Job Posted: 1 February 2025

• Contract Term: Permanent
• Location: Merstone, Isle of Wight
• Contract Type: Full time
• Salary: £34,125
• Industries: Construction and Labour Horticulture Maintenance

Head of Landscaping

C.A.R. Gardens, Isle of Wight

The Job: Garden construction and management

We are excited to be able to offer this new job for the Isle of Wight. Our business is 20 years young and growing.

Salary: £34,125 per annum and rising. We also pay overtime hours, anything over 43.75 hours a week and you'll be rewarded.

Hours: 8.00am- 4.45pm, including 45 minutes paid breaks.

Contract: Full time and permanent. We invest in our team, offering careers and development.

Holidays: Upto 34 paid days per annum. We reward time of service with an extra days holiday per year for upto 5 years. We also pay for a birthday day off.

Pension: Work place pension is paid in to for you.

Where: We work across the Island.

How to apply:

For more details please read the attached documents and contact us with your completed information.

Email a covering letter, your C.V. and a portfolio of your landscaping works.

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Or apply here through Isle of Wight Jobs.

Job description:

You will be landscaping and constructing gardens on various private and commercial sites.

The majority of this role is the physical building of gardens using hard and soft materials. You will be working as part of teams and sometimes individually. 

You'll need a full and clean drivers licence to drive our fleet of diesel, petrol and electric work vehicles.

You'll need at least 3 years pervious experience in a similar role- working in hard and soft landscaping, building and planting gardens from plans and as a lead person on sites, managing projects and staff.

With support from the office, you will be involved in the entire landscaping process from meeting customers, quoting, budgeting, ordering, construction, health and safety, and staff and site management.

We aspire to be an environmentally aware business and so a knowledge and interest of sustainability is important.

Knowlege of horticulture is also important, but not essential to this role as further training can be given and signposted to.

If you are successful in joining our team, you’ll have a 3 month probation period for you and for us to decide if we’re the correct fit for each other.

We are the business

C.A.R. Gardens aspires to offer and deliver the very best gardening, landscaping and garden design service on the Isle of Wight. We established the business in 2004 in London, relocated to Ryde in 2006 and now operate through out the Isle of Wight.

Award winning

We are experts in design, landscaping and garden maintenance. With our experienced, qualified and trained staff we have helped the community and won a number of local awards.  In November 2012 we won a national award at the Building Better Health Care Awards for our work in designing, landscaping and maintaining the Chemotherapy Garden at St. Mary’s Hospital in Newport, Isle of Wight. 

We specialise

Garden design. Landscaping and natural and sustainable gardens. Veganic garden maintenance. 

We are interested in incorporating bespoke artwork in our gardens and love the opportunity to be creative in our work.

We care for the environment and seek to improve on the impact our business has on the Island. We do this with further research and trials and implement our findings as best we can as a small business.

We are a team

Join us and enjoy being part of a professional yet unique and varied work force, with years of knowledge and skills to share. We support each other to maximise our results, working with our strengths and weakness to form a formidable unit.

Our customers, gardens, and projects are all bespoke, rarely corporate and always interesting.

We have a strong office team to support the business, and we’ll have your back when you need it.

We have a fleet of vehicles purchased new, including our first E.V. and the full range of tools at hand.

Of course we are fully insured, Health & Safety compliant and have the relevant waste licence.

We offer opportunities to develop and grow should you wish to with training & responsibilities.

We pay well and reward hard work with overtime payments and bonuses.

We believe in being healthy and strong, both physically and mentally, to do our best at work and so we pay all staff to take regular daily breaks to help remain focused and on top form.

Annual leave is generous with up to 34 paid days to choose each year.

As an employed member of staff we’ll sort out all your tax, pensions and statutory payments.