Gardener (Permanent)

Gardener (Permanent)

Key Responsibilities:

• Mowing: Ensure lawns are mowed and maintained to required standards.
• Shrub and Border Maintenance: Maintain shrubs and herbaceous borders to specified standards.
• Turf and Leaf Maintenance: Manage turf maintenance including dew removal, debris clearance, reseeding, and watering, especially in summer.
• Seasonal Bedding: Prepare and maintain seasonal bedding, pot plants, and weed control.
• Gravel Path Maintenance: Level, rake, and repair gravel paths as needed.
• Litter Management: Ensure the site is free of rubbish and waste.
• Hedge and Trimming Maintenance: Trim hedge lines, tree bases, and maintain precise edging.
• Fruit, Tree, Wall, and Vine Maintenance: Thin fruit, water, and harvest as required.
• Water Courses/Ponds/Waterfalls: Control Pond weed and preserve water features.
• Woodland Maintenance: Maintain woodlands to required standards.
• Non-Specific Areas: Maintain gravel drives, clear and clean inflatables like bouncy castles.
• Any tasks or responsibilities as requested by management within the scope of the position.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Garden Maintenance Experience is essential.
• Spraying Course PA1/PA6 is desirable.
• Chainsaw Maintenance/Crosscutting Course is desirable.
• Gardening Qualification is desirable.
• Extensive Plant Knowledge is desirable.