Garden Team Member
- Employer
- Trentham Estate
- Location
- Trentham, Stoke-on-Trent
- Salary
- £27,800
- Closing date
- 25 Feb 2025
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- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- Gardening Jobs
- Sector
- Countryside, Parks & Open Space, Groundskeeping & Maintenance
- Seniority
- Executive
Job Details
Garden Team Member
We’re hiring! Fancy joining the Trentham Gardens Team?
The Trentham Estate is a special place. Set in 725 acres of spectacular natural beauty, Trentham is one of Staffordshire’s flagship visitor destinations. The award-winning historic Trentham Gardens has extensive SSSI woodlands, a mile-long lake, an exciting events calendar, a unique outdoor shopping village and is adjacent to the Monkey Forest visitor attraction.
It’s an exciting time in the Gardens here at Trentham. We are currently collaborating with Tom Stuart-Smith, Professor Nigel Dunnett and David Austin Roses on various projects across the Gardens focussing on sustainable new and revised planting schemes, that are designed with a changing climate in mind. This includes a focus on stable and resilient plant selection whilst considering what medium we are planting into.
If you have a passion for gardening in historic, yet diverse environment and are ready for an exciting challenge, then please get in touch.
The Purpose
Our purpose is to nurture and grow this wonderfully special place for people, nature and wildlife to thrive. As a Gardener, you will be playing a vital role in ensuring we achieve this. We are recruiting into a talented team to help us achieve our goals and ambitious set of projects.
Key Accountabilities
- Reporting to the Supervisor, you will play a key role in maintaining and developing the garden, working as part of the team and independently. There are a huge variety of tasks within the diverse Gardens and are after someone with an efficient and practical approach to working. This includes the day-to-day maintenance as well as supporting the delivery of various the projects.
- High standards of maintenance, presentation and development of horticultural features and supporting infrastructure within the Garden. You will take responsibility of certain areas/projects within the garden ensuring you are able to develop in role and make your own mark on the gardens.
- You will be proud and passionate about the work we do and happy to share this with our visitors.
- To work in a flexible and adaptable way. Providing support across the Garden as needed which includes weekends and late shifts on rota.
- Supporting wider teams across the Estate, with a proactive and ‘can do’ attitude. Day-to-day supporting and liaising with volunteers.
- Maintain knowledge and adhere to relevant Policies and Procedures, Legislation and Regulations.
Essential Skills/ Qualifications:
Essential
- RHS Level 2 in Horticulture or equivalent.
- Broad and expanding knowledge and passion of plants and horticulture.
- Practical horticultural skills gained through work experience – paid or voluntary. Ideally in a visitor facing/open garden would be desirable.
- Proficient use of a wide range of garden machinery, including mowers, tractors, strimmers, blowers.
Desirable
- PA1 and PA6
- Chainsaw certificates
- Tractor driving
- First aid
You’ll also get a package that includes:
- Salary range £27,800 25 days holiday + BH
Company
TRENTHAM ESTATE
The Trentham Estate, in the village of Trentham, is a visitor attraction located on the southern fringe of the city of Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, United Kingdom
- Location
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Adamson House
Manchester
Manchester
M50 1RD
GB
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