Current vacancies


Temporary Visitor Experience & Retail Assistant

Position: Temporary, part-time (0.4 full-time equivalent)
Salary: £13.96 per hour

About the role:
The Visitor Experience & Retail Assistant(s) is a customer facing role that engages with everyone who visits the Garden and delivers the daily running of the Visitor Welcome Area and Garden Shop. The role provides an exceptional welcome and level of customer service. The posts support the Visitor Experience Manager to achieve annual targets for visitor admissions, membership conversion, direct debit sign up and gift aid donations. The Visitor Experience & Retail Assistant(s) will support our daily retail operations, uphold retail presentation standards, support visitors with sales enquiries and process purchase transactions.

To apply:
Please complete the job application form and equal opportunities form and email to: .

Closing date for applications: Monday 18 March, at 5pm
Provisional interview date: 28 March

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Gardener & Propagation Assistant

Position: Full Time, Permanent Position
Salary: £24,388

About the role:
The Gardener and Propagation Assistant is responsible for day-to-day maintenance within the Garden and will also support the Propagation Manager by undertaking routine propagation tasks as required.

To apply: Please complete the job application form and equal opportunities form and email to: .

Closing date for applications: Sunday 11 February 2024
Provisional interview dates: Thursday 29 February & Friday 1 March 2024

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Premises Manager
Position: Fixed-Term Contract 24 months
Salary: £33,000 – £35,000

About the role:
The Premises Manager (PM) is a new role at Chelsea Physic Garden. They are responsible for ensuring that all built structures and their supporting infrastructure is maintained and cared for. The PM is responsible for preparing and maintaining a comprehensive Maintenance Schedule for the site at a small but busy site.

Closing date: 25 February 2024, 11.59pm.
1st Interview (on-site or online): 5 March 2024
2nd Interview (on-site): 13 March 2024

To apply:
Please complete the job application form and equal opportunities form and email to .

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Advisory Committee – volunteer role

About the role:
The Physic Garden has one vacancy for an Advisory Committee member who has a specialism in Learning & community engagement.

To apply:
Applications should be made in writing addressed to the Gardens’ Director stating the applicant’s relevant experience and motivation for applying for the role (no more than two sides of A4). This should be sent by email to by the closing time and date below. Please ensure that your email is headed “Advisory Committee”.

Dates:
Closing date for applications: Tuesday 25 July 2023, 5pm

1st Interview:
Remote: Tuesday 15 August, times to be allocated
2nd Interview:
In person TBC

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Volunteer Manager
Position: Full- time 35 hours per week (including regular Sunday working and some evenings)
Salary: £29,000 per annum

About the role:
The Volunteer Manager is a key role in our commitment to invest in our people at Chelsea Physic Garden. Our 130 current volunteers contribute to almost every area of our operations, and we want to ensure that we are supporting them and developing their skills effectively.

The postholder will support the delivery of our Volunteer Development Strategy (2020 – 2024) and develop the next Volunteer Strategy for the organisation. The postholder will work with appointed Volunteer Leads across the organisation to ensure volunteers are supported in a consistent and fair manner. They will ensure that volunteering opportunities are enriching for applicants.

To help us create a Garden for All, the post holder will work with Volunteer Leads to support the recruitment of a broader cultural and socio-economic demographic of volunteer than is currently represented at the Garden.

To apply:
Please complete the job application form and equal opportunities form and email to .
Closing date for applications: Sunday 9 July 2023, Midnight
1st Interview: Tuesday 18 July 2023
2nd Interview: Monday 24 July 2023

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Our Application form is available to download, please use it for the job you wish to apply for, clearly stating the role you are applying for. Also, please complete and send us this equal opportunities form with your application. Please note, that we cannot accept applications via a CV or resume. 

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Chelsea Physic Garden is an inclusive employer. If any aspect of our application process poses a barrier to you, please get in contact via and reasonable adjustments can be arranged.

Chelsea Physic Garden is a London Living Wage Employer

Chelsea Physic Garden has existed on the banks of the Thames since 1673, delivering its founding mission to demonstrate the importance of medicinal and herbal plants to the well-being of humankind.

The Garden has a successful education programme, a thriving membership and annually welcomes over 50,000 visitors. As a financially self-supporting charity, the Garden’s challenge for the future is to reinforce its relevance and popularity whilst strengthening its diverse income streams.

Chelsea Physic Garden is an inclusive employer. We welcome applications from everyone, including members of the LGBTQIA+ community, people with disabilities, neurodiverse people, and people from all ethnic, cultural and religious backgrounds.

Working at Chelsea Physic Garden is rewarding; not only do you get to work in an iconic and beautiful location, a number of benefits exist for employees. To view them click below.

Staff benefits

Become a Horticultural Trainee

— NOT CURRENTLY RECRUITING —
Horticultural traineeships give trainees a chance to experience the various aspects of working in a small botanic garden, gaining experience in practical horticulture and the management of a unique plant collection, with scientific research and educational applications, both outdoors and under glass.

Our 2023/2024 Horticultural Trainee is generously supported by the Rick Mather and David Scrase Foundation. We are also currently hosting a New to Nature Trainee, which is funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund to mark the Queen’s platinum jubilee, and part-funded by the Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust. 

An additional two-year entry-level trainee post is funded as part of our National Lottery Heritage Fund project to restore our historic glasshouses, our thanks go to all the funders.

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We also rely a large network of volunteers

Are you a people person dedicated to a high standard of customer service, who would like to spend time in London’s oldest botanic garden?

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