Gardener

Job Title: Gardener

Location: Lingfield, RH7

Hours: 24 hours per week / Part Time (3 days a week)

Salary: £11,262.86 per annum

Our client is a Residential and Nursing Home for retired Anglican Clergy, with 9 acres of beautiful grounds including a small woodland, vegetable garden and pond.

Due to all their continued success across the years, our client is currently looking for a skilled, experienced and passionate gardener with a good knowledge of vegetable growing. The ability to safely operate garden machinery is essential, and a weed spray ticket would be an advantage.

Duties Will Include:

• General weeding and weed killing, clearing and tidying of the College grounds.
• Keeping the grass tidy by mowing, strimming and edging with particular attention to the croquet and putting lawns.
• Looking after the standard and bush roses around the front courtyard.
• Growing a supply of vegetables for the kitchen as agreed.
• Harvesting the apple, pear and plum trees from our small orchard.
• Growing flowers for use within the College.
• Annual pruning and cutting back of all hedges, shrubs, roses and fruit trees.
• Maintain all gardening equipment and machinery and ensure they are secured after use.

The successful candidate will be:

• Experienced gardener with some knowledge of horticulture.
• Able to maintain high standards.
• Well organised with good time management skills.
• Able to work well as a team and on their own.
• Able to demonstrate passion for gardening and working outdoors.

Our client offers a competitive salary, supporting work environment, good work-life balance, enhanced holiday and sick pay, free meals (T&S applies), and ongoing learning and development opportunities.

If you feel you’re the ideal candidate that our client is looking for, then send in your CV today by clicking the APPLY button below.

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