Hours: 40 hours per week – including a shared weekend duty rota
Salary: £25,770 per annum
Applications close: Sunday 20 April 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 garden maintenance, conservation and presentation through:

• Seasonal maintenance of flower borders, shrubberies, formal gardens and kitchen gardens, along with the care of plant collections, including woody plants, trained fruit trees, herbaceous perennials, bulbous plants, and annuals.
• Growing and caring for a wide range of plants and crops, including alpines, woody plants, vegetables and fruit etc., through plant propagation and crop production both outdoors and under glass
• Formative, remedial and rejuvenative pruning of woody plants, including trees, roses, climbers and hedges in accordance with the seasons.
• The use of horticultural machinery, including but not limited to mowers, strimmers, tractors, trailers, hedge trimmers, ATVs and other machinery, including hired-in plant & equipment
• The maintenance of machinery and equipment, including safety checks
• Turf care and maintenance
• 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 for this.
• You’ll assist with the accurate recording, cataloguing and labelling of the plant collection
• In a busy ‘team’ environment, we’ll need your help with other tasks 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:

• Additional leave
• Bereavement leave
• Company pension
• Discounted or free food
• Employee discount
• Enhanced maternity leave
• Enhanced paternity leave
• Free parking
• Sabbatical
• Sick pay

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• Weekend availability

Work Location: In perso