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Level 3 Horticultural Apprentice – One Garden Brighton

Employer
Plumpton College
Location
Brighton, East Sussex
Salary
£4.00 per hour in year 1 and rising to the higher rate national minimum wage in year 2
Closing date
24 Oct 2019

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Sector
Education, Further , Higher
Contract Type
Apprenticeship
Hours
Full Time

Job Details

Level 3 Horticultural Apprentice – One Garden Brighton  

Full Time Apprenticeship role. 

THE OPPORTUNITY 

One Garden Brighton is a newly redeveloped tourist destination, a walled garden, rediscovered, reinvented and opening to the public for the first time summer 2020. One Garden Brighton will feature expertly designed gardens, One Garden Kitchen, a place to eat and drink, One Garden Market, a retail space complete with nursery, and One Garden Events offering small and large-scale community events. One Garden Brighton is a subsidiary of Plumpton College. 

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a new organisation and team in the initial opening of One Garden. As a Horticulture Apprentice, you will work alongside the Senior Gardener of One Garden and the Grounds and Gardens Team, as well as being part of the wider Plumpton College Team.

THE ROLE 

This is a unique position for a dedicated, hardworking, enthusiastic, motivated apprentice who is keen to learn the broad subject of Horticulture and has the initiative to further themselves and to be part of a team that will be working on the Stanmer Walled Garden restoration project. To begin with, you will be helping to restore a Victorian Walled Garden into a new exciting visitor attraction on the edge of Brighton, showcasing different methods of Horticulture, from herbaceous planting to growing fruit and vegetables, implementing a design from one of the creators of the Eden Project. Once the garden is open to the public you will be required to work with the Senior Gardener, Grounds and Gardens Manager and team, volunteers and students, assisting with the day to day running of all Horticultural operations within the Walled Garden and surrounding space. There will be occasions where you will be required to assist the team in working on other Plumpton campus.

You will show commitment during your studies in developing your academic portfolio in achieving your qualification.

The rates of pay for this role will be based on the national minimum wage for apprenticeships starting at £4.00 per hour in year 1 and rising to the higher rate national minimum wage in year 2.

ABOUT YOU  

We’re looking for people who are:  

  • Enthusiastic 
  • Creative  
  • Passionate about horticulture  
  • Enjoy working in all weathers  
  • Excellence people skills, enjoy liaising with the general public  

If you share these values and would like to be part of our growing team then we’d like to hear from you - to apply please complete an application form and an equality and diversity monitoring form and return them to recruitment@plumpton.ac.uk or send it to: HR Department, Plumpton College, Ditchling Road, Plumpton, East Sussex, BN7 3AE. Tel: 01273 890454.  

 

 

For further information about the role including job description and application form please visit the vacancies section of our website www.plumpton.ac.uk

 

 

 

Closing date for applications: 24th October

Interviews will be held: 28th October

Company

The College specialises in providing a wide range of land-based courses in partnership with schools, for those in further education and for those in higher education. The College degree courses are provided in association with the University of Brighton.

The College’s main site is at Plumpton with out-centres at Netherfield (near Battle), Robertsbridge, Flimwell, Stanmer Park, Brighton and Snowdonia, North Wales.

The range of courses cover all land-based provision including Agriculture, Horticulture, Floristry, Greenkeeping, Hard Landscaping, Equine, Agricultural and Horticultural Machinery, Metalsmithing, Animal Care and Veterinary Nursing, Countryside Management, Forestry and Arboriculture, Sports (Outdoor Adventurous Education), Wine and Viticulture, and Rural Business Management.

Company info
Website
Telephone
01273 890 454
Location
Ditchling Road
Lewes road
Lewes
East Sussex
BN7 3AE
GB

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