Gardener

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Division: Estates Administration & Growth
Location: York
Wage:
£23,700 to £25,138
each year
Closing Date: Tuesday 13 February 2024 at midnight
Interview Date:
Tuesday 05 March 2024
Reference: 009-24

Full time everlasting

Location: York

Wage: £23,700 to £25,138 each year

When you have a ardour for gardening, crops and serving to the surroundings, we now have the job for you! You can be a part of a conscientious gardening group sustaining a number of websites, together with some of the stunning gardens in central York. You will ensure all our gardens and grounds are superbly offered and immaculately sorted.

The position

We’ve a chance accessible to affix our group on a full time, everlasting foundation.  We’re searching for a dynamic, conscientious gardener who is an efficient group participant and enjoys working in a group surroundings. The websites vary from gardens surrounded by historic buildings to fashionable structure and creating areas for biodiversity. In addition to finishing up upkeep in these areas additionally, you will help with the care, cultivation and day-to-day upkeep of our pupil lodging and sports activities complicated. Supported each step of the way in which, that is your alternative to construct a profession you’re keen on understanding you make a distinction to the working surroundings of the college and local people. You can be given the chance to turn out to be a Biodiversity Champion serving to us to ship on our nature pleasant initiatives.

 Required abilities and expertise

Candidates are required to have –

• Metropolis & Guild/NVQ or equal horticultural qualification, or a confirmed monitor document in horticulture
• Expertise of working as a Gardener on knowledgeable foundation and of a sensible nature.
• Expertise in using backyard equipment.
• Skill to work as a part of a group member or individually utilizing personal initiative

Further data

For a casual dialogue concerning the position please contact Sally Rollinson, Senior Gardener at [email protected] .

Sadly this position shouldn’t be eligible for Expert Employee Visa sponsorship nevertheless we welcome your utility if you’ll be able to proof proper to work within the UK through an alternate route.

In case you require an inexpensive adjustment as a way to apply for this place please contact [email protected].  Throughout the utility type there is a chance so that you can request an inexpensive adjustment on the interview stage of the method, nevertheless if you happen to want to talk about this in additional element at any level  within the course of please don’t hesitate to contact us.

We provide a variety of household pleasant and inclusive insurance policies and amenities to assist employees from totally different backgrounds. As a part of our dedication to offering an inclusive working surroundings, consideration is given to all requests for job share or versatile working preparations. 

Please notice that CVs will not be accepted instead of the applying type.

Our advantages bundle

We provide a variety of worker advantages together with – 

– Wonderful annual go away entitlement, together with 5 discretionary college closure days over the Christmas interval

– Incapacity go away (applies to employees who’ve disclosed a incapacity and can also be accessible to employees with disabled dependants)

– Pension scheme

– Well being Money Plan after six months service

– Worker Help Programme

– Paid go away for Armed Forces Reservists

– Relocation bills bundle for sure roles

– Visa mortgage scheme

Additional details about life at YSJ

Learn extra about our tradition, inclusive group, working preparations and advantages for York St John workers right here.  

The most recent information, views and tales from our employees and college students will be discovered right here.  

We’re dedicated to managing and lowering our environmental influence and to selling sustainable growth wherever we will, learn extra right here.

Closing Date –
Tuesday 13 February 2024 at midnight

Provisional Interview Date –
Tuesday 05 March 2024