Apprentice Arboriculturist

A T COOMBES ASSOCIATES LIMITED

NORWICH (NR9 4AB)

Closes in 22 days (Sunday 10 August 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 18 July 2025

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Summary

To support our existing arboricultural consultants with their work both in the office and the field on a wide range of projects. Help and on the job, training will be provided. It will involve a proportion of outdoor field work during the year. However, we do not become involved in physical operations other than in a supervisory role.

Wage

£20,800 a year

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You will be paid £10 an hour and will be paid weekly.

Training course
Arboriculturist (level 4)
Hours
Monday to Friday 8am to 5.00pm with one hour for lunch

40 hours a week

Start date

Monday 1 September 2025

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

Where you'll work

6 CHAPEL STREET
BARFORD
NORWICH
NR9 4AB

Training

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

Training provider

MYERSCOUGH COLLEGE

Training course

Arboriculturist (level 4)

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What you'll learn

Course contents
  • Tree inspection including assessment of health, defects, safety risks, site factors, planning requirements and aesthetics.
  • Interpret maps and plans.
  • Assess tree risk to inform decision making.
  • Specify arboricultural works.
  • Select advanced diagnostic equipment for tree risk assessment.
  • Select biosecurity protocols.
  • Follow instructions and processes.
  • Write arboricultural reports.
  • Use software-based tree management systems, including associated laptop and handheld remote working equipment.
  • Produce plans using digital mapping software (for example GIS).
  • Select and use different formats to communicate information (for example table, image, map, text, graph).
  • Collect, research and analyse arboricultural information and data including reliable information sources.
  • Advise on implications of arboricultural policy, legislation, regulation and best practice including local and national planning policy.
  • Identification of tree species, their characteristics and requirements for healthy growth.
  • Manage projects including working within budget, systems and processes.
  • Produce quotations or tenders including defining a scope/specification of work.
  • Foster professional relationships with clients, customers and colleagues and engage with the community.
  • Negotiate with colleagues and stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes.
  • Communicate information to technical and non- technical audiences using a range of techniques.
  • Take meeting notes or minutes.
  • Seek further information from managers, supervisors or colleagues, when necessary.
  • Create and evaluate relevant risk assessments and method statements for arboricultural operations.
  • Provide customer service.
  • Identify soil type, properties, condition and implications for tree health.
  • Value trees as assets for both amenity and ecosystem service provision.
  • Establish and monitor quality standards for tree work operations.
  • Promote the organisation, products, services or activities.
  • Collect tree data including taking measurements.
  • Make tree management recommendations verbally.
  • Identify tree pests and pathogens, assess impacts on tree health and suggest management responses.
  • Assess tree planting practices.
  • Tree inspection including assessment of health, defects, safety risks, site factors, planning requirements and aesthetics.
  • Interpret maps and plans.
  • Assess tree risk to inform decision making.
  • Specify arboricultural works.
  • Select advanced diagnostic equipment for tree risk assessment.
  • Select biosecurity protocols.
  • Follow instructions and processes.
  • Write arboricultural reports.
  • Use software-based tree management systems, including associated laptop and handheld remote working equipment.
  • Produce plans using digital mapping software (for example GIS).
  • Select and use different formats to communicate information (for example table, image, map, text, graph).
  • Collect, research and analyse arboricultural information and data including reliable information sources.
  • Advise on implications of arboricultural policy, legislation, regulation and best practice including local and national planning policy.
  • Identification of tree species, their characteristics and requirements for healthy growth.
  • Manage projects including working within budget, systems and processes.
  • Produce quotations or tenders including defining a scope/specification of work.
  • Foster professional relationships with clients, customers and colleagues and engage with the community.
  • Negotiate with colleagues and stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes.
  • Communicate information to technical and non- technical audiences using a range of techniques.
  • Take meeting notes or minutes.
  • Seek further information from managers, supervisors or colleagues, when necessary.
  • Create and evaluate relevant risk assessments and method statements for arboricultural operations.
  • Provide customer service.
  • Identify soil type, properties, condition and implications for tree health.
  • Value trees as assets for both amenity and ecosystem service provision.
  • Establish and monitor quality standards for tree work operations.
  • Promote the organisation, products, services or activities.
  • Collect tree data including taking measurements.
  • Make tree management recommendations verbally.
  • Identify tree pests and pathogens, assess impacts on tree health and suggest management responses.
  • Assess tree planting practices.

Training schedule

This training schedule has not been finalised. Check with this employer if you’ll need to travel to a college or training location for this apprenticeship.

More training information

The end point assessment will contain 4 discrete assessment methods:

  • Practical demonstration with questions
  • Short answer test
  • Multiple choice test
  • Professional discussion underpinned by a portfolio that showcases work carried out in assignments produced for each module

There will be 2 levels of achievement: Pass & Distinction.

Requirements

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

Skills

About this employer

We are a Forestry and Arboricultural Consultancy established in 1986 and became a private limited company in 2014. We work for a range of corporate and private clients over a wide area. Our two primary fields are trees and development and tree health and safety. Other work includes woodland management including ancient woodlands. We also manage tree work contractors and specify and implement tree planting projects.

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

MYERSCOUGH COLLEGE

Employer Services Team

employerenquiries@myerscough.ac.uk

01995 642222

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000332239.

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Closes in 22 days (Sunday 10 August 2025 at 11:59pm)

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