Environmental Practitioner

Environmental Practitioner

Previously confined to conservation, waste management, and pollution control, the job of environmental practitioner has become more mainstream, entering many corporate areas.

As an apprentice, you will develop into a practitioner who can provide your business with a high level of professional environmental knowledge and a firm grasp of key issues and associated policies, regulations, and legislation.

You will most likely work in environmental policy and legislation, air quality, climate change, energy, water resources, waste management, ecology, acoustics, land pollution, sustainability, or landscape or heritage.

You will become an environmental practitioner capable of delivering innovative solutions that maintain, enhance, and minimise environmental impacts, such as coastal or flood defences.

What you’ll learn

On an environmental practitioner apprenticeship course, you’ll learn:

  • Advance technical principles of environmental science, including natural sciences, the impact of human influence, and their relationships with the built and natural environment. 
  • Environmental methods, tools, techniques and practices are used to interpret, monitor, and mitigate environmental harm, including health and safety, risk assessment and environmental management. 
  • To prepare, produce and present high-quality, accurate information in well-structured technical and non-technical documentation and communications for different interested parties. 

Entry requirements

You’ll usually need:

  • 4 or 5 GCSEs at grades 9 to 4 (A* to C) and A levels, or equivalent, for a degree apprenticeship
  • Apprentices without level 2 English and maths will need to achieve this before taking the end-point assessment.

Assessment methods

The End Point Assessment comprises two assessment methods:

  • Work-based project (WP) report and presentation with questioning
  • A structured interview (SI) underpinned by a portfolio 

Duration, level, subjects and potential salary upon completion

  • Duration: 60 months
  • Level: 6 – Degree Apprenticeship
  • Relevant school subjects: Science and geography
  • Potential salary upon completion: £26,000 per annum

Apprenticeship standard

More information about the Level 6 Environmental Practitioner Apprenticeship standard can be found here.

Apprenticeship end point assessment

For more information about the End Point Assessment Process, please read the Institute of Apprenticeships’ information page.

Updated on January 24, 2024

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