Course overview
Are you looking for a career where you can help protect and enhance our wildlife and countryside? This is an ideal introductory course which will provide you with the practical skills and knowledge that will help you towards gaining employment within the wildlife, conservation and habitat and green space industries. The course will give you experience in a range of professional aspects of the industry. You will complete industry experience one day per week work experience within a local organisation.
Entry Requirements
4 GCSEs at grade 2 or above to include English and maths. Interest and enthusiasm in the countryside, wildlife and the environment plus the ability to cope with written work.
Course Structure
Course Description
Practical conservation skills including:
Using machinery
Using workshop tools
Growing trees and plants
Tree planting
Habitat maintenance
Estate maintenance skills
Progression
Countryside assistant, Assistant warden/Ranger, Countryside contractor – walling, hedge laying, fencing, etc, Estate worker, General farm worker