Overview of the Role:
Are you an experienced arboricultural professional with the leadership skills, technical expertise, and operational focus to guide a dedicated team within a nationally important garden? RHS Garden Bridgewater is seeking a proactive and knowledgeable Team Leader Arboriculture to run the day-to-day management, maintenance, and development of the garden’s exceptional treescape during an important phase of its long-term growth.
In this role, you will provide clear direction, supervision, and support to the arboricultural team, ensuring work is planned, prioritised, and delivered safely, efficiently, and to a high professional standard. You will take a leading role in the sustainable stewardship of the garden’s tree collection, applying sound arboricultural judgement while helping to shape practices that protect and enhance the tree collections for future generations.
With several large-scale projects on the horizon, this is a unique opportunity to play a key role in the garden’s development. The role will coordinate complex, site-wide arboricultural initiatives whilst working collaboratively with colleagues across the garden to deliver visible, lasting improvements within one of the UK’s most prestigious horticultural settings.
We are looking for candidates who combine strong practical arboricultural experience with the ability to motivate others, manage workloads, support professional development, and champion safe, high-quality working practices. If you are passionate about trees, confident in leading people and projects, and ready to play a key role in the future of RHS Garden Bridgewater, we would love to hear from you.
To work for the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) is to join a thriving charity, whose mission is to inspire everyone to grow. Everything we do is built on the transformational power of gardening – and the benefits it brings to people, places, and our planet.
Known globally for our inspirational Shows and five spectacular Gardens, our work extends to leading ground-breaking climate research, running community outreach programmes, and setting the standards in horticultural education.
And we could not do this without our people. We are proud of the knowledge, enthusiasm, and ideas that each one of our team members brings. From working across our social media channels, to volunteering in the RHS Gardens, from serving customers in our garden centres to running national marketing campaigns, we believe that every member of the RHS team should have the opportunity to make a difference.
Safeguarding and Inclusion
The RHS is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk and expects all personnel to share in this commitment. We are an inclusive employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
Please note: We may review applications as soon as we receive them so if you see a vacancy that you are interested in, please apply straight away as the vacancy will be closed as soon as we hire the right candidate. Should you require any additional support with making your application please email Sharon Ellis at
[email protected] detailing the position and REQ number reference (found at the top of the advert) that you are applying for.
