Cottage Gardener
We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our small Cottage Gardening team, helping to maintain over 100 small gardens across the island.
We have roles across all our departments and double or twin rooms available. Share our opportunities with your partner or best friend, and let them join your island adventure.
Department: Cottage Department
Salary: From £12.75 per hour, dependent on experience
Benefits: Tips, full meals and accommodation provided
Hours: Full time, 2 days off per week
Contract Length: Seasonal March - October
The Role
As part of our small cottage gardening team, you’ll be responsible for maintaining over 100 cottage gardens and public areas across the island. Daily tasks will include hedge cutting, pruning, lawn-mowing and weeding of flower beds and borders, as well as arranging flowers for cottages ahead of guests arriving.
You’ll assist with maintaining all gravel and patio areas in and around our holiday cottages and commercial outlets, as well as ensuring public areas such as grass verges and pathways and kept neat and tidy.
Our Ideal Candidate
- Must have a clean valid driver’s license (essential)
- Ability to use and maintain petrol mower and strimmer (essential)
- Gardening experience and relevant gardening qualifications advantageous
- Ability to work outside in all weathers
- Able to work on own initiative and enjoys a challenge
- Ability to develop and landscape small areas as required
- Good customer service skills are required as there may be some interaction with guests
Working & Living Here:
If the opportunity to live and work on a subtropical island isn't enough, there's a range of great benefits and perks, including:
- On-island accommodation, minutes from the beach
- Paid relocation to the island at the start of your time with us
- Competitive pay
- 20% off in our restaurants, pub, spa and shops
- Free scheduled boating and camping kit hire, and discounted watersports equipment hire, to help you explore
- And many more...
In order to process any application, we require confirmation you are eligible to work in the UK. Unfortunately, if you are not, we are unable to help with the necessary paperwork to assist with this.
About Tresco Island
At the heart of the Isles of Scilly archipelago, 28 miles from the Cornish coast, Tresco Island is a family‐run business comprising the whole island of Tresco and the Hell Bay Hotel on the neighbouring island of Bryher.
With timeshare and rental cottages, a 16-bedroom inn, two restaurants, a world-famous garden, a spa, an art gallery, a shop and a working farm, Tresco is a subtropical island known for its deserted bays, aquamarine seas and exceptional guest experiences.
Just across the water on the neighbouring island of Bryher, Hell Bay Hotel stands as Scilly’s highest-rated hotel and restaurant. Our boutique hotel offers 25 suites, a 3AA Rosette restaurant, a Crab Shack and wellness facilities - a haven of calm amidst the wild seascape of Bryher's west coast.
