Head Gardener

3 months ago

Bath, United Kingdom The Bath Priory - Management and Support roles Full time

An opportunity to join our family where work is a pleasure.

**Location**: The Bath Priory (part of the Brownsword family of hotels) has a great location in Bath, just a short walk from the city centre, with a bus stop right outside. The hotel is stunning, a Georgian house with 33 bedrooms built in honey
- coloured Bath stone and is surrounded by four acres of multi
- award-winning gardens. We are proud to have won awards at 5-star level for over ten years and we are seeking sparkling new personalities to join our family.

SERVICE CHARGE-We pay our team service charge each month This service charge all goes into one pot, and 100% of that service charge is then shared amongst all the team at the hotel-every penny received is paid out to the team.
Service charge can be in the region of £160 a month (close to £2000 per year) over and above base pay, for a full time employee.

**Hours**: Full time

**Bonus**:That's right
- we have a management bonus scheme at our hotels
- for all Heads of Department positions and above. We'll let you know all about this at the interview

For this role you will need to be a hands-on gardener who leads from the front, have green fingers, be knowledgeable about gardening and horticulture, be good at working with others and be happy to be part of the hotel management team.

**Key tasks you will be doing**:

- Maintaining and improving the hotel gardens, making sure they look their best at all times.
- Keeping up to date with current garden trends and practices and implement relevant ones in the gardens.
- Manage and implement garden projects, working with the hotel ands group management team.
- Helping with basic maintenance tasks in the gardens and grounds, and manage and maintain garden machinery and tools
- Lead and manage
- Work with outside contractors effectively to make sure we comply with our statutory requirements and deliver the best gardens we can for our guests.

**What you'll need**:

- A passion for horticulture and a strong knowledge of plants, shrubs, trees and lawns.
- Proven experience in a similar role.
- To be charismatic, with an engaging personality
- which will hep you give great garden tours to our guests.
- Management skills so you can inspire and mentor a small team.
- Good organisational and communication skills.
- Passion for sustainability and environmental stewardship.
- To be physically fit, this is a hands on role and will involve heavy lifting and lots of manual tasks
- To be able to work collaboratively and as part of the wider hotel management team.
- Willingness to work with and support other hotel gardeners across our group of properties.

***To say thank you, we have many perks**:

- Treat yourself once in a while with lots of retail and hospitality perks through our Perkbox platform.
- Excellent discounts across our family of hotels - you will be entitled to 25% off food & beverage in our hotels plus we offer an amazing staff rate of £25 B&B per person across the group & your friends and family get special rates too.
- We understand it’s OK not to be OK, so we offer an externally run confidential helpline for any support you require about anything you might need as part of our Employee Assistance Programme.
- We sustain you physically too, meals when you are on duty are free.
- Everyone can learn and develop - our ‘Family First’ development pathways are unique to us and are the best in the business.
- We provide lots of opportunity to progress and move up - we have made hundreds of internal promotions, including to General Manager level.
- We like to say a special thank you for every year you are with us - our milestone awards include Champagne, afternoon tea, or dinner for you and someone special. When you reach the big milestones, you receive extra special gifts on top like longer hotel stays, extra days off and a unique gift especially chosen for you.

**About our family of hotels**

We bring a family of hotels together under one roof, ready to welcome guests with open arms, warm hearts and experiences that are simply memorable.

Each of our hotels are unique, individual, and quirky in personality. Quality is fundamental to everything we do, and it is the simple things that matter. We believe everyone should feel included, special and welcome, and that applies to our team and our guests.

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