Gardener Holyrood Edinburgh, Scotland
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Job description
- Maintain and develop the mixed borders within the Palace Gardens.
- Assist in the maintenance of paths within the Palace Gardens; and
- Assist in apprentice mentoring and training.
- When required working within Holyrood Park and around other sites in HES’s care.
- Deliver grounds maintenance within a historic landscape to the highest possible standard. Including the provision of care for trees, shrubs, herbaceous, half-hardy and hardy plant stock within that environment.
- Assist in the maintenance and production of glasshouse nursery stock. This will involve having a sound knowledge of glasshouse cultivation and a high level of propagation skills in order to produce high quality stock from seed and cuttings.
- To provide all aspects of lawn care including safe use of machinery within a busy environment; and
- To work safely within a busy environment in delivering all objectives.
Person specification
Experience of:
- Plant identification and cultivation methods
- Awareness of plant pest and diseases and their treatment
- Glasshouse maintenance and production
- Turf maintenance and establishment
- Use of horticultural machinery
- All aspects of high standard gardens maintenance
- All aspects of Glasshouse cultivation
Desirable requirements:
- Full UK Driving Licence
Qualifications & Professional Memberships:
- SVQ2/3 in Horticulture – Essential
- PA1 AND PA6 herbicide use certification – Desirable
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What we offer
We welcome applications from all nationalities, assuming that they have the right to work in the UK: applying for a job with us could open the door to a unique work environment. It will give you job satisfaction and excellent development opportunities, plus a competitive salary, 25 days paid holidays (rising to 30 days after 3 years’ service) and 11.5 public holidays a year – pro rata for part time staff.
In addition we offer a great benefits package to our employees which includes:
- flexible working hours (where appropriate)
- special leave
- maternity/paternity leave
- adoption leave
- reimbursement for relevant professional subscriptions
- support for further education and personal development
- study leave for work related courses
- access to a learning resource centre
Health and welfare
We offer you access to:
- our Employee Assistance Programme – for confidential advice and counselling
- an occupational sick pay scheme
- discounts at some local authority leisure facilities
- access to a free Headspace membership
- interest free loans for bicycles and annual travel passes (see ‘season ticket’ below)
- reasonable adjustments when needed, as part of our Equalities policy
Staff discounts
You will receive:
- free entry to all of our properties (with up to three guests)
- free entry to English Heritage, Manx and Cadw properties
- 20% off purchases in our retail outlets
Season tickets
You can receive an advance to help with the cost of buying an annual season ticket for travel between home and work. The advance is then repaid from your salary over the life of the season ticket. Available to all permanent and fixed-term staff.
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Selection process details
Guidance on completing the application can be found in the ‘Guidance notes for applicants’ document, also available at the above website, which we recommend that you read, in conjunction with this Job Description.
Your application must arrive by the advertised closing date. Please note that when applying online, we will only be able to see your application once you fully submit it.
If you are unable to complete an online application form, please email [email protected], quoting the job title and recruitment reference, and we will arrange for an application form to be sent to you.
Please note that, as we operate an electronic recruitment system, we will contact you via the email address that you provide in your application to inform you of the outcome of your application.
We welcome all applicants from under-represented groups within HES. We know from our equality monitoring that we need to increase our diversity in terms of ethnicity and disability. We also want to address occupational areas where the ratio is disproportionately in favour of women or men. We ask all applicants to complete the Equality Monitoring section of the recruitment paperwork to help us pursue a diverse and inclusive workforce. In support of our Gaelic language plan we welcome applications from Gaelic speakers.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
- certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals
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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
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