Craft Gardener

Job title: Craft Gardener

Salary: B3 £ 26,403 - £28,142

Hours: 37

Contract: Full Time / Permanent

Location: Various operational sites across the city

This is an exciting job opportunity for 10 x Craft Gardeners, based in the West of the city.

As a Craft Gardener working in our Climate, Energy and Green Spaces service, you’ll thrive on working as part of a small team of dedicated staff. Ensuring that the upkeep of our parks and green spaces is undertaken to a high standard.

Leeds City Council is one of the largest employers in the region with over 14,000 employees. We seek to recruit and develop talented individuals who embody our council values and ambitions .

• A great work ethic working collaboratively and inspiring others
• A real pride in your work, delivering the best results and the best experience for our customers
• A can-do attitude, an ability to use your own initiative
• Ability to help lead and motivate a team of gardeners
• Encourage staff to be their best
• A passion about horticulture and an infectious enthusiasm to deliver results
• Good communication with multiple stakeholders and members of the public
• The ability to access all required locations across the city.
• Effective leadership working collaboratively and inspiring others

As our next Craft Gardeners, you’ll require considerable practical horticultural experience, together with a Level 1 qualification within this field of work or equivalent experience. Applicants who can demonstrate a substantial period of work experience without formal qualifications will also be considered.

Work includes all aspects of horticultural maintenance, including manual handling such as lifting, digging, hard and soft landscaping, preparation of ground for the planting and establishment of plants, weed spraying, the laying, establishing and maintenance of turf, fencing, the construction and maintenance of landscape features and grass cutting using a range of grass cutting mowers or

You will have excellent communication skills and be a team player. You will be motivated and a critical thinker with the ability to understand the needs of your customers.

A provisional driving licence will be required upon successful appointment of the post.

The post may be based at any point within the Leeds City boundaries.

We take pride in offering the best employee experience, with benefits including:

• a competitive salary and annual leave entitlement plus statutory holidays
• membership of the West Yorkshire Pension Fund with generous employer contributions
• flexible and hybrid working arrangements subject to service requirements
• a clear career pathway and continuing professional development opportunities
• a range of staff benefits to help you boost your wellbeing and make your money go further

This role is based in the UK. Home Office guidance states that candidates must evidence their right to work in the UK prior to commencing employment, either as a UK or Irish citizen, under the EU Settlement scheme or having secured any other relevant work visa.

If you do not have the right to work in the UK, you must consider your own eligibility for sponsorship for a particular role through the Skilled Worker visa route before applying. To be eligible for sponsorship you'll usually need to be paid the standard salary rate of at least £41,700 per year or meet one of the other eligibility criteria.

Please ensure you are eligible before applying.

To undertake all aspects of horticultural maintenance within the Leeds City boundaries.

• To prepare land for planting
• To undertake the planting and aftercare of annual, biennial and perennial plants
• To repair and maintain ornamental and amenity turf areas
• To undertake basic hard and soft landscaping construction and aftercare
• To prepare sports areas, marking out and maintenance
• To undertake other manual labouring…