Gardener - Care Home

This is a permanent gardener role at a Barchester care home in Ross-on-Wye. The gardener will be responsible for maintaining the grounds and outdoor areas to a high standard, ensuring the care home creates a pleasant and stimulating environment for the residents. The role involves general gardening tasks, equipment and structure maintenance, and participating in the annual 'Barchester in Bloom' competition.

As a Gardener at a Barchester care home, you'll help create the kind of stimulating environment that enables us to deliver quality, person-centred care. By maintaining our grounds to the highest standards, you'll ensure our home always makes a great first impression, and that our outside areas can be fully enjoyed by residents looking for some fresh air or a change of scenery.

Your role as a Gardener will involve looking after our equipment and structures like fencing, keeping our grounds safe and tidy (including clearing any snow and ice in the winter), and planting a range of flowers, shrubs and trees.

Barchester Healthcare is a leading provider of care homes in the UK, with a focus on delivering high-quality, person-centred care. The company operates over 200 care homes across the country and is committed to creating welcoming, comfortable, and engaging environments for its residents.

ABOUT THE ROLE
As a Gardener at a Barchester care home, you'll help create the kind of stimulating environment that enables us to deliver quality, person-centred care. By maintaining our grounds to the highest standards, you'll ensure our home always makes a great first impression, and that our outside areas can be fully enjoyed by residents looking for some fresh air or a change of scenery.

Your role as a Gardener will involve looking after our equipment and structures like fencing, keeping our grounds safe and tidy (including clearing any snow and ice in the winter), and planting a range of flowers, shrubs and trees. Once a year, you'll be able to showcase your talents in our fiercely-contested Barchester in Bloom' competition.

ABOUT YOU
If you have a passion for the great outdoors, you could be perfect for the role of Gardener  of your key priorities will be making sure your work fits around the needs of our residents, so a patient and empathetic approach is key. As well as general gardening experience, we'll also need to see a good understanding of health and safety and the ability to use garden treatment chemicals in line with COSHH regulations.

Trustworthy and professional with a can-do approach, you're a great team player who will take a genuine interest in the lives and wellbeing of our residents.

REWARDS PACKAGE
As well as a competitive salary, Barchester offers one of the best rewards packages in the care sector. Your generous benefits would include:

• Free learning and development
• Automatic enrolment into our profit share scheme
• A range of holiday, retail and leisure discounts
• Unlimited access to our Refer a Friend bonus scheme

If you'd like to use your attention to detail and people skills in an organisation that provides the quality care you'd expect for your loved ones, this is a rewarding place to be.

• You'll need general gardening experience, a good understanding of health and safety, and the ability to use garden treatment chemicals in line with COSHH regulations. A patient and empathetic approach is also key to ensure your work fits around the needs of the residents.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.