Senior Gardener – English Heritage

You’ll enhance our visitors day out – from sharing your gardening knowledge, to ensuring their health and safety. Being able to ensure smooth running of weekly job rotas and input into the seasonal work plans are also a must for this busy and engaging role.

Senior Gardener will work closely with our Head Gardener and supervises they daily tasks of 2 gardeners and volunteers. You will play a vital role in ensuring that all work carried out in our gardens by our fantastic team is to the highest of standards. You will find imaginative ways of bringing to life the stories that our gardens tell, helping visitors of all ages to make new discoveries.

You will have a high-quality garden experience, be experienced with hedge trimmers, strimmers, tractor driving, use of Gators and basic maintenance of these items of garden machinery. It’s essential you have great skills in pruning woody species, have a high-quality of garden experience ideally including a proven track record in ornamental gardens & herbaceous border care and interest in meadow conservation. Ideally, experienced with use of a chainsaw. Stepping away from the ornamental areas at Kenwood, your regular tasks will also require your leadership skills in operating volunteer session to manage invasive species by hand or with hand machinery across site, protecting ancient and veteran trees and maintaining the SSSI woods and sphagnum bog- home to rare species. Excellent plant knowledge and horticultural skills are essential.

Experience of the running of weekly job rotas and input into the seasonal work plans are also a must for this busy and engaging role.

Currently, this role requires you to fulfil the equivalent of at least one day a week of office work, so use of Excel, Microsoft Outlook and Word are essential.