City & Guilds Level 3 Diploma in Work-based Environmental Conservation

This qualification is designed primarily for learners who wish to develop practical skills and knowledge in a wide range of environmental and conservation skills to confirm occupational competence in specific job roles including:
● Team leader or supervisor in urban or peri-urban parks management
● Supervisor or manager for nature reserves and protected habitats
● Volunteer coordinator for organisations in the sector
● Team leader for National Trust and similar charitable organisations and publicly funded bodies
● Contractor providing services to the sector

It is ideal for learners who plan, deliver and evaluate routine workplace tasks and who may use this qualification as a stepping stone to higher different levels and onto relevant apprenticeships and career paths.

The qualification includes mandatory units to establish and maintain employment skills such as Health and Safety, Personal Performance and Effective working relationships along with promoting good environmental practice and communicating with the public and others.

Vocational skills within the qualification include: -
● Coordinating, overseeing and monitoring the effectiveness of habitat management work such as establishing and maintaining habitats (e.g. woodlands, grassland, upland, coastal) or construction of features and installations in the countryside or on access routes,
● Setting up surveys for plants, habitats, animals etc, interpreting and reporting findings,
● Preparing, producing and evaluating interpretive media,
● Managing the work of volunteers
● Promoting re-cycling
It can include other skills in the sector such as
● Promoting the characteristics and values of the organisation
● Managing people’s on-site behaviour and
● Setting up an IT systems

All units include a requirement for learners to carry out preparation for the tasks, to demonstrate safe working practice throughout and to work to ensure protection of the environment by minimising damage and managing waste.

All units include a knowledge section requiring the learner to demonstrate an understanding of the subject beyond that required to carry out the work. As part of an apprenticeship the knowledge section includes a separate “Business for Environmental Conservation” unit.

All units include a requirement for learners to facilitate the carrying out preparation of the tasks, to ensure safe working practice throughout and to work to ensure protection of the environment by minimising damage and managing waste.

Learners will choose combined units to meet their learning and development needs. This qualification is a Diploma requiring achievement of a minimum of 57 credits from a combination of prescribed units