looking for a Grounds Maintenance Team Leader to join our team.

Wage

£30,000 a year

Training course

Horticulture or landscaping supervisor (level 3)

Hours

Monday - Friday, 08:00 - 16.30

40 hours a week

Start date

Sunday 12 July 2026

Duration

2 years

Positions available

1

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you'll do at work

Role Responsibilities:

• Taking pride in your work and the work of your team, ensuring attention to detail in all tasks
• Working outdoors in a physically demanding role in all weather conditions
• Achieving premium results in the gardens of high-end clients with high expectations
• Conducting regular inspections of grounds to identify additional maintenance needs and address client issues promptly
• Creating and maintaining beautiful outdoor spaces with a passion for horticulture
• Performing a variety of tasks, including mowing, trimming, planting, and debris removal
• Confidently using all necessary machinery required for the role
• Taking ownership and pride in the gardens you maintain

Key Requirements:

• Must have a valid driving licence as driving is required
• 2-3 years of experience in a similar role is essential
• Good plant knowledge is necessary
• Must be comfortable using a smartphone to complete audit forms
• Ability to coordinate with the manager regarding client needs and requirements
• Enthusiastic and passionate about horticulture

Where you'll work

9 Borough High Street
London
SE1 1LL

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

CENTRAL YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION

Training course

Horticulture or landscaping supervisor (level 3)

What you'll learn

• Plan and implement horticultural activities using techniques to protect and enhance the environment, biodiversity or heritage.
• Plan and implement environmental mitigation measures for horticultural tasks, including protecting sites (for example aquatic environments, soils, plants, structures) from horticultural works, waste management planning, hazardous waste and pollution controls.
• Plan the care of plants in different environments, including suitability for the site and providing irrigation and nutrition.
• Identify biosecurity threats for a horticultural site (including main pests or diseases and their identification features) and implement and communicate phytosanitary and biosecurity procedures for the site in line with legal requirements.
• Apply scientific plant naming conventions (including genus and species) to identify plants via physical inspection and without assistive resources.
• Plan and implement planting activities in context of the stock type/ species and planting environment.
• Assess hard structure or surface, evaluate hazards, damage and faults and rectify, report or maintain as required.
• Assess soil type and quality (imported or natural), identify soil condition and recommend management regimes as required and appropriate to the site, including the prevention of damage from traffic and works.
• Identify basic health threats and hazards for established trees.
• Plan, quantify materials and implement turf or species-rich meadow surface installation.
• Plan and supervise vegetation control (including formative, regenerative and maintenance pruning), selecting methods and equipment.
• Implement project management skills, including project processes, planning and specifications.
• Use digital tools to solve problems, plan, collaborate, communicate and keep records.
• Develop a work plan to a specification.
• Communicate using verbal and written communication skills.
• Establish safe systems of work and comply with health, safety and welfare legislation, including basic risk assessment.
• Supervise others (staff or volunteers ), including motivation, work prioritisation, quality, problem-solving, capability for task, establishing a safety culture and resource deployment.
• Manage use of tools and machinery on site (including safety and record keeping) and carry out selection appraisals.
• Use and maintain irrigation system (hose and lance, drip, sprinkler or rotary system) to ensure accurate and timely water application.
• Plan a programme of plant pest and disease controls in line with Integrated Pest Management principles. Spraying of pesticides and or fertilisers or non-chemical alternatives.
• Select propagation methods and plan and implement propagating plants by seed and vegetative methods in an indoor or outdoor context.
• Assess a horticultural area, develop an annual maintenance programme and undertake maintenance activities.
• Assess turf or species-rich meadow quality and plan and implement the maintenance, repair and renovation of ornamental turf areas.
• Prune or train a climber, shrub and tree using specialist pruning and or training techniques to maintain plant health and achieve design or functional objectives.
• Select work method and plan and undertake the application of a range of landscape construction materials to a specification, including brick laying, paving, timber features; construct horizontal and vertical features.
• Install a service into a landscape, for example lighting conduits, irrigation or draining.
• Measure and set out a site with several features and levels from a construction drawing.
• Plan and implement landscaping activities for a non-complex landscape construction project, including interpreting job specification and construction drawings, estimating materials required, planning resource allocation (human and physical), work quality and health and safety considerations.
• Survey site for landscape construction, including presence of services, drainage, plantings, features, protected areas and hazards.
• Plan and implement horticultural activities using techniques to protect and enhance the environment, biodiversity or heritage.
• Plan and implement environmental mitigation measures for horticultural tasks, including protecting sites (for example aquatic environments, soils, plants, structures) from horticultural works, waste management planning, hazardous waste and pollution controls.
• Plan the care of plants in different environments, including suitability for the site and providing irrigation and nutrition.
• Identify biosecurity threats for a horticultural site (including main pests or diseases and their identification features) and implement and communicate phytosanitary and biosecurity procedures for the site in line with legal requirements.
• Apply scientific plant naming conventions (including genus and species) to identify plants via physical inspection and without assistive resources.
• Plan and implement planting activities in context of the stock type/ species and planting environment.
• Assess hard structure or surface, evaluate hazards, damage and faults and rectify, report or maintain as required.
• Assess soil type and quality (imported or natural), identify soil condition and recommend management regimes as required and appropriate to the site, including the prevention of damage from traffic and works.
• Identify basic health threats and hazards for established trees.
• Plan, quantify materials and implement turf or species-rich meadow surface installation.
• Plan and supervise vegetation control (including formative, regenerative and maintenance pruning), selecting methods and equipment.
• Implement project management skills, including project processes, planning and specifications.
• Use digital tools to solve problems, plan, collaborate, communicate and keep records.
• Develop a work plan to a specification.
• Communicate using verbal and written communication skills.
• Establish safe systems of work and comply with health, safety and welfare legislation, including basic risk assessment.
• Supervise others (staff or volunteers ), including motivation, work prioritisation, quality, problem-solving, capability for task, establishing a safety culture and resource deployment.
• Manage use of tools and machinery on site (including safety and record keeping) and carry out selection appraisals.

Training schedule

Apprenticeship Horticulture or Landscaping Supervisor Level 3 

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE in:

Maths and English (grade 4)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

• Communication skills
• IT skills
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Customer care skills
• Team working
• Physical fitness

Other requirements

• You must hold a full valid driving licence