Job DescriptionNemours is seeking a Summer Garden Specialist to join our Nemours Estate team in Wilmington, DE. Position will be for summer only. Schedule is 7:00 am to 3:30pm, Monday to Friday. Nemours Estate is seeking an enthusiastic gardener to join our team for the summer of 2025 in Wilmington, DE. Nemours Estate, built between 1910-1935, stands today as not only a world class public garden, but an invaluable resource to the patients and families of our sister organization, Nemours Children's Hospital. A Gardener I performs all levels of garden and grounds maintenance required to maintain the highest aesthetic standards throughout the property.
This position is responsible for maintaining and improving the gardens by performing all pertinent maintenance practices.
Responsibilities: - Operate equipment and vehicles safely
- Maintain equipment and vehicles safely
- Weed and clean bedding areas
- Water as needed and directed
- Mulching
- Planting seasonal flowers
- Planting woody plant materials
- Transplant woody plant material
- Mowing
- Hedge shearing
- Pruning evergreen and deciduous shrubs and flowering trees
- Responsible for participating in departmental and Foundation programs for quality assessment and improvement
Requirements - High School Diploma Required
- Valid driver's license required.
- Three years experience in working in formal gardens
About UsNemours Children's Health is an internationally recognized children's health system. With more than 1.7 million patient encounters annually, we provide medical care in five states through two freestanding state-of-the-art children's hospitals - Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida. Our pediatric network includes 80 primary-urgent-and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospitalists serving 19 affiliated hospitals. We generate annual revenues of more than $1.7 billion derived from patient services, contributions from the Alfred I. DuPont Trust, as well as other income.
As one of the nation's premier pediatric health systems, we're on a journey to discover better ways of approaching children's health. Putting as much focus on prevention as cures and working hand in hand with the community to make every child's world a place to thrive. It's a journey that extends beyond our nationally recognized clinical treatment to an entire integrated spectrum of research, advocacy, education, and prevention, leading to the healthiest generations of children ever.
Equity, diversity, and inclusion guide our growth and strategy. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about, and committed to, leading efforts to provide culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and helping build a diverse and inclusive environment. All of our associates are expected to ensure that these philosophies are embedded in their day-to-day work with colleagues, patients and families.
To learn more about Nemours Children's and how we go well beyond medicine, visit us at www.nemours.org.
