Gardening jobs in Chingford

About Shrub

Shrub is a growing gardening and landscaping company working across North & East London.

We currently provide regular garden and grounds maintenance for commercial properties alongside residential gardening, garden clearances and landscaping projects.

We’re looking for an experienced, horticulturally minded gardener to join our small team. Longer term, we want to significantly grow our residential maintenance service, with the opportunity for the right person to take increasing responsibility for and potentially lead this side of the business.

The role

Initially, you’ll work alongside our existing team across a varied range of gardening work, including:

• Regular commercial garden and grounds maintenance
• Residential garden maintenance
• Plant and border care
• Pruning shrubs and small trees
• Hedge cutting
• Lawn care and mowing
• Weeding and seasonal garden maintenance
• Planting and garden improvements
• Garden clearances
• Occasional light landscaping

We’re particularly looking for someone with strong horticultural knowledge who understands how to properly maintain and improve gardens over time, rather than simply carrying out basic mowing, strimming and hedge cutting.

As our residential maintenance customer base grows, we expect the role to become increasingly focused on this area.

Longer-term opportunity

For the right person, there is significant scope for the position to develop.

Our longer-term aim is for you to take increasing responsibility for our residential maintenance operation. This could include:

• Managing regular residential customers
• Assessing gardens and recommending work
• Carrying out site visits and preparing quotes
• Building relationships with customers
• Planning seasonal maintenance
• Organising your own workload and routes
• Maintaining quality standards
• Helping us grow the residential maintenance customer base
• Eventually supervising additional gardeners as the service grows

We’re therefore particularly interested in someone who combines horticultural knowledge with good communication skills, initiative and an interest in taking on more responsibility over time.

There is no expectation that you’ll take on all of these responsibilities immediately. We want someone who can develop into the position as the business grows.

About you

We’re looking for someone who:

• Has professional gardening or horticultural experience
• Has strong practical plant knowledge
• Understands pruning and seasonal garden maintenance
• Can identify common garden plants
• Can work independently and use their initiative
• Takes pride in producing high-quality work
• Is reliable and punctual
• Is confident and professional when speaking with customers
• Is comfortable working outdoors throughout the year
• Is happy to occasionally assist with clearances and straightforward landscaping
• Holds a full UK driving licence

An RHS Level 2 qualification or similar is desirable but not essential. Practical knowledge and experience are more important to us than qualifications alone.

Additional experience with landscaping, pesticide application, chainsaws or other horticultural qualifications would be useful but isn’t required.

What we offer

• £27,000–£32,000 salary depending on experience
• Full-time, Monday–Friday
• Varied work across North & East London
• Opportunity to develop beyond a standard gardener position
• Increasing independence and responsibility as you progress
• Potential to ultimately lead a growing part of the business
• Small team where your knowledge and ideas can have a genuine impact

Pay: £28,000.00-£32,000.00 per year

Application question(s):

• Do you hold an RHS Level 2 qualification or another horticultural qualification? If yes, please specify.
• Briefly describe your experience with plant identification, pruning and maintaining established gardens.
• Would you be comfortable eventually visiting potential customers, assessing gardens and discussing/quoting ongoing maintenance?

Experience:

• Horticulture: 2 years (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

• Driving Licence (preferred)

Work Location: In person