Pearson Education Ltd · RQF Level 2
Pearson Edexcel Level 2 Diploma in Work-Based Environmental Conservation
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits37
- Guided learning342 hours
- Units in this qualification121
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These are the units Pearson Education Ltd registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Carry out habitat managementReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Be able carry out maintenance tasks
- Manage vegetation in different types of habit
- Select, use and maintain equipment for manage vegetation
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Carry out maintenance
- Know and understand the need to manage vegetation
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
- Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental good practice.
Carry out habitat management work to maintain suitable coastal site conditionsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain suitable coastal site conditions
- Select, use and maintain equipment for maintaining suitable coastal site conditions
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Maintain suitable coastal site conditions
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
- Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Carry out habitat management work to maintain suitable site conditions for grasslandReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain suitable site conditions for grassland
- Select, use and maintain equipment for maintaining suitable conditions for grassland
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Maintain suitable site conditions for grassland
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
- Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Carry out habitat management work to maintain suitable site conditions for heathlandReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain suitable site conditions for heathland
- Select, use and maintain equipment for maintaining suitable site conditions for heathland
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Maintain suitable site conditions for heathland
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
- Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Carry out habitat management work to maintain suitable site conditions for hedgerows / farmlandReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain suitable site conditions for hedgerows/farmland
- Select, use and maintain equipment for maintaining suitable site conditions for hedgerows-farmland
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Maintain suitable site conditions for hedgerows / farmland
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
- Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Carry out habitat management work to maintain suitable site conditions for moorlandReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain suitable coastal site conditions for moorland
- Select, use and maintain equipment for maintaining suitable site conditions for moorlands
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Maintain suitable site conditions for moorland
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
- Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Carry out habitat management work to maintain suitable site conditions for wetlandReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain suitable site conditions for wetland
- Select, use and maintain equipment for maintaining suitable site conditions for wetland
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Maintain suitable site conditions for wetlands
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
- Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Carry out habitat management work to maintain suitable site conditions for woodlandsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain suitable site conditions for woodlands
- Select, use and maintain equipment for maintaining suitable site conditions for woodlands
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Maintain suitable site conditions for woodland
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
- Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Carry out the fabrication and installation of permanent structures for the water environmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Carry out the fabrication and installation of permanent structures
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Carry out the fabrication and installation of permanent structures
- Understand wider environmental issues
Chainsaw maintenanceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out maintenance of a chainsaw
Co-ordinate and oversee habitat management workReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Co-ordinate and oversee habitat management work
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Understand how to co-ordinate and oversee habitat management work
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Collect, sort and process materials for recyclingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Collect materials for recycling
- Sort materials for recycling
- Process materials for recycling
- Use equipment in recycling materials
- Protect your own and others health and safety
- Collect, sort and process materials for recycling
- Know the relevant health and safety and other legislation in recycling materials
Communicate with the public and othersReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Communicate with the public and others.
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Communicate with the public and others
- Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental good practice.
- Understand the values of the organisation
Conduct and report on a field survey for access networksReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Collect and record field survey data for access networks
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Report on the field survey for access networks
Conduct and report on a field survey for animalsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Collect and record field survey data for animals
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Report on the field survey for animals
Conduct and report on a field survey for habitat typesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Collect and record field survey data for habitat types
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Report on the field survey for habitat types
Conduct and report on a field survey for peopleReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Collect and record field survey data for people
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Report on the field survey for people
Conduct and report on a field survey for physical featuresReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Collect and record field survey data for physical features
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Report on the field survey for physical features
Conduct and report on a field survey for plantsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Collect and record field survey data for plants
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Report on the field survey for plants
Construct, maintain and repair access gatesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Construct, maintain and repair access gates
- Select, use and maintain equipment for the construction, maintenance and repair of access gates
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Construct, maintain and repair access gates
- Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental good practice.
