Join our horticultural team to make improvements to the landscape of the city.

Leicester is covered by a wealth of soft and hard open spaces that includes a range of parks, gardens, country parks, nature areas, 150,000 individual trees and 107 hectares of woodlands, canal, and riverside, 150 play and outdoor gym facilities, sports facilities, highways, and housing green spaces totalling 1,250 hectares. It is widely recognised that quality open spaces contribute to residents’ quality of life and improve physical and mental health wellbeing, with parks in Leicester attracting around 9 million visitors per annum.

Join our specialist team of Craft Gardeners to undertake high quality horticultural work and grounds maintenance work to maintain and further improve parks and open spaces and all other green infrastructure within the city of Leicester.

You’ll be based at Abbey Park although you may be required at other grounds maintenance depots as and when required to meet service demands.

• Maintain horticultural features on green infrastructure, Parks, Housing and Highways land 
• Prepare and maintain sports features, including artificial surfaces
• Maintain hard landscape features, including buildings 
• Operate and maintain hand and mechanical specialist equipment used in the maintenance of features.
• Keep sites clean and tidy 
• Provide advice and support to customers using the facilities
• Complete routine paperwork 
• Report any issues identified to the Team Leader

For the full job description, including the keys areas of responsibilities and accountabilities, please click the 'apply now' button. 

We’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly-talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That’s why we’ve designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible.

• Experience in either horticulture or groundsmanship 
• Experience of working directly with customers
• Experience of using horticultural specialist equipment and chemicals 
• Full Driving Licence
• Formal training in horticulture, groundsman ship and or ecology
• Knowledge of Health and Safety issues relating to area of work and Health and Safety at Work Act 1974