Gardener

Sports & Grounds

This full time post is available immediately on a permanent basis, with job share and flexible working practises available including term time only for suitable candidates.

Summary of the role/position

Are you a professional horticulturist or keen gardener who is excited to make an important move in your career by joining the gardeners here at the University of Exeter?

We are a dedicated team who are fortunate to be involved in delivering the full breadth of horticulture as part of our service to the Streatham and St Luke’s campuses.

We work in an established landscape with both modern and historically significant planting, we are driven by working towards a broad range of goals that are mentally and physically rewarding. 

It’s an estate quite unlike any other with a staff and student population of over 23,000 people and hundreds of private, public and ticketed events that creates an inclusive exciting and diverse environment.

With a genuinely proud safety culture we make time for your development and best practice out in the gardens. We keep all common and specialist equipment including battery powered and remote controlled machinery in the interest of welfare to the team.

Your role should you join us will focus on all expected seasonal work across beds, mixed shrub borders, lawns and hedges. It will also intermittently include planting, propagation and occasional cover in our plant nursery, wildlife habitat management and reactionary work during severe weather.

The right person for the role will have a passion for the industry as a whole and be willing to share ideas relating to horticulture and other experiences helping the improvement of the grounds within its planted landscape, dating back to the mid 1800’s. A successful candidate will have a desire for high standards of garden presentation and be able to demonstrate this as part of the application and interview process. We are a proud custodian to our 150 hectares of gardens and grounds .

To help achieve our vision of being one of the world’s leading universities, we want to build a world class workforce.

The University has developed a range of flexible working arrangements to support this ambition. Through these arrangements, we aim to support our managers to deliver flexible services that meet the changing needs of our students and other customers, as well as assist our workforce to achieve a positive work-life balance.

The standard working pattern will be 5 over 7 days, which will include working a small number of weekends across the year.

The University is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS is required for this post.

Benefits

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Further information

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Anthony Cockell, 07825 317044, [email protected]

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Commitment

With over 27,000 students and 6,400 staff from 180 different countries we offer a diverse and engaging environment where our diversity is celebrated and valued as a major strength. We are committed to creating an inclusive culture where all members of our community are supported to thrive; where diverse voices are heard through our engagement with evidence-based charter frameworks for gender (Athena SWAN), race equality (Race Equality Charter Mark), LGBTQ+ inclusion (Stonewall Diversity Champion) and as a Disability Confident employer. Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented within our working community. Reasonable adjustments are available for interviews and workplaces.