Closes in 17 days (Wednesday 30 July 2025 at 11:59pm)
Searle & Son are offering an exciting opportunity to join their team as a General Farm Worker Apprentice. This is a great opportunity to develop new skills gain and insight in livestock and arable farming.
Wage
£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
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Hours Shifts to be arranged but scheduled between Sunday to Monday 8am to 5pm
40 hours a week
Monday 8 September 2025
Duration
1 year 3 months
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
Duties to include but are not limited to:
* Livestock Handling and husbandry (Dairy Cows & Young Stock)
* Grassland Management – Grazing, Silage
* Tractor Driving
* General Farm work and Maintenance
* Maintaining machinery, property, hedges and fences
* Growing & Harvesting Maize & Cereals
Where you'll work
LOWER ROSUDGEON FARM
PRUSSIA COVE ROAD
ROSUDGEON
PENZANCE
TR20 9AX
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
* Identify hazards and risks in the workplace, prepare risk assessments and demonstrate high level of health and safety awareness at all times.
* Maintain the correct hygiene and bio-security procedures for the site, in accordance with relevant legal requirements
* Check that animal welfare needs related to their environment and housing are maintained, including manure management, ensuring the suitability of indoor and outdoor environment and bedding up of animals
* Assist with safe restraint, moving and handling of livestock.
* Legally operate a farm vehicle and each attachment according to health and safety requirements. For example, tractors and ATVs along with other vehicles integral to the business.
* Demonstrate good environmental practice in the workplace, in accordance with environmental assessment plans and associated legal requirements
* Assist with post-harvest activities to meet crop and forage specifications, in a safe and environmentally acceptable way
* Carry out maintenance of farm infrastructure (including housing for livestock, boundaries and electric or non-electric fences), machinery and equipment, as instructed
* Complete manual and electronic records in accordance with legislation and the business processes.
* Monitor and maintain health & welfare of livestock and assist with treatments when appropriate.
* Monitor the quantity and quality of grass and forage crops and report findings to appropriate person.
* Provide feed and water to livestock as instructed and report any issues to appropriate person
* Assist with caring for livestock during the reproductive cycle, from service to weaning. For example, identify signs of heat.
* Produce products for sale from the business (for example, milking, shearing, lambing, harvesting)
* Assist with the preparation of the ground, including identification of soil condition through soil sampling and preparing crop for planting
* Load, unload and complete paperwork for transportation of resources manually and using loading equipment, according to instruction
* Monitor the growth and development of crops in line with customer specification, as instructed
* Identify hazards and risks in the workplace, prepare risk assessments and demonstrate high level of health and safety awareness at all times.
* Maintain the correct hygiene and bio-security procedures for the site, in accordance with relevant legal requirements
* Check that animal welfare needs related to their environment and housing are maintained, including manure management, ensuring the suitability of indoor and outdoor environment and bedding up of animals
* Assist with safe restraint, moving and handling of livestock.
* Legally operate a farm vehicle and each attachment according to health and safety requirements. For example, tractors and ATVs along with other vehicles integral to the business.
* Demonstrate good environmental practice in the workplace, in accordance with environmental assessment plans and associated legal requirements
* Assist with post-harvest activities to meet crop and forage specifications, in a safe and environmentally acceptable way
* Carry out maintenance of farm infrastructure (including housing for livestock, boundaries and electric or non-electric fences), machinery and equipment, as instructed
* Complete manual and electronic records in accordance with legislation and the business processes.
Your training plan
You will be working towards a Level 2 General Farm Worker Apprenticeship standard. Includes the following qualifications;
Award in Emergency First Aid at Work, which is a minimum of 1-day course (Ofqual regulated)
City & Guilds Principles of Safe Handling and Application of Pesticides Guidance or Lantra Safe use of Pesticides’
You will receive on and off the job training and support from an assessor and apprenticeship advisor.
As part of the apprenticeship training you will be required to attend Duchy College Rosewarne every Wednesday (during term times).
Requirements
GCSE in:
* Maths (grade D/3)
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They canadjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
* Logical
* Initiative
* Physical fitness
Other requirements
Work is in a rural location, reliable travel arrangements do need to be considered
About this company
Farming in West Cornwall in an area of outstanding beauty - Prussia Cove, Praa Sands and Rinsey. Mixed Farm, Traditional Family Farm150 Holstein Dairy Herd (Supplying milk for the production of Cathedral City Cheese) Salad Potato Production (growing Anya potatoes to supply Sainsburys). Growing Cauliflower, supplying all the major supermarkets.
After this apprenticeship
On successful completion of the apprenticeship you may wish to:
* Progress to a Level 3 Apprenticeship, such as Livestock Unit Technician, or Crop Technician
* Fulltime role with the company
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
CORNWALL COLLEGE
Apprenticeship Recruitment Team
0330 123 4785
The reference code for this apprenticeship isVAC1000324380.
Apply now
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