Experienced or Qualified Gardener
Holmewood House School
Kent
- Expired
- Salary:
- Region of £20,000 - £21,000 plus benefits depending on experience and qualifications
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Immediate Start
- Apply by:
- 22 April 2019
Job overview
Holmewood House School is a top rated independent Preparatory School of 450 pupils just outside Tunbridge Wells, set in over 30 acres of stunning gardens and Kent countryside. Holmewood has an exciting opportunity for a full time qualified or experience gardener working within our busy Grounds team and reporting to our Head Groundsman. The role also offers the opportunity to recruit, manage and develop an apprentice gardener.
The Person
The successful applicant will be able to deliver work to a high standard, take their own initiative and bring creative ideas to further develop and enhance the gardens. They must be reliable and show a willingness to help in other areas when required. Enthusiasm, a natural friendliness with staff, parents and children and team working will also be important characteristics for this role. A driving licence is essential and the successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check. Chainsaw and spray qualifications are also desirable (PA1 & PA6).
Duties
• Planning of new projects and the development of the gardens to enhance the setting of the School.
• Maintenance of the gardens, ornamental lawns and external appearance of the school including the headmaster’s house, to a high standard with minimal supervision.
• To include; soil preparation, digging, forking, mulching, weeding, raking, watering, pruning, bed and boarder planning and planting. Seasonal tasks.
• Safe use of a wide variety of machinery, such as tractors/attachments, lawn mowers, hedge cutters, leaf blowers. Carry out routine daily maintenance checks.
• Daily clearing of roads and pathways of leaves, mud, etc to include help with gritting, salt spreading and snow clearing if necessary.
• Adhering to relevant H&S requirements and COSHH compliance, willingness to attend training.
• Other duties may include helping with parking, directing traffic during events/busy periods
Hours
Monday to Friday 7.30am – 4.30pm. One hour unpaid break for lunch and two paid half hour breaks.
5.6 weeks paid holiday per annum to include bank holidays, which must be taken during the school holidays to be agreed with the Head Groundsman.
Remuneration
Remuneration will be discussed at interview and will depend on the experience of the successful candidate. The salary will be in the region of £20,000 - £21,000 plus benefits; a qualifying workplace pension scheme, uniform, free on site catering, parking.
Please apply via our website, https://www.holmewoodhouse.co.uk/staff-vacancies/, and complete an application form and email to admin@holmewoodhouse.co.uk to arrive no later than 23rd April. Applicants should include a copy of their curriculum vitae with their application if it contains additional relevant information. If you have any questions or require a hard copy application form, please contact Anita Randall on 01892 860000. The School will look to interview suitable candidates upon receipt of application, so early application is encouraged.
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About Holmewood House School
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- Holmewood House School
- Barrow Lane, Langton Green, Tunbridge Wells
- Kent
- TN3 0EB
- United Kingdom
Holmewood House is a vibrant and thriving Preparatory school located on the outskirts of Tunbridge Wells. Holmewood House is a non-selective school where, according to our ISI report, “The quality of pupils’ academic and other achievements; and the quality of pupils’ personal development” were both deemed ‘excellent’. We are a busy, welcoming and dynamic school community; our school values of self-belief, aspiration and kindness inform everything we do.
Our beautiful school is set within 30 acres of stunning grounds, equipped with state of the art classroom facilities, a 6 lane, 25m indoor swimming pool and 500 seat theatre, as well as our Learning Hub and Learning Strategies area which are both centrally located within the school to support and enhance our teaching and learning provision for every child.
Our teachers all share a love of the children in their care and all our teachers are Form Teachers or Assistant Form Teachers too, as we believe the pastoral and academic areas of school life as intrinsically linked. We celebrate teachers’ further learning and have supported three different colleagues through two Masters in Education and one MBA respectively in the last two academic years. We welcome colleagues who explicitly connect research with practice and want to bring ideas to the table. Our teachers from all areas of the school can join our Teacher Learner Community, which collaborates to share teaching and learning innovation, research and ideas to support continual development. All teachers have access to in-house drop-in counselling support and in-house coaching, should they wish to work on specific areas of their wellbeing or professional practice. We also have a peer mentoring system in place for both teachers and pupils who are keen for further support and guidance. Many of our teachers volunteer to support pupils and teachers in both these mentoring programs.
We regard these vital preparatory school years as forming the very foundation on which our pupils build their lifelong learning and indeed their lives. We are mindful of the fact that our pupils’ experience of school and of life at this early age will significantly shape the adults that they will become. To this end, we place a strong emphasis on outstanding pastoral care; we nurture the wellbeing of every child to enable them to thrive within an ever changing and fast paced world. We believe ensuring positive mental health in our community is the very foundation of the learning that follows. To this end, our teachers foster the Holmewood House learning behaviours in their lessons and beyond (featured below) so as to develop our pupils’ self-belief, aspiration and kindness, both towards themselves and others. We offer a rich, broad and balanced curriculum and full array of extracurricular sports and activities, to support every pupil in finding their niche and to grow everyone‘s love of learning.
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