Alpine Horticulturalist Level 2 chance at RHS Harlow Carr

[Maggi Young]

RHS Garden Harlow Carr



📣We’ve a new opportunity to join our team!

"We are looking to recruit an Alpine Horticulturalist Level 2 to be part of our knowledgeable and friendly team here at RHS Garden Harlow Carr.

😀Are you a self- motivated person who has a love of horticulture and a passion for alpine plants?

🪴The role includes maintaining, improving and promoting the alpine collection at RHS Harlow Carr, working as part of the Alpine and Streamside Team. Responsibilities will include caring for plant collections, pest and disease management and propagation.

🪴Tasks also involve labelling and stock taking, planning maintenance schedules with the team leader, and ensuring the proper use and care of tools and equipment by learners and volunteers.

🪴You will also manage specialist collections including cushion plants, cacti and succulents.

🪴Additionally, you will support a team of volunteers, mentor apprentices, and oversee a specialist Professional Work Placement (PWP) Alpine student.

🌵Job Title: Alpine Horticulturalist Level 2
🌵Salary: £25, 368-£28,005 depending on experience
🌵Hours: 37.5 hours per week  "

 
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[Maggi Young]

Good luck to Bertie Swainston who is leaving Harlow Carr for a job as Head Gardener at  Sizergh Castle.  A colleague at Harlow Carr says "he will leave a massive gap here and be missed very much but hopefully we will find someone great! "

 Bertie Swainston has been the recipient of an SRGC Grant and was also an AGS Trainee at RBGE and Harlow Carr.