Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Permanent
Join our Parks and Open Spaces Grounds Maintenance team who maintain and further improve parks, housing land, highways land, open spaces and all other green infrastructure within the city of Leicester. Under the guidance of the Local Area Manager, you'll manage your dedicated team of Craft Gardeners who undertake high quality horticultural work and grounds maintenance work.
This is a full time permanent position working 37 hours per week. Based at Knighton Park depot, you'll be prepared to work in all weather conditions.
What you’ll be doing
As a confident gardener and supervisor, you'll operate and maintain hand and mechanical specialist equipment as well as prepare and apply chemicals such as herbicides, fungicides, insecticides etc. You'll make Leicester’s green infrastructure free of barriers to access, by helping to maintain its horticultural features as well as hard landscape features including buildings. You'll provide advice and support to customers using our facilities.
What you’ll need
With substantial previous experience in either horticulture or groundsmanship, you'll have experience in using specialist equipment and applying pesticides. You'll be able to effectively lead your team, by providing expert advice, guidance and support, as well manage performance.
A full UK driving licence is essential for this role as you'll be expected to undertake driving duties.
What we can offer you
As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You’ll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working. We’ll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from several flexible benefits, including discounts on city buses and trains. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.
Join us
We’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly-talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That’s why we’ve designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, take a look at the ‘our approach to recruitment’ page.
For a chat about this post, please feel free to contact Mark Humphrey on 0116 454 3774 or email mark.humphrey@leicester.gov.uk
Assessment/interviews will take place on Thursday 16th January 2025
