About The Role
Role: Streetscene Operative
Location: South Ribble
Contract: Part Time (24.5 hours per week) / Fixed Term Contract (12 months)
Salary: £26,824 - £27,254 (£18,120 - £18,410 pro rata)
Closing Date: 14 September 2025
Are you looking for a role within local government? Are you looking for a role that involves working outside, somewhere that you can really take some pride in your work?
We are looking for a horticulturist with a good basic knowledge of plants and plant care to join our dedicated team on the green flag award winning Worden Park. In this role, you will be working within the park, mainly on the Formal Gardens. You will be ensuring that the gardens are well kept and are in perfect condition for the residents, wider community, and visitors to the borough.
What will your role include?
* Gardening, pruning and dead heading.
* Knowledge of plant health.
* Planting such as carpet bedding and seasonal plants.
* Knowledge of greenhouse works.
Who we are looking for?
* You will be helping keep community spaces looking their best, so we are looking for someone who can really take pride in their work.
* A team player and good communicator
* You will be operating various vehicles in this role, so you will need to have a valid clean driving licence
Our Benefits
* 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (and Christmas shutdown)
* Local Government pension
* Healthcare Cash Plan for cash back on health treatments
* Cashback website access for savings on brands you love
* Free parking
About Us
At South Ribble Council, our mission is to provide a first-class service and improve the quality of life for our communities. Our staff are our greatest resource in helping us achieve this. They're at the heart of everything we do and are crucial to the delivery of excellent services.
Working Together
We share a number of our services with Chorley Council. This allows for improved resilience across both councils and provides numerous benefits to our operations. Whilst some staff and back-end processes are shared between the Councils, both Councils still retain sovereignty and have separate strategies and corporate plans.
Additional information
Applicants are advised to apply early. We reserve the right to close a vacancy prior to the closing date.
Equal Opportunities
We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. We are committed to the elimination of unfair and unlawful discrimination and prejudice in all our policies, procedures, and practices.
We're committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and accessible to everyone. This includes making adjustments for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the recruitment process, please contact us via the "Contact Us" page on our website.
If you are disabled or your last employer was the armed forces, and you meet all the essential criteria of a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.