Gardener

About The Role

Gardener
 
This full-time post is available immediately on a permanent basis. Applications for secondments will be considered subject to agreement from your current line manager. 
 
The starting salary will be from £28,029 on Grade C, depending on knowledge, skills and experience.
 
We welcome applications from candidates interested in working part-time hours or job-sharing arrangements.
  
Are you a professional horticulturist who is excited to make an important move in your career by joining the gardeners here at the University of Exeter? We are a dedicated team who are fortunate to be involved in delivering the full breadth of horticulture as part of our service to the campuses at Streatham and St Luke's.  
 
We work in an established landscape with both modern and historically significant planting and we are driven by working towards a broad range of goals that are mentally and physically rewarding in a healthy way.
 
It’s an estate quite unlike any other with a staff and student population of over 23,000 people and hundreds of private, public and ticketed events that manifest in an energy you can really feel over the course of a normal day here.
 
With a genuinely proud safety culture we take time and make time for your development and best practice out in the gardens. We keep all common and specialist equipment including battery powered and remote-controlled machinery in the interest of welfare to the team.
 
Your role should you join us will focus on all expected seasonal work across beds, mixed shrub borders, lawns and hedges. It will also intermittently include planting, propagation and occasional cover in our plant nursery, wildlife habitat management and reactionary work during severe weather.
 
The successful applicant for the role will have a passion for the industry as a whole and feel comfortable in having their views and ideas heard amongst the team as we layout the future planning of the grounds within its planted landscape, dating back to the mid 1800’s. A successful candidate will have a desire for high standards of presentation and be able to demonstrate this as part of the application and interview process. We are a proud custodian to our 150 hectares of gardens and grounds.
 
Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of this role.
 
Further information

Please contact Anthony Cockell A.Cockell@exeter.ac.uk

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