Location: Inverleith Park 5a Arboretum Place Edinburgh, EH3 5NY
Salary: £24,909 - £25,116 per year
Contract Type: Permanent
Position Type: Full Time
Hours: 36 hours per week
Job Description
Place: Gardener
Various locations
Become part of our Greenspace maintenance teams, working within a mobile squad looking after our Parks & Greenspaces.
Opportunity to be based at one of the following depots:
1. Inch Park Depot
2. Inverleith Park Depot
3. Bankhead Depot
Carries out horticultural, landscaping, and ground maintenance duties to improve Edinburgh’s parks, gardens, greenspaces, and cemeteries.
A member of a gardening team undertaking horticultural, landscaping, and grounds maintenance tasks.
Contributes expertise to the development of initiatives, plans, and policies within own area of expertise and knowledge.
Supports the development of team-working within the gardening squad.
Identifies and initiates opportunities for operational and horticultural improvement within the duties of the position.
Implement operations to deliver horticultural standards.
The post holder will be expected to operate a range of vehicles, machinery, and equipment.
Knowledge and skills in horticultural, ground maintenance, or greenkeeping is required.
We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work. We recognize the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organization.
As part of our goal to improve our organizational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.
To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioral and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.
Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.
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