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Construct, maintain and repair aggregate pathsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Construct, maintain and repair aggregate paths
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Know the different types of path
- Construct, maintain and repair paths
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Construct, maintain and repair banksReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Construct, maintain and repair banks
- Select, use and maintain equipment for the construction, maintenance and repair of banks
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Construct, maintain and repair banks
- Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Construct, maintain and repair bark pathsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Construct, maintain and repair bark paths
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Construct, maintain and repair bark paths
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Construct, maintain and repair boardwalksReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Construct, maintain and repair boardwalks
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Construct, maintain and repair boardwalks
- Know the difference between boardwalk paths and other types of path
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Construct, maintain and repair flag pathsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Construct, maintain and repair flag paths
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Construct, maintain and repair flag paths
- Know the difference between flag paths and other types of path
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Construct, maintain and repair fordsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Construct, maintain and repair fords
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Construct, maintain and repair fords
- Distinguish between different types of access structure
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Construct, maintain and repair post and rail boundariesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Construct, maintain and repair post and rail boundaries
- Select, use and maintain equipment for the construction, maintenance and repair of post and rail fence boundaries
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Construct, maintain and repair post and rail fence boundaries
- Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental good practice.
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Construct, maintain and repair post and wire fence boundariesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Construct, maintain and repair post and wire fence boundaries
- Select, use and maintain equipment for the construction, maintenance and repair of post and wire fence boundaries
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Construct, maintain and repair pot and wire fence boundaries
- Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Construct, maintain and repair reinforced pathsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Construct, maintain and repair reinforced paths
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Construct, maintain and repair reinforced paths
- Know the difference between reinforced paths and other types of path
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Construct, maintain and repair signs/way markersReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Construct, maintain and repair signs/way markers
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Construct, maintain and repair signs/way markers
- Distinguish between different types of access structure
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Construct, maintain and repair simple bridgesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Construct, maintain and repair simple bridge
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Construct, maintain and repair simple bridges
- Distinguish between different types of access structure
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Construct, maintain and repair stepsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Construct, maintain and repair steps
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Construct, maintain and repair steps
- Distinguish between different types of access structure
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Construct, maintain and repair stilesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Construct, maintain and repair stiles
- Select, use and maintain equipment for the construction, maintenance and repair of stiles
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Construct, maintain and repair stiles
- Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental good practice.
Construct, maintain and repair stone pitched pathsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Construct, maintain and repair stone pitched paths
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Construct, maintain and repair stone pitched paths
- Know the difference between stone pitched paths and other types of path
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Construct, maintain and repair stone wall boundariesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Construct, maintain and repair stone wall boundaries
- Select, use and maintain equipment for the construction, maintenance and repair of stone wall boundaries
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Construct, maintain and repair stone wall boundaries
- Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental good practice.
Contribute to restoring polluted environments to acceptable conditionsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Assess the site
- Assist and complete operations in the restoration of polluted environments to acceptable conditions
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Know the methods and reasons for restoration of polluted environments to acceptable conditions
- Understand the methods and reasons for the restoration of polluted environments to acceptable conditions
- Select, use and maintain equipment for restoring polluted environments to acceptable conditions
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
- Know the current health and s
Control vertebrate pest populations using chemical meansReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Determine the need for vertebrate pest control
- Control vertebrate pest populations using chemical means
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Maintain accurate records
- Determine the need for vertebrate pest control.
- Control vertebrate pest populations using chemical means
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Maintain accurate records
Control vertebrate pests and predators by shootingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Determine the need for vertebrate pests and predator control.
- Shoot vertebrate pests and predators.
- Handle firearms and ammunition according to legal requirements
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Maintain accurate records
- Determine the need for vertebrate pests and predator control
- Shoot vertebrate pests and predators.
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Maintain accurate records
Control vertebrate pests and predators using trapsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Determine the need for vertebrate pests and predator control
- Trap vertebrate pests and predators
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Maintain accurate records
- Determine the need for vertebrate pests and predator control.
