Green Keeper

**Green Keeper/Grounds Person**

**£23,000 - £25,000 per annum depending on experience plus fantastic **benefits**

**Our Turf and Grounds Gardeners**

We are looking to recruit an experienced grounds person to join our team and provide a high-quality service across the estate. You will be a keen and enthusiastic gardener who has a proven track record in a similar role. Formal training and a wide knowledge of using machinery and experience of turf management.

We are looking for a team player who can truly make a difference to the upkeep and maintenance of our amazing gardens. Excellent presentation and communication skills are a must as our garden team regularly interact with our visitors throughout the day.

**Our Garden Team**

The Gardens Team (Gardens, Edibles, Nursery & Woodlands) are dedicated to understanding, developing, curating, protecting, and managing The Newts living collection of plants, in an environment where visitors are encouraged to experience and learn about plants, garden history, habitats and to enjoy the gardens. The team run several events and workshops for our visitors over the year which include the popular daily garden tours

The Nursery team provides plant production for both edible and ornamental garden use and display, with the focus on providing produce to meet the Estate Food Vision need utilising modern facilities and practices.

**Benefits**: Excellent Benefits package available from day one including:

- Exceptional working environment
- Complimentary fresh estate grown meal provided each day
- Garden Membership plus complimentary guest passes and access to our partner gardens
- 30% online shop discount and free delivery
- 30% discount in the shops across the estate
- 30% discount at restaurants across the estate
- 30% discount on Newt cyder and Babylonstoren wine
- 50% discount in the Spa
- Access to free weekly fitness classes, including yoga
- Discounted hotel stays
- Family Estate Events
- Access to internal/external training qualifications and programmes
- Experience and Cross Training opportunities

**Skills and Experience**
- Experience in turf management including, aeration, scarification, fertilising. Pest/weed/disease control and identification.
- Experience driving tractors and other machinery.
- Broad-ranging horticultural expertise with evidence of appropriate academic qualifications or experience to support this.
- A thorough, precise, and well organised individual.
- An eagerness to provide the highest level of visitor experience.
- Full and clean UK driving license
- PA1 & PA6 certificates desirable
- Trailer licence desirable
- Basic machinery maintenance knowledge

**The Newt in Somerset**

The Newt in Somerset is a country estate with ancient woodland, historic gardens and far-reaching views; a new and unique destination with luxury hotel, spa, restaurants and an abundance of homegrown produce. Visitors can take a tour of the gardens, deer park and cyder press, dine in the Garden Café or browse our farm shops. Attracting some 200,000 visitors per year from all over the world, our vibrant and thriving garden attraction is animated throughout the seasons by special events, workshops and educational programmes.

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