Garden Maintenance Assistant Apprenticeship

C E GARDENS LIMITED

Woking (GU24 8SX)

Closes on Friday 9 October 2026

Posted on 4 September 2026

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Summary

C E Gardens are looking for an enthusiastic gardener looking to learn how to care for all aspects of a garden, joining their maintenance team, working across high end properties offering a range of services to a variety of sites.

Wage

£16,640 to £26,436.80, depending on your age

National Minimum Wage

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Training course
Horticulture or landscaping supervisor (level 3)
Hours
Monday to Friday 7:30am- 4:30pm

40 hours a week

Start date

Friday 16 October 2026

Duration

2 years 6 months

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

  • Mowing
  • Strimming
  • Border control - weeding, feeding, pruning etc.
  • Hedge cutting
  • Planting
  • Leaf clearing
  • Jet washing

Where you'll work

Burrow Hill Nurseries
Thompsons Lane, Chobham
Woking
GU24 8SX

Training

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

Training provider

THE WINDSOR FOREST COLLEGES GROUP

Training course

Horticulture or landscaping supervisor (level 3)

Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)

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

Once a fortnight art BCA College 

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English and Maths (grade 4/C)

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

Skills

  • Team working
  • Initiative
  • Reliability
  • Willingness to learn
  • Punctuality
  • Able to follow instructions

Other requirements

The role is mobile and the apprentice is required to get to the yard address listed above but then will driven around during the day.

About this employer

We do all aspects of garden care, from lawns to hedges to jetwashing and planting schemes. We work at high end properties and specialise in offering a high end service.

After this apprenticeship

Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).

  • Permanent employment and progression in the company

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

THE WINDSOR FOREST COLLEGES GROUP

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000051642.

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Closes on Friday 9 October 2026