- Trap vertebrate pests and predators
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Maintain accurate records
Control water channel capacity by manual operationsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Control channel capacity using manually operated water control systems
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Understand plans for controlling channel capacity
- Control channel capacity by the control of water transfer
Cross-cut and stack small diameter timber using a chainsawReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Crosscut and stack small diametre timber using a chainsaw
Deal with accidents and emergencies involving children and young people during environmental activitiesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Deal with accidents and emergencies whilst working with children and young people during environmental activities
- Deal with accidents and emergencies when working with children and young people during environmental activities
Deliver and evaluate interpretive entertainment and educational activitiesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Deliver interpretive and educational activities
- Evaluate the activities
- Understand how to deliver interpretive entertainment and educational activities
- Understand how to evaluate the activities
Encourage and motivate volunteersReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Motivate volunteers by promoting the special ethos and values of volunteering
- Recognise voluntary effort by valuing volunteer contributions
- Understand how to motivate volunteers by promoting the special ethos and values of volunteering
- Understand how to recognise voluntary effort by valuing volunteer contributions
Encourage involvement in recyclingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Promote recycling to others
- Understand the need to encourage and involve people in recycling
- Know the implications of this work in respect of health and safety, waste legislation and regulations
Establish and maintain effective working relationships with othersReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain working relationships with others
- Understand why good working practices are important
Establish and protect coastal vegetationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Establish and protect coastal vegetation
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
- Establish and protect coastal vegetation
- Distinguish between a coastal habitat and other types of habitat
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
Establish and protect grassland vegetationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Establish and protect grassland vegetation
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
- Establish and protect grassland vegetation
- Distinguish between a grassland habitat and other types of habitat
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
Establish and protect heathland vegetationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Establish and protect heathland vegetation
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
- Establish and protect heathland vegetation
- Distinguish between a heathland habitat and other types of habitat
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
Establish and protect hedgerows/farmland vegetationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Establish and protect hedgerows/farmland vegetation
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
- Establish and protect hedgerows/farmland vegetation
- Distinguish between a hedgerow/farmland habitat and other types of habitat
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
Establish and protect moorland vegetationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Establish and protect moorland vegetation
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
- Establish and protect moorland vegetation
- Distinguish between a moorland habitat and other types of habitat
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
Establish and protect wetland vegetationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Establish and protect wetland vegetation
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
- Establish and protect wetland vegetation
- Distinguish between a wetland habitat and other types of habitat
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
Establish and protect woodland vegetationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Establish and protect woodland vegetation
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
- Establish and protect woodland vegetation
- Distinguish between a woodland habitat and other types of habitat
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
Establishing plants or seeds in soilReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Select, use and maintain equipment
- Select and transport plants and/or seeds
- Establish plants and/or seeds in soil.
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Know the requirements for establishing healthy plants
- Deal with damage and pollution
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
- Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental good practice.
Give customers a positive impression of yourself and your organisation.Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Establish rapport with customers
- Respond appropriately to customers
- Communicate information to customers
- Understand how to give customers a positive impression of themselves and the organisation
Identify and respond to incidents of floodingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Work safely and in line with relevant legislation
- Assess incidents of flooding
- Implement plans for dealing with incidents of flooding
- Know the relevant health and safety and legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of incidents of flooding
- Produce and implement plans for dealing with incidents of flooding
- Deal with incidents of flooding
- Communicate during incidents of flooding
Identify the need for, and plan, habitat management workReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify habitat management work
- Plan for habitat management work
- Understand how to identify the need for habitat management work
- Understand the need to plan habitat management work
Implement environmental good practice at workReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Encourage environmental good practice at work
- Improve work activities to enhance environmental performance
- Understand how to encourage environmental good practice at work
- Understand how to improve work activities to enhance environmental performance
Installing drainage systemsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Install drainage systems
- Select, use and maintain equipment for installing drainage
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Know the principles of drain installation
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
- Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental practice.
