Grounds Operative (Grade 14)

Job Description

Job Category : Manual Labour / General Industrial
Location : Colley Lane Depot, Somerset Council
Hours Per Week : 37.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 07:30
End Time : 16:00
Salary: £10.98

To undertake all grounds/horticultural operations to a high standard. Duties include but are not limited to highways, highway verges, cemeteries, public spaces, landscaped areas, including grass/hedge maintenance, weeding, clearing leaves, clearing shrub beds, pruning, planting shrubs, summer bedding and seeding, removal of graffiti and fly posting

Corporate Responsibilities

Understand, uphold, and promote the aims of the council’s equality, diversity, and inclusion policies; health, safety and wellbeing of self and others; and Organisational values in everything you do. Equality and Diversity practice covers both interaction with staff, service users and communities and includes challenging discrimination and promoting equality of opportunity for all.

Operational Duties

To undertake all grounds/horticultural operations to a high standard. Duties include but are not limited to highways, highway verges, cemeteries, public spaces, landscaped areas, including grass/hedge maintenance, weeding, clearing leaves, clearing shrub beds, pruning, planting shrubs, summer bedding and seeding, removal of graffiti and fly posting.

Conduct winter water course management, consisting of water course clearance as part of flood prevention. Use of pedestrian and mechanical sweepers to remove litter, leaves, glass, dumped rubbish. Using chemical weed control, where appropriate and with suitable training and supervision.

Provide grounds/horticultural/cleaning operations as part of Housing contracts, working to strict SLAs.

Responsible for flood management, sand bagging as part of emergency protocol. Any other reasonable duties of a similar nature requested by supervisors or managers.

Qualification

Essential
• Good standard of education
• Level 2 Certificate of Competency in the safe use of ride-on lawnmowers
• Full UK Driving licence.
Desirable
• NVQ level 2 in Horticulture.
• Routine Playground Inspection qualification.
• Chapter 8 NRSWA 002 Signing, Lighting, and guarding & Excavation of the Highway.
• Excavator 360 mini digger qualification.
• PA1 and PA6 Pesticide Training.
• Hiab training.
Knowledge
• Competent knowledge to Comply with COSHH regulations and Health and Safety at work Act.
Skills
Essential
• Outdoors manual working and demonstrates the ability to use hand-operated equipment appropriate for the role.
• Takes care to evaluate environmental issues.
• Must have an understanding and knowledge base of Outlook, Word and Teams and possess the ability to learn new systems.
• The post holder will be expected to conduct activities that require manual dexterity and physical co-ordination for the role. Such as XXXX
• The post holder will be expected to manoeuvre heavy objects such as bagged materials and resources.
• Adapts work style to suit changing circumstances, such as weather conditions and volume of pedestrians.