Gardener
- Employer
- National Trust
- Location
- GU28 9LR, Petworth
- Salary
- 19,928 PA
- Closing date
- 21 Mar 2021
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- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- Gardening Jobs
Job Details
Summary
If you want a career in Gardening, we can offer you some of the most beautiful outdoor spaces in the UK to work in as well as one of the largest plant collections in Europe.
What it's like to work here
Change is taking place at Petworth House and Park and the team are looking for innovative people to join them. Petworth has an up and coming pleasure ground garden where the team are improving the conservation and historical presentation of the garden as well as the visitor enjoyment. We have a vision for our garden to rebuild the lost plant collection, restore historic features, and reinterpret the garden for a modern audience. If you have lots of ideas, energy, and ambition, then Petworth House could be the place for you.
The Petworth Outdoors team also look after the 700 acre 'Capability' Brown designed landscape deer park. Perhaps the best preserved of Brown's landscapes, nationally important for is priority habitats, and a major part of our outdoor offer. If you're not afraid to muck-in and help support the team in park works you'll be an asset to the team.
What you'll be doing
As a hands-on Gardener, you’ll assist in making sure that the gardens are maintained to a high standard. You’ll be passionate and enthused and knowledgeable about the varied plants within the garden. This role will include a range of practical horticultural tasks to develop, enhance and conserve the garden and contribute to the delivery of projects. You'll be helping with hard and soft landscaping and general maintenance of the garden, such as mulching, pruning, leaf clearing and weeding. You’ll support with the planting and maintenance of trees, shrubs, herbaceous plants. You’ll be helping to cut the hedges and mow our fine lawns. You’ll also take ownership of specific areas of the garden ensuring the highest standards are maintained and healthy plants are available for our visitors to enjoy.
You’ll also support garden volunteers and help them
to make the most of their time here. You’ll be expected to interact with the
public on a daily basis, answering the many questions, or help out with
visitor engagement, tours and helping set up events when needed.
Please also read
the full role profile attached to this advert
Who we're looking for
To be successful in this role you should be able to demonstrate the below:
Trained as a professional gardener/horticulturalist with a good level of practical experience.
- RHS Level 2 or equivalent.
- Have proven practical gardening/horticulture experience, as well as a strong knowledge of plants
- Confidence to participate in garden activities and events
- Competence with machinery/equipment use and maintenance; including tractors, chainsaws, and pedestrian mowers with accreditation as required for Health and Safety compliance.
The package
Benefits for working at the National Trust:
- Flexible working whenever possible
- Free parking at most locations
- Discounts in high street stores, cinemas, National Trust properties and cafes.
- Free entry to our properties for you, a guest and your children (under 18)
- Generous annual leave
- Subsidised health cash plan
- Free 24-hour support service
- Substantial pension scheme of up to 10% basic salary
- Training & Development tailored to you
- Up to 5 days of paid volunteering for you.
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.
Read more in our latest articles:
- Website
- http://www.ntjobs.org.uk/
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