Senior Grounds Worker Level 2

Dorset Council UK; Wareham; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

Dorset Council UK is seeking a Senior Grounds Worker (Level 2) to join the Grounds Maintenance team. You will assist the Team Foreman in maintaining high standards across diverse sites, and you will lead staff while being self-motivated and well-organised.

You will engage with clients and the public, representing the service and promoting its work. A good team player with clear communication is essential for this role.

Qualifications

• Leadership experience in a team environment.
• Ability to work outdoors in all weathers.
• Strong communication with clients and the public.
• Good presentation and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a wide range of sites across Dorset to a high standard.
• Lead staff under supervision of the Team Foreman.
• Engage with clients and members of the public on a daily basis.
• Represent Dorset Council and promote the service and its work.

Skills

Team Leadership

Outdoor Work

Public Interaction

Communication

Job description

If you like to work outdoors, and are happy to work in all weathers, this Senior Grounds Worker at Level 2, may be the job for you!

The Grounds Maintenance Team carry out maintenance works across a huge range of sites across Dorset, ranging from school grounds, care homes and libraries to Dorset Council's own properties as well as Town and Parish Council's.

We offer an in-house service to the Council, providing a year-round grounds maintenance service and a quick response solution to issues and requirements that arise across the whole of Dorset.

You would be working as part of a team, assisting your Team Foreman to maintain a high standard, cost effective delivery. Being a good team player is therefore essential, with an ability to lead staff, be self-motivated, organised and hard working.

Good communication and presentation skills are also required as you will be engaging with our clients on a daily basis as well as members of the public from time to time.

As a member of the Grounds Maintenance team you will be representing the service, promoting its work and be an advocate for Dorset Council and its partners.

The Place Directorate combines front-line service delivery in coast and countryside services with a key corporate function in property management. Dorset’s environment provides the essential goods and services necessary to maintain economic growth and community wellbeing. For it to continue to do so requires it to be well managed and the service makes a major contribution to this in partnership with others who share DC’s aims. The Service also has responsibility for a wide range of public assets - buildings, land and sites - and ensures that these are used in ways which benefit the people of Dorset as well as meeting organisational need.

Landscape Services provide a green asset implementation and management service maintaining, constructing and managing a range of schemes, including the designing out of maintenance liabilities, offering opportunities to schools to enhance recreational and educational space and supporting the practical work of the Area Greenspace Teams, Arboriculture, Environmental Advice and Hosted Partnership Teams.