Gardener

Healeys Cornish

We are looking for someone to plan and design the gardens at a family residence in Flushing, Cornwall; working in conjunction with the Chairman and the gardener to provide proactive maintenance and improvements; to include landscaping; planting schemes and bespoke gardening.

Salary: £30 per hour DOE.

Hours: 8 hours per week.

Key Duties for this role are:

• You will be responsible for the upkeep and improvement of the grounds and gardens of the family residence in Flushing.
• Responsible for providing long-lasting solutions to the Chairman.
• Daily/weekly/monthly checks on the planting, grass, weeds etc. Working in conjunction with the current gardener to ensure routine tasks are carried out.
• Using a variety of tools and machinery, with appropriate qualifications, to perform your tasks.
• Providing a full professional garden maintenance service to create and maintain beautiful gardens.
• Able to provide garden design ideas to include garden features to the Chairman to lead to improvements of the gardens.
• Being able to undertake or bring in contractors for groundworks and plant hire.
• Weekly meeting with the Chairman to share your ideas and strategy.

Additional Duties

• To be receptive to completing tasks which may fall outside of your role or remit with a positive attitude.
• Being open and honest in all communication.
• Able to keep business and person matters of the Healeys confidential.
• Any other activity/task as and when requested by the Directors.

Experience

• Gardening
• In-depth knowledge of garden maintenance and improvement
• Excellent knowledge of Botany
• Self-employed (preferred)

Skills

• Gardening and landscaping background
• Able to knapsack spray weed killer
• Physical strength and stamina to meet the demands of the role
• Good at practical work and using tools
• Good at problem solving and fault finding
• Good communication skills
• Excellent time management skills
• Understand safe working practices
• Happy to work with others or on your own

Qualifications

• Garden machinery and tools handling
• Knapsack Spraying Certificate
• Health & Safety

Personal Qualities

• Responsible, honest, reliable and trustworthy.
• Ability to stay calm
• Flexible and enjoy varied routine
• Passionate about your job

Due to a high volume of applications received, we are unable to contact each applicant individually regarding the status of their application

Job Types: Part-time, Freelance

Pay: £30.00 per hour

Expected hours: 8 per week

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Falmouth (Cornwall): reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

• Driving Licence (required)
• Weed spray ticket (required)

Work Location: In person