Gardening Team Member Opportunity

An exciting opportunity to join our gardening team on a beautiful private estate. This position would suit anyone with an interest in gardening and the outdoors, you are never too far from running water and nature.

This 700-acre estate just outside Marlborough offers everything an up-and-coming horticulturalist would want. The walled garden comprises formal herbaceous borders, a kitchen garden, a potager, and a reflection garden. We have an orangery for tropical plants and a greenhouse for all the growing and propagating that we do on-site.

The garden will be undergoing construction this year to give the greenhouses a well-deserved redesign. It is an exciting time to join our team on the estate as we bring the garden into the 21st century whilst cherishing the history of this beautiful and unique estate.

Main Duties

• Tending to and harvesting the fruit and vegetables
• Propagating and seed sowing
• Maintaining the herbaceous borders
• Hedge cutting
• Mowing
• General grounds maintenance throughout the seasons

Requirements

The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate a can-do attitude, a willingness to learn, and the ability to work well within a team. The role is physically demanding and requires good physical ability and health.

Please note, the successful candidate will need to provide references and will be asked to complete a DBS check, which the company will organise and pay for. The candidate will also be required to provide evidence of qualifications.

Location: Marlborough (SN8)

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

SPARSHOLT COLLEGE Horticulture or landscape construction operative (level 2) Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)

Course Contents

Core

• Apply health and safety processes and procedures including risk assessments and or construction design management (CDM), manual handling, legislative requirements, and organisational policies.
• Follow safe systems of work and safety information in line with employer requirements or site context.
• Apply environmental mitigation measures including storage and disposal of waste.
• Select, undertake a pre-start check, set up, clean, store, and safely operate tools, equipment, and machinery.
• Communicate with technical and non-technical audiences using language appropriate to the audience.
• Identify plants commonly grown in the UK by scientific names including genus species and or cultivar.
• Maintain the correct phytosanitary and bio-security procedures for the site.
• Identify and report symptoms and or signs of commonly found UK plant pests, pathogens, and disorders.
• Maintain plant health for example providing for basic needs such as water, nutrition (either organic or inorganic), light.
• Cultivate, improve, and preserve soils by mechanical methods and or by hand including amelioration and mulching.
• Clear unwanted vegetation, selecting techniques to be used (for example weeding).
• Remove unwanted or damaged growth from plants using a pruning cut.
• Plant shrubs and a tree using a simple tree pit.
• Install turf for situation.
• Mow turf using a pedestrian-controlled powered-driven mower.
• Maintain or protect hard surfaces, features, or structures.
• Use digital tools and techniques for research, collaboration, continuous professional development, and resolution of problems.