Trainee Landscaper

Gardens by Keltie & Clark is looking for a landscaping trainee to come and join us working on a wide range of sites in bespoke garden design and landscaping. If you want a challenging career with a huge diverse skill set and have a passion for the outdoors then this is a the industry for you.

We take on the design and construction of whole projects including:

- Lighting systems
- Water features
- Swimming pools
- Bespoke timber work
- Planting design

We have specialists in both hard and soft landscaping. This role would be varied and hands-on. We are looking for someone with a great work ethic and desire to be part of a team to build beautiful gardens. You will learn about groundworks, brickwork, paving, plumbing, woodwork, plants, irrigation, metalwork and so much more.

As a company, we have very high standards and expect excellent finishes and you will work on a complete variety of projects. You must be able to demonstrate enthusiasm in all weather and work as part of a team but it is a great opportunity to learn about the creation of high specification private gardens.
Requirements and prospects

Desired skills
- A reasonable level of fitness
- Good and effective communication skills - able to listen and take direction
- Interest in gardening and landscaping
- Good attention to detail

Personal qualities
- Enthusiastic
- Passionate
- Reliable
- Punctual
- Hard-working
- Self-motivated
- Polite and courteous
- Team player
- Conscientious
- A desire to work outdoors
- Desire to achieve, impress and progress
- Able to use your own initiative
- The role will be very manual and will involve some heavy lifting, so a good level of fitness will be expected
- You will be a support to the skilled landscapers, so you will need to think for yourself once you have a basic understanding of the work and will be expected to push your own learning as the more skilled you become the more you will be given to do and learn.

About the employer

Every garden has a story, the landscaping its narrative, the plants its characters.

A beautiful garden will be more, engaging, imaginative and developing over time.

Each garden is different; some need building from scratch; some short term solutions; others long term design and ongoing. They adapt their skills to meet the needs of their clients, enabling the garden to evolve around their wishes and desires. This can mean a full redesign and build or going in and providing maintenance and developing the garden over time. Their services don’t end with the designer leaving. While the design is essential to the structure of the garden, its ongoing story is told through the detail of quality planting and personal aftercare. It will continue to evolve through maintaining the health of the planting and seasonal detail of changing pots and bulbs. This can be large estate gardens to small town gardens each one needing a different approach.

Gardens by Keltie and Clark design their bespoke gardens with this at the forefront. From the initial design, through the build, planting and ongoing aftercare, their focus is on the developing garden and its ongoing story

You must have your own transport

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £10.42-£12.00 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

**Education**:

- A-Level or equivalent (preferred)

Work Location: In person