The Seasonal Worker Scheme

The scheme allows for the supply of workers to the edible horticultural sector and the following types of work are offered:

Picker
Manual harvesting of vegetable crops (may include rig work / hand tools). Fruit picking involves working inside polytunnels, picking fruit such as strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, or blueberries. Picking is now mostly performed standing up so you stand at a trolley and pick the fruit into punnets rather than bending down.

Crop maintenance and husbandry
Planting, weeding, de-leafing, thinning, tying down and any aspects related to crop health.

Tunnel worker
Construction / skinning of crop protection, venting and maintenance, preparing growing areas / tabletop systems / raised beds / installing and removing growing media / dismantling.

Irrigation worker
Installation and maintenance.

Packhouse worker
Packing and processing of crops, labelling, sorting, grading and loading. A certain level of manual handling will be required, but training will be given.

Tractor driving
Seasonal requirements for primary production (mowing/spraying/harvest/carting).

Seasonal Supervisor
Leading teams to ensure efficiency, training and motivation.