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About The Role
As a Gardener at a Barchester care home, you'll help create a stimulating environment that enables us to deliver quality, person-centred care. Your responsibilities include maintaining grounds to high standards, ensuring a great first impression, and creating enjoyable outdoor spaces for residents. Tasks involve caring for equipment and structures like fencing, keeping grounds safe and tidy (including snow and ice clearance in winter), and planting flowers, shrubs, and trees. You will also have the opportunity to participate in our annual 'Barchester in Bloom' competition.
About You
If you have a passion for the outdoors, this role could be perfect. Key qualities include patience and empathy to meet residents' needs, gardening experience, understanding of health and safety, and the ability to handle garden chemicals in line with COSHH regulations. Trustworthiness, professionalism, a proactive attitude, and teamwork skills are essential, along with a genuine interest in residents' wellbeing.
Rewards Package
We offer a competitive salary and one of the best rewards packages in the care sector, including:
* Free learning and development
* Automatic enrolment into our profit share scheme
* Holiday, retail, and leisure discounts
* Unlimited access to our Refer a Friend bonus scheme
If you're detail-oriented and personable, and want to work in a caring organization, this could be a rewarding opportunity for you.
Additional Information
* Seniority level: Entry level
* Employment type: Full-time
* Job function: Management and Manufacturing
* Industries: Hospitals and Health Care
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