Interpret surveys and report on findingsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret survey data and report on findings
- Understand how to Interpret survey data and report on findings
Involve people in community recyclingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Involve groups within the community in a recycling project
- Understand how to involve people in community recycling
- Understand the implications for work in respect of health and safety, waste legislation and regulations
Load and unload physical resources within the work areaReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Load and unload physical resources
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Load and unload physical resources
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Maintain and develop personal performanceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain personal performance
- Develop personal performance
- Develop personal performance
Maintain and improve water channel capacity by manual bank re-forming and de-silting operationsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant tools and equipment
- Manually re-form the bank and de-silt the channel
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of tools and equipment required and how to maintain them
- Understand plans for maintaining the water channel
- Manually re-form the bank and de-silt the channel
Maintain and improve water channel capacity by manually controlling vegetationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant tools and equipment
- Manually control vegetation using the appropriate methods
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of tools and equipment required and how to maintain them
- Understand plans for maintaining the water channel
- Manually control vegetation using the appropriate methods
Maintain and improve water channel capacity by manually removing debris and obstructionsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant tools and equipment
- Manually remove and dispose of debris and obstructions
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of tools and equipment required and how to maintain them
- Understand plans for maintaining the water channel
- Manually remove and dispose of debris and obstructions
Maintain and improve water levels and water flow by mechanically controlling vegetationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Maintain the water channel mechanically
- Restore the site following the maintenance of the water channel
- Understand the need to maintain the water channel mechanically and restore the site following the maintenance of the water channel
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Maintain and repair permanent structures for the water environmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental good practice.
- Select, use and maintain equipment for use in the maintenance and repair of permanent structures
- Carry out maintenance and repair
- Carry out maintenance and repair
Maintain and repair site furniture and structuresReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain and repair site furniture and structures
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Maintain and/or repair site furniture and structures
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Maintain drainage systemsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Inspect and maintain drainage systems
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Inspect and maintain drainage systems
- Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental practice.
Maintain environmental good practice at workReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain environmental good practice at work
- Deal with incidents of damage to the environment
- Maintain environmental good practice at work
- Deal with incidents of damage to the environment
Maintain equipment and machinesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare equipment and machines for maintenance
- Carry out maintenance procedures
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Prepare and carry out maintenance for equipment and machines
- Know relevant health and safety and legislation and environmental good practice
Maintain water level systemsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Adjust, monitor and maintain water level systems
- Identify equipment failure
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice.
- Adjust, monitor and maintain water level systems
Maintaining plants outdoorsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Select, use tools and maintain relevant equipment
- Maintain the health of plants outdoors
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Maintain the health of plants outdoors
- Know relevant health and safety and animal welfare legislation and environmental good practice
Maintaining plants outdoorsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain the health of plants outdoors
- Understand the principles of healthy plant growth
Manage the work of volunteersReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Plan the work of volunteers
- Prepare resources for volunteers
- Lead the work of volunteers
- Assess the work of volunteers and provide feedback
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Maintain accurate records
- Understand how to plan the work of volunteers
- Understand how to prepare resources for volunteers
- Understand how to lead the work of volunteers
- Understand how to assess the work of volunteers and provide feedback
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Under
Manage vegetation by coppicingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment for managing vegetation by coppicing
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Carry out the coppicing operation in line with site management requirements
- Carry out the coppicing safely
- Recognise the vegetation to be managed
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Manage vegetation by cutting/mowingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment for managing vegetation by cutting/mowing
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Carry out the cutting/mowing operation in line with site management requirements
- Carry out the cutting/mowing safely
- Recognise the vegetation to be managed
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Manage vegetation by fellingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment for managing vegetation by felling
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Carry out the felling operation in line with site management requirements
- Carry out the felling safely
- Recognise the vegetation to be managedState how to recognise
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Manage vegetation by hedge maintenanceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment for managing vegetation by hedge maintenance
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Carry out the hedge maintenance operation in line with site management requirements
- Carry out the hedge maintenance safely
- Recognise the vegetation to be managed
