Job Description

Introduction

37.5 Hours per week

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30,000 per annum plus an on-call allowance

Permanent

"Having 22 acres to play with, many hundreds of people who will benefit from your work every year and the opportunity to add shape and colour to these grounds to your design, it is a wonderful way to spend your time".

Could you be our next Gardens & Grounds Manager?

If you want to feel personal fulfilment from a career with real meaning, consider Rowcroft Hospice. We offer purposeful work in a uniquely progressive environment.

What you will bring

To be successful in this role you will need exceptional gardening skills, with a genuine passion for horticulture, be able to share your expertise with a team of hugely enthusiastic staff and volunteers, motivate them, manage their work and take our gardens, grounds and even trees to the next level.


Specifically: we are looking for someone with estate garden management experience, a strong track record of leading teams, has good all round plant knowledge and enjoys getting their hands dirty. Excellent communications skills a must, while knowledge of tree management, and project management experience would be a real advantage.


You will be driven by our cause and will enjoy working in a fast-paced environment as part of a close team - to deliver on our strategy takes real teamwork, energy and passion, no two days are ever the same!

What's in it for you?

You will be supported and encouraged to innovate and to try new things. Our scope of work and our confident organisational vision creates opportunities for progress and development. And we work together with passion and pride in an environment where people are caring, considerate, inclusive and welcoming. It can be tough. We do not shy away from that and you will clearly see the importance and impact of your work and feel recognised and part of something remarkable.


As a manager you will be expected and supported to take part in the Leadership and Management training programme offered by Rowcroft.


This role requires you to be on call 1 week out of 3.

Working at Rowcroft Hospice

Rowcroft Hospice is an independent charity that provides comfort, support and specialist care to over 2,000 patients and their loved ones across South Devon each year. Our Vision is to make every day the best day possible for patients, and those closest to them, living with life-limiting illnesses in South Devon.


Take a look

here

to find out what our team says about working at Rowcroft and the

employee benefits

on offer.

For more Information

Please see below to download the and Person Specification for this role.


For more information or an informal discussion about the role please contact

Jon Hill

, Finance and Commercial Director, via email at

Jonathan.hill@rowcrofthospice.org.uk

Closing date: 11:59pm Sunday 31 August 2025

Interview date: Week commencing 8 September 2025