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    • Utilising pedestrian, ride on equipment and gardening tools for the provision of horticultural tasks which may include grass cutting, hedge cutting, shrub…
    • Safely operate a range of power and hand tools, including chainsaws, hedge trimmers, and pruners.
    • Carry out the cutting, trimming, and pruning of trees, shrubs,…
    • As Assistant Gardener, you’ll be working with a team to deliver the day-to-day care of the garden and maintain high presentation standards.
    • You will be responsible for maintaining landscaped and communal green areas to a high standard in and around our estates.
    • Support grounds maintenance tasks such as cutting the boundary hedge, maintaining lawns and play areas for communal use, litter picking, sweeping, and minor…
    • Undertake grass cutting and strimming.
    • To work as part of a two or three man team, maintaining grounds for managed residential blocks.
    • Contract type: Permanent, Full Time at 42.5 hours per week.
    • Previous Grounds Maintenance experience is required.
    • A full valid UK driving license is essential.
    • Lead a team to perform grass cutting, hedge cutting, sports line-marking, border maintenance, winter gritting, and leaf clearance.
    • Main duties include grass cutting, hedge cutting, strimming and general grounds maintenance.
    • Experience in maintaining business park, retail parks, factories…

Job Post Details

Gardener 6 month fixed term contract - job post

North Northamptonshire Council
2.7 out of 5 stars
Kettering NN16 8PP
£29,064 - £30,024 a year - Fixed term contract
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Job details

Pay

  • £29,064 - £30,024 a year

Job type

  • Fixed term contract

Location

Kettering NN16 8PP

Benefits
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  • Company pension

Full job description

Our benefits

Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.


You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!

Why choose us?

We offer a vibrant working environment with:

  • a competitive salary
  • a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
  • lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
  • generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
  • hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.


We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About the role

To undertake watering and maintenance of newly planted trees across the North Northamptonshire area within the Arb Services team. The range of duties will include tree watering, tree stake and cage maintenance, weeding and other horticultural tasks as required such as grass cutting, hedge cutting, shrub pruning, manual handling and other associated tasks.

What will you be doing?

Carrying out tree watering and maintaining records of site visits

Undertaking maintenance work to tree stakes and protective caging as well as manual weed removal.

Utilising pedestrian, ride on equipment and gardening tools for the provision of horticultural tasks which may include grass cutting, hedge cutting, shrub pruning, weed spraying and other associated tasks within the expected remit of Grounds Maintenance provision across Council owned land

To work in all weather conditions providing service outcomes across the area of operation as directed

To carry out all routine inspections of equipment prior to use and to ensure that equipment is clean, adequately greased, levels are topped up and maintained, stored and returned as directed

To adhere to the requirements of the Fleet division carrying out all operational inspections to vehicles as directed.

About you

GCSE (or equivalent) English and Maths

Knowledge of general grounds maintenance application in either the commercial or public sector

Practical knowledge in the use of grounds maintenance equipment

The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken and written English is essential for the post.

Capacity to undertake physical aspects of the role including manual handling, walking long distances, using pedestrian equipment and working in all weather conditions.

Physically fit

Ability to work as part of a team to deliver objectives and standards across Council assets.

Full UK driving licence

About us

Our Values and Behaviours

Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:

Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy

Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.

Disability Confident Employer

We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.

Our Employment and Disability Service provides bespoke support to individuals facing barriers to employment, helping them work towards their goals to start, stay and succeed in employment. For further information please click here The Employment and Disability Service (EADS) | North Northamptonshire Council

Armed Forces Community

The council obtained the Gold status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS).

Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)

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