New Vacancies for 2024

Updated 5th September 2024

HR & Office Manager

Full time / permanent

This is an essential role ensuring the smooth operation of the whole business. We are looking for someone with good communication and organisational skills, someone who is a team player with a pleasant telephone manner. Ideally someone with proven HR experience ( 2 years minimum), and someone who has worked within a similar organisation/ family business.

Skills
You will need to have

  • attention to detail;
  • Strong organisational skills
  • the ability to plan your own work, work on your own initiative and meet deadlines;
  • the ability to manage pressure and conflicting demands and prioritise tasks and workload;
  • oral and written communication skills;
  • tact, discretion and respect for confidentiality;
  • a pleasant, confident telephone manner;
  • teamwork;
  • reliability and honesty;
  • project management skills.

Duties will include:

  • dealing with telephone and email enquiries;
  • HR – recruiting, training, staff well being; preparing timesheets/ wages, assisting with pensions
  • Health and Safety
  • creating and maintaining filing systems;
  • scheduling and attending meetings, creating agendas and taking minutes
  • using a variety of software packages, such as Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel, etc., to produce correspondence and documents and to maintain presentations, records, spreadsheets and databases; devising and maintaining office systems;
  • liaising with staff in other departments and with external contacts;
  • ordering and maintaining supplies;
  • organising and storing paperwork, documents and computer-based information;
  • Vehicles and Utilities
  • Knowledge of social media would be an advantage but not essential

This is mainly Monday-Friday although there maybe occasions when a Saturday or Sunday is required.

Pay: £14.00 per hour

8 hour shift 

Expected hours: 32 – 40 per week

Benefits:

  • Additional leave
  • Casual dress
  • Employee discount
  • Free on-site parking

For further details or to arrange a visit please contact Peter or Jo on 01931 712404 

Head Gardener

We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Head Gardener to play a key role in the renowned Larch Cottage Nurseries and award winning gardens. You must have good plant knowledge and proven experience in a similar role.

Larch Cottage Nurseries in the heart of the Eden Valley is host to over 15,000 varieties of plants, the vast majority of which are propagated on-site. We specialise in rare and unusual Shrubs, Perennials, and Climbers, Japanese Acers, Old Fashioned Roses, and slow growing and Dwarf Conifers. For many of these varieties we are the country’s only suppliers as listed in the RHS Bible, The Plantfinder.

As Head Gardener you will be responsible for 2 or 3 assistant gardeners and as a team you will be looking after the Secret Garden which holds borders of lush flower beds, a wildflower meadow, an orchard and lawns with a stream leading down into a small lake with the chapel at its head. In addition you will also oversee the organic kitchen garden which serves our restaurant for most of the summer.

We are looking for someone with horticultural experience and a good plant knowledge. Enthusiasm and a willingness to learn are essential!

Main duties will include:

  • To undertake all garden maintenance tasks at a commercial pace, either under direction or without supervision, including weeding, planting, watering, mulching, leaf-collecting, applying pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers
  • To propagate plants from the border
  • To maintain labelling of all stock plants within borders
  • To operate and maintain machinery and hand tools
  • To become competent with our in-house stock system for labelling, plant look up etc.
  • To ensure that operating procedures are complied with and implemented
  • To ensure compliance with relevant legislation at all times

This is an exciting opportunity for the right candidate and a great opportunity for personal growth.

 Full-time, Permanent position

Pay: £27,000.00-£30,000.00 per year, dependent on experience

For further details or to arrange a visit please contact Peter or Jo on 01931 712404 

 

 


 

If you would like more information or to apply for any of the above, please email your CV to plants@larchcottage.co.uk