Apprentice Arboriculturist
A T COOMBES ASSOCIATES LIMITED
NORWICH (NR9 4AB)
Closes in 7 days (Sunday 10 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 18 July 2025
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Summary
To support our existing arboricultural consultants with their work both in the office and the field on a wide range of projects. Help and on the job, training will be provided. It will involve a proportion of outdoor field work during the year. However, we do not become involved in physical operations other than in a supervisory role.
- Wage
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£20,800 a year
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You will be paid £10 an hour and will be paid weekly.
- Training course
- Arboriculturist (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday 8am to 5.00pm with one hour for lunch
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 September 2025
- Duration
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2 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
Field Work (approximately 35% of the time):
- Carry out tree surveys on both urban and rural sites
- Tree health and safety inspections
- Help prepare and implement woodland management plans
- Advanced Tree Inspection including use of sonic tomograph
- Site supervision of tree work teams
Office Work (approximately 65% of the time):
- Preparing reports
- Preparing plans in Auto CAD
- Tree work applications
- Tree work specifications
- Felling license applications
- Grant applications
Where you'll work
6 CHAPEL STREET
BARFORD
NORWICH
NR9 4AB
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
MYERSCOUGH COLLEGE
Training course
Arboriculturist (level 4)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Tree inspection including assessment of health, defects, safety risks, site factors, planning requirements and aesthetics.
- Interpret maps and plans.
- Assess tree risk to inform decision making.
- Specify arboricultural works.
- Select advanced diagnostic equipment for tree risk assessment.
- Select biosecurity protocols.
- Follow instructions and processes.
- Write arboricultural reports.
- Use software-based tree management systems, including associated laptop and handheld remote working equipment.
- Produce plans using digital mapping software (for example GIS).
- Select and use different formats to communicate information (for example table, image, map, text, graph).
- Collect, research and analyse arboricultural information and data including reliable information sources.
- Advise on implications of arboricultural policy, legislation, regulation and best practice including local and national planning policy.
- Identification of tree species, their characteristics and requirements for healthy growth.
- Manage projects including working within budget, systems and processes.
- Produce quotations or tenders including defining a scope/specification of work.
- Foster professional relationships with clients, customers and colleagues and engage with the community.
- Negotiate with colleagues and stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes.
- Communicate information to technical and non- technical audiences using a range of techniques.
- Take meeting notes or minutes.
- Seek further information from managers, supervisors or colleagues, when necessary.
- Create and evaluate relevant risk assessments and method statements for arboricultural operations.
- Provide customer service.
- Identify soil type, properties, condition and implications for tree health.
- Value trees as assets for both amenity and ecosystem service provision.
- Establish and monitor quality standards for tree work operations.
- Promote the organisation, products, services or activities.
- Collect tree data including taking measurements.
- Make tree management recommendations verbally.
- Identify tree pests and pathogens, assess impacts on tree health and suggest management responses.
- Assess tree planting practices.
- Tree inspection including assessment of health, defects, safety risks, site factors, planning requirements and aesthetics.
- Interpret maps and plans.
- Assess tree risk to inform decision making.
- Specify arboricultural works.
- Select advanced diagnostic equipment for tree risk assessment.
- Select biosecurity protocols.
- Follow instructions and processes.
- Write arboricultural reports.
- Use software-based tree management systems, including associated laptop and handheld remote working equipment.
- Produce plans using digital mapping software (for example GIS).
- Select and use different formats to communicate information (for example table, image, map, text, graph).
- Collect, research and analyse arboricultural information and data including reliable information sources.
- Advise on implications of arboricultural policy, legislation, regulation and best practice including local and national planning policy.
- Identification of tree species, their characteristics and requirements for healthy growth.
- Manage projects including working within budget, systems and processes.
- Produce quotations or tenders including defining a scope/specification of work.
- Foster professional relationships with clients, customers and colleagues and engage with the community.
- Negotiate with colleagues and stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes.
- Communicate information to technical and non- technical audiences using a range of techniques.
- Take meeting notes or minutes.
- Seek further information from managers, supervisors or colleagues, when necessary.
- Create and evaluate relevant risk assessments and method statements for arboricultural operations.
- Provide customer service.
- Identify soil type, properties, condition and implications for tree health.
- Value trees as assets for both amenity and ecosystem service provision.
- Establish and monitor quality standards for tree work operations.
- Promote the organisation, products, services or activities.
- Collect tree data including taking measurements.
- Make tree management recommendations verbally.
- Identify tree pests and pathogens, assess impacts on tree health and suggest management responses.
- Assess tree planting practices.
Training schedule
Training will be provided in the workplace through Myerscough College where you will work towards the Level 4 Arboriculturist Apprenticeship.
Delivery of the knowledge requirements for this programme is online in line with Myerscough College semesters, and approximately 240 delivery hours (30 per module). There will also be distance learning support tutorials and mentoring activity throughout the programme. Workplace visits will also occur, and these will be discussed at sign up. Attendance at the mandatory online lectures and tutorials will count towards the 20% off the job training requirement for the apprenticeship.
More training information
The end point assessment will contain 4 discrete assessment methods:
- Practical demonstration with questions
- Short answer test
- Multiple choice test
- Professional discussion underpinned by a portfolio that showcases work carried out in assignments produced for each module
There will be 2 levels of achievement: Pass & Distinction.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- 2 other subjects (grade 4-9/C-A*)
- English (grade 4-9/C-A*)
- Maths (grade 4-9/C-A*)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Team working
- Enthusiam
Other requirements
Must be able to get to the office in Barford for the starting time. Having own transport would be a definite advantage in this respect. There is a bus service from Norwich to Barford with a bus stop within 300 m of the office. To ensure your application has the best chance of being considered for the vacancy you must provide information on all qualifications undertaken stating highest grades achieved in every subject, paying particular attention to maths and English. Along with this you need to state any previous work experience.
About this employer
We are a Forestry and Arboricultural Consultancy established in 1986 and became a private limited company in 2014. We work for a range of corporate and private clients over a wide area. Our two primary fields are trees and development and tree health and safety. Other work includes woodland management including ancient woodlands. We also manage tree work contractors and specify and implement tree planting projects.
After this apprenticeship
Arboricultural Consultant with the company. Subject to performance, or other consultancies. Other possible posts could include Local Authority Tree Officer.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
MYERSCOUGH COLLEGE
Employer Services Team
employerenquiries@myerscough.ac.uk
01995 642222
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000332239.
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Closes in 7 days (Sunday 10 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
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