Assistant Gardener

Kirklees Council; Kirklees; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 27,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous annual leave entitlement

Friendly and supportive team

Ongoing training and career develop...

Excellent pension scheme

Family friendly policies, including...

Job summary

Kirklees Council is hiring an Assistant Gardener to join the Parks and Greenspaces Team across Kirklees. You’ll work on maintenance of parks, housing areas, public spaces and schools, using light and heavy equipment as needed to keep spaces welcoming and safe.

The role is physically demanding, requires reliability and good teamwork, and offers generous leave, training and an excellent pension. You will be contracted to work 5 days out of 7, including weekends.

Qualifications

• Experience using heavy-duty ground maintenance machinery.
• Experience in general maintenance, horticultural and grounds work.
• Ability to communicate positively with members of the public.

Responsibilities

• a range of cleansing duties such as emptying bins, litter picking and clearing leaves
• grass cutting
• hedge trimming
• weeding

Job description

We adopt a ‘name blind’ approach to shortlisting. Recruiting managers will not have access to personal information, including your name and contact details, until a shortlisting decision has been made - please note that this also includes any CV uploaded. Equality monitoring information is not accessible by recruiting managers at any stage.

Organisation

Kirklees

Directorate

Place

Service Area

Environmental Strategy & Climate Change

Hours

Summer 40.5, Winter 32.5

Number of Jobs

1

Location(s)

Across Kirklees

Position type

Permanent

Grade

Grade 4

Salary

£26,016 - £26,427

Advert Wording

If you love the outdoors, whatever the weather, and would take pride in making improvements to the Kirklees environment then we would like to hear from you.

The Team

We are the Parks and Greenspaces Team and it’s our job to maintain the parks and recreation fields, crematoria, and green and urban spaces around homes across the district.

Our Gardeners are the public face of the team in the community so we’re looking for helpful, positive and friendly people to join us in our work to keep Kirklees clean, safe and accessible for all members of our community.

The Role; Assistant Gardener

You must have previous experience of using heavy-duty ground maintenance machinery for this role.

You will be working in a small, but hugely experienced team undertaking general maintenance, horticultural and grounds work of green spaces, such as recreation grounds, housing areas, public parks and schools.

As you will be working closely with other gardeners, we’re looking for people who are reliable and won’t let their team down.

This is a physically demanding role, so you need to be fit enough to work with the equipment safely, bend, lift, work at heights and walk for considerable periods in all weathers – if a job needs doing the team do it regardless of the weather conditions!

Duties Will Include

• a range of cleansing duties such as emptying bins, litter picking and clearing leaves
• grass cutting
• hedge trimming
• weeding

You should have experience of working in a similar role, knowledge of the Health and Safety requirements applicable to this type of work and the ability to communicate positively with members of the public.

You will be contracted to work on any 5 days out of 7 days (Monday to Sunday).

For a full list of the role requirements please see the attached Job Profile.

What can we offer?

• Generous annual leave entitlement
• Friendly and supportive team environment
• Ongoing training and career development
• Excellent pension scheme
• A range of family friendly policies, including flexible working

Maryke Whittaker is the manager for this role, please contact them on 01484 221000 for an informal discussion, or if you need any more information.

This job is subject to a DBS check at the appropriate level, please refer to the Job Description/Profile. A conviction may not exclude candidates from appointment but will be considered as part of the recruitment process.

We know there’s a wealth of talent among people who have a disability and we encourage applications from people with all differing abilities. So, if you need any support completing an application form, or any other format for the application or Job Description please contact the Recruitment Team for help by email:or phone: [phone] and ask for ‘Recruitment’.

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Closing date

26 October 2026, 11:55 PM