Hours: 40 hours per week – including a shared weekend duty rota
Salary: £25,770 per annum
Applications close: Sunday 5 October 2025

WHAT YOU’LL DELIVER AS PART OF THE TEAM

Supported by your line manager and providing guidance for others in the team, you’ll deliver excellent standards of gardening and landscape maintenance, conservation and presentation through:

• Seasonal maintenance of flower borders, shrubberies, planting schemes, ornamental gardens and kitchen gardens, along with the care of plant collections, including woody plants, trained fruit trees, herbaceous perennials and bulbous plants
• Growing and caring for a wide range of plants and crops, including alpines, trees and woody ornamentals, vegetables and fruit etc., through plant propagation and crop production both outdoors and under glass
• Formative, remedial and rejuvenative pruning of woody ornamentals, including park & garden trees, shrubs, roses, climbers and hedges in accordance with the seasons
• Seasonal maintenance of the parkland through a range of mowing regimes, including pedestrian mowing, ride-on mowing, and tractor-driven gang-mowing; landscaping, turf care and repair, turf laying, seed sowing, sward establishment, including wildflower schemes and bulb-planting
• The use of horticultural machinery & equipment, including but not limited to pedestrian & ride-on mowers, gang mowers, tractors, trailers, loaders, strimmers, chainsaws & hedge trimmers, ATVs and other machinery, including hired-in plant & equipment
• The care and maintenance of allocated machinery and equipment, including safety checks
• The appropriate, timely and safe use of pesticides, whilst providing optimum care for the environment by seeking organic alternatives wherever possible
• The optimum use and management of composting systems.

GROWING AND SHARING YOUR KNOWLEDGE

• You’ll become broadly familiar with most plants growing in the gardens, and be completely familiar with plants growing in areas for which you are responsible
• By developing your knowledge of the history of the gardens and landscape at Harewood, you’ll be able to encourage and deepen our visitors’ interest and appreciation of Harewood.

• In line with our Health & Safety policy, you’ll ensure the safety of yourself and others by carrying out an appropriate range of assessments to recognise hazards and control risks, including Risk Assessments, Manual Handling and COSHH, as directed by your line manager
• As well as taking part in duty weekend rotas, occasionally we’ll need you to help with horticultural operations or events that happen out of hours.; these are shared amongst the team, and you’ll get time off in lieu
• You’ll assist with the accurate recording, cataloguing and labelling of the plant collection
• In a busy ‘team’ environment, working across a diverse site, we’ll need your help with other tasks outside your remit as required by your line manager
• You’ll undertake day-to-day administration and record keeping.
  Occasionally we may need to review a job description in order to incorporate any changes or duties needed for this role as identified by your line manager.
  We’re also committed to providing equality of opportunity, so if you have a disability, we would be happy to discuss reasonable adjustments to the job with you.
  Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
  Pay: £25,770.00 per year

Benefits:

• Bereavement leave
• Company pension
• Discounted or free food
• Employee discount
• Enhanced maternity leave
• Enhanced paternity leave
• Free parking
• On-site parking
• Sick pay
• Store discount

Work Location: In perso