Casual Horticulture Assistant
7 months ago
**Casual Nursery Assistant full-time or part-time considered.**
**Please let us know your preferred hours**
We grow more than 750,000 plants per year in our modern nursery production area. We are looking for team players who can take on a variety of physical tasks and operate machinery.
**Key duties**
- Carrying out tasks as required to produce plants in our nursery.
- Loading the potting and transplanting machines
- Moving stock around
- Support members of the nursery team with tasks including weeding, pruning, cleaning, etc.
- Labeling of products
- Assisting in retail areas e.g. moving plants and stocking up, labelling, cleaning
**Your capabilities**
- Ability to work both inside and outside in varied weather conditions
- You must be able to bend, lift and pull/push trolleys and barrows
- Experience preferred but not essential as training will be given
- Ability to work as a member of a team
- A keen interest in plants and related products
**Requirements**:
- Casual position
- You’ll need to work some bank holidays (as part of a rota with other assistants)
- Experience of working in a production nursery, garden centre or similar environment is preferred but not essentiaL
- Good communication skills essential
- As part of this role when assisting in the nursery department you will be required to wear gloves (Personal Protective Equipment, or PPE) when handling certain crops which may be for large parts of the day
**Rewards and Benefits**
In addition to your hourly rate, you will receive the following benefits:
- **Discount** - From the start of your employment you will receive 10% discount on specific items. Following a successful probation period, the discount increases up to 20% discount on specific items and after one year’s service up to 40% discount on specific items. (some exceptions apply)
- **Paid holiday** - holiday entitlement is 22 days per year, plus bank holidays. Restrictions apply
- **Annual Christmas bonus**:
- **Part-uniform provided**:
- **Employee Assistant Programme** - a confidential personal and professional support service available to all employees and their immediate families 24/7, 365 days a year.
- **Training & development**, as required. We have an e-learning scheme called GROW, and also take part in other training with product suppliers and external trainers
- **Access to our Retail Discount Scheme** - savings on retailers including Tesco, Pizza Express,M&S, Waitrose, Argos, Apple, Currys PC World, Thomas Cook and 100’s more
- **Workplace pension**:
- **Free parking**
**Perrywood is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you require any reasonable adjustments, please inform us as soon as you are able so that we can make the appropriate adjustments.**
**Job Type**: Zero hours contract
**Salary**: £7.49-£11.44 per hour
**Benefits**:
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Store discount
Application question(s):
- Due to our rural location and limited access to public transport your own transport is preferred
**Experience**:
- Gardening: 1 year (preferred)
Work Location: In person
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