Gardens / Maintenance

**RECRUITING NOW... GARDENS / MAINTENANCE**

**STARTING SALARY £24,077**

**THE ROLE**
This is a truly special role where you’ll spend your day working in the breathtaking surroundings in a peaceful corner of the Lake District. As Lake House Gardener, you’ll work to maintain the beauty of plants, outdoor grounds, and trees in the garden of the exclusive Lake House.

You’ll perform a range of general maintenance tasks including designing, producing, renewing and preserving our stunning outside spaces. You may work on grounds projects from time to time, as well as overseeing the overall presentation of the garden and grounds including reactive and ongoing maintenance. Above all else, you will work to create garden environments that are enjoyable, safe and secure for all our guests.

To excel in this role, you’ll be someone who:

- Carries out a varied range of gardening duties including weeding, digging, edging, pruning, seed sowing, plant cultivation, bed preparation and planting.
- Reviews and updates an agreed garden plan annually.
- Develops existing planting schemes for the borders and shrubberies around the site as a part of the annual gardening plan. Submits lists of requirements to Owner/Manager to include tree and shrub replacement, seasonal bedding plants and other horticultural materials or machinery as required.
- Plans and schedules seasonal maintenance to include lawn areas, shrubs, boarders, planters/hedges/trees; weed control.
- Organises comprehensive and regular watering in dry weather.
- Ensures all the tools, garden equipment and machinery are correctly maintained and serviced, that they are kept in good and safe working order.
- Develops a guest garden trail with the owners.
- Assists with the management of hot tubs and pool testing for PH levels and chlorine levels.
- Secures buildings at the end of the day.
- Understands that the intimate nature of the Lake House requires all staff within the Lake House team to be guest focused and contribute to an outstanding guest experience.
- Works as a positive member of the Lake House team.
- Provides support where needed to the Lake House management team with reactive maintenance and set up needs.
- Assists with any other reasonable tasks as specified by the Owners/Manager
- Ensures sound Health and Safety practices are being adhered to providing a safe working environment for everyone working or using the gardens.
- Manages risk assessments of gardening operations.
- Ensures the safe use of pesticides and other treatments in line with COSHH.
- Highlights any failings on quality or safety, to the senior team.

**LIVE, WORK & PLAY IN THE LAKE DISTRICT**
Work hard, play hard - where better to do that than in the beautiful Lake District? As well as the traditional hospitality jobs at Gilpin, you can also be an accountant, an agri-scientist, an interior designer, a landscape gardener, a marketeer, and much morethe opportunities are endless

**LOVE & LAUGHTER - WE LOVE WHAT WE DO - JOIN US IN A GARDENS / MAINTENANCE ROLE**
Many of our guests come to Gilpin for very special celebrations, investing time, money, expectations, memories and feelings into their stay with us. Our job is to help create the magic, sowing the seeds for lasting happy memories with five star service, and a lot of love and laughter.

**THE WORLD IS YOUR OYSTER - WE WILL TRAIN & DEVELOP YOU IN GARDENS / MAINTENANCE**
You can start at whatever level is right for you, and immediately start learning about the work and our team spirit; everything you need will be provided in a combination of on the job training and via our online Gilpin Training Academy, with clear pay rises built in. If you want to prove yourself and become a team leader, the opportunity is there - you can see for yourself what you need to do to progress, and if you wish to take it further this can lead to a degree or leadership course without needing previous qualifications. This is your future - our job is to train you & prepare you for whatever you do next.

**WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME?**

**SOCIAL**
Staff parties and social events through the year

**FOOD**
Home-cooked food for just £1 per meal. Breakfast of toast and cereal is free, and available all the time.

**SUBSIDISED ACCOMMODATION**
Fantastic subsidised shared staff accommodation, some at the hotel, some in the countryside, and some in the centre of Windermere and Bowness. In all accommodation there is a shared kitchen and lounge area, and some have added extras such as a pool table, dart board and X-boxWe spring clean and paint your room before you move in, meet you, show you around, and settle you in with a welcome pack, and check all the accommodation monthly to make sure everything is still lovely. Our staff accommodation ranges from mobile homes to luxury ensuite rooms in Bowness and Windermere (from £130 to £350 per month including bills). If you’re really trying to save and don’t have a lot of stuff, there are a few very small mobile ho