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Gardener

Employer
National Trust
Location
Grantham, Lincolnshire
Salary
£20,721 pa
Closing date
3 Oct 2021

Job Details

As a hands-on Gardener you’ll be part of a team of 5 making sure that the gardens at Belton House are maintained to a high standard while making everyone who visits feel welcome to enjoy the garden.

Grade one registered and dating from the 1600’s the garden sees over 400,000 visitors a year. Layered with formal parterres, pleasure gardens and lakes the garden boasts an iconic orangery (innovative in its style), fountain, mirror pond, maze, glorious spring bulb display, significant tree plantings and numerous structures and statues.

What it's like to work here

This quintessential English country house is a busy and vibrant place to be. Last year Belton House welcomed 450,000 visitors through its doors and numbers are growing fast. Belton House has opportunities across all areas so, if you are enthusiastic and committed to making this popular property the best it can be, the team would love to hear from you.

What you'll be doing

This role will include a range of practical horticultural tasks to help develop, enhance and conserve the garden. You'll be helping with hard and soft landscaping and general maintenance of the garden, pond and lake areas. Passionate and knowledgeable about plants you’ll support in the production of seasonal bedding displays from propagation to planting, help maintain and develop herbaceous borders and shrubberies; you’ll be cutting the hedges and mowing our lawns and helping to maintain our tools and equipment. 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 supervise and support our garden volunteers and help them to make the most of their time here, engage with visitors on a daily basis answering their questions; Present occasional garden tours, support or deliver activities in the garden and help set up events when needed.

You will work 37.5 hours usually Monday to Friday with Weekend Duty Gardener duties on a rotation (one weekend in 5).

Who we're looking for

Skills and experience required for the role:

  • Horticultural qualification
  • Experience in similar role
  • Machinery operation and maintenance
  • Experience working with volunteers

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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