Gardener - Care Home

This Gardener role at a Barchester care home involves maintaining the grounds to the highest standards, ensuring the home makes a great first impression and that the outdoor areas can be fully enjoyed by residents. The role includes tasks like looking after equipment, keeping the grounds safe and tidy, and planting a range of flora.

About us

Barchester Healthcare is a leading provider of residential care, nursing care and specialist services in the UK. With over 200 care homes across the country, they are committed to delivering high-quality, person-centred care that enables residents to live fulfilling lives. The organisation values its employees and offers a range of benefits including free training and development, profit-sharing schemes, and various retail and leisure discounts.

Job responsibilities

About the role

This is part time 15hrs contract per week.

As a Gardener at a Barchester care home, you'll help create the kind of stimulating environment that enables us to deliver quality, person-centred care. By maintaining our grounds to the highest standards, you'll ensure our home always makes a great first impression, and that our outside areas can be fully enjoyed by residents looking for some fresh air or a change of scenery. Your role as a Gardener will involve looking after our equipment and structures like fencing, keeping our grounds safe and tidy (including clearing any snow and ice in the winter), and planting a range of flowers, shrubs and trees. Once a year, you'll be able to showcase your talents in our fiercely-contested Barchester in Bloom' competition.

About you

If you have a passion for the great outdoors, you could be perfect for the role of Gardener at Barchester. One of your key priorities will be making sure your work fits around the needs of our residents, so a patient and empathetic approach is key. As well as general gardening experience, we'll also need to see a good understanding of health and safety and the ability to use garden treatment chemicals in line with COSHH regulations. Trustworthy and professional with a can-do approach, you're a great team player who will take a genuine interest in the lives and wellbeing of our residents.

Rewards package

As well as a competitive salary, Barchester offers one of the best rewards packages in the care sector. Your generous benefits would include:

• Free learning and development
• Automatic enrolment into our profit share scheme
• A range of holiday, retail and leisure discounts
• Unlimited access to our Refer a Friend bonus scheme

Qualifications

• You'll need general gardening experience, a good understanding of health and safety, and the ability to use garden treatment chemicals in line with COSHH regulations. A patient, empathetic approach and the ability to work well in a team are also key.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.