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Manage vegetation by mulchingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment for managing vegetation by mulching
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Carry out the mulching operation in line with site management requirements
- Carry out the mulching safely
- Recognise the vegetation to be managed
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Manage vegetation by pruningReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment for managing vegetation by pruning
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Carry out the pruning operation in line with site management requirements
- Carry out the pruning safely
- Recognise the vegetation to be managed
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Manage vegetation by sprayingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment for managing vegetation by spraying
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Carry out the spraying operation in line with site management requirements
- Carry out the spraying safely
- Recognise the vegetation to be managed
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Manage vegetation by thinningReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment for managing vegetation by thinning
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Carry out the thinning operation in line with site management requirements
- Carry out the thinning safely
- Recognise the vegetation to be managed
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Manage vegetation by uprootingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment for managing vegetation by uprooting
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Carry out the uprooting operation in line with site management requirements
- Carry out the uprooting safely
- Recognise the vegetation to be managed
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Mechanically maintain water channelsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Work safely and in line with relevant legislation
- Maintain the water channel mechanically
- Know the relevant health and safety and legislation
- Maintain the environment
- Maintain the water channel mechanically
Monitor and evaluate the construction and maintenance of structures and surfacesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- To be able to monitor and evaluate the construction and maintenance of structures and surfaces.
- Understand how to monitor and evaluate the construction and maintenance of structures and surfaces
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of habitat management workReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of habitat management work
- Understand how to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of habitat management work
Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of promoting the characteristics and values of the organisationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of promotion
- Understand the need to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of promotion
Monitor and report on environmental conditionsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Monitor environmental conditions
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Report on results of monitoring environmental conditions
- Understand the need to monitor environmental conditions
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Understand the need to report on environmental conditions
Monitor and report on water levelsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Obtain and monitor information on water levels
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Report on water levels
- Obtain and monitor information on water levels
- Understand the need to obtain and monitor information on water levels
- Report on water levels
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Monitoring and maintaining health and safetyReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain health, safety and security in the workplace
- Use equipment and materials safely
- Know the systems and procedures for maintaining health, safety and security.
- Understand why equipment is transported and stored safely
- Know the reason for following manufacturers’ guidance
- Maintain good standards of heath and safety for self and for others
- Understand how to maintain the health and safety of self and others
- Know the safe lifting techniques
- Maintain health and safety
Operate work boatsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Operate work boats
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Operate work boats
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Plan the construction and maintenance of structures and surfacesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- To be able to plan the construction and maintenance of structures and surfaces.
- Understand how to plan the construction and maintenance of structures and surfaces.
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Plan, deliver and evaluate environmental projectsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Plan environmental projects
- Deliver environmental projects
- Evaluate environmental projects
- Understand how to plan environmental projects
- Understand how to deliver environmental projects
- Understand how to evaluate environmental projects
Plan, prepare and operate safely in confined spacesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Plan and prepare to operate in confined spaces
- Operate safely in confined spaces
- Select, use and maintain equipment for working in confined spaces
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Understand how to plan and prepare for working in confined spaces
- Operate safety in confined spaces
- Know the types of equipment required and how to use and maintain them
- Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Prepare and apply pesticidesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to prepare for pesticide application
- Understand how to apply pesticides
- Understand how to carry out post-application procedures
- Understand the reasons for maintaining equipment
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Prepare for pesticide application
- Apply pesticides
- Carry out post-application procedures
- Maintain and use relevant equipment
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Maintain accurate records
Prepare and maintain the operational condition of work boatsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare and maintain the operational condition of workboats
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Prepare and maintain the operational condition of workboats
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Prepare and operate a power vehicle _excluding tractors_Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to prepare a power vehicle for operation
- Prepare a power vehicle for operation
- Understand how to operate a power vehicle
- Operate a power vehicle
Prepare and operate power tools and attachments when working in the environmental and land-based industries.Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Work safely and in-line with requirements
