We re hiring! Fancy joining the Trentham team?

The Trentham Estate is a special place. Set in 725 acres of spectacular natural beauty, Trentham is one of Staffordshire s flagship visitor destinations and is the Enjoy Staffordshire Tourism Large Visitor Attraction Gold Award winner for 2021. The award-winning historic Trentham Gardens has extensive SSSI woodlands, a mile-long lake, an exciting events calendar, a unique outdoor shopping village and is adjacent to the Monkey Forest visitor attraction.

If you have a passion for gardening in historic, yet diverse environment and are ready for an exciting challenge, then please get in touch. If you d like to know more, take a look at our website at (url removed).

The Purpose

Our purpose is to nurture and grow this wonderfully special place for people, nature and wildlife to thrive. As a Gardener, you will be playing a vital role in ensuring we achieve this. We have ambitious plans for the Garden and are recruiting into a talented team to help us achieve our goals.

Key Accountabilities

Reporting to the Supervisor, you will play a key role in maintaining and developing the garden, working as part of the team and independently.There are a huge variety of tasks within the diverse gardens and are after someone with an efficient and practical approach to working.High standards of maintenance, presentation and development of horticultural features and supporting infrastructure within the Garden.You will take responsibility of certain areas/projects within the garden ensuring you are able to develop in role and make your own mark on the gardens.You will be proud and passionate about the work we do and happy to share this with our visitors.To work in a flexible and adaptable way. Providing support across the Garden as needed which include weekends and late shifts on rota.Supporting wider teams across the Estate, with a proactive and can do attitude.Day to day supporting and liaising with volunteers.Maintain knowledge and adhere to relevant Policies and Procedures, Legislation and Regulations. Essential Skills/ Qualifications:

RHS Level 2 in Horticulture or equivalentBroad and expanding knowledge of plantsProficient use of a wide range of garden machinery, including mowers, tractors, strimmers, blowers. You ll also get a package that includes:

Competitive salary25 days holiday + BHPension contributionSick payCoaching, training and development to be the best you can Interviews likely to be week commencing 22nd January 2024.

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all employees and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. St. Modwen is a forces-friendly employer and actively supports applications from members of the Armed Forces community.

Our expert recruitment team will be in contact with you soon to update you on the progress of your application. As part of our best practice recruitment process all successful candidates will be subject to background screening checks. Further detail on what is required as part of this process will be provided to you during this update. In the meantime, if you have any questions about our recruitment process please contact (url removed).

Please note, we partner with Morson International to carry out background checks on all new colleagues. If you d like to know more about this, or you have any questions, please don t hesitate in contacting us at (url removed).