Gardener

Bupa Healthcare; West Midlands; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a Care Home Gardener to maintain gardens and ensure a pleasant environment for residents in Sutton Coldfield. This role involves working 24 hours per week in a permanent position, with responsibilities including lawn maintenance, advising on gardening improvements, and assisting maintenance teams when needed. Join us to help ensure residents enjoy their living spaces. Competitive pay and excellent benefits are included, making health happen for our people.

Benefits

Free healthcare access

Annual allowance for healthcare products

Early access to earned wages

28 days holiday

Sick pay scheme

Long service rewards

Free meal on shift

Interest-free travel loan

Pension plans

Parental leave schemes

Access to gym discounts

Qualifications

• You will take real pride in your work maintaining the home’s gardens.
• Enjoy developing pleasant and relaxing environments for residents.

Responsibilities

• Maintain lawns, flowerbeds, borders, hedges, weeds and prune shrubs.
• Advise Home Manager on gardening issues and plan areas for improvement.
• Assist Maintenance team with ad hoc duties around the home.

Skills

Passion for gardening

Ability to maintain gardens

Advising on gardening issues

Job description

Care Home Gardener

Aston Court Care Home Little Aston Hall Drive Little AstonSutton Coldfield B74 3BF

rating : 9.7 / 10

12.60 - 13.60ph plus excellent Bupa benefits

Permanent Contract. 24 hours per week

We make health happen

Here at Bupa we support those when they need it the most. Our care homes are dedicated to delivering person‑centred care supporting independence and honouring choice to help our residents live their best lives. You’ll be responsible for the upkeep and care of the home’s gardens.

You’ll help us make health happen by :

• Maintaining lawns, looking after flowerbeds, borders and hedges, weeding and pruning our shrubs and small trees
• Advise the Home Manager on potential gardening issues and help to plan areas that require improvement
• Occasionally you will assist the Maintenance team with other ad hoc duties in and around the home.

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role :

With a passion for gardening you will take real pride in your work. You will enjoy maintaining and developing the home’s gardens ensuring our residents can enjoy the pleasant and relaxing environment.

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health from mental, physical to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family‑friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more :

• My Healthcare - Free access to 24 / 7 support, advice and treatment for a variety of health‑related issues including remote GP appointments, physiotherapy and mental health support
• Annual allowance which you can redeem against a menu of Bupa healthcare products all to the approximate value of 350
• Wagestream - Have early access to up to 40% of your earned wages within minutes
• 28 days holiday
• We offer a sick pay scheme to our frontline teams as an addition to statutory sick pay to help provide some reassurance and financial support during longer absences.
• Long service - For every milestone at Bupa we will reward you with ecards, extra holidays and money!
• Free meal on every shift
• Interest‑free annual travel loan to enable the purchase of public transport annual season tickets
• We offer a range of Bupa pension plans; find out more on our career site
• Parental leave – We have schemes for adoption, birth parents and co‑parents; find out more on our career site
• Menopause Plan – Specifically designed to empower women to seek advice, choose their treatment and take control of their health
• Access to discounts at a wide variety of gyms and fitness facilities across the UK

Why Bupa

We're a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to be you at Bupa we champion diversity and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That's why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We will make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

Please note this role is not at or above RQF Level 3 and is not included under the UK’s Points Based Immigration System for sponsorship by an employer.

Key Skills

Hospitality Management, Bakery & Pastry, Construction Equipment, Environment Health And Safety, Arbitration

Employment Type : Full Time

Department / Functional Area : Maintenance

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Monthly Salary Salary : 12 - 13