Gardener/ Cleaner

The Guinness Partnership; Devizes; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Join The Guinness Partnership as an Estate Assistant, responsible for providing high-quality garden services across Wiltshire. This full-time role requires excellent customer service skills, grounds maintenance experience, and a positive attitude. You'll work within a dedicated team, ensuring beautiful communal spaces for our residents while managing diverse outdoor conditions.

Qualifications

• Experience in grounds maintenance required.
• Good understanding of health and safety and COSHH.
• Full manual driving license essential.

Responsibilities

• Carry out grounds’ maintenance of communal green spaces.
• Operate landscaping machinery and maintain landscaped areas.
• Provide high-quality service to residents.

Skills

Customer service

Grounds maintenance

Teamwork

Health and safety

Education

NVQ Level 2 or 3 in Horticulture or equivalent

Job description

Would you like to join our Estates Team in Wiltshire as an Estate Assistant, (Gardener/ Cleaner), and help us to deliver an excellent service for our residents? This is a great opportunity for anyone who is a customer-focused team player.

About The Role

As a Mobile Estate Assistant at Guinness, you will be responsible for providing high quality garden services to several of our housing schemes in Swindon, Devizes and the surrounding areas.

This is a full-time, permanent position working 35 hours per week Monday - Friday.

Some of the key duties involved are:

• In your role as an Estate Assistant, you’ll carry out grounds’ maintenance of our communal green spaces.
• You will maintain the upkeep of all landscaped areas, ensuring pathways and hard standings are kept clear of debris.
• Operate landscaping machinery, ride-on mowers, strimmer’s, hedge cutters and blowers.
• Working as part of a team.
• Provide a high-quality service to residents.
• Cleaning internal communal areas and keeping external areas well maintained.
• Working outside all year round, working in inclement weather conditions as well as exposure to cold/heat and noise.
• Keep accurate records of your work, sharing best practice and ways of working to improve the service, learning from experience when things don’t go to plan.

Requirements:

As you will be interacting with our customers and colleagues, we are looking for someone who has good customer service skills with the ability to work both within a team and on your own.

You will also have:

• Recent experience in grounds maintenance.
• Have a good understanding of health and safety, COSHH requirements.
• Have basic IT knowledge and comfortable using mobile devices (training will be provided).
• Be punctual and a positive attitude.
• Full manual driving licence.
• Build effective relationships based on trust and respect and be a great ambassador for The Guinness Partnership.

Desirable

• NVQ Level 2 or 3 in Horticulture or equivalent
• PA1, PA4b & PA6 NPTC Certificates

To find out more about the key responsibilities for the role and to ensure that you meet the essential criteria, please review the role profile.