Garden Supervisor - London, United Kingdom - The Royal Household

The Royal Household

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London, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Household / Department- Privy Purse and Treasurer's Office- Section / Branch- Property- Location- Buckingham Palace- Contract/recruitment type- Permanent- Starting salary- £32,500 per annum (this role is accommodated for which a rent will be charged)- Hours of work- Full time over 5 days per week- About the role
It's caring for the gardens that thousands will admire

It's having a passion for plants and people and developing others whilst growing your own skills. This is what makes working for the Royal Household exceptional._

As Garden Supervisor (Ornamental), you'll provide vital support to the Gardens Manager in maintaining and presenting the ornamental areas of the Buckingham Palace Gardens to an exceptional standard.

Leading a talented team of Senior Gardeners, Horticulturists and Gardeners, you'll use your skills and expertise to care for shrub, herbaceous and rose borders and lawn maintenance.

You'll contribute towards the planning of up-coming work, producing yearly plans and prioritising maintenance works to maximise efficiency.

Using your people management skills, you'll identify training needs within the team, liaise with contractors and monitor workload to ensure the right balance between ongoing maintenance and specialist projects.

When you're not out in the Gardens, you'll attend meetings with internal and external stakeholders, maintain the plant records database and review health and safety procedures and reporting.

With a commitment to horticulture, you'll relish the challenge of ensuring our gardens are presented to the highest standards and take pride in helping to shape the future of the Gardens.

About youAs a skilled craft gardener, backed up with a relevant qualification (such as HND, ND / NVQ 3 or RHS Level 3 or even a Botanic or Garden Degree in Horticulture), you're exactly who we're looking for.

Your experience is ideally within a formal landscape context and you're familiar with the cultivation of a broad range of trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants as well as ornamental lawn maintenance.

You've managed or supervised a team before and will be keen to use your knowledge to develop others.

Working closely with colleagues will be important to you, and you'll have an adaptable communication style and a collaborative approach to work.

Able to demonstrate a range of horticultural craft skills, you'll be well equipped to use the wide range of garden machinery we have here, including rotary machines and large mowers.

Ideally holding a clean UK driving license.

It's a busy environment, so your excellent time management and organisation will be an asset to the team.

With lots of initiative and a creative eye, you'll also be keen to contribute new ideas for developing the gardens and grounds.

And you'll take great pride in your work, delivering beautiful results in all you do.

Benefits include a 15% employer contribution pension scheme (with the option for flexibility - to increase contributions or draw down as salary),training and development, as well as a range of catering and recreational facilities.