Qualification level

[Mark Bolam]

Help!

 

I've been asked to find a person to head up an in-house tree team for a housing company.

Part of the role will be supervising two tree surveyors.

 

The company are asking what sort of qualification level they should be asking for (as well as experience, obviously).

 

I'm thinking HND level?

 

Any input welcome.

[Tommy_B]

Will the surveyors be reporting to this role? Will they have to sign off on the recommendations?

[Mark Bolam]

It's a question I need to ask Tommy, as well as exactly what kind of surveys.

Probably BS5837.

[Arborist]

If it's a housing association it will more than likely be hazard tree inspections/reports and inspecting the standard of tree work that has been carried out.

I would have thought that at a minimum Tech cert/L4/Fdsc leading to L6/Bsc.

[Mark Bolam]

Thanks Paul, much appreciated.

[Arborist]

If you look on the AA website they have a list of all the quals and the type of position they are relevant to. If you can't find it I'll put the link up later as I'm just off out now.

[Mark Wileman]

I think this is what Arborist was referring to:

https://www.trees.org.uk/Trees.org.uk/files/5d/5d1f7bb0-68d0-4164-a65c-89e026ec71d7.pdf

[Chris at eden]

If it's a housing association it will more than likely be hazard tree inspections/reports and inspecting the standard of tree work that has been carried out.

I would have thought that at a minimum Tech cert/L4/Fdsc leading to L6/Bsc.

 

Spot on.

[daltontrees]

Help!

 

I've been asked to find a person to head up an in-house tree team for a housing company.

Part of the role will be supervising two tree surveyors.

 

The company are asking what sort of qualification level they should be asking for (as well as experience, obviously).

 

I'm thinking HND level?

 

Any input welcome.

 

It's not clear if you're tasking about the qualifications of the head of the team or the tree surveyors.

 

If it's the head of the team, there's no particular reason why they should have the qualifications necessary to do tree surveys.

[Mark Bolam]

That's pure gold fellas, thank you all.