Grounds Maintenance Team Leader

Leicester Bus Partnership; Knighton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Local Government Pension Scheme

Annual leave entitlement

Flexible working

Transport discounts (city buses/trains

Job summary

Leicester City Council in Knighton Park is seeking a confident Grounds Maintenance Supervisor to lead a team of Craft Gardeners and manage high-quality horticultural and grounds maintenance work.

The role is full-time, based at Knighton Park depot, and requires a full UK driving licence. It offers a structured public sector career with pension and training opportunities, and a commitment to health and work-life balance.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience in horticulture or grounds maintenance.
• Experience leading a team and providing guidance.
• Experience using specialist equipment and applying pesticides.
• Full UK driving licence is essential.

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain hand and mechanical equipment for grounds work.
• Prepare and apply chemicals including herbicides, fungicides and insecticides.
• Maintain horticultural features and hard landscape elements across sites.
• Provide advice and support to customers using facilities.

Skills

Grounds maintenance supervision

Horticulture

Pesticide application

Team leadership

Chemicals handling

Equipment operation

Job description

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

Job details

Job reference REQ8256 Date posted 25/08/2026 Application closing date 08/09/2026 Location Knighton Park Depot Salary £29,542 - £32,046 Per Year Package Total benefit value (includes pension contribution and full holiday entitlement):£43,249 Contractual hours 37 Basis Full time Job category/type Construction and Maintenance Attachments Job Specification - 2026-08-14T122510.194 (1).pdf

Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Permanent

Join our Parks and Open Spaces Grounds Maintenance team who maintain and further improve parks, housing land, highways land, open spaces and all other green infrastructure within the city of Leicester. Under the guidance of the Local Area Manager, you'll manage your dedicated team of Craft Gardeners who undertake high quality horticultural work and grounds maintenance work.

This is a full time permanent position working 37 hours per week. Based at Knighton Park depot, you'll be prepared to work in all weather conditions.

What you’ll be doing

As a confident gardener and supervisor, you'll operate and maintain hand and mechanical specialist equipment as well as prepare and apply chemicals such as herbicides, fungicides, insecticides etc. You'll 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. You'll provide advice and support to customers using our facilities.

What you’ll need

With substantial previous experience in either horticulture or groundsmanship, you'll have experience in using specialist equipment and applying pesticides. You'll be able to effectively lead your team, by providing expert advice, guidance and support, as well manage performance.

A full UK driving licence is essential for this role as you'll be expected to undertake driving duties.

What we can offer you

As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can lookforward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You’ll enjoy generousannual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexibleworking. We’ll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of trainingand development opportunities. In addition, you can choose fromseveralflexible benefits,including discounts on city buses and trains. Foran illustrative value of your benefits package,take a look at our benefits calculator .

We’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly-talented workforce as we continue to build acouncil that is fitting and representative of our great city. That’s why we’ve designed ourrecruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you.We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with yourapplication,take a look at the ‘our approach to recruitment’ page .

Interviews / Assessments will take place on week commencing 14th of September