Florist / Florist EFZ

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Florist / Florist EFZ

Apprenticeship

Workplace: Chur

Workload: 100% Apply online now

Florist is a nature-connected profession characterized by variety and creativity. At ARBES-Lädali vu da PDGR in Chur, we train aspiring florists. ARBES is the protected workshop of PDGR and offers protected job opportunities for people with mental disabilities in its sales store and greenhouse.

You will learn your professional, methodological, social, and self-competence by creating floral arrangements, collaborating with people with mental disabilities, and through daily customer contact in the sales store. Through the attached ARBES greenhouse, you will benefit from insights into cultivating plants and flowers.

Our fundamental attitude in your training

• We strive for a learning climate characterized by mutual respect, tolerance, and openness.
• We provide you with space to take on your role as a trainee florist.
• We enable you to engage in various learning forms that promote individual, holistic, and self-directed learning.
• We have clear regulations; we define the scope of action together.
• You learn through practical work and reflection, systematically using leadership and training tools.
• We see learning in practice as a continuous and constructive process.
• Through differentiated, constructive, and reasoned feedback, we achieve learning successes together and promote your transfer thinking – from theory to practice.

Key points of your training

Your apprenticeship lasts 3 years and takes place over three learning fields:

• The school education in compulsory classes takes place on one school day per week. For this instruction, you will attend the Vocational and Continuing Education Center Rorschach-Rheintal (BZR).
• The inter-company courses (ÜK) support your learning success by imparting fundamental and industry-specific skills.
• The practical training takes place at ARBES-Lädali vu da PDGR in Chur.

During your vocational training, you have five weeks of vacation per year.

Our requirements for you

• You have joy and interest in flowers and plants
• You enjoy customer contact and sales
• You have a good understanding and manual skills
• You are creative and have a good eye for colors and shapes
• You are a curious personality
• You have no allergies
• You are a team player

Perspectives after your apprenticeship

After completing your apprenticeship, you will work as a florist in the profession or pursue the professional examination to become a florist with a federal certificate. You can also take the higher professional examination to become a certified master florist.

A shortened basic training as a potted plant and cut flower gardener EFZ or as a landscape gardener EFZ is also possible.

The higher vocational school offers you the opportunity for further education to become a certified color designer HF.

You can also choose to pursue further training as a craftsman BP or as a fashion designer HFP.

At the university of applied sciences, you have the opportunity to pursue a Bachelor of Science (FH) in Environmental Engineering, Agronomy, Landscape Architecture, or a Bachelor of Arts (FH) in Interior Design or Product and Industrial Design.

Selection process

After reviewing your application, you will be informed about the selection decision. If you are shortlisted, the training manager will arrange an interview and selection days. Through selection days, you will gain insight into everyday work, and we will get to know each other better. The selection days are organized by us and take place at ARBES-Lädali in Chur.

The hiring decision is made by at least two people, usually by the training manager and the head of ARBES.

Your advantages at a glance

We offer you a tailored vocational training. At PDGR, we fundamentally train all vocational courses at the level of Federal Certificate of Competence (EFZ).

Training for the Federal Vocational Certificate (EBA) is possible depending on the requirements and in certain professions after consultation with the education department.

We support you if you aim for vocational maturity (BM) during your apprenticeship. Please let us know your interest in your application.

As a competitive athlete, we enable you, in consultation with the Office for Vocational Education and your sports association, to have special training conditions to create an ideal combination of vocational training and competitive sports. In the preliminary clarification, we carefully check whether your sport can be reconciled with your chosen vocational training and educational goals.

All our trainees receive 5 weeks of vacation per year. If you work in the 43-hour week model, you even get 5 additional days (compensation days). These are worked off throughout the year within the framework of the 43-hour week.

On the introduction days in August, you will meet all new trainees at the Beverin Clinic in Cazis. After a welcome by Josef Müller, CEO, you will receive initial insights into PDGR and get job-specific information about your apprenticeship start. The day concludes with a joint aperitif, attended by your vocational trainer. Your parents and relatives are, of course, also invited.

The next two days will be spent together by all new trainees. We will work on various topics in workshops to prepare you for the start of your apprenticeship.

Out of everyday life – the trainee day is the annual highlight for our trainees. Once a year, you meet with all trainees for a joint activity. Gold panning in Surselva, planting trees with WWF in Prättigau, or visiting the RhB workshops in Landquart are examples of past trainee days.

The day promotes mutual exchange among trainees from different professions and allows you to have a cross-professional experience.

In every profession, there are industry-standard apprentice wages. Would you like a little more? We value our youngest employees and are happy to pay our trainees a little more so that they can manage well with their first income. Additionally, there is a 13th-month salary. There are also allowances for work on Sundays and evenings, for example, as a health professional – of course, always within the framework of youth protection.

Tips for your budget planning can be found here.

We strive to provide trainees in all areas and professions with a varied and well-supported apprenticeship. As a company with over 1,200 employees, we utilize our diverse opportunities. This way, we can give our trainees insights into various areas, and they can complete parts of their apprenticeship at different locations.

No matter which profession – you are part of the PDGR team and work with different employees and professions.

“Community” is one of our core values: Everyone contributes with their individuality and collaborates constructively with other professions – this is how we move forward. Your ideas and opinions are also welcome and appreciated.

Learn more about our values here.

Everyday work and collaboration

In your everyday work and private life, many exciting, new, unexpected, and challenging things happen – much of it for the first time. In the person of your vocational trainer, your supervisor, or your training manager, you always have a contact person. Talk about things that burden, overwhelm, or hinder you. Together, we will look for solutions and help you.

If you cannot move forward alone or with your environment, sometimes a conversation with an external professional can help. For this, we have an independent counseling service available for employees – neutral, anonymous, and free of charge.

Learning and succeeding at the three learning locations

Are you facing difficulties in school, in ÜK, or during practical learning? We are happy to support our trainees individually with their personal challenges during the apprenticeship. We promote attending support courses or other offerings from your vocational school.

Your training company

The PDGR and its values

“The open psychiatry – by leading experts for the people,” that is our vision. You are the expert – with your expertise, your skills, and above all, your personality, you enrich our interprofessional teams.

Our experts share their knowledge for the best possible quality. They are trustworthy, competent, and orient themselves to the latest findings. The PDGR stands as a lighthouse and is an important support for society.

Your contacts

Tanja Rosa Schindler

Head of ARBES-Lädali

Tanja Rosa Schindler

Loëstrasse 220

Your application

Are you curious about new things, curious about an apprenticeship at PDGR?

Then apply – we look forward to getting to know you!