Head Gardener

Job Description:

Head Gardener

Richmond Villages Aston, Richmond Drive, Off Maple Drive, DE72 2EA

Salary: £32,500 per annum & Excellent Benefits

Contract: Full time, 40 hours per week across 5 days, including alternative weekends.

We make health happen

At Bupa, we offer essential support when it matters most. Richmond Villages Aston, provides luxury retirement living with personalized care that promotes independence and honours individual choice, allowing our residents to live their best lives.

Our Head Gardener plays a vital role in enhancing the quality of life for our residents. This position is responsible for creating, developing, and maintaining beautiful, safe, and accessible outdoor spaces that encourage relaxation, social interaction, and physical activity.

Using your horticultural expertise, you will ensure our gardens remain vibrant, attractive, and healthy throughout the year, providing a peaceful and welcoming environment for residents, families, and visitors alike. The outdoor spaces you cultivate can have a significant positive impact on residents' mental, emotional, and physical well-being.

This role is about much more than maintaining gardens. It is an opportunity to create and nurture therapeutic, engaging, and inspiring spaces that enrich the daily lives of everyone within our village community.

You’ll help us make health happen by:

• Managing a team of gardeners, overseeing the maintenance of all green areas within the village
• Planning of gardening schedules around site and supporting with grass cutting and shrub bed maintenance, weed control, litter-picking, leaf clearance and watering
• Advising the management team on potential gardening issues and helping to plan areas that require improvement
• Working closely with the Head of Maintenance to liaise with other contractors where appropriate
• Attending monthly meetings with our resident’s gardening committee and must be working closely with their Chairman
• Supporting our maintenance operatives over the quieter months

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:

Friendly and approachable, you’re passionate about gardening and have some horticultural experience in a similar environment. Ideally you have arborist/tree surgeon experience and 3 - 4 years’ experience in landscaping or grounds maintenance would be an advantage. Previous experience managing a team, budgetary control and financial planning on projects. You have some general maintenance skills and you’re happy to support our maintenance operatives over the quieter winter months. The ability to adapt change quickly to meet expectations. You’ll enjoy communication with others, projecting a positive attitude to anyone you meet in the village.

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 and 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 - Quick, easy access to support, advice, and treatment for a variety of health-related issues, including remote GP, physiotherapy, and mental health support – all available from one phone number 24/7.
• Annual allowance which you can redeem against a menu of Bupa healthcare products, all to the approximate value of £350
• Free meal with every shift.
• 28 days holiday.
• Long Service - For every milestone at Bupa we will reward you with ecards, extra holidays and money!
• Interest- free annual travel Loan to enable the purchase of public transport annual season tickets.
• Wagestream - Have early access up to 40% of your earned wages within minutes.
• Competitive Pension plans and Parental leave options as well as access to unique products such as our Menopause plan.
• My Bupa Extras - discounts at your favourite retailers, plus a huge range of tools, content and information to support you with your wellbeing.
• 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.

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’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

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