Horticulture / Plant Area Assistant

5 months ago


Derby, United Kingdom Swarkestone Nursery Full time

We’re a family-run nursery and garden centre based in South Derbyshire, looking for enthusiastic people to join our team. If you love people and plants we want to talk to you

Our Plant Area is home to a wide variety of herbaceous perennials, shrubs, alpines, trees, fruit and house plants.

**Roles & Responsibilities**
- Maintaining and watering plant stock. Jobs to include weeding, pruning, deadheading etc.
- Maintaining a strong and up-to-date horticultural knowledge
- Striving to satisfy customer expectations including assisting customer with advice and carrying products to cars
- Merchandising and creating visual displays to help sell products
- Processing new delivered stock using our EPOS system
- Work is fast-paced and requires manual handling
- General housekeeping and any other duties required by management

**Hours**

We are able to offer part time work working three days Sundays through to Tuesdays, and also have the opportunity to offer seasonal flexible working patterns (working more hours April-July, and less throughout Winter).

Normal working hours are 9am-5.30pm Monday-Saturday, and 9.30am-4.30pm on Sundays.

**Job Type**: Part-time

**Salary**: From £10.50 per hour

Expected hours: No more than 24 per week

**Benefits**:

- Employee discount
- On-site parking

Schedule:

- Weekend availability

Ability to Relocate:

- Derby, DE73 7GQ: Relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person


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