Gardener, Queensland Health

1 week ago


Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia Department of Health - Queensland Full time $60,000 - $90,000 per year

Bring your passion for the outdoors to a role where your work makes a visible difference every day. As a Gardener with Darling Downs Health in Oakey, you'll create and maintain beautiful, welcoming spaces that bring comfort and joy to patients, residents, families, and staff. Join a team that values your skills while giving you the chance to shape environments that truly uplift the community.

What your day will look like….

You'll spend your day caring for vibrant gardens and green spaces, from tending lawns and planting seasonal displays to shaping landscapes that brighten the experience of everyone who visits. Your role will see you working hands-on with plants, maintaining equipment, managing pests, and ensuring the grounds are safe, tidy, and thriving. Beyond the gardening itself, you'll connect with residents, patients, and families, sharing your expertise to help create spaces they can enjoy and take pride in. Every task contributes to a welcoming, peaceful environment that supports health, healing, and wellbeing.

Let's talk about you

Our ideal candidate will be someone who can inspire the following:

  • Compassion – you will engage with others and demonstrate empathy, care, kindness, support and understanding.
  • Integrity – you are open, honest, approachable, equitable and consistent in everything we do.
  • Dignity – you treat others with respect, display reasonableness and take pride in what you do.
  • Innovation – you embrace change and strive to know more, learn more and do better.
  • Courage – you respectfully question for clarity and have the strength and confidence to Speak Up.

Why Us?

Darling Downs Health's (DDH) region is a large geographic area covering approximately 90,000 square kilometres across Southeast Queensland. We are one of the largest employers in the region, with a diverse team of more than 6,000 staff. We deliver frontline health services across our 30 facilities and care for nearly 300,000 people, support the birth of almost 3,000 babies and perform more than 15,000 breastscreens.

We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas throughout our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work culture that values and respects diversity in the workplace. We also believe that all our employees should be treated fairly, with dignity and with respect.  DDH is committed to providing a safe, secure, supportive, and inclusive workplace.

Benefits

  • Competitive wages, salary packaging and leave entitlements
  • A diverse work culture
  • Career development
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Education opportunities, Study and Research
  • Paid parental leave
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Discounted Private Health Insurance
  • Fitness Passport
  • Work-Life Balance, Variety and Flexibility
  • Generous Salary Sacrificing

Next step….

Applicants are to apply online and supply the requested documentation.

Find out more about us

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