Grounds Maintenance Trainee

Southern Housing; Hastings; Hybrid; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern Housing is offering a Grounds Maintenance Trainee role in Hastings as a 2-year fixed term contract / secondment. You will be based mainly at Burgess Road, Hastings, learning to deliver high-quality gardening and grounds maintenance services with training, tools, and PPE provided.

The role requires working outside in all weather and undertaking physically demanding tasks. Training will be given, and a new uniform, safety boots and PPE supplied.

Qualifications

• Basic knowledge of grounds maintenance duties.
• Basic knowledge and understanding of health and safety considerations as they apply to this role.
• Self-motivated, enthusiastic, punctual and professional.
• A commitment to listen, learn and demonstrate new skills.

Skills

Grounds maintenance basics

Health & safety basics

Self-motivated

Willing to learn

Job description

About The Role

We have a great opportunity that has arisen within our dedicated Estate Services Team for a Grounds Maintenance Trainee. Reporting to our local Estate Services Manager, you will be taught how to deliver a consistently high-quality gardening and grounds maintenance service. You will be provided with training, tools and machinery to help you undertake your tasks and we will supply you with a new uniform, safety boots and personal protective equipment. You will need to have the ability to work outside in all weathers and be able to undertake physically demanding work.

Please note that this role is being offered on a 2- Year Fixed Term Contract / Secondment. Your main base will be Burgess Road, Hastings.

What you’ll have

• Basic knowledge of grounds maintenance duties.
• Basic knowledge and understanding of health and safety considerations as they apply to this role.
• Self-motivated, enthusiastic, punctual and professional.
• A commitment to listen, learn and demonstrate new skills.

Advert closing date: 1st October 2026 at 23:59

About Us

At Southern Housing, our residents are at the heart of everything we do. As one of the largest housing providers in the UK with over 77,000 homes across London, the Southeast, the Isle of Wight, and the Midlands, we give over 167,000 people somewhere affordable to call their own! We also understand the difference that safe, secure, and affordable homes can make to people’s lives.

A career at Southern Housing will allow you to make a difference every day you come to work. Working in the housing sector with us will bring fresh challenges and give you the opportunity to grow and develop, too.