L3 Horticulture Supervisor Apprentice - RHS Rosemoor
THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY
Devon (EX38 8PH)
Closes on Sunday 22 February 2026
Posted on 9 January 2026
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Summary
Do you have at least six months’ work experience in horticulture, but want to learn more, develop team leader supervisor skills and achieve a qualification? Our Level 3 apprenticeship at RHS Garden Rosemoor is the perfect way to advance your career in horticulture.
- Wage
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£23,810 a year
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Salary will increase in line with national minimum wage begore the apprenticehsip starts.
- Training course
- Horticulture or landscaping supervisor (level 3)
- Hours
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07.45 - 16.15 Monday - Friday, with occasional weekend working (time off in lieu)
38 hours a week
- Start date
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Wednesday 5 August 2026
- Duration
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3 years
- 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
Please note we are offering the horticulture not the landscape option for the apprenticeship.
- Carry out practical work, in all weathers and across the seasons
- Will work across all our garden teams. RHS Garden Rosemoor includes Estates, Edibles & Nursery, Decorative Ornamental and Woody Ornamental
- Learn how to use appropriate techniques, tools and machinery, to cultivate, establish and care for our plant collections all year round
- Work safely and garden sustainably
- Gain horticultural team leader supervisory skills
- Learn how to adapt to change and different environments, conditions and technologies
Where you'll work
RHS Garden Rosemoor,
Torrington
Devon
EX38 8PH
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
WARWICKSHIRE COLLEGE
Training course
Horticulture or landscaping supervisor (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- 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
Horticulture or Landscaping Supervisor Level 3.
For this position you will attend Pershore College in Worcestershire on a residential basis which will involve travel and staying away from home.
The RHS will pay for your travel and accommodation whilst at college.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
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
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
The ability to work outside in all weathers.
About this employer
As a charity, we want to inspire a passion for gardening and growing plants, promote the value of gardens, demonstrate how gardening is good for us and explain the vital role that plants play. The RHS is committed to be an inclusive employer and welcomes applications from all backgrounds to stay inclusive and avoid indirect discrimination.
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Company benefits
- Free RHS flower show tickets
- Access to employee assistance programme
- Healthcare cash plan
- Discount at RHS shops
After this apprenticeship
- Further Horticulture Qualifications
- A full-time career in public or private gardens, parks or with garden maintenance companies
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
WARWICKSHIRE COLLEGE
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000007939.
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Closes on Sunday 22 February 2026
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