Head Gardener

Blackberry Farm; Arundel; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Blackberry Farm as a Head Gardener and ensure our beautiful grounds impress guests year-round. The role involves hands-on gardening, team training, and maintaining health and safety compliance. Enjoy competitive benefits, progression opportunities, and a collaborative work culture.

Benefits

Great salary package and benefits

Retail and hospitality perks through Perkbox

25% off food & beverage in hotels

Confidential helpline for support

Free meals on duty

Unique development pathways

Internal promotion opportunities

Milestone awards and special gifts

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar role is essential.
• Ability to maintain beautiful grounds throughout the year.

Responsibilities

• Keep the gardens looking perfect for guests.
• Train new staff and help maintain health and safety standards.
• Participate in the Duty Manager rota.

Skills

Gardening

Health & Safety Compliance

Team Training

Job description

Company Description

The Brownsword Group has created arguably the most iconic collection of historic countryside and city centre hotels, all wonderful properties set within beautiful grounds and cities, all with their own stories to share. Generosity, quality, and welcoming hospitality is what they do very well. Being exceptional hoteliers has been the core of the operation, creating a successful hospitality business.

Job Description

Come and join our team as a Head Gardener and let yourpassion and personality shine

Our culture is important to us, and we encourage everyone in our teams toshow thoughtfulnesstowards each other and our guests.

As a Head Gardener, you will keep our grounds beautiful for our guests throughout the year.

Experience in a similar role is essential.

Check out some of the key points about the role:

• No two days are ever the same in this role, often you won’t know what you’ll be doing until you come in on the day.
• You can’t be afraid to get your hands dirty.
• We want everyone to be safe, so health & safety compliance checks are an absolute must.
• Our gardens are the first thing our guests see when they arrive, so we want them looking perfect.
• Have the pleasure of training our new staff to be as wonderful as our current staff.
• All our Heads of Department partake in the Duty Manager rota.
• Sadly, sometimes people leave, but when they do, you’ll be able to recruit the new talent for your team.
• We are one team, so we will all muck in from time to time, helping each other across departments.

Work/life balance, or as it should be called life/work balance is important to us all, so we will always try to be fair with our rotas. We just ask that you be flexible with us, so that we can be flexible with you.

Additional Information

To say thank you, we have many perks:

• Great salary package and benefits.
• Treat yourself once in a while with lots of retail and hospitality perks through our Perkbox platform.
• Excellent discounts across our family of hotels – you will be entitled to 25% off food & beverage in our hotels plus we offer an amazing staff rate of £25 B&B per person across the group & your friends and family get special rates too.
• We understand it’s OK not to be OK, so we offer an externally run confidential helpline for any support you require about anything you might need as part of our Employee Assistance Programme.
• We sustain you physically too, meals when you are on duty are free.
• Everyone can learn and develop - our development pathways are unique to us and are the best in the business.
• We provide lots of opportunity to progress and move up – we have made hundreds of internal promotions, including to General Manager level.
• We like to say a special thank you for every year you are with us - our milestone awards include Champagne, afternoon tea, or dinner for you and someone special. When you reach the big milestones, you receive extra special gifts on top like longer hotel stays, extra days off and a unique gift especially chosen for you.