Gardener / Landscaper

Job Title: Gardener
Location: London
Salary: £13.90 p/h
Job Type: Permanent - Full Time
About Morden College:
Our most valuable resource are the people within Morden College; they provide the supportive, caring, and inclusive environment both for colleagues and for our Residents. Our culture encourages and supports creativity, celebrates our differences and the similarities that draw us together as a community and promote the highest standards of individual behaviour and accountability in everything we do.
Morden College is a charity that is dedicated to enabling a life-lived independence for the older people they provide homes for, through life, as they grow older. Morden College has enriched the lives of its residents as well as their families, over the last 300 years. The Charity's core purpose is to provide older people who are in need with a home for life within its beautiful grounds, with amazing facilities and surrounded by its caring people, who work tirelessly to provide the highest quality of care.
About the Role:
Assisting the Gardens Manager in ensuring that the gardens and grounds at Morden College are maintained as safe and appealing external spaces and to promote resident wellbeing by supporting hands on gardening activities.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
Mowing, using all types of mowers, including ride-on mowers
Edging, trimming and maintaining lawns
Scarifying and spiking of lawns
Maintenance of fine turf areas including sports areas (including hammers and putting)
Application of lawn fertilisers, use of hosepipes and sprinklers, watering of pots and urns
Planting and maintaining seasonal bedding, planting and maintaining shrubs and trees, pruning of fruit trees and shrubs, propagation of hard wood cuttings and potting up
Rose pruning and application of rose fertilisers, removing epicormic shoots from trees
Leaf clearing, using leaf blowers or rakes/brooms, make and apply compost
Application of rock salt or other specified materials and clearing snow and ice from pathways and roadways
The mixing and application of chemical sprays
Hedge trimming using both manual and power assisted equipment, single/double digging of areas both manually and using a rotavator
Carrying out soft landscaping
Carrying out basic brick edging, laying of slabs and timber and metal edging
Labelling and sign writing
Cleaning and maintaining horticultural machinery and hand tools, tidying up Grounds Department sheds, storage and compost areas, loading and unloading of skips, containers or other delivery vehicles, maintaining garden furniture and garden features, including, cleaning and the application of preservativesThe Candidate:
C&G Stage 2 Amenity Horticultureor
RHS Certificate Horticulture Level 2 Practical and Theoryor
NVQ Level 3 Amenity Horticulture
A minimum of 3 years practical experience in horticulture
Chain saw certificate
Mixing and use of chemicals certificate
Spraying certificate
H&S certificate
Horticulture
Grounds maintenance
Use of Machinery
Soft landscaping
Garden Planning
Forward Planning skillsPlease click on the APPLY button to send your CV and Cover Letter for this role.
Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of: Groundskeeper, Groundsman, Grounds person, Groundswoman, Grounds Keeper, Gardener, Head Gardener, Garden Maintenance Team Leader, Ground Maintenance, Operative Gardener, Experienced Gardener, Garden Designer, Landscape Gardener, Grounds, Gardener, Garden Maintenance Landscaper may also be considered for this role