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Salary 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 mowersEdging, trimming and maintaining lawnsScarifying and spiking of lawnsMaintenance of fine turf areas including sports areas (including hammers and putting)Application of lawn fertilisers, use of hosepipes and sprinklers, watering of pots and urnsPlanting and maintaining seasonal bedding, planting and maintaining shrubs and trees, pruning of fruit trees and shrubs, propagation of hard wood cuttings and potting upRose pruning and application of rose fertilisers, removing epicormic shoots from treesLeaf clearing, using leaf blowers or rakes/brooms, make and apply compostApplication of rock salt or other specified materials and clearing snow and ice from pathways and roadwaysThe mixing and application of chemical spraysHedge trimming using both manual and power assisted equipment, single/double digging of areas both manually and using a rotavatorCarrying out soft landscapingCarrying out basic brick edging, laying of slabs and timber and metal edgingLabelling and sign writingCleaning 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 HorticultureA minimum of 3 years practical experience in horticultureChain saw certificateMixing and use of chemicals certificateSpraying certificateH&S certificateHorticultureGrounds maintenanceUse of MachinerySoft landscapingGarden PlanningForward 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.
