Gardener (105524-0324)

About the Role 

If you have any questions, please email the Estates team at est_facilities_admin@warwick.ac.uk.

In this role, you will carry out a wide range of horticultural duties, including planting trees, shrubs, natural grassland and bedding schemes. You will also maintain areas by mowing, pruning, digging and strimming.

Both areas of work require the use of specialised machinery as well as accurate record keeping to ensure all machinery is safe to use and in good repair.

Beyond maintenance, we’ll ask you to come up with your own ideas as to how we can improve and develop our gardens as part of our wider strategy.  

About You

You will have a wide knowledge of gardening with experience working in a residential, commercial, or public garden. You will be truly passionate about horticulture with the ability to understand landscape designs and bedding schemes.

You’ll be competent in the use of power tools and mowers and will have a good awareness of relevant health and safety issues. We often work to short deadlines, so teamwork, good organisation and strong communication skills will be essential to your success.

For further information regarding the skills required for this role please see the personal specification section of the attached job description.

About the Department

Our award-winning gardens, extensive borders and diverse ecology sit within a 715-acre campus, which is an important, highly visible element of our reputation. You will be responsible for maintaining and developing them as part of our ambition to create among the best university gardens in the UK. Our plans are backed by considerable investment, so not only will you be part of a significant project to add to your record, you’ll also receive high-quality training and development opportunities that are hard to find elsewhere.  

The University of Warwick is located on the edge of Coventry, near the Warwickshire border, with easy access to road and rail networks. Our campus combines a vibrant feel with its cafes, retail outlets and entertainment at the Arts Centre, with tranquillity and calm that can be found amongst its green spaces, lakes and wildlife. 

Our workforce spans over 7,000 staff from diverse backgrounds. Inclusion is one of the four strategic priorities which underpin everything that we do in our Research and Education offerings as we aspire to remove economic, social and cultural barriers that have prevented talented people from working and studying at Warwick.  

We offer a variety of benefits including generous annual leave allowance (including four days at Christmas), flexible working, training and development, and family friendly leave. 

We also offer discounted membership to the Sports hub, a bespoke sports & wellness hub with amazing facilities and its own climbing centre, as well as access to an Employee Assistance Programme (24/7 confidential support delivering guidance and expert advice), free eye test and discounted membership with Costco. 

CLOSING DATE: Tuesday 23 April 2024 at 23.55 

Full details of the duties and selection criteria for this role can be found in the vacancy advert on the University of Warwick's jobs pages. You will be routed to this when you click on the Apply button.

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