Gardener

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

Healeys Cornish Cyder Farm

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