Gardener

Job Title: Gardener
Location: Blackheath, Greenwich
Salary: £29,608.80 per annum
Job Type: Permanent/ Full time
About Us:
At Morden College we are committed to providing services that support our residents to live independent and healthy lives. More than 250 older people live in Morden College's almshouse accommodation, on two sites in Blackheath and Beckenham, and in our Care Home.
As part of the Morden College team, you will be committed to challenging ageism, promoting healthy ageing, and combatting loneliness while promoting equity, diversity and inclusion within communities. You will be comfortable with using technology to deliver consistent, equitable, and sustainable services at all times across the charity. You will be a role model for our values and committed to a purposeful, responsible community that is a great place to live and work
About the role:
Assisting the Gardens Manager in ensuring that Morden College gardens and grounds at Blackheath and at Beckenham are maintained as safe and appealing external spaces and to promote resident wellbeing by supporting hands on gardening activities.
Duties and Responsibilities:

• Mowing, using all types of mowers, including ride-on mowers.
  
• Edging, trimming and maintaining lawns.
  
• Scarifying and spiking of lawns.
  
• Maintenance of fine turf areas including sports areas (including hammers and putting).
  
• Application of lawn fertilisers, use of hosepipes and sprinklers, watering of pots and urns.
  
• Planting and maintaining seasonal bedding, planting and maintaining shrubs and trees, pruning of fruit trees and shrubs, propagation of hard wood cuttings and potting up.
  
• Rose pruning and application of rose fertilisers, removing epicormic shoots from trees.
  
• Leaf clearing, using leaf blowers or rakes/brooms, make and apply compost.
  
• Application of rock salt or other specified materials and clearing snow and ice from pathways and roadways.
  
• The mixing and application of chemical sprays.
  
• Hedge trimming using both manual and power assisted equipment, single/double digging of areas both manually and using a rotavator.
  
• Carrying out soft landscaping.
  
• Carrying out basic brick edging, laying of slabs and timber and metal edging.
  
• Labelling and sign writing.
  
• Cleaning and maintaining horticultural machinery and hand tools, tidying up Grounds Department sheds, storage and compost areas, loading and unloading of skips, containers or other delivery vehicles, maintaining garden furniture and garden features, including, cleaning and the application of preservatives.
  About you:
  Skills, Qualifications and Experience
  
• C&G Stage 2 Amenity Horticulture/ RHS Certificate Horticulture Level 2 Practical and Theory or NVQ Level 3 Amenity Horticulture
  
• A minimum of 3 years practical experience in horticulture
  
• Chain saw certificate
  
• Mixing and use of chemicals certificate
  
• Spraying certificate
  
• H&S certificate
  
• Horticulture
  
• Grounds maintenance
  
• Use of Machinery
  
• Soft landscaping
  
• Garden Planning
  
• Forward Planning skills
  Please click the APPLY button to submit your CV for this role
  Candidates with experience or relevant job titles of horticulturist, landscaper, groundskeeper, botanist, and plant care specialist may also be considered