Job Vacancy - Horticultural Assistant

Hours: 32 hours per week

Salary: £25,657.08 pro rata

Closing date: 12 December 2025

Location: Five Mile Lane, Barry, Vale of Glamorgan   

How to apply: Please email a CV & Cover Letter stating how your experience matches the person specification along with your motivation behind your application to Cariad.Gingell@innovate-trust.org.uk.  We encourage early applications as we may close the role early if we receive a volume of applicants.

About the role:
The Project supports people with Learning Disabilities to engage in growing and cultivating vegetables and plants for sale to the public who visit the Amelia Trust Farm in Barry, where the project is based.

The post holder will need to have horticultural experience, ideally having a Horticulture qualification or be used to working in an allotment environment.

They would need to be a driver with their own transport or have other means of getting onsite in the morning and home after work and especially also a minibus driver, as they would have to be either picking people up in the minibus or preparing work before participants arrive.

The post holder will need to supervise and demonstrate how to sow seeds, pot up, plant, weed, dig, cut back, mow, pick/harvest, turn compost, move crates of plants/veg, move full wheelbarrows and other associated tasks.

They will also have one to one support experience in order to understand and work with people with learning disabilities and be physically able to perform the above tasks.

To find out more about this role, please view and/or download the job description and person specification here.

To apply, please email a CV and Cover Letter stating how your experience matches the person specification along with your motivation behind your application to Cariad.Gingell@innovate-trust.org.uk