Gardener Holyrood

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

- 286201**Salary**:

- £23,571 - £26,422**Job grade**:

- Other- Band B**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- HES - Operations**Type of role**:

- Other**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- EdinburghAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- You will be responsible for maintaining some of the highest profile sites on the Historic Environment Scotland Estate as part of a dedicated team. The post is an integral part of the Operations Directorate - Edinburgh Regional Team delivering gardening and grounds maintenance to an extremely high standard across approximately 650 acres over the Holyrood Park and Palace site. You will have experience of gardening and grounds maintenance operations.**Job description**:

- Maintain and develop the mixed borders within the Palace Gardens.
- Assist in the maintenance of paths within the Palace Gardens; and
- Assist in apprentice mentoring and training.
- When required working within Holyrood Park and around other sites in HES’s care.
- Deliver grounds maintenance within a historic landscape to the highest possible standard. Including the provision of care for trees, shrubs, herbaceous, half-hardy and hardy plant stock within that environment.
- Assist in the maintenance and production of glasshouse nursery stock. This will involve having a sound knowledge of glasshouse cultivation and a high level of propagation skills in order to produce high quality stock from seed and cuttings.
- To provide all aspects of lawn care including safe use of machinery within a busy environment; and
- To work safely within a busy environment in delivering all objectives.

**Person specification**:
Experience of:

- Plant identification and cultivation methods
- Awareness of plant pest and diseases and their treatment
- Glasshouse maintenance and production
- Turf maintenance and establishment
- Use of horticultural machinery
- All aspects of high standard gardens maintenance
- All aspects of Glasshouse cultivation

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Desirable requirements:_**
- Full UK Driving Licence

**_ Qualifications & Professional Memberships:_**
- SVQ2/3 in Horticulture - Essential
- PA1 AND PA6 herbicide use certification - Desirable

**Benefits**:
What we offer

In addition we offer a great benefits package to our employees which includes:

- flexible working hours (where appropriate)
- special leave
- maternity/paternity leave
- adoption leave
- reimbursement for relevant professional subscriptions
- support for further education and personal development
- study leave for work related courses
- access to a learning resource centre

**Health and welfare**

We offer you access to:

- our Employee Assistance Programme - for confidential advice and counselling
- an occupational sick pay scheme
- discounts at some local authority leisure facilities
- access to a free Headspace membership
- interest free loans for bicycles and annual travel passes (see ‘season ticket’ below)
- reasonable adjustments when needed, as part of our Equalities policy

**Staff discounts**

You will receive:

- free entry to all of our properties (with up to three guests)
- free entry to English Heritage, Manx and Cadw properties
- 20% off purchases in our retail outlets

**Season tickets**

You can receive an advance to help with the cost of buying an annual season ticket for travel between home and work. The advance is then repaid from your salary over the life of the season ticket. Available to all permanent and fixed-term staff.

Things you need to know

**Selection process details**:
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.**Medical**:
**Nationality requirements**:
This job is broadly open to the following groups:

- UK nationals
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
- certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)**Working for the Civil Service**:

- The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
- 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).- Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.**Contact point for applicants**:
Job contact:

- Name:
- Stuart Lerette Works Manager
Recruitment team