Florist EFZ

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Florist EFZ

Apprenticeship

Workplace: Chur

Workload: 100% Apply online now

Florist is a nature-related profession characterised by variety and creativity. At ARBES-Lädali vu da PDGR in Chur, we train apprentices as Florists EFZ. ARBES is the sheltered workshop of PDGR and offers sheltered workplaces for people with a mental impairment in its shop and nursery.

You will learn your professional, methodological, social and personal skills by creating floral arrangements, working with people with mental impairments and daily customer contact in the shop. Thanks to the attached ARBES nursery, you will gain insight into cultivating plants and flowers.

Our basic attitude in your training

• We strive for a learning environment characterised by mutual respect, tolerance and openness.
• We offer you space to assume your role as an apprentice florist.
• We enable you to experience 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 progressive process.
• Through differentiated, constructive and justified feedback, we achieve learning success 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:

• School education in compulsory lessons takes place one day a week. For this, you attend the Vocational and Further Education Centre Rorschach-Rheintal (BZR).
• The inter-company courses (ÜK) support your learning success by imparting basic and industry-specific skills.
• The practical vocational training takes place at ARBES-Lädali vu da PDGR in Chur.

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

Our requirements for you

• You enjoy and are interested in flowers and plants
• You enjoy customer contact and sales
• You have a good grasp and manual dexterity
• You are creative and have a good eye for colours 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 work as a florist or aim for the professional examination for florists with a federal diploma. 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 landscape gardener EFZ is also possible.

The higher technical school offers you the opportunity to continue your education as a certified colour designer HF.

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

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

Selection procedure

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. The selection days give you insight into everyday work and allow us to get to know each other better. The selection days are organised by us and take place at ARBES-Lädali in Chur.

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

Your advantages at a glance

We offer you a vocational training tailored to you. At PDGR, we generally train all apprentices at the Federal Vocational Certificate (EFZ) level.

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

We support you if you aim to obtain the vocational baccalaureate (BM) during your apprenticeship. Please inform us of your interest with your application.

As a competitive athlete, we enable you, in consultation with the Office for Vocational Training and your sports association/club, to have special training conditions to create an ideal combination between vocational training and competitive sport. During the preliminary check, we carefully consider whether your sport is compatible with your chosen apprenticeship and training goals.

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

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

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

Out of everyday life – the apprentice day is the annual highlight for our apprentices. Once a year, you meet all apprentices for a joint activity. Examples from past apprentice days include gold panning in Surselva, planting fir trees with WWF in Prättigau, or visiting the RhB workshops in Landquart.

The day promotes exchange among apprentices from different professions and offers you a cross-professional experience.

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

Tips for your budget planning can be found here.

We strive to offer apprentices a varied and well-supported apprenticeship in all areas and professions. As a company with over 1,200 employees, we use our diverse opportunities. This allows us to give our apprentices insights into different 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 works constructively with other professions – this is how we move forward. Your ideas and opinions are also desired and welcome.

Learn more about our values here.

Workday and collaboration

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

If you cannot manage alone or with your environment, sometimes talking to an external specialist helps. For this, we have an independent counselling service available to employees – neutral, anonymous and free of charge.

Learning and succeeding at the three learning locations

Difficulties at school, in ÜK or practical learning? We are happy to support our apprentices individually with their personal challenges during the apprenticeship. We encourage attending support courses or other offers from your vocational school.

Your training company

The PDGR and its values

"Open psychiatry – by leading experts for the people" is our vision. You are the expert – with your expertise, 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 stand as a beacon and are an important support for society.

Your contacts

Tanja Rosa Schindler

Head of ARBES-Lädali

Tanja Rosa Schindler

Loëstrasse 220