Soft Landscaper

**Emotive Landscapes Ltd is looking for a full-time Soft Landscaper with Nursery work and Garden Maintenance**

We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated person to join our supportive and professional team. This person will have experience in horticulture and garden maintenance and will split their time between Soft Landscaping and maintaining gardens at our Client sites and growing plants in our Glasshouses. You’ll need loads of enthusiasm, a keen eye for detail, a working plant knowledge that you are constantly looking to improve.

Driving is an essential part of the job so a full driving licence will be required. Company vehicles are provided to travel from our site in Shurdington to work sites as required.

We work predominantly on high end private residential gardens where duties on site may include:

- Hedge & Tree Pruning
- Pond and Lake Maintenance
- Weed maintenance
- Turfing and / or Seeding
- Shrub, Hedge and Tree planting
- Working to planting plans
- Mulching
- Pedestrian Walk Behind Mowing
- Strimming

**Business Overview**:
Emotive Landscapes is a small but fast-growing garden design and build company working throughout Gloucestershire and the surrounding counties. We design and build gardens that are uniquely tailored to each of our client’s specific needs, tastes and lifestyles. These gardens are built with the highest quality workmanship and finished to the best possible standard with the objective of providing our clients many years of enjoyment. Great customer service and communication are at the heart of everything we do and are key to delivering our clients with a first-class landscaping experience, from initial enquiry through to delivery of the finished garden and beyond.

**In return for your skills and hard work we will offer**:

- An industry competitive salary
- Uniform and all equipment needed
- Pension
- A positive working environment where our employees they feel challenged, are able to grow in their roles and have a sense of pride and achievement in what they do.
- Training including machinery tickets, following probation period.

**Personal Attributes**:

- Committed to the Vision, Mission and Values of Emotive Landscapes
- Have a positive ‘can do’ attitude and be enthusiastic and engaged in your work
- Show respect at all times to colleagues, clients and suppliers
- Always be honest with yourself and your colleagues
- Help to build a positive team spirt by helping others and being an engaged team player
- Be accountable for your actions and be able to explain why you did or didn’t do something
- Strive to develop your industry specific knowledge and learn from those around you both in and outside of working hours
- Promote the company in a professional manner at all times
- Take ownership of all that you do and be accountable for results. Be able to motivate yourself without direction
- Be punctual so as not to impact your colleagues

This is not an exhaustive list of duties but is designed to give the post holder a better understanding of the key requirements that the role entails.

Look at the companies website to understand the level of work we execute.

**Salary**: £22,500.00-£26,500.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

- Yearly bonus

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Cheltenham: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Gardening: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence (required)

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 11/08/2023
Reference ID: S/LandAugust23