Gardens Assistant Windermere, England
Job description
Salary: £10.50 - £12.25 per hour (equating to £21,840 to £25,480)
Accommodation: subsidised accommodation available on site or in local town
Staff transport: provided free between staff houses and hotel
Hours: 40 per week
Progress your pay as you develop your skills through our Skills Development (SD) Levels:
- SD1: £10.50 per hour
- SD2: £10.75 per hour
- SD3: £11.00 per hour
- SD4: £11.25 per hour
- SD5: £11.75 per hour
- SD6: £12.25 per hour
Be part of a great team.
Work in a stunning location.
THE ROLE OF GARDENS ASSISTANT
This is a truly special role where you’ll spend your day working in the breath-taking surroundings in a peaceful corner of the Lake District. As our Gardens Assistant, you’ll work to maintain the beauty of plants, outdoor grounds, and trees in the garden of the stunning Gilpin Hotel and estate.
You’ll perform a range of general garden and maintenance tasks including designing, producing, renewing and preserving our stunning outside spaces. You may work on grounds projects from time to time, as well as supporting the overall presentation of the garden and grounds including reactive and ongoing maintenance. Above all else, you will work to create garden environments that are enjoyable, safe and secure for all our guests.
To excel in this role, you’ll be someone who:
- Supports daily hotel operations by ensuring all garden decking, saunas and patio areas are cleaned to the highest standard.
- Assists the Garden Team with scheduled seasonal gardening tasks such as mowing, strimming, planting and pruning on deckings, patios, and in the wider garden areas.
- Can confidently use (or is willing to learn) strimmers, lawn mowers, leaf-blowers and smaller hand tools.
To succeed in this role, you should be physically fit and able to manage small and heavy machinery. You'll also be happy to help with the management of our three pot-bellied pigs, and small herd of Llamas and Alpacas.
The ideal candidate will be friendly, professional and possess a clean driving licence.
LIVE, WORK & PLAY IN THE LAKE DISTRICT
Work hard, play hard – where better to do that than in the beautiful Lake District? As well as the traditional hospitality jobs at Gilpin, you can also be an accountant, an agri-scientist, an interior designer, a landscape gardener, a marketeer, and much more… the opportunities are endless!
LOVE & LAUGHTER - WE LOVE WHAT WE DO - JOIN US IN OUR GARDENS ASSISTANT ROLE
Many of our guests come to Gilpin for very special celebrations, investing time, money, expectations, memories and feelings into their stay with us. Our job is to help create the magic, sowing the seeds for lasting happy memories with five star service, and a lot of love and laughter.
THE WORLD IS YOUR OYSTER - WE WILL TRAIN & DEVELOP YOU AS OUR GARDENS ASSISTANT
You can start at whatever level is right for you, and immediately start learning about the work and our team spirit; everything you need will be provided in a combination of on the job training and via our online Gilpin Training Academy, with clear pay rises built in. If you want to prove yourself and become a team leader, the opportunity is there – you can see for yourself what you need to do to progress, and if you wish to take it further this can lead to a degree or leadership course without needing previous qualifications. This is your future – our job is to train you & prepare you for whatever you do next.
WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME?
SOCIAL
Staff parties and social events through the year
FOOD
Home-cooked food for just £1 per meal. Breakfast of toast and cereal is free, and available all the time.
SUBSIDISED ACCOMMODATION
Fantastic subsidised shared staff accommodation, some at the hotel, some in the countryside, and some in the centre of Windermere and Bowness. In all accommodation there is a shared kitchen and lounge area, and some have added extras such as a pool table, dart board and X-box… We spring clean and paint your room before you move in, meet you, show you around, and settle you in with a welcome pack, and check all the accommodation monthly to make sure everything is still lovely. Our staff accommodation ranges from mobile homes to luxury ensuite rooms in Bowness and Windermere (from £130 to £350 per month including bills). If you’re really trying to save and don’t have a lot of stuff, there are a few very small mobile home rooms that we don’t charge anything for.
STAFF TRANSPORT
Free staff transport between Gilpin and the staff houses in Crook, Windermere and Bowness.
ENGLISH LESSONS
We provide personalised English classes (while you’re paid) if you wish to gain confidence and ability to communicate in English. The aim is to motivate and encourage progression here at Gilpin as well as to gain confidence outside of work.
MY CUMBRIA CARD
We are buying My Cumbria Cards for all of our team – old and new! With this you can get offers & discounts throughout Cumbria on food & drink, activities, shopping and more. We’ll also be introducing a scheme where you can get even more money off certain activities, so watch this space to go bike riding, canoeing, rock climbing, or relax with a lovely meal or go to the cinema…
GYM MEMBERSHIP
Free use of Choices Health Club in Troutbeck Bridge with gym, swimming pool, steam room, sauna and hot tub.
TREATS - DINING & HOTEL STAYS
Discounted rates in our restaurants, as well as amazing opportunities to stay at other Relais & Châteaux and Pride of Britain hotels from just £150 per night!
FRIENDSHIP & FUN
There are around 170 of us in Team Gilpin, but we’re not a big international hotel. We love what we do, and believe it’s important to have a friendly warm atmosphere behind the scenes as well as out front. We are family run with a strong team of managers who really look after, look out for and nurture our teams. We have a lovely, friendly, close knit team, where great friendships are made (often long term). We believe in enjoying what we do!
For more information see https://thegilpin.co.uk/join-our-team
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £10.50-£12.25 per hour
Benefits:
- Canteen
- Company events
- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Free or subsidised travel
- Gym membership
- Housing allowance
- Language training provided
- On-site parking
- Shuttle service provided
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 01/05/2023
