Gardening & Grounds Maintenance Assistant
- Employer
- The Guinness Partnership
- Location
- Greater Manchester
- Salary
- £25,095
- Closing date
- 14 Oct 2024
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- Function
- Community and Customer Services, Housing / neighbourhood management
- Seniority
- Assistant / coordinator
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Organisation Type
- Housing association / RP
Job Description
We have a new opportunity for a Gardening and Grounds Maintenance Assistant to join our team on a full-time basis across our sites in South Manchester.
You will cover sites across Hulme, Trafford and the surrounding areas. You will provide a high-quality cleaning, grounds, and garden service, ensuring compliance with agreed standards, specifications, and timescales. This will include cleaning internal communal areas and keeping external areas well maintained such as refuse removal and basic gardening.
Some of the key duties involved are:
- Bin store/ management
- Litter picking
- Bulk waste removal
- Cleaning internal and external communal area’s
- Mopping duties
- Using mechanical cleaning tools
- Grounds, maintenance, and gardening work
The successful applicant will join us on a permanent contract, working 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday.
What we’re looking for
We are a customer-focussed organisation, so we know that how we do things is just as important as what we do. You will not only be an experienced Gardening and Grounds Maintenance Assistant, but you will also have great customer service skills and a willingness to go the extra mile.
You will also be able to demonstrate the below essential skills:
- Proven professional experience of delivering grounds maintenance across a variety of sites and garden types.
- Experience and knowledge of lawn, shrub, and plant care.
- Proven experience of achieving high levels of customer satisfaction
- Ability to carry out physical tasks within Health & Safety guidelines.
- Ability to work effectively within a team and without high levels of supervision.
- Able to demonstrate Guinness Behaviours
- Knowledge of Health & Safety legislation, including COSHH and PPE
- Full clean UK driving license
Desirable
- An understanding of how to use mobile working devices e.g. tablets.
- Knowledge and experience of the safe and regulatory use of horticultural fungicides and pesticides
Desirable Qualifications
- NVQ 2 in Horticulture or of RHS/City and Guilds/HND equivalent
- PA1 and PA6 NPTC Certificates
To apply for this vacancy, please review the role profile to see if you meet the essential criteria.
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About Us
The Guinness Partnership is one of the leading providers of affordable housing and care services in England. We build and manage homes and provide housing services for around 140,000 customers nationwide. Our vision is to deliver great service, provide great homes, to be a great business and to be a great place to work. Because everything we do is about our customers, our communities and our people, any profit we make is re-invested in new and existing homes and improving services.
The Guinness Partnership is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all colleagues, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
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