Grounds Maintenance Team Leader – Chiswick Gardens
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Are you passionate about horticulture, landscaping and would you like to introduce trainees into the industry?
Over the last nearly 25 years, Groundwork’s Green Teams have provided hundreds of unemployed Londoners with their first taste of work in grounds maintenance and horticulture.
In an exciting development of this, we are working for Chiswick House & Gardens Trust to help care for their thriving 350-year-old, 65 acre haven in the heart of Hounslow, west London. Teeming with nature, stories, and activities, the gardens are free to visit and open every day, welcoming up to 1 million visits annually. Chiswick House Gardens is one of the world’s most important landscape gardens (Grade 1 listed), it tells the story of a key moment in garden history, when William Kent and the Earl of Burlington, began the English Landscape Movement.
‘The Groundwork team work alongside us to care for and enhance the gardens. We pool resources and try to get the best out of each other with shared aims and objectives to make things better for those that visit the gardens, and those that learn and work in them. We are proud to share this beautiful, historic environment with Groundwork.’ Rosie Fyles, Head of Gardens CHGT.
We are seeking a Team Leader for our small team of gardeners and trainees on this site delivering a range of proactive and reactive maintenance tasks, including: mowing of meadows, leisure & ornamental lawns; hedgerow maintenance; mulching & leaf clearance. You will lead day to day liaison with our client, and deploy our team to best support their work. You will ensure that our trainees are offered the best opportunity to develop their skills and experience to enable them enter long term roles in horticulture.
You will get the opportunity to work within a wider team of talented, ambitious and supportive gardeners who love their jobs, in a warm atmosphere where people are encouraged to feel part of something that is making a big impact on people’s lives.
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To view the Job Description and Person Specification and download the Application Form, please click below.
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Please submit your application quoting reference ‘1254/GSTL’ to londonjobs@groundwork.org.uk.
Closing date for applications: 27th June 2025
We encourage early applications for this role, as interviews will be carried out during the recruitment period when there are sufficient applicants for a pool of candidates Contact the londonjobs email above if you have any questions about this.
For further information and to discuss the role please contact Steve Finn, Green Team Programme Manager at steve.finn@groundwork.org.uk 07702 532746
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