Gardens Assistant

2 weeks ago

Windermere, United Kingdom Gilpin Hotel & Lake House Full time

**RECRUITING NOW... GARDENS ASSISTANT**

**SALARY £21,402 - £24,012, based on a 40-hour week**

**THE ROLE OF GARDENS ASSISTANT**
This is a truly special role where you’ll spend your day working in the breath-taking surroundings in a peaceful corner of the Lake District. As our Gardens Assistant, you’ll work to maintain the beauty of plants, outdoor grounds, and trees in the garden of the stunning Gilpin Hotel and estate.

You’ll perform a range of general garden and maintenance tasks including designing, producing, renewing and preserving our stunning outside spaces. You may work on grounds projects from time to time, as well as supporting the overall presentation of the garden and grounds including reactive and ongoing maintenance. Above all else, you will work to create garden environments that are enjoyable, safe and secure for all our guests.

To excel in this role, you’ll be someone who:

- Carries out a varied range of gardening duties including weeding, digging, edging, pruning, seed sowing, plant cultivation, bed preparation and planting.
- Supports an agreed annual garden plan.
- Develops existing planting schemes for the borders and shrubberies around the site as a part of the annual gardening plan. Submits lists of requirements to Head of Department to include tree and shrub replacement, seasonal bedding plants and other horticultural materials or machinery as required.
- Works to schedules for seasonal maintenance to include lawn areas, shrubs, boarders, planters/hedges/trees, leaf and weed control.
- Carries out comprehensive and regular watering in dry weather.
- Ensures all the tools, garden equipment and machinery are correctly maintained and serviced, that they are kept in good and safe working order.
- Works alongside senior garden staff to develop a guest garden trail.
- Assists with the management of hot tubs and pool testing for PH levels and chlorine levels.
- Secures buildings at the end of the day.
- Understands that all staff within the team should be guest focused and contribute to an outstanding guest experience.
- Works as a positive member of the garden and wider hotel team.
- Provides support where needed to the management team with reactive maintenance and set up needs.
- Assists with any other reasonable tasks as specified.
- Ensures sound Health and Safety practices are being adhered to providing a safe working environment for everyone working or using the gardens.
- Manages risk assessments of gardening operations.
- Ensures the safe use of pesticides and other treatments in line with COSHH.
- Highlights any concerns or failings on quality or safety, to the senior team.

To succeed in this role, you should be physically fit and able to manage small and heavy machinery. You'll also be experienced in, or happy to learn, the management of livestock as you'll be responsible for our herd of Alpacas and Llamas.

**LIVE, WORK & PLAY IN THE LAKE DISTRICT**
Work hard, play hard - where better to do that than in the beautiful Lake District? As well as the traditional hospitality jobs at Gilpin, you can also be an accountant, an agri-scientist, an interior designer, a landscape gardener, a marketeer, and much morethe opportunities are endless

**LOVE & LAUGHTER - WE LOVE WHAT WE DO - JOIN US IN OUR GARDENS ASSISTANT ROLE**
Many of our guests come to Gilpin for very special celebrations, investing time, money, expectations, memories and feelings into their stay with us. Our job is to help create the magic, sowing the seeds for lasting happy memories with five star service, and a lot of love and laughter.

**THE WORLD IS YOUR OYSTER - WE WILL TRAIN & DEVELOP YOU AS OUR GARDENS ASSISTANT**
You can start at whatever level is right for you, and immediately start learning about the work and our team spirit; everything you need will be provided in a combination of on the job training and via our online Gilpin Training Academy, with clear pay rises built in. If you want to prove yourself and become a team leader, the opportunity is there - you can see for yourself what you need to do to progress, and if you wish to take it further this can lead to a degree or leadership course without needing previous qualifications. This is your future - our job is to train you & prepare you for whatever you do next.

**WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME?**

**SOCIAL**
Staff parties and social events through the year

**FOOD**
Home-cooked food for just £1 per meal. Breakfast of toast and cereal is free, and available all the time.

**SUBSIDISED ACCOMMODATION**
Fantastic subsidised shared staff accommodation, some at the hotel, some in the countryside, and some in the centre of Windermere and Bowness. In all accommodation there is a shared kitchen and lounge area, and some have added extras such as a pool table, dart board and X-boxWe spring clean and paint your room before you move in, meet you, show you around, and settle you in with a welcome pack, and check all the accommodation monthly to make sure every

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