Job Summary
Qualified to a minimum of Level 2 City & Guilds or equivalent.
To carry out horticultural and grounds maintenance duties throughout the County Borough to raise standards of public parks and open spaces.
Reporting to either Team Leader or Charge Hand to discuss scheduled work programs and forward work programme.
Please note: you will be required to be available to work within any departments within neighbourhood services as priorities require. This may include Waste, Highways, street cleansing, or cemeteries, and could involve a full range of duties commensurate with the grade.
* Carrying out a varied range of gardening duties, requiring minimal supervision and using own initiative.
* Performing general grounds maintenance duties such as grass cutting, using pedestrian and ride-on mowers.
* Using hand tools such as strimmers, hedge cutters, blowers, and other tools required for the job.
* Marking football fields.
* Repairing fine turf and playing surfaces.
* Litter picking and bin emptying.
* Assisting the arboriculture team when required.
* Driving vehicles and pulling trailers (with appropriate qualifications).
Additional duties include soil cultivation, digging, forking, mulching, watering, raking, weeding, litter and debris clearing, edging, pruning, seed sowing, bed preparation, and planting.
Lawn maintenance and cultivation.
Ensuring all tools, garden equipment, and machinery are correctly maintained, with defects reported to ensure they are kept in good and safe working order.
Assisting with the construction of landscape schemes.
Seasonal bedding, removal, and planting.
Position titles include Labourer, Assistant Gardener.
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