Job Vacancies

Grow West Fife
Address:

Culross, Fife

Hours: Tuesday- Saturday
Salary: £26,000 - 28,000
Type of Contract: Full Time

Grow West Fife are looking for a great community gardener to join the award-winning team at their Culross garden.

GWF was set up in lockdown 2020 to grow food for anyone in need. Last year their volunteers gave 5000 hours growing fruit and veg, cooked 1000 free meals for people on low incomes or socially isolated, and worked with fabulous local groups like Andy’s Man Club, Fairway Fife and Change Mental Health to make sure everybody’s welcome. Their efforts were rewarded when we won Fife Voluntary Action’s Green Charity of the Year award.

Now we’re looking for an experienced gardener to help us grow more fruit, veg and new friendships at our volunteer-led, socially inclusive, beautiful walled garden overlooking the Forth in Culross.

Our ideal candidate will be a great gardener, passionate about growing and sharing growing skills and knowledge, with good experience of working with community groups and people with different abilities and needs. They’ll be ‘front of house’ with the necessary warmth and people skills to get the kettle on and ensure everyone feels incredibly welcome and comfortable with us. It is, first and foremost, a place of joy.

Hopefully they’ll be able to share that joy on social media to draw in new volunteers and visitors.

It’s a Tuesday to Saturday job and salary will be between £26,000 and £28,000 depending on experience.


How to Apply:

If this sounds like you and you’re looking for a job where you can share your passion for growing and make a real impact on lives, please get in touch with pamela@growwestfife.org. We’d love to hear from you.


Closing Date: April 15, 2024
The MacRobert Trust
Address:

Royal Deeside, Cairngorms National Park, Aberdeenshire

Salary: National Minimum Wage and subsidised accommodation

The MacRobert Trust supports Horticultural Education through its extensive charitable agenda. Our Horticultural Training Scheme accepts up to six trainees who are paid a salary and provided with accommodation. Training placements run for both one and two years and applications are now invited for four trainees to start in mid-September.

A programme of full-time, practical hands-on training, craft-skill development and proficiency, and machinery use and maintenance is undertaken whilst trainees assist our professional gardens team in the maintenance and development of the Trust’s ornamental and productive horticultural training gardens. Additionally, full training and assessment towards the achievement of the RHS Level 2 Certificate in Practical Horticulture is funded and undertaken in-house throughout the year. Training and assessment in pesticide application PA1/PA6 and chainsaw operation CS30 is also carried out allowing trainees to achieve and practice these important certificates of competence. Training is based at our flagship Douneside House Garden which is an RHS Partner Garden and an RHS Qualifications Approved Centre.

Applications are encouraged from current or recently qualified horticultural college students who wish to progress their horticultural skills and enhance their professional career options through a programme of; hands-on immersive training and practice, RHS Qualifications, Certificates of Competence and structured work experience. Applications are also encouraged from new entrants to horticulture who, alongside the above, will also have the opportunity to study towards the RHS Principles of Horticulture Level 2 through distance learning. A second year is available to two trainees and may include paid internships to the Royal Botanic Gardens Logan, National Trust of Scotland Crathes Gardens and The Prince’s Foundation Dumfries House Gardens.

Whilst horticultural qualifications are not essential, applicants must provide clear evidence of a keen interest in developing a professional horticultural career.

The training placements are full-time and trainees are paid the National Minimum Wage and share accommodation within a modern, fully equipped six- bedroom estate house. Each trainee has their own private bedroom and en-suite bath/shower room.

MacRobert trainees have all been fortunate in gaining full-time employment, many within prestigious gardens across the UK, or have secured progressive training placements at RHS Gardens, Cambridge University Botanical Gardens, Kew, Longwood Gardens, Pennsylvania and many more.


How to Apply:

Applications can only be accepted by using The MacRobert Trust Application Form. This form and further information and testimonials from former trainees is found on our our website http://www.themacroberttrust.org.uk/grant-making/horticultural-training-scheme/ To contact the Head of Gardens:

Click here to apply. 


Closing Date: April 7, 2024
Working For Gardeners Assocation (WFGA)
Address:

Lothian and Borders 

Anyone looking to change career into Horticulture.  The WRAGS (Work and Retrain as a Gardener Scheme) is a well recognised route into the gardening world.  Trainees spend two days a week in a garden either private or public over the course of a year.  You would work with the Head Gardener and the gardening team, learning everything from pruning to propagation, composting to cuttings, plant disease, vegetable and flower growing, plant ID, roses, shrubs and much more.  This is a paid traineeship.  Please look at our website wfga.org.uk or contact Caroline Straker on 07719 627481, or by email scotland-south@wfga.org.uk.


Closing Date: October 31, 2024