General Farm Worker Apprentice
G Sordy & Sons - Alnham Farm
Alnwick (NE66 4TJ)
Closes in 10 days (Tuesday 12 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 29 July 2025
Contents
Summary
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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£11,778 a year
- Training course
- General farm worker (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday to Sunday, to be arranged 5 days per week. Shifts to be confirmed.
30 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 18 August 2025
- Duration
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1 year 6 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
On the farm, your daily tasks will include:
- General farm work
- Checking stock Ewe and Ram husbandry
- Tagging Assist in shearing and fleece wrapping
- Lambing, rearing and hand feeding as necessary
- Castration and ringing lambs feeding ewes and lambs and bedding when housed Cow, heifer and steer husbandry
- Tagging
- Recognising and treating cattle illnesses
- Assist in clipping for sale
- Feeding, bedding Calving, rearing and hand feeding as necessary
You must have the following:
- Must enjoy working with animals
- Good timekeeping skills
- Reliable
- Able to work as part of a team
- Able to undertake heavy physical work and work in all weathers
- Able to work under pressure and on your own initiative
- Having previous experience of working on a farm would be advantageous but not essential
- Good attention to detail
Where you'll work
Alnham Farm
Alnham
Alnwick
NE66 4TJ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
CITY OF SUNDERLAND 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
General Farm Worker (Livestock) Apprentice Level 2 Apprenticeship Standard
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE or equivalent in:
- English (grade Grade 9-1 or A-E )
- Maths (grade Grade 9-1 or A-E )
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication
- Flexibility
- Professional
- Team Player
- Trustworthy
Other requirements
Working outside in all weathers is an expectation of the job, the animals require to be looked after all year round. Because of the location of the farm it would be advantageous if you were able to drive and have your own transport. Longer working hours will be required at busier times of year i.e. Lambing/Silage/Harvest time
About this employer
Alnham Farm located within the Northumberland National Park, has been run for over 90 years by four generations of the Sordy family who firmly believe the time spent working amongst the animals is a key to the suckler herd’s success. Alnham Farm joined the AHDB Farm Excellence project in 2021 for a four-year period as one of its four Monitor Farms.
After this apprenticeship
- Full time employment
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000334276.
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Closes in 10 days (Tuesday 12 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
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