- Prepare power tools and attachments for use
- Use power tools and attachments safely to achieve specified work requirement
- Carry out post-stop checks and store tools
- Know the relevant legislation and codes of practice
- Understand the use of power tools
- Prepare and use power tools and attachments
Prepare and operate water-borne plantReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Prepare water-borne plant for use
- Operate water-borne plant
- Prepare water- borne plant
- Operate water-borne plant
- Know the environmental conditions which must be considered
- Know the relevant health and safety legislation
Prepare interpretive entertainment and educational activitiesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare interpretive, entertainment and educational activities
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Understand how to prepare interpretive entertainment and educational activities
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Prepare sites to create habitatsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare sites for habitats
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Prepare sites to create habitats
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Prepare the site for the fabrication and installation of permanent structures for the water environmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Prepare equipment for use
- Prepare the site for the fabrication and installation of permanent structures
- Prepare the site for the fabrication and installation of permanent structures
- Prepare, use and maintain equipment
- Know the relevant health and safety legislation
- Understand wider environmental issues
Prepare to undertake and report on a field surveyReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Collect and record data for field surveys
- Report on field surveys
Prepare, conduct and report on field surveysReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to collect data
- Collect and record data through field surveys
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Understand how to prepare for conducting surveys
- Understand the roles of team members in conducting surveys
- Understand how to conduct and report on field surveys
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Prepare, produce and evaluate interpretive mediaReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare briefs for producing interpretive media
- Monitor the production of interpretative media
- Evaluate the effectiveness of interpretative media
- Understand how to prepare briefs for producing interpretative
- Understand how to produce and monitor interpretive media
- Understand how to evaluate the effectiveness of interpretive media
Preparing ground for seeding and plantingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Select, use and maintain equipment
- Prepare ground for seeding and planting
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Prepare the ground.
- Know the types of hazards
- Know the types of weeds
- Know the types of equipment and materials required and how to maintain them
- Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental good practice.
Present and promote the characteristics and values of the organisationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Present and promote the characteristics and values of the organisation
- Promote the characteristics and values of the organisation
Produce management plans for environmental sitesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Assess site resources
- Produce site management plans
- Understand how to assess site resources
- Understand the factors which influence the production of plans
- Understand how to present the site management plans
- Understand the relevant legislation and policies
Promote responsible public use of the environmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Safeguard members of the public and others
- Safeguard the environment
- Safeguard members of the public and the environment
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Reinstate the site following repair of permanent structures for the water environmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Reinstate the site following repair of permanent structures for the water environment
- Reinstate the site following maintenance and repair
Reinstate the site following the fabrication and installation of permanent structures for the water environmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Reinstate the site following the fabrication and installation of permanent structures
- Reinstate the site following the fabrication and installation of permanent structures
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Understand the wider environmental issues
Remove unwanted plant growth to maintain developmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know the different types of unwanted plant growth
- Maintain plant development
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
- Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Select, use and maintain equipment
- Identify unwanted plant growth
- Remove unwanted plant growth
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
Research and plan environmental interpretationsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Research information for interpretations
- Plan information for interpretation
- Understand how to research information for interpretations
- Understand how to plan for interpretations
Restore the site following maintenance of the water channelReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Work safely and in line with relevant legislation
- Restore the site following maintenance of the water channel
- Know the relevant health and safety and legislation
- Maintain the environment
- Restore the site following maintenance of the water channel
- Deal with unforeseen circumstances
Site and install site furniture and structuresReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Site and install site furniture and structures
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Understand the need to site and install site furniture and structures
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Transport physical resources within the work areaReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Transport physical resources within the work area
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Transport physical resources within the work area
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Work with and consult the local communityReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Work with and consult the local community
- Understand the importance of working with and consulting the local community
Work with children and young people during environmental activitiesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Establish and maintain a healthy, safe and secure environment for children and young people
- Work with and protect children and young people during environmental activities
- Establish and maintain a healthy, safe and secure environment for children and young people
- Understand the implications of working with children during environmental activities.
