Assistant Head Gardener

Overview

What is it like to work for Springcare?

We are a family run group of Residential and Nursing Homes in Shropshire, Cheshire and the Wirral and we want you to join our Springcare family. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer, who strives to provide a healthy and respectful work culture.

Role

Assistant Head Gardener to raise and maintain the standards of presentation in the gardens of all Springcare properties that you are assigned.

Responsibilities

• To care for, manage and develop identified garden areas
• To develop and maintain garden beds/borders
• To use the correct garden machinery/equipment in order to carry out a variety of garden maintenance (mowing, strimming, hedge cutting, pesticide spraying) adhering to Health and Safety including wearing the correct PPE.
• To use the correct hand tools for a variety of garden maintenance (digging, planting, weeding and pruning)
• To have knowledge and understanding of the way in which to care for manage and develop identified garden areas, including soil cultivation, digging, forking, mulching, watering, raking, weeding, edging, pruning, seed sowing, bed presentation and planting
• To ensure the grounds are showcased for all special events e.g. Summer Fayre
• PA1 & PA2 desirable but not essential

What Springcare can offer to you

• Permanent full and part time day contracts – with access to our work placed pension scheme
• Access to Blue Light Card – where you can make savings across hundreds of national retailers
• Fully funded training for nationally recognised qualifications (level 2 through to 5) with internal career progression opportunities
• Refer a friend £££ scheme for each friend that you recommend (T&C apply)
• Access to counselling and wellbeing support
• Family friendly policies
• Smooth robust recruitment process through our portal

If you are interested in joining our gardening team, have the qualities that we believe make our employees fantastic and would like to work in an environment with friendly, supportive, and likeminded people, we would love to hear from you and be part of your journey with a care environment.

Requirements

• Successful applicants would require two written references
• A standard/enhanced DBS (depending on role)
• Evidence of a right to work in the UK
• Springcare are committed to safe and fair recruitment, safeguarding, and protecting those we care for and serve. We make sure all our staff are vetted, selected, trained and supervised fairly and to a high standard so that they can provide safe, effective and compassionate care.

If you are enthusiastic and have all the right skills to the job we would love to hear from you! Please apply today.