RECRUITMENT & VACANCIES

Castleton employs over 350 seasonal workers, mostly students, throughout the season to harvest the fruit and help with the various husbandry tasks. The work can be hard, but many students enjoy themselves so much that they return for another season. Workers start arriving in February to begin planting. Harvesting commences in May and general husbandry tasks are ongoing. We are unable to give workers any assurance about the continuity of employment due to the readiness of the crop and customer demand. Our aim is to provide you with at least 39 hours work a week whenever possible. It is expected that after training you should be harvesting 10 kilos of strawberries per hour and 4 kilos of raspberries per hour. If this is not achieved after adequate training then your employment will be terminated. 



If you are interested in applying for any of our jobs, fill out the Application Form

(Once you have clicked on the link, save the document and open it in a microsoft Office Word format).

If you have been accepted to work at castleton Farm, please click on the Welcome Letter to recieve further information you need to know before you come to the farm.  You will require a password to open the document, the password will be sent to you when you recieve your confirmation email.

We employ a diverse range of people including:

  • Planters
  • Strawberry pickers
  • Supervising strawberry pickers
  • Van/lorry drivers
  • Pre and post harvest workers Tunnel Team members Throughout the season we are looking for workers to fill the above positions. If you are interested please fill out an Application Form

Non EU Workers (Romanian & Bulgarian)

Under current legislation all Non EU - Bulgarian and Romanian nationals require work permits to work in the United Kingdom. We currently employ a significant number of non EU staff but we recruit via the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme – SAWS. If you are interested in working in for us, in the first instance, please contact the labour agency HOPS via the HOPS website where you will find all the relevant information.

EU Workers (Polish, Czech, Latvian, etc)

As European workers you do not require a work permit to work in this country. If you are interested in a job at Castleton farm then please fill out an application form and and email or post it back to us.