General Farm Worker Apprentice
MR R W ROGERS
HELSTON (TR12 6JN)
Closes in 27 days (Thursday 21 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 24 July 2025
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Summary
Rogers RW AW are offering an exciting opportunity to join their team as a General Farm Worker apprentice! Gain the knowledge, skills and behaviours to kickstart your career in this exciting industry.
- Wage
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£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- General farm worker (level 2)
- Hours
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Mixed rota to accommodate developing different skills.
Most days will be 8am-5pm.
There will be some early (5AM) starts and every other weekend during the winter.
During spring/summer months it will be one weekend on two weekends off.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Wednesday 10 September 2025
- Duration
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1 year 3 months
- Positions available
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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
Typical daily tasks will include, but not be limited to:
- General farm work and maintenance.
- Checking and feeding livestock.
- Animal health checks.
- Washing down.
- Assisting with calving.
- Tractor driving.
- Cleaning out, scraping and bedding down.
Where you'll work
CONDURROW FARMS
ST ANTHONY ROAD
MANACCAN
HELSTON
TR12 6JN
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
CORNWALL COLLEGE
Training course
General farm worker (level 2)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Identify hazards and risks in the workplace, prepare risk assessments and demonstrate high level of health and safety awareness at all times.
- Maintain the correct hygiene and bio-security procedures for the site, in accordance with relevant legal requirements
- Check that animal welfare needs related to their environment and housing are maintained, including manure management, ensuring the suitability of indoor and outdoor environment and bedding up of animals
- Assist with safe restraint, moving and handling of livestock.
- Legally operate a farm vehicle and each attachment according to health and safety requirements. For example, tractors and ATVs along with other vehicles integral to the business.
- Demonstrate good environmental practice in the workplace, in accordance with environmental assessment plans and associated legal requirements
- Assist with post-harvest activities to meet crop and forage specifications, in a safe and environmentally acceptable way
- Carry out maintenance of farm infrastructure (including housing for livestock, boundaries and electric or non-electric fences), machinery and equipment, as instructed
- Complete manual and electronic records in accordance with legislation and the business processes.
- Monitor and maintain health & welfare of livestock and assist with treatments when appropriate.
- Monitor the quantity and quality of grass and forage crops and report findings to appropriate person.
- Provide feed and water to livestock as instructed and report any issues to appropriate person
- Assist with caring for livestock during the reproductive cycle, from service to weaning. For example, identify signs of heat.
- Produce products for sale from the business (for example, milking, shearing, lambing, harvesting)
- Assist with the preparation of the ground, including identification of soil condition through soil sampling and preparing crop for planting
- Load, unload and complete paperwork for transportation of resources manually and using loading equipment, according to instruction
- Monitor the growth and development of crops in line with customer specification, as instructed
- Identify hazards and risks in the workplace, prepare risk assessments and demonstrate high level of health and safety awareness at all times.
- Maintain the correct hygiene and bio-security procedures for the site, in accordance with relevant legal requirements
- Check that animal welfare needs related to their environment and housing are maintained, including manure management, ensuring the suitability of indoor and outdoor environment and bedding up of animals
- Assist with safe restraint, moving and handling of livestock.
- Legally operate a farm vehicle and each attachment according to health and safety requirements. For example, tractors and ATVs along with other vehicles integral to the business.
- Demonstrate good environmental practice in the workplace, in accordance with environmental assessment plans and associated legal requirements
- Assist with post-harvest activities to meet crop and forage specifications, in a safe and environmentally acceptable way
- Carry out maintenance of farm infrastructure (including housing for livestock, boundaries and electric or non-electric fences), machinery and equipment, as instructed
- Complete manual and electronic records in accordance with legislation and the business processes.
Training schedule
You will be working towards a Level 2 General Farm Worker apprenticeship standard.
Mandatory qualifications within this standard include:
- Level 3 Award in Emergency First Aid at Work
- Level 2 City & Guilds Principles of Safe Handling and Application of Pesticides Guidance or Lantra Safe Use of Pesticides
You will receive on and off the job training and support from an assessor and an apprenticeship advisor.
You will be required to attend Duchy College Rosewarne on a weekly basis as part of the apprenticeship training.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 3/D)
- Maths (grade 3/D)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
Other requirements
The employer is in a rural area, so applicants must have reliable transport arrangements. Accommodation may be available on site.
About this employer
We have 300 milking cows and rear our own replacement milker. There are also going to be some beef animals to rear and look after as well. We calve all of the cows in a 10 week block starting at the beginning of September and so all of a sudden have lots of baby calves!! The cows live inside for the winter on a self-feeding silage system and then as soon as the weather is good enough we get them out grazing. It’s a simple grass based system where the candidate will get a real opportunity to learn everything about cows and grazing.
After this apprenticeship
After completion of General Farm Worker Apprenticeship Level 2 you could progress to Livestock Unit Technician Apprenticeship Level 3 or Crop Technician Apprenticeship Standard Level 3.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
CORNWALL COLLEGE
Holly
01209 616 452
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000333577.
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Closes in 27 days (Thursday 21 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
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