Head Gardener

Andrew Brownsword Hotels; Bath; À distance; GBP 28 000 - 42 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Competitive pay

Service charge sharing

Perkbox discounts

Staff rate £25 B&B across the group

Meal on duty

Employee assistance programme

Internal promotions & milestones

Résumé du poste

The Bath Priory, part of the Brownsword hotels family, is seeking a Head Gardener to maintain our award-winning grounds. You will lead the garden team, ensure safety compliance, and uphold the first-class appearance guests expect. The role includes training staff, participating in rota duties, and recruiting new talent when needed.

We promote a collaborative culture with strong teams and offer a supportive environment and clear development pathways within the Brownsword group.

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar role is essential.

Responsabilités

• No two days are ever the same in this role; you’ll adapt as needed.
• Be hands-on and ready to get your hands dirty in the grounds.
• Ensure health & safety compliance checks are carried out.
• Maintain pristine gardens as the first impression for guests.
• Train new staff to maintain high standards.
• All Heads of Department participate in the Duty Manager rota.
• If vacancies arise, recruit new talent for the team.
• Work as one team and help across departments when needed.
• Aim for fair rotas to support work/life balance.

Connaissances

Gardening experience

Health & safety

Team leadership

Description du poste

Location: The Bath Priory (part of the Brownsword family of hotels) has a great location in Bath, just a short walk from the city centre, with a bus stop right outside. The hotel is stunning, a Georgian house with 33 bedrooms built in honey- coloured Bath stone and is surrounded by four acres of multi- award-winning gardens. We are proud to have won awards at 5-star level for over ten years and we are seeking sparkling new personalities to join our family. SERVICE CHARGE-We pay our team service charge each month! This service charge all goes into one pot, and 100% of that service charge is then shared amongst all the team at the hotel-every penny received is paid out to the team. Service charge can be in the region of £160 a month (close to £2000 per year) over and above base pay, for a full time employee.

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

Our culture is important to us, and we encourage everyone in our teams to show thoughtfulness towards 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.

To say thank you, we have many perks

• Competitive pay – We are proud that everyone who joins our group gets a competitive a rate of pay, irrespective of age, plus you get service charge and tips on top.
• 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.
• To be the best version of yourself, we encourage our teams to be curious. 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.

About our family of hotels

We bring a family of hotels together under one roof, ready to welcome guests with open arms, warm hearts and experiences that are simply memorable.

Each of our hotels are unique, individual, and quirky in personality. Quality is fundamental to everything we do, and it is the simple things that matter. We believe everyone should feel included, special and welcome, and that applies to our team and our guests.

We have very unique hotels in very special locations, from the award winning Gidleigh Park in Devon, the 900-year-old Amberley Castle to our cool city centre Abode Manchester set in a 19th century textile factory, two minutes from Piccadilly train station – to see the whole group, take a look herewww.brownswordhotels.co.uk

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