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Garden & Outdoors Manager for Wentworth Castle Gardens

Employer
National Trust
Location
Barnsley, South Yorkshire
Salary
£31,671 per annum plus benefits package
Closing date
21 Oct 2018

Job Details

This is a truly one-off opportunity to shape a special place with the needs of the local community at its heart.

The National Trust is in lease negotiations to take over the running of this site- a magnificent Grade 1 Registered Park and Garden in South Yorkshire. We’re looking to build a new, creative and collaborative leadership team to enable more people to experience Wentworth Castle Gardens, through events, activities, volunteering and employment opportunities.

Bringing your horticultural experience, with experience of managing an indoor plant collection, plant propagation facilities and the management of complex landscapes of varying scales, you will lead a team of gardeners and volunteers to bring this great landscape back to life. 

Together you'll develop the gardens and wider parkland so they provide an inspirational setting for everyone and outdoor spaces that allow people to explore, learn, and deliver significant public benefit that enriches people’s lives. 

As well as making sure your team is able to manage the disparate outdoor and indoor spaces to the highest standards of conservation and opportunities are being taken to enhance the value of the landscape for nature, as Garden & Outdoors Manager, you'll be responsible for the strategic planning for the landscape and will gradually strengthen the heritage significance and historic assets by re-focusing maintenance and management across the site, including reviving and reinterpreting the Union Jack Garden and Fernery as a priority.

Company

There's no other organisation like the National Trust. No other organisation that brings such an amazing variety of places and spaces to life.

We are a charity founded in 1895 by Octavia Hill, Sir Robert Hunter and Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley, three people who saw the importance of our nation’s heritage and open spaces, and wanted to protect them for everyone to enjoy. More than a century after we were founded, our values are still at the heart of everything we do. And we do a lot more than you might think. 

We welcome some 22.5 million visitors, from all ages and backgrounds, every year. We care for historic houses, gardens, mills, forests, castles, miles of coastline, islands, holiday cottages, pubs and inns, whole villages and even a goldmine. We also run a huge retail chain, a multi-million pound food and beverage business and much, much more. And we do all of this so that everyone can enjoy and make the most of the green spaces and beautiful places that England, Wales and Northern Ireland has to offer. 

The National Trust is described by its employee gardeners as “dynamic, supportive, inquisitive and fun”, where its beautiful places “lift your spirits naturally” and “somewhere you can expand new skills”. The organisation is currently recruiting for a number of gardening roles. 

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