Experienced Gardener

Herefordshire Care Homes Group which includes Whitegates Care Home & Highwell House require an experienced Gardener to work across both sites. You'll be a hands-on and involved in every aspect of gardening.

You will be responsible for day-to-day maintenance, and the highest standards of horticulture, you'll also play a vital role in improving the experience of our residents and visitors to the garden.

Set in Bromyard with breath taking views across the Bromyard Downs & Malvern Hills our care homes support many older people from Bromyard who all gain so much from the experience of nature and beautiful gardens.

What you'll be doing:

You'll be helping to keep the garden in tiptop condition every day. This might involve daily checks to make sure all areas are safe for our residents and for people visiting, tasks such as weeding, pruning and mulching, and using machinery such as hedge cutters, leaf blowers, lawnmowers and tractors.

You will maintain the lawns, boarders, hedges and sub-tropical palms for which the garden has developed over many years. You'll be responsible for maintaining and developing the varied horticultural areas in the garden and ensuring the garden is accessible to everyone.

You'll also be responsible for showcasing our garden and ensuring that everyone feels welcome. Other duties include propagation, preparing plants for planting, tree safety work and garden design and restoration. You'll be involved in recycling and managing waste, composting, along with the rest of the care home team.

We'd love to hear from you if you're:

• An enthusiastic horticulturist and hands-on gardener, who's worked with hard landscaping before knowledgeable about plants, with a great eye for detail.


• Experienced with machinery, including tractors, rotary and mowers, and with some knowledge of maintenance


• A driver with a full licence able to manage a demanding outdoor role good at talking to, and getting on with all kinds of people equally confident working within a team, with volunteers or on your own able to keep to time, plan and meet deadlines
  
  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 the people 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. Workplace pension scheme, shopping discount plus holiday purchase scheme, subject to meeting minimum criteria. Flexible working whenever possible Employee assistance programme Free parking Requirements Permanent f/t (40 hrs pw)