Ground Maintenance Operatives

Hours: 37 per week

Contract Type: Agency/Temporary (with potential for permanent if there are vacancies)

Service Area: Environmental Services

Department: Parks & Green Spaces

Seasonal Job Opportunities

This opportunity is for seasonal grounds staff – the work is generally from March to Oct and is weather dependant, so could be for a shorter or longer period.

We are proud of the in-house services that we operate in keeping our neighbourhoods clean and our green spaces looking great.

Our Environmental Services team work hard collecting recyclables & rubbish, cleaning our streets; they also tend to our beautiful parks, open spaces and our cemeteries and crematorium.

If you'd like to join our passionate, enthusiastic team we'd love to hear from you. It's part of the job description that you're physically fit and prepared to work outdoors in all weather.

If you come to work for us and there is a suitable vacancy at the end, then you will have the opportunity to be considered for a permanent role with the Council.

Grounds Maintenance Operatives

Post Ref – 41330

Based at Royal Victoria Park Bath, Station Road Keynsham or Radstock Road depot

Salary: £24,294 to £24,702 per annum pro rata (£12.59 - £12.80) per hour

37 hours per week - Enhancements are paid for weekend and Bank Holiday working

The primary purpose of this post is to assist the team leader with the day to day running and development of the team accordance with the Council’s Vision and Values, policy, and other objectives, to achieve maximum effectiveness and efficiency.

Key Duties:

• Planting, pruning, seeding
• Hedge trimming
• Grass cutting – parks, open spaces & verges
• Strimming, leaf blowing, raking
• Setting out and marking sports areas
• Upkeep of pitches (artificial and natural
• Propagation and nursery care of plants
• Site preparation
• Manual litter picking and sweeping
• Emptying litter & recycling bins, and replacing liners
• Using electronic mobile devices to record work & log any issues
• Resolving any complaints as directed by managers

We offer both temporary and seasonal roles and if there is a permanent role, we think you would be suitable for we'd be happy to discuss this with you.

Why B&NES Council?

We offer a wide range of benefits, to ensure that you are paid fairly for your work, have the flexibility to enjoy a great work/life balance, and have the support you need. These include:

• A competitive salary package
• A range of flexible working and hybrid working options, including flexi-time, four regional offices and home-working, dependent on service requirements
• A generous holiday allowance and special leave provisions
• The Local Government Pension Scheme
• A comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme – whatever life throws at you; we are committed to supporting you and your well-being at work and home
• Professional and personal development including in-house training and accredited qualifications including Aspiring Manager and Leadership Development
• Discount scheme including the VECTIS card that offers numerous local discounts including cycle to work and free entry to numerous local attractions with B&NES

We now recruit our operational vacancies through the following recruitment agencies.

Please contact:

Simple Recruitment

Chanel House, South Road, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, BA3 2EZ

Tel: 01761 235741

www.simplerecruitment.co.uk

Matching Staff Solutions

Middle Pit House, Coomb End, Radstock, BA3 3AT

Tel: 01761 433777

www.matchingstaffsolutions.co.uk

CORR RECRUITMENT

Bristol, 22 The Courtyard, Bradley Stoke, Bristol, BS32 4NH

Tel: 01172 141292

bristol@corrrecruitment.com

Interested to find out more?

If you are interested in this post and require more details after reading the job description or just to chat through the role and what’s involved, please contact Colin_Hall@BATHNES.GOV.UK or telephone 07977 228445.

Bath & North East Somerset Council has one overriding purpose – to improve people’s lives. We have four core values which shape every aspect of our working life and how we look to the future. These values are to be Bold, Empowered, Supportive and Transparent.

Please explain in your application how you could incorporate these values into the role you are applying for.

We are unable to sponsor candidates for this role under the Home Office Tier 2 points-based system (skilled worker route), therefore you must be able to obtain and provide your own right to work in the UK’. Please refer to the Home Office Right to Work Checklist which provides details of which documents are acceptable. Should you be shortlisted you will be asked to bring your right to work documents with you to your interview so they can be copied and verified at that stage.

As an equal opportunities employer, Bath & North East Somerset Council is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and is opposed to discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender reassignment, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us.

Please note the Council operates a policy of prior consideration for roles for any individual on the Council’s at-risk register. This means should a redeployee express an interest in this role, providing they meet the essential criteria for the role, they will be interviewed before any shortlisting or interviewing of external candidates.