Horticultural worker
Australian Inland Botanic Gardens

Do you have a keen interest in the Horticulture: Parks and Gardens Industry? If so, Australian Inland Botanical Gardens (The Gardens) will give you a great opportunity to gain experience as a Horticulture Trades Assistant in Parks and Gardens.

Native trees, garden beds and landscaping are important public offering at The Gardens, bringing aesthetic, environmental and practical benefits. Parks and Gardens staff maintain plantings all year round.

This is an ideal placement for a student currently studying a VDSS subject in Horticulture or Rural Operations to gain skills with our regions local Botanic Gardens.

Sounds like a pretty good employer to have on your resume doesn't it? Make Australian Inland Botanical Gardens your SWL work placement.

Skills You Might Learn

The student may have the opportunity to attain a broad range of skills while on work placement. These may include valuable employability skills such as;
• Communication.
• Teamwork.
• Attention to detail.
• Punctuality.
• Presentation.
• Hygiene.
• Problem solving.
• Planning.
• Initiative.
• Follow instructions.
• Work under supervision.
• Industry specific OH&S.

The student may also attain vital industry specific skills which will relate to their secondary school studies they include:
• Hands-on practical experience.
• Observing and learning from industry qualified and experienced professionals.
• Working in real-life scenarios.
• Working with equipment necessary to the occupation.
• Liaising and working with supervisors, colleagues, industry personnel, customers/clients and suppliers.

Typical Tasks & Duties

The student will as a Horticulture Trades Assistant in Parks and Gardens will help planting and maintaining native trees, garden beds and landscaping in public areas as well as nursery settings.

The student may undertake the following tasks and duties;
• Assist with pressurised irrigation operations
• Plant trees and shrubs
• Recognise plants
• Assist with soil or growing media sampling and testing
• Support turf establishment
• Participate in work health and safety processes
• Assist with landscape construction work
• Undertake operational maintenance of machinery
• Assist with low volume irrigation operations
• Conduct visual inspection of park facilities

Student Requirements

Students with a positive attitude towards Horticulture: Parks and Gardens who are self-motivated, willing to listen and follow instruction are encouraged to consider a future SWL placement to develop skills learned from their VDSS subject relating to Horticulture: Parks and Gardens.

Whilst the students is attending the work placement they are expected to:
• Dress appropriately.
• Maintain interest and participate in tasks and work duties.
• Be well mannered and behave in a respectful and responsible manner.
• Be punctual.
• Follow management instructions.
• Act in accordance with Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) requirements.
• Work within the team.
• Listen and take advice from fellow workers.
• Respect other people’s belongings.
• Keep a note pad and pen handy to take notes for their own reference.
• Demonstrate the skills they have developed through their course.
• Take their Log Book to the work placement every day.

Dress Requirements

The student will be required to present in the following work attire;
• Work pants.
• Hi Visual work shirt long sleeve.
• Work boots, steel capped.
• Wide brim hat.

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) appropriate to the tasks and duties carried out by the student, will be supplied by the Host Employer.

Special Transport Requirements

Public Transport is limited, students to check bus transport availability and or speak to parents/carer to organise transport prior to contacting employer.

RELATED COURSES INCLUDE

• AHC20416 - Certificate II in Horticulture
• AHC30716 - Certificate III in Horticulture