Estate Gardener

Claremont is seeking a skilled, enthusiastic and self-motivated Estate Gardener to join our grounds team. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced gardener to make a genuine impact on our beautiful 100-acre Grade I listed historic estate. Working within a dedicated team, you will play a key role in maintaining and developing the school's gardens, borders, landscaped areas, woodland spaces and wider grounds to an exceptional standard. The successful candidate will have strong horticultural knowledge, practical gardening experience and a passion for creating and maintaining attractive outdoor environments. You will contribute to the ongoing enhancement of the estate, bringing creativity, attention to detail and a proactive approach to your work. The ideal candidate will have: An NVQ Level 2 in Horticulture, RHS Level 3 in Horticulture, or an equivalent qualification. Experience maintaining large gardens, estates, schools or landscaped environments. Practical experience operating horticultural machinery and equipment. A good understanding of health and safety requirements. A full driving licence. For more information, please see the job description. Why Claremont? Claremont is a warm, grounded and truly co-educational day school community where children thrive because they are encouraged to be themselves while striving for their best. Our ethos rejects hot-house culture; instead, we pair academic aspiration with kindness, curiosity and breadth of opportunity. Benefits include a very generous defined contribution scheme, which offers teachers flexibility around both employer and employee contribution levels, comprehensive life assurance and income protection, staff fee remission (for eligible staff upon successful completion of probationary period), and a cycle-to-work scheme, as well as complimentary lunches and refreshments during term time.* *Please refer to the benefits section under our “working at Claremont” page of our website. To apply, please complete