General Farm Worker Apprentice
ANTHONY, JAMES & MATTHEW DIXON
Rothbury (NE65 7DX)
Closes in 16 days (Friday 14 November 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 27 October 2025
Contents
Summary
Biddlestone Town Foot Farm are looking to recruit a General Farm Worker to support with the husbandry of their mixed livestock.
- Wage
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£11,778 a year
- Training course
- General farm worker (level 2)
- Hours
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30 hours per week, Monday to Sunday, to be arranged
30 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 24 November 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
- Assisting in shearing and fleece wrapping
- Lambing, rearing and hand feeding as necessary
- Castrating and ringing lambs
- Feeding ewes and lambs and bedding when housed
Cow, heifer and steer husbandry
- Tagging
- Recognising and treating cattle illnesses
- Assisting in clipping for sale
- Feeding, bedding
- Calving, rearing and hand feeding as necessary
Potential tractor work, grassland/arable depending on location on farm
Where you'll work
Biddlestone Town Foot
Rothbury
NE65 7DX
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) Level 2 Apprentice, including Functional Skills if required for the End-Point Assessment
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE or equivalent in:
- English (grade 9-1)
- Maths (grade 9-1)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Adaptability
- Communication
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Team player
- Trustworthy
Other requirements
Working in all weathers. Because of the location of the farm it would be advantageous if you were able to drive and have your own transport.
About this employer
Biddlestone Town Foot Farm is a family-run farm with mixed livestock including cattle, sheep and grasslands. It is located near the village of Rothbury in Morpeth, Northumberland.
After this apprenticeship
Possiblilty of full time employment upon successful completion of apprenticeship.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000348417.
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Closes in 16 days (Friday 14 November 2025 at 11:59pm)
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