Senior Gardener - Wisbech
- Employer
- The National Trust
- Location
- Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
- Salary
- 26,000 pa
- Closing date
- 9 Jun 2022
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- Sector
- Hotel jobs, Grounds Person, Housekeeper, Housekeeping & Maintenance
- Job Type
- Full Time, Part Time
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.
You’ll love working outdoors and understand that our gardens and grounds are as significant as our mansion houses, collections and our historical places. Our visitors tell us how much they enjoy the peace and tranquillity of our well-kept outdoor spaces, which makes your role vital in making sure our visitors have an amazing experience.
What it's like to work here
Peckover House is a secret gem, an elegant Georgian town house with a wonderful walled garden, lived in by the Peckover family for 150 years.
The gardens themselves are outstanding, 2 acres of sensory delight, complete with orangery, summer-houses, croquet lawn and rose garden with a variety of species of rose.
You’ll be joining at an exciting time at Peckover. We’ve big ambitions for our property, opening it up to visitors and the community as we’ve never done before and improving the horticultural offer and presentation of the heritage garden.
You’ll lead a team of around 20 volunteers and one full time Gardener and you'll be supported by your peers within the region and nationwide, in particular by your regional Gardens & Parks Consultant and Cultural Heritage Curator.
What you'll be doing
We don’t just need you to manage our beautiful gardens, although this is an important part of the role; we’d like you to help manage the team too. As the Senior Gardener in our team, we’d like you to lead by example, with exceptional gardening skills, but you’ll also understand how to manage the workload for this team, and deliver exceptional training to new staff and volunteers.
You'll be a part of our Portfolio Leadership Team and be the leader of your own garden, making you pivotal in shaping our ambitions and growth.
As a Senior Manager at Peckover, you'll be expected to take part in the Duty Manager rota, helping run our visitor operations (typically one weekend a month) and take part in our overnight 'on-call' rota (typically two to three days a month, two of which will be your weekend DM shift), helping keep our property safe.
On-call requires the successful applicant to live/be within 20 minutes of Peckover House on on-call days.
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 following:
- Significant practical experience in horticulture supported by relevant qualifications
- Have supervisory experience from a similar role
- Excellent knowledge of plants
- Competent with the use and maintenance of garden machinery including chainsaws, tractors, hedge trimmers, pedestrian and ride on mowers
- Knowledge of relevant health and safety legislation and practice
The package
The National Trust has the motto ‘For everyone, for ever’ at its heart. We’re working hard to create an inclusive culture, where everyone feels they belong. It’s important that our people reflect and represent the diversity of the communities and audiences we serve. We welcome and value difference, so when we say we’re for everyone, we want everyone to be welcome in our teams too.
Wherever you’re from, and whatever your background, we want to hear from you – and it doesn’t matter if you’re jam first, cream first, or even if you don’t like scones at all. Everyone is welcome.
Benefits for working at the National Trust include:
- Flexible working whenever possible
- Free parking at most locations
- Free entry to our properties for you, a guest and your children (under 18)
- Substantial pension scheme of up to 10% basic salary
Click here to find out more about the benefits we offer to support you.
Company
The National Trust is committed to promoting and preserving those places of natural beauty and historic interest for which it has the privilege to be responsible for the benefit of the nation, for everyone for ever.
The Trust is proud of what has been achieved over the last 126 years and is determined to maintain those high standards of conservation, stewardship and curatorial care for which it has been recognised throughout the world.
Its achievements have enabled the general public and the Trust’s members and visitors to enjoy and appreciate the countryside, coastline, gardens, historic buildings and collections, all of which encapsulate so much of the history of England, Wales and Northern Ireland. There is a duty to tell that history in a complete, balanced and accurate way, and without judgement.
The National Trust continues as a guardian of the past, and for the future, to uphold its duty to maintain and enhance what has been entrusted to its care.
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