About this role
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.