Work within local coastal environmentsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify issues involved in working within local coastal environments
- Identify issues involved in working within local coastal environments
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 2 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Carry out habitat managementCarry out habitat management work to maintain suitable coastal site conditionsCarry out habitat management work to maintain suitable site conditions for grasslandCarry out habitat management work to maintain suitable site conditions for heathlandCarry out habitat management work to maintain suitable site conditions for hedgerows / farmlandCarry out habitat management work to maintain suitable site conditions for moorlandCarry out habitat management work to maintain suitable site conditions for wetlandCarry out habitat management work to maintain suitable site conditions for woodlands
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
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Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
Pearson Edexcel Level 2 Diploma in Work-Based Environmental Conservation
- Carry out work to create, restore or manage habitats
- Communicate effectively with the public and others about improving the health and wellbeing of the population
- Communicate risks to health, wellbeing and safety to a range of individuals and advise how the risks can be prevented, reduced or controlled
- Consult and work with the local community legacy
- Control vertebrate pest populations using chemical means (Legacy)
- Control vertebrate pest populations using chemical methods Legacy
- Control vertebrate pests and predators by shooting Legacy
- Control vertebrate pests and predators using traps Legacy
Where this can lead
Associate Global Environmental Monitoring Officer
Your journey starts here, collecting vital data. With dedication and a thirst for learning, you can build a truly impactful career in environmental compliance and protection. We're here to help you every step of the way.
See the whole journey →Opens the roleAssociate Global Environmental Monitoring OfficerOne of the jobs this qualification is a route intoSee the role →Opens the roleEnvironmental Monitoring Assistant ManagerOne of the jobs this qualification is a route intoSee the role →Opens the roleEnvironmental Monitoring OfficerOne of the jobs this qualification is a route into · 1 near-identical record folded inSee the role →Future FluencyAll ten future skillsSee how every unit is contextualised by the tenExplore →
Showing 3 roles, drawn from 4 job records mapped to this qualification.
Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
Carry out work to create, restore or manage habitatsCommunicate effectively with the public and others about improving the health and wellbeing of the populationCommunicate risks to health, wellbeing and safety to a range of individuals and advise how the risks can be prevented, reduced or controlledConsult and work with the local community legacyControl vertebrate pest populations using chemical means (Legacy)Control vertebrate pest populations using chemical methods LegacyControl vertebrate pests and predators by shooting LegacyControl vertebrate pests and predators using traps LegacyCreate acceptable dry conditions for restoration operationsIdentify hazards and assess risks to health, wellbeing, and safety from information provided by individualsInstall Land Drainage SystemsInstall Site FurnitureLead and motivate volunteersMaintain and improve game and wildlife habitatMaintain and repair site furnitureMaintain good environmental practice in day to day work activitiesMaintain the health, safety and security of your working environmentManage infrastructure for a wildlife management area+8 more
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
One-to-one, on your real workNo lectures, no past-papers. Every unit is practised on the actual tasks your job throws at you, a tutor beside you, not a video in front of you.
Taught to the top, not the testMost courses stop at remembering. Your companion keeps climbing: analysing, judging, creating. That’s the part a machine can’t do for you.
Credits you keep, a map that continuesEvery unit is regulated and yours for good. The day you finish, Zavmo already knows the next role your new credits open.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Which job do you mean?
How the thinking builds
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Pearson Edexcel Level 2 Diploma in Work-Based Environmental Conservation
120 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.
- Carry out habitat management
- Carry out habitat management work to maintain suitable coastal site conditions
- Carry out habitat management work to maintain suitable site conditions for grassland
- Carry out habitat management work to maintain suitable site conditions for heathland
- Carry out habitat management work to maintain suitable site conditions for hedgerows / farmland
- Carry out habitat management work to maintain suitable site conditions for moorland
and 114 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
Why this matters: AI can already remember and understand for you. What it can’t do is
take your real problem and judge the right call. So the only learning worth paying
for is the learning that takes you to the top. That’s exactly what a tutor doing it with
you, on your real work, is for.
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.