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Seasonal Farm Worker

Growing Communities
Dagenham Farm, London

Posted: 28 Apr 2025

Deadline: 15 May 2025

Compensation: £15.52 an hour

Living Wage employer

Paid Part-time Fixed term / contract

Job description

Are you a hard worker who enjoys the outdoors? Are you looking for summer work in a friendly team

Growing Communities Dagenham Farm are looking for someone to work with us on seasonal picking and packing farm work during the peak growing season. Our 1.7 acre organic farm grows salad and mixed greenhouse crops (such as tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers) for sale to local outlets and our weekly veg box scheme. This role would suit someone who enjoys the outdoors and is happy to do repetitive, physically demanding work. We are a small and friendly team. Hours can be somewhat flexible dependent on candidate’s needs, though we would expect the candidate to be able to work on Mondays and Tuesdays.

• Temporary contract running for 24 weeks from May-October 2025
• 3 days a week; Monday, Tuesday and Thursday (with some flexibility on Thursday)

Application information

Send your CV and a cover letter (cover letter no longer than 1 page) addressing how you meet the person specification outlined in the job description. Please also complete and return the Recruitment Monitoring Form. 

Find the job description and monitoring form here: https://growingcommunities.org/jobs

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