Casual Public Spaces Maintenance Operatives

Leicester Bus Partnership; Leicester; On-site; GBP 12,000 - 17,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthy work-life balance

Generous annual leave

LGPS membership

Flexible working

Training and development opportunities

Discounts on city buses/trains

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Job summary

Leicester City Council’s Parks and Open Spaces team is seeking Casual Public Spaces Maintenance Operatives. These casual posts operate Monday to Friday, 7:30am start, with possible weekend/bank holiday work to cover.

Based at a grounds maintenance depot, you’ll work across the city maintaining parks and green spaces in all weather, with PPE provided. You’ll be joining a team responsible for keeping infrastructure accessible, maintaining horticultural features and hard landscape elements,

Qualifications

• Ideally some previous experience in horticulture or groundsmanship or similar.
• Knowledge of COSHH regulations and HASWA including health & safety issues.
• Ability to carry out manual handling and lift heavy equipment.
• Ability to work without close supervision while using own initiative and work well in a team.
• Full driving licence is essential for driving duties.

Responsibilities

• Make Leicester's green infrastructure accessible by maintaining horticultural and hard landscape features.
• Prepare and apply chemicals as needed.
• Keep sites clean and tidy and maintain sports features such as artificial surfaces.
• Operate and maintain hand and mechanical equipment in line with health and safety guidelines.
• Provide advice to people using facilities to ensure high standard of customer service.

Skills

COSHH regulations

Health & safety awareness

Manual handling

Team player

Initiative

Job description

The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

Casual Public Spaces Maintenance Operatives

Casual Hours

Be a part of our Parks and Open Spaces team to make improvements to the landscape of the city.

Leicester is covered by a wealth of soft and hard open spaces that includes a range of parks, gardens, country parks, nature areas,150,000 individual trees and 107 hectares of woodlands, canal, and riverside, 150 play and outdoor gym facilities, sports facilities, highways, and housing green spaces totalling 1,250 hectares. It is widely recognised that quality open spaces contribute to residents’ quality of life and improve physical and mental health wellbeing, with parks in Leicester attracting around 9m visitors per annum.

Join our specialist teams within Parks and Open Spaces to undertake high quality grounds maintenance work to maintain and further improve parks and open spaces and all other green infrastructure within the city of Leicester.

You’ll be based at one of our grounds maintenance depots.

These are casual posts working Monday to Friday. You’ll be available to start the working day at 7:30am and where required work weekends and bank holidays to provide additional cover. You’ll be able to work outside in all weathers, anywhere in the city and wear PPE where appropriate.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll work under the guidance of the Local Area Manager and Team Leader, to make Leicester’s green infrastructure free of barriers to access, by helping to maintain its horticultural features as well as hard landscape features including buildings. This includes preparing and applying chemicals, keeping sites clean and tidy, and maintaining sports features such as artificial surfaces. You’ll operate and maintain hand and mechanical specialist equipment in accordance with health and safety guidelines. You’ll be confident in providing advice to people using our facilities to ensure a high standard of customer service is achieved.

What you’ll need

Ideally with some previous experience in either horticulture or groundsmanship or similar, you'll understand COSHH regulations and have knowledge of health & safety issues relating to area of work and HASWA. You'll have the ability to carry out manual handling and lifting heavy equipment and materials. You’ll be able to work without close supervision, whilst using your own initiative as well as working well in a team environment.

A full driving licence is essential as you will be required to carry out driving duties.

What we can offer you

• work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance.
• generousannual leave
• membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme
• the option of flexibleworking
• a chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of trainingand development opportunities
• several flexible benefits,including discounts on city buses and trains
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This is an open advert therefore we will complete the short-listing soon after receiving your application. If short-listed, you'll be called for an assessment and/or interview thereafter.