Grounds Maintenance Supervisor (Shoots and Roots)

IMPORTANT:  This Advertiser has requested that applicants MUST be National Residents / Valid Work Permit-holders.  Other applicants need not apply.

 

We believe that big global issues – the economy, the environment – have a big local impact. Groundwork works across the UK helping communities find practical solutions to the challenges they face.

We provide training and create jobs, reduce energy consumption and waste, reconnect people with nature and transform whole neighbourhoods. Step by step we’ll go on changing places and changing lives until everywhere is vibrant and green, every community is strong enough to shape its own destiny and everyone can reach their potential.

Following on from our successful Green Team landscape training programmes for young people, Groundwork and North Hertfordshire Homes (NHH) established a small landscaping team, Shoots & Roots, to undertake grounds maintenance on NHH and other sites.

Join a team which is changing places and changing lives.

Shoots & Roots Supervisor
Salary: £18,018 to £21,420, 12 month initial contract.
Based in Letchworth and Hatfield and working across Hertfordshire.

We are seeking an enthusiastic and practical person to lead the Shoots & Roots team in their day-to-day delivery, ensuring high-quality work to the agreed programme. You will have at least 3 years of experience in the grounds maintenance or landscape industry, be proficient in the use of a wide range of horticultural and landscape equipment and possess a full, current, clean driving licence. You will be flexible, well organised and have effective communication and problem-solving skills to be able to lead the team and help manage relationships with the variety of partners and customers that are involved. 

Closing date: 12:00 noon 28 August 2015
Interview date: 4 September 2015

Download the application pack, complete and return to Sarah White:Sarah.White@groundwork.org.uk 

• Job description
• Application form
• Equal opportunities monitoring form
• Groundwork UK recruitment of ex-offenders policy
• Declaration of convictions form (please complete, even if there's nothing to declare)

For an informal discussion about this post, please call Graham Phillips on 01707 255179 or email graham.phillips@groundwork.org.uk