Botanical Horticulturist

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 357682**Salary**:

- £26,100- per annum**Job grade**:

- Administrative Officer- Grade B**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- RBGK - Horticulture, Learning and Operations**Type of role**:

- Operational Delivery**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- London, London (region), TW9 3AEAbout the job

**Job summary**:
RBG Kew’s Living Collection is arguably the most diverse plant collection in cultivation in the world. As Botanical Horticulturist, working as part of the Arboretum team, you will be involved and working within Kew’s Natural Area.

This position covers a wide range of areas within the Temperate Arboretum Section including, Japanese Gateway, Chinese Grove, our Rosaceae and Philadelphus collections.

These collections are important components of Kew’s living heritage landscape and visitor offer, and it is critical that they are kept to a high standard. You will have an eye for detail, pride in your work and a passion for plants.

**Job description**:
It is crucial for this position to have experience of working in horticulture, and caring for a wide range of woody and herbaceous plants/turf. Alongside previous exposure working in a team when carrying out horticulture tasks.

**Person specification**:
Please kindly note the role will involve manual tasks such as digging, lifting, and carrying goods.

The working hours for this role per week is 36.

**Benefits**:

- Our fantastic benefits package includes opportunities for continuous learning, a generous annual leave entitlement, flexible working to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance, an Employee Assistance Programme and other wellbeing support such as cycle to work scheme and discounted gym membership. We also offer a competitive pension, an employee discount scheme and free entry into a wide range of national museums and galleries, as well as access to our own beautiful gardens at Kew and Wakehurst.Things you need to know

**Selection process details**:
No agencies please.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.**Security**:
- People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.**Nationality requirements**:
This job is broadly open to the following groups:

- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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- We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).-
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