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Head Gardener

Employer
English Heritage
Location
Kenwood House, Hampstead
Salary
From £35,853 per annum, depending on skills and experience
Closing date
22 Sep 2019

Job Details

Would you like to use your passion and creativity to nurture some of the country's most prestigious landscapes and inspire visitors from across the world? Then join us as Head Gardener at Kenwood House.

Kenwood is home to a world class art collection and its free to enter grounds are a fine example of Humphrey Repton's work covering 112 acres and including ornamental gardens, SSSI sphagnum bog and woodlands, meadows, lakes, and a striking range of rhododendrons and trees. The House attracts 140,000 visitors, while the ground attracts more than one million visitors throughout the year including large scale events.

We are looking for someone with a creative eye; high-quality park and landscape management experience; excellent horticultural knowledge and skills; and a talent for leadership who can build relationships across teams, visitors, and community groups. You’ll know how to ensure visitors enjoy their day out - from sharing your gardening knowledge, supporting large scale events, to ensuring their health and safety. Project management, ICT and budgeting skills are also a must for this busy and dynamic role.

You'll find it's a workplace like no other - taking you behind the scenes of these extraordinary sites and supporting you to share your ideas, inspire others and make a difference.

By joining us, you'll enjoy the rewards of a great team environment in inspiring locations, helping to make our site a wonderful place to visit. You'll also be joining our charity, which through our 400+ historic monuments, buildings and sites, brings the story of England to life for over 10 million visitors each year. We offer a competitive benefits package including a generous pension, 25 days leave a year and free entry to all English Heritage properties for you, another adult and up to 6 children (under the age of 19).

Company

Joining us means working somewhere a little different. A career with us as part of our Gardens Team could see you conserve and restore some of the most significant gardens in England, and enable our visitors to enjoy the great cultural heritage of our gardens.

We have dedicated garden teams who maintain and bring to life 11 key gardens across England.  Our gardens illustrate the depth of horticultural history from across the centuries, from the Elizabethan garden at Kenilworth Castle through to the 1930’s gardens at Eltham Place, and vary in size from Down House, the home of Charles Darwin and his garden of international significance, to the magnificent Osborne House, Queen Victoria’s palatial holiday home on the Isle of Wight. 

Career paths

A passion for gardens and people is essential as our gardens provide the focal point of many of our visitors seeking to understand both the history as well as our future plans. You could join us within a number of different roles from Trainee or Gardener through to a Head Gardener or Gardens Advisor. Each site will offer a unique starting point from where you can shape a career that aligns with your horticultural skills and personal interests. 

Company info
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Telephone
01179 750739
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Engine House
Swindon
Wiltshire
SN2 2EH
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