Simulated workplaceCAQA Bloom and Stem Florists is a fictional business created by CAQA for training and assessment. It is not a real company and no person, client or record here is real.About this simulation
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Organisation

Our departments

Six departments make up the business. Each page shows the purpose, the people, the measures that matter and the systems the team works in.

Retail and Studio

Runs the two shop floors and the design studio, serving walk-in customers, taking phone and counter orders, maintaining displays and merchandising, and producing the everyday bouquets and arrangements that make up most of the business's daily sales.

Retail Manager11 staff

Events and Weddings

Consults with couples, planners and corporate clients, interprets design briefs, prepares proposals and quotations, plans production, and styles and installs floral work on site, including bump in, rigging and bump out for large installations.

Events Manager6 staff

Design and Production

The workroom team that constructs hand-tied, wired and base medium floristry products in volume for corporate accounts, funerals, online orders and events, maintains tools and equipment, and keeps mechanics, proportion and finish consistent across every site.

Head Designer7 staff

Buying and Stock

Buys at the wholesale flower market and direct from growers, receives and checks every delivery, conditions stock, monitors cool room temperatures, rotates stock and records wastage, so that designers always have fresh, correctly identified material to work with.

Buying and Stock Coordinator4 staff

Online and Deliveries

Manages the online store, phone and email orders, order allocation to the production benches, and the delivery fleet of three vans and contracted couriers, so that every order reaches the right address in the promised window and in the condition it left the bench.

Orders and Delivery Coordinator4 staff

Business Support

Provides leadership, finance, rostering, recruitment, training records, safety coordination and document control for the whole business, and holds the relationship with the accountant, insurers, landlords and the union where staff are members.

General Manager2 staff