Apprentice Grounds Person

King's College London; Greater London; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

King’s Sport & Wellness at Honor Oak Sports Ground invites an enthusiastic grounds operative to join our team. This full-time role (35 hours per week) focuses on delivering high-quality pitches and facilities for student sport and customers, with on-the-job training to achieve an L2 sports turf qualification.

You will work with the Senior Grounds Persons to maintain safe, well-presented playing surfaces and surrounding amenities, contributing to exceptional user experiences and community sport

Qualifications

• Be practical and methodical in daily tasks.
• Be patient and pay attention to detail.
• Work well alone and as part of a team.
• Be aware of health and safety issues in a busy environment.
• Customer focused and ‘can do’ attitude.
• Experience in landscape/maintenance is advantageous with full training provided.

Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of outstanding Sports Grounds pitches and operations as part of the King’s Sport - Sports Grounds Team.
• Work with the Senior Grounds Persons to enhance the quality of pitches and facilities to ensure world class user experiences for student sports teams and customers.

Skills

Practicality

Attention to detail

Teamwork

Health & safety awareness

Customer focus

Landscape/maintenance experience

Job description

King’s Sport & Wellness have a mission of delivering unique sport and wellness experiences to unite our communities and optimise our people and their potential. Honor Oak Sports Ground is a fundamental part of our service delivery – providing our students and student sports clubs with pitches and facilities to enjoy their sport.

About the role:

This is an exciting opportunity to join King’s Sport & Wellness, where this role will be pivotal in helping us achieve our mission to deliver unique sport and wellness experiences that unite our communities and optimise our people and their potential.

The post holder will support the delivery of outstanding Sports Grounds pitches and operations as part of the King’s Sport - Sports Grounds Team. Working with the Senior Grounds Persons to enhance the quality of our pitches and facilities to ensure world class user experiences for our student sports teams and our customers

This is a full-time post (35 Hours per week) and you will undertake a L2 sports turf qualification during your employment.

About you:

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

• Be practical and methodical
• Be patient and pay attention to detail
• Work well alone and as part of a team
• Be aware of health and safety issues
• Customer focused and ‘can do’ attitude
• Experience of working in the landscape/maintenance industry would be advantageous although full training would be provided