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Post: Community Gardener
Contract: Fixed term 12 weeks for the duration of the project (may be extended)
Hours: 25 hours per week (schedule negotiable)
Salary: £18 per hour
Reporting to: Director supported by the Volunteer and Engagement Programme Manager
Application Deadline: 23.59pm Thursday 14 January 2025
If shortlisted: Notification on the 10 January. In person interview Tuesday 13 January 2025.
Context: The site at Hospitalfield has been populated since the 13th century when the monks who ran Arbroath Abbey established their hotel or hospital, here they must have grown a medicinal garden and brewed potions as medicines to improve the health and wellbeing of those who they cared for. The site is now the location of a 19th-century Arts & Crafts house designed and built by the artist Patrick Allan Fraser and his wife Elizabeth. On his death in 1890, Patrick left his estate to support artists and education in the arts. Today we run a programme of activity that is anchored within contemporary art practice – horticulture has become a vital cross-cutting theme within our programme.
Introduction to Role and Job Description: In 2021, Hospitalfield opened the walled garden to the public. It is designed by horticulturalist Nigel Dunnett. We have made some additions such as creating a medicinal garden and we have a team of volunteers, who are led by the Community Gardener in the ongoing maintenance of this ‘naturalistic’ garden. As well as the ongoing maintenance of the walled garden, there is still more to do on a project-by-project basis.
The Project: We are designing and planting a new designated pollination corridor within the grounds at Hospitalfield as part of our 2025 theme of ‘Pollinate’. The Community Gardener will join the team to lead the practical aspect of the delivery of this planting scheme.
A Community Liaison officer will be appointed alongside this role to support the consultation and community engagement. In addition to involving our immediate neighbours, you will be involving and working with a group of vulnerable women and girls from Angus, this is a partnership with other community agencies that Hospitalfield has a long working relationship with.
Our aim is to ensure that the project allows everyone to learn from one another and to gain a sense of ownership from the project. While the consultation and delivery is planned to take place over a tight timetable, the interpretation, nurturing, and maintenance of the site will form part of the ongoing horticulture programme at Hospitalfield.
The Community Gardener will support engagement and participation in the horticultural story of Hospitalfield. The Community Gardener will be supported by the full-time Volunteer and Engagement Manager and the Pollinate Community Liaison Officer. Together they will plan the programme, working with established and new community participants who will learn as they plant, build confidence, and create new community connections.
Person Specification: The Hospitalfield Trust aims to recruit an enthusiastic, knowledgeable Community Gardener to work on a horticultural engagement project. It is important that the gardener has extensive experience of working with community groups and feels confident to play a leading role in catalyzing a group of Angus-based women and girls who have challenges in their lives, may not have done anything like this before but who are very eager to work and learn.
You must be able to demonstrate within your application that you have experience of working with others in a horticultural context. This is a practical role that requires an aptitude for teaching and communicating enthusiastically to those who want to learn and get involved.
You will be able to show that you have had experience of leading and taking responsibility for community gardens or similar, or in gardens where there has been a volunteer workforce. The role is crucial in supporting the continuation and growth of our community engagement and volunteer programme delivered in the gardens at Hospitalfield.
Post Purpose and Outline:
* To work with staff, participants, and community partners guiding them and ensuring that they feel part of the experience of working at Hospitalfield.
* Working with the team to develop garden engagement opportunities for a wide range of individuals including our dedicated group of volunteers and wider community partners.
* To work with the staff team on the interpretation and communication of the garden to visitors.
* Through planning and developing the garden, ensure a commitment to Nigel Dunnett’s principles of design.
Skills and Experience:
Essential Qualifications:
* Excellent experience of horticulture either to RHS Level 2 or through practical experience working in horticulture.
Learning:
* Experience of delivering and facilitating garden projects.
* Experience of and commitment to using the garden as a place for learning and training.
* Experience of working with a volunteer workforce.
Approach to Work:
* Conscientious and organised.
* Excellent communication skills.
* Good grasp of computer working specifically: emails, word processing.
* Ability to work to deadlines with limited supervision.
* Experience of working as part of a team and working with volunteers of a broad range of experiences.
Desirable:
* Experience of working in a public garden or nursery.
* Awareness of the responsibilities of working with the public.
* Understanding of community learning and development.
* Understanding of the ways in which horticulture can be used in the context of well-being.
* Interest in growing food and the link to the catering/food destination that Hospitalfield will become.
Equalities: In alignment with our Equalities policy, we know that, in order for the organisation to be relevant and to thrive in a changing cultural context, Hospitalfield must represent, at all levels of the organisation, a diverse range of influences. We strive to offer people with different backgrounds and experiences, the opportunity to work with us. If you have any access requirements, please make us aware if you reach the interview stage.
Context: Hospitalfield: Dedicated to contemporary art and ideas, Hospitalfield is a place to work, study, learn, visit and enjoy. Situated just to the south of the coastal town of Arbroath, Hospitalfield House is an artists’ house: We run an international programme of residencies for artists across art form, we commission new work: summer schools; events; talks; festivals; conferences. We care for the historic collections and run a heritage programme. We open the doors and run tours and events that relate to our heritage. We have a trading arm that runs a programme of hires and events that earns income for the Trust. The distinctive double Walled Garden at Hospitalfield has been redesigned by garden designer Nigel Dunnett. The gardens opened to visitors for the first time on 27 May 2021. The scheme was developed to reveal the unique horticultural history of the site at Hospitalfield, which has been tended as a garden for over 800 years.
Job Types: Part-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 3 months
Pay: £18.00 per hour
Expected hours: 25 per week
Benefits:
* Company pension
* On-site parking
Schedule:
* Flexitime
* Monday to Friday
* Weekend availability
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 14/01/2025
Reference ID: Community Gardener: Pollinate Project
Expected start date: 01/02/2025
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