Gardener

Lewisham Strategic Partnership; Greater London; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 33,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Local Government Pension scheme

Flexible working and family friendly

Season ticket and bicycle loans

Staff discounts

Supportive staff networks

Job summary

Lewisham Council is seeking a dedicated gardener to maintain the shared green spaces across borough estates, ensuring clean, tidy and pleasant environments for residents.

You will join a team delivering high-quality, customer-focused services with a commitment to equality of access in a diverse community. The role may require travel to various locations and will include a DBS check; a clean UK driving licence is desirable.

Qualifications

• Takes pride in their work.
• Awareness of equality of access in a diverse community.
• Maintains excellent customer service in all areas of work.
• Takes responsibility for their own learning and development.
• Engages with colleagues and management to deliver services for residents.
• Complies with Health & Safety and Equality & Diversity policies.

Responsibilities

• Maintaining communal gardens and green spaces.
• Ensuring safe use of chemicals and equipment.
• Identifying welfare/safeguarding concerns about residents.
• Reporting nuisance or anti-social behaviour and supporting enforcement with statements.
• Using uniform and PPE, and reliable communication devices when appropriate.

Skills

Customer service

Community engagement

Health & safety awareness

Diversity & inclusion awareness

Teamwork

Tools

Driver's license

Job description

Job Description

Discover yourself in Lewisham where what you do makes a difference to our vibrant and culturally diverse communities!

Discover yourself in Lewisham where what you do makes a difference to our vibrant and culturally diverse communities! We have a rich history of welcoming people from all over the world and are proud to be recognised as the UK’s first Borough of Sanctuary, and for our work in championing the rights of refugees and migrants.

Introduction

We are looking for someone who can provide high quality, customer focused and responsive service to Lewisham residents.

What’s the role?

Put simply, our gardeners maintain the shared green spaces on our estates. They take pride in ensuring that our residents live in an environment that is clean, tidy, and pleasant.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Maintaining communal gardens and green spaces
• Ensuring the safe use of appropriate chemicals, other materials, and equipment
• Identifying and reporting any welfare/safeguarding concerns about vulnerable residents
• Identifying and reporting nuisance, anti-social behavior or criminal behavior and provide evidence to support enforcement action – including the provision of information on individuals, actively looking for evidence as required, and providing witness statements
• Looking after and using appropriate uniform and personal protective equipment, including mobile phones, personal safety devises and vehicles, when appropriate

What’s in it for you?

Excellent training and development opportunities, plus a range of benefits including:

• Generous holiday allowance
• Local Government Pension scheme
• Flexible working and family friendly policies
• Season ticket and bicycle loans
• A range of staff discounts including local subsidised gym memberships
• Supportive staff networks

What We’re Looking For

We are looking for someone who:

• Takes pride in their work
• Has an awareness of - and a commitment to - equality of access and opportunity in a diverse community
• Maintains excellent customer service in all areas of work
• Takes responsibility for their own learning and development
• Engages with colleagues and management to support the delivery of excellent services for the benefit of our residents and stakeholders
• Complies with all policies and procedures - including those relating Health & Safety and Equality & Diversity

Location

Our gardeners work at and from a variety of locations across the borough.

Special conditions

• A clean, full manual UK/EU driver's licence with Category B is desirable
• The job is subject to a basic DBS check

The recruitment process is anonymous and we don’t accept CV’s.

For an informal discussion about this job, please contact James Hicks [e-mail] , Tel [phone]

Salary

£32,112 - £32,571 per annum (Scale 3)

N.B: All appointments will be offered at the minimum spinal column point (SCP) for the grade of the role. The only exception to this will be when matching current salary (up to the maximum of the scale), which is subject to evidential proof.

Diversity

Lewisham Council is a Disability Confident employer. We welcome and encourage job applications of all abilities. If you require any reasonable adjustments in the application or interview, please contact the lead contact on this advert. We will make reasonable adjustments to make sure our disabled applicants and those with health conditions are supported throughout our recruitment process. We support the access to work scheme, further details are available at www.gov.uk/access-to-work/apply

The Council reserves the right to close adverts early if there is a large response.

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