Skilled Gardener
6 months ago
**Skilled Gardener**
Richmond Park, Surrey (with travel to all parks)
**The Organisation**
The Royal Parks (TRP) is a charity created in March 2017. We manage over 5,000 acres of diverse parkland, rare habitats and historic buildings and monuments in eight Royal Parks across London. These are Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens, The Green Park, St James’s Park, The Regent's Park and Primrose Hill, Greenwich Park, Richmond Park and Bushy Park.
We also manage other important public spaces including Brompton Cemetery and Victoria Tower Gardens. Our eight Royal Parks and other iconic green spaces are among the most visited attractions in the UK with 77 million visits every year.
We are now looking for a Skilled Gardener to join us on a full-time, permanent basis.
**The Benefits**
- Salary of £27,990 per annum, depending on experience
- 26 days' annual leave plus public holidays, increasing to 29 days after 3 years’ service
- Pension scheme (3% employee contribution; up to 10% employer contribution)
- Hybrid/agile working options
- Private medical insurance and healthcare cash plan
- Employee assistance programme and access to mental health first aiders
- Learning and development opportunities
- Cycle to work scheme
- Offices in a beautiful location
This is a terrific opportunity for an experienced horticulturalist with sound health and safety knowledge to develop their career with our historic organisation.
You will discover a rewarding role, where you will to help to protect some of London’s best loved spaces whilst expanding your horticultural portfolio in a beloved organisation.
**The Role**
As a Skilled Gardener, you will care for, cultivate, and maintain allocated areas of our gardens in Richmond Park.
Contributing to the delivery of garden plans and programmes of work, you will offer guidance and training to the apprentices, individuals on work placements and volunteers.
You will set and maintain high horticultural standards, embedding achievable, sustainable practices and promoting biodiversity in our parks.
Additionally, you will:
- Carry out specific projects as directed
- Deliver excellent customer care
- Adhere to current Health and Safety legislation and best practice
- Ensure that volunteers and apprentices are adequately supervised and trained
- Report to the Head Gardener
**About You**
To be considered as a Skilled Gardener, you will need:
- Demonstrable practical horticultural experience
- Good knowledge of Health & Safety in the workplace
- Good knowledge of horticultural plant and machinery operations
- Good plant knowledge - particularly around shrubs, herbaceous and bulbous plants
- A formal horticultural qualification e.g. NVQ Level 2 (amenity horticulture) or RHS, or equivalent experience
- A full, valid driving licence
Other organisations may call this role Groundskeeper, Grounds Person, Horticultural Technician, Horticulture Operative, or Horticulturalist.
**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent
**Salary**: £27,990.00 per year
Work Location: In person
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