Head Gardener

| Groundwork

Location: Chiswick House & Garden

Salary: £30,500

Full Time: 40 hours per week

Closing Date: 1st of May 2025

Job Description

Are you passionate about horticulture, landscaping and would you like to introduce trainees into the industry?

Over the last nearly 25 years, Groundwork’s Green Teams have provided hundreds of unemployed Londoners with their first taste of work in grounds maintenance and horticulture.  In an exciting development of this, we are working for Chiswick House & Gardens Trust to help care for their thriving 350-year-old, 65 acre haven in the heart of Hounslow, west London. Teeming with nature, stories, and activities, the gardens are free to visit and open every day, welcoming more than 825,000 to 1 million visits annually.

Our role is to work alongside and support their expert in-house gardening team in caring for this site, and offer local people ways into work, high quality training and work placement opportunities.

We are seeking a Head Gardener to lead our small team of gardeners and trainees on this site. You will deliver and supervise a range of proactive and reactive maintenance tasks, including: mowing of meadows, leisure & ornamental lawns; hedgerow maintenance; mulching & leaf clearance. You will be expected to use a range of machinery on this contract including a tractor & mower. You will lead day to day liaison with our client, and deploy our team to best support their work. You will ensure that our long-term unemployed trainees are offered the best opportunity to develop their skills and experience to enable them enter long term roles in horticulture.

Please contact us if you:

• Have the ability to lead a small team of grounds maintenance staff and trainees to deliver high quality grounds maintenance and small landscaping contracts.
• have the ability to build and maintain great client relationships.
• can demonstrate a desire to put our trainees at the heart of our service delivery and support their progression into careers in the industry.

Job Description and specification pack – JDPS

Groundwork London Careers Prospectus

How To Apply

To apply download the application form below and send it to greenspaceskillshub@groundwork.org.uk quoting 1254/GSTL. Good luck!

Application Form