Contract Gardener

**Gardener**

**Salary: £14 per hour**

**Hours: 16 hours (Temp Contract)**

**Location: Ivy Bank House, Ivy bank Park, Bath, Somerset, BA2 5NF**

**Job Overview**:
Our beautiful care home Ivy Bank Care Home In Bath is seeking a skilled and dedicated Gardener to join our team on a short term contract. As a Gardener, you will be responsible for maintaining our beautiful gardens. This is a hands-on role that requires knowledge of landscape maintenance, gardening techniques, and the use of power and hand tools. We are looking for someone with strong gardening knowledge.

**Duties**:

- Perform regular landscape maintenance tasks, including mowing, trimming, and edging lawns
- Plant, water, and care for flowers, shrubs, and trees
- Prune and shape plants to maintain their health and appearance
- Use of a jet wash to clean paths
- Clean and maintain garden beds by removing weeds and debris.
- Operate power tools such as lawn mowers, trimmers, and blowers
- Use hand tools such as shovels, rakes, and pruners for various gardening tasks
- Collaborate with other team members to plan and execute landscaping projects

**Requirements**:

- Proven experience in gardening
- Knowledge of different plant species and their care requirements
- Familiarity with power tools
- Strong attention to detail and ability to follow instructions
- Physical stamina to perform manual labour in various weather conditions
- Excellent time management skills to complete tasks efficiently

Note: This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employee may perform other related duties as negotiated to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.

If you have a passion for gardening and enjoy working outdoors, we would love to hear from you.

**About Us**

Welford Healthcare was founded in 2017 with the goal of building a boutique collection of quality care homes across the UK. Our strategy is to grow our business by acquiring mature care homes with quality foundations and strong potential for improvement and by investing in our people and our properties to ensure our homes are always inviting and homely. Whilst we are a growing business, we never lose sight of our primary and enduring purpose which is to provide good quality care for vulnerable adults. As we acquire new homes, we leverage our resources and expertise to ensure that the homes we run always have our residents’ wellbeing at their hearts.

Our senior leadership team has extensive experience of operating, opening and acquiring quality care homes with proven track records in regulatory compliance and running commercially successful businesses where meeting the needs and ensuring the happiness of our residents and our teams are the cornerstones of our approach.

**Job Type**: Temporary contract

**Salary**: £14.00 per hour

Expected hours: 16 per week

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- On-site parking
- Referral programme

Schedule:

- Day shift

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: Gardener - IBH