Founded in 1882, Tottenham Hotspur Football Club is an English Premier League Club, based in North London.
Led by the late great Bill Nicholson, the Club became the first in England to win the League and FA Cup Double in 1961, and the first in the UK to win a European Trophy two years later. Spurs has since been home to some of the game’s great entertainers, including Jimmy Greaves, Glenn Hoddle, Paul Gascoigne, David Ginola, Gareth Bale, Heung-Min Son and Harry Kane.
In April 2019, the Club opened an iconic new stadium that sits at the heart of a £1billion sport-led regeneration of North Tottenham. The stadium is the largest football club stadium in London and is a multi-use venue with the ability to host a variety of events 365 days a year, including NFL, boxing, rugby, concerts, and other major events, plus visitor attractions including Stadium Tours and the Dare Skywalk.
The stadium development scheme has to date created more than 4,000 new jobs for local people, with circa £300m pumped into the local economy each year.
Tottenham Hotspur has:
- A clear strategy to develop talent from within its Academy, showcased by a strong track record of Academy players graduating to the first-team squad.
- A £100m state-of-the-art Training Centre that supports the Club’s ambition to attract, develop and retain the best talent.
- Commercial partnerships with globally-recognised brands including AIA Group Limited (AIA), one of the world's leading providers of life insurance services, and Nike, the world’s leading sports footwear and apparel company.
- A commitment to minimizing its environmental impact across Club operations, being named as the greenest in the Premier League for the past three years. Tottenham Hotspur is a signatory of the UN Sports for Climate Action Framework, committing to halve carbon emissions by 2030 and become net zero carbon by 2040.
- An award-winning Foundation that is renowned for creating opportunities to help enhance the lives of people in its local community through education, employment, health and social inclusion programmes.
The Club operates across multiple sites, including a world class Training Centre, where the position of Senior Gardener is based. The 89 acre Centre is the main location for the Club’s First Team training and coaching activities, and its impeccable presentation and dynamic mass planting are some of the many features that have led to it being recognised as one of the best training facilities in Europe. The Training Centre is home to a varied and flourishing range of mixed borders, over 150 new and semi-mature trees, an organic kitchen garden as well as an orchard and the site is still rapidly expanding.
The successful candidate will work within a team of 15 gardeners and one apprentice, helping to ensure the landscape meets the highest possible standard. They will be hard working, enthusiastic and have a strong focus on quality. Our ever-evolving range of herbaceous and shrub borders requires a highly skilled gardener, possessing creative flair, with experience in managing, maintaining, and developing all aspects of these areas.
JOB PURPOSE
Manage a small team of gardeners under the direction of the Landscape Manager. To assist with the maintenance, management and development of the Club’s Training Centre’s grounds and affiliated site, ensuring impeccable presentation throughout the premises, showing both proactiveness and teamwork and be willing to go above and beyond in order to achieve the results required. To teach and drive other staff members to the levels and work ethic we require.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Manage own area with a small team of gardeners under the direction of the Landscape Manager
- Maintain and develop all borders and gardens to an excellent standard
- Ensure all horticultural works such as weeding, irrigating, and pruning are carried out to the highest standards and in a correct and timely manner.
- Update line manager daily on the tasks completed
- Amass job lists for your section and communicate with LM of daily lists
- Have an understanding of pest and disease and report any incidence to the LM promptly
- Have experience of operating machinery in a safe and controlled manner
- Be responsible for the Health and Safety of yourself and others within your team
- Assist Landscape Manager with pest control management when needed
- Check boundaries monthly for damage from pests etc.
- Pond team manager – observe water levels/sluice gate of pond on a weekly basis – checking access to cover from pond is clear and that the sluice is clean
- Expectation of 2/3 Saturdays overtime a month in busy periods to help cope with the workload
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
- Able to lead a small team
- Thinks ahead, generates ideas and thinks of creative solutions to problems escalating to the LM if necessary
- Values & respects others, builds relationships, collaborates
- Gets things done, delivers to high standards, takes responsibility
- Proactive, energetic and self-sufficient
- Strong leader that leads from the front
- Willing to pass on knowledge and build the teams knowledge along with your own
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- A horticultural qualification is required
- Proven experience
- Good knowledge of plants and horticultural techniques.
- PA1 & PA6 spraying certificates (desirable)
- Experience with all types of horticultural machinery
- Have an understanding of current health and safety legislation
- Full driving licence
Safeguarding is fundamental to the success in all that we do. Successful candidates are subject to an enhanced DBS check with child’s/adult’s barred list.
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club welcomes applications from anyone regardless of age, disability, gender, race, ethnic origin, religion /belief, or sexual orientation
