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Salary: £13.45 per hour Location: The homes of clients in Bodmin/Liskeard and surrounding areas Are you an experienced gardener with a genuine love of gardening and the outdoors? Do you want to help in your local community by adding value to people’s lives As part of the gardening team, you will assist in making sure Age UK Cornwall & The Isles of Scilly’s client’s gardens are maintained to a high standard and in line with their needs and wishes. You’ll be happy to support and interact with clients to allow them to be involved with their gardens. You will be pleased to engage with them to answer their questions, or help them with any gardening tasks they want to be involved in. You will be knowledgeable and approachable, with an observant nature and a history of working with older clients to maintained their gardens. You will have a warm and caring personality, and a willingness to learn; with an absolute commitment to reaching our standards in training. You will be warmly welcomed and very much appreciated as you help us to fulfil our charitable aims. The role will include a range of practical gardening tasks within clients garden with some administrative responsibilities. You will need to have access to a well-maintained lawn mower and relevant tools and be competent with the use and maintenance of your equipment. You will also need to be able to travel independently with your equipment, to client’s homes, Hubs and our Truro office. Whilst the role is very much primarily a gardening one, you will be part of our Active Living Team which includes Home Support as well as Gardening. From time to time, you may be asked to pitch in and help out with deep cleans or moving furniture etc., if we are short staffed, but for the most part you will be gardening.