JOB TITLE: Apprentice Gardener
DEPARTMENT: Gardening
REPORTS TO: Landscape Manager
LOCATION: Tottenham Hotspur’s Training Centre (Enfield)
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Tottenham Hotspur is a world famous football club based in North London. Off the pitch, the Club has a strong and successful business model centred around building a platform for long-term success, which includes a world-class stadium.
The Club operates across multiple sites, including a world class Training Centre, where the position of Apprentice Gardener is based. The 77 acre Centre is the main location for the Club’s First Team training and coaching activities, and its impeccable presentation and dynamic mass planting are some of the many features that have led to it being recognised as one of the best training facilities in Europe. The Training Centre is home to a varied and flourishing range of mixed borders, over 150 new and semi-mature trees, an organic kitchen garden as well as an orchard and the site is still rapidly expanding.
The successful candidate will work within a team of 17 gardeners, helping to ensure the landscape meets the highest possible standard. They will be hard working, enthusiastic and have a strong focus on quality.
JOB PURPOSE
To assist with the maintenance, management and development of the Club’s Training Centre’s grounds and affiliated sites ensuring impeccable presentation throughout the premises, showing both proactiveness and teamwork.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
· Help maintain and develop all borders and gardens to an excellent standard
· Perform general gardening duties such as planting, pruning, weed control and mulching, irrigating planted areas, leaf collection and snow clearance
· Have an understanding of pest and disease
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
· Thinks ahead, generates ideas and thinks of creative solutions to problems
· Values & respects others, builds relationships, collaborates
· Gets things done, delivers to high standards, takes responsibility
· Proactive, energetic and self-sufficient
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
· Knowledge of plants and horticultural techniques.
· Some experience of horticultural machinery