Gardener

Harewood House Trust is seeking a Gardener, who is a team player, with the ability to work flexibly and with creativity.

You’ll have relevant horticultural skills, qualifications and experience and an excellent customer focused approach, often working in a public-facing environment.

What you’ll achieve at Harewood:

As a Gardener, you will:

• Enhance and conserve our beautiful, historic gardens and parkland by providing skilled, high-quality gardening, landscape maintenance and planting.
• Proactively support the senior gardener through the supervision and training of
  volunteers, student placements and trainees.
• Deliver the best possible experience for our visitors by maintaining excellent standards of presentation and interpretation. Protect biodiversity by safeguarding habitats and adopting sustainable practices throughout the garden.
• Enhance your professional knowledge and broaden your craft skills through creative,hands-on gardening & horticulturalist skills, together with landscape maintenance,horticultural research and problem-solving.

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, 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, 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.
• Turf care and maintenance, including the mowing of large areas of amenity grassland.
• The use of horticultural machinery, including but not limited to mowers, strimmers,
  tractors, trailers, hedge trimmers, ATV’s and other machinery, including hired-in plant and equipment.
• The appropriate, timely, safe use of pesticides, whilst seeking  seeking organic alternatives where possible.
• The optimum use and management of composting systems.

The Gardener will guide volunteers and supervise trainees, who form an important part of our Garden & Grounds team. You’ll take opportunities to broaden your understanding of the natural environment, to protect and enrich biodiversity and in line with our H&S policy, you’ll ensure the safety of yourself and others by carrying out an appropriate range of risk assessments.