Job Title

SPI : Commercial Horticulture - Gardens and Horticulture.

Group Profile

Specialist Production Instructor

Band

4

Overview of the job

This is a non-operational instructional job in an establishment.

Summary

The job holder will be responsible for the day‑to‑day maintenance, harvesting and cultivating of the establishment’s gardens, ensuring protected cropping is grown and harvested to the highest standards, and assessing accredited vocational qualifications to prisoners. This is a non-operational job in an establishment with no line management responsibilities.

Responsibilities, Activities and Duties

• Maintain correct field‑scale soil husbandry, ensuring all stages of crop development are followed in accordance with good horticultural practice.
• Maintain the growing plant/crop to ensure optimum development and/or cropping, ensuring that the plants needs are ful...