Horticulture & Environment

Horticulture

The horticulture industry employs large numbers of staff in many types of enterprise: nurseries, parks and gardens, landscaping, and arboriculture.

New staff members have to be trained at substantial cost and it can take many years experience for a typical employee to gain the wide range of skills needed to tackle the full spectrum of tasks involved in a typical employer’s operations. Even after many years experience staff seldom have any formal qualification to confirm their great practical skill levels.

Australian Training and Consulting can work with employers who want their employees get national accreditation for their skills. ATAC can also provide training to allow employees to gain new skills.
The benefits to the employer include increased productivity; improved work quality; reduced costs; no loss of staff to off-the-job training classes every week or two; measurement of skills against national, industry-endorsed competency standards.

Employees will not only gain new skills but feel more valued as part of a team and achieve a nationally-recognised and VETAB-accredited qualification.

It is possible that employers may qualify to access State and Federal government financial incentives to allow their staff to take advantage of various programs.

All staff – full-time or part-time - may be eligible regardless of age and length of service. Employers who are considering employing new staff may be able to off-set the costs of training with the incentives. Australian Training and Consulting’s staff are able to determine each employer’s position. Call them on 02 6766 9040 to discuss the specifics of your business.

Australian Training and Consulting’s horticulture training packages develop career through an understanding of conservation, land management and operational practices.

They include:

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