Landscaping Operative

Job description

The vacancy

If you want to join an organisation, certified as a Great Place to Work, and you can put your landscaping/grounds maintenance experience to use and help us to provide and maintain safe, secure and thriving communities that people are proud to call home - you belong at Bromford.

In return you can expect the following:

• Monthly pay
• Stocked van (shared use)
• Fuel Card
• Coffee Card
• 27 days holiday plus bank holidays
• A choice out of 2 pension schemes
• £500 personal allowance to spend on your choice of things like private medical cover, critical health insurance, dental treatment and gym membership, for example
• Retail discount schemes to save on things like food shops, clothing, technology etc

In your role as a landscaping/grounds maintenance operative, you'll carry out the grounds maintenance of our communal green spaces and help with the clearance of our empty homes and gardens. You'll maintain the upkeep of all landscaped areas, ensuring pathways and hard standings are maintained and clear of debris. You'll operate landscaping machinery, ride-on mowers, strimmers, hedge cutters and blowers.

This is a mobile role covering the Aylesbury (HP19) and surrounding areas and will therefore involve extensive travel, so you must live in a suitable location to cover this area of work.

You'll be the eyes and ears within the community you serve; responsible for reporting neighbourhood and community issues to your colleagues. PPE must be used for each activity, you should follow health and safety regulations throughout all your work, never compromising the customer, colleagues or yourself. All your tools and equipment must be kept in good working order and regularly serviced, including the use and maintenance of the company vehicle.

You must be comfortable working on your own and as part of a team. You are expected to provide a high-quality service to residents, including consultation and liaison work with customers and colleagues. It's a physically demanding job. You'll be working outside all year round, working in inclement weather conditions as well as exposure to cold/heat and noise. You must keep accurate records of your work, sharing best practice and ways of working to improve the service, learning from experience when things don't go to plan.

To be a landscaping/grounds maintenance operative with Bromford, you will:

• Be experienced in grounds maintenance or landscaping
• Ideally, hold an NPTC qualification in brush cutter (strimmer), pedestrian mower, ride on mower, hedge cutter and PA1 and PA6 in spraying pesticides (not essential - training is available where required)
• Have a good understanding of health and safety, COSHH requirements
• Have basic IT knowledge and comfortable using mobile devices (training will be provided)
• Be punctual, have excellent customer service skills and a positive attitude
• Be comfortable working on your own and as part of a team
• Need to have a full, clean driving licence. In most instances you will be van sharing.
• Build effective relationships based on trust and respect, have excellent customer service skills and be a great ambassador for Bromford.

Your previous experience may be in roles such as a gardener, landscaper, grounds maintenance operative or grounds person.

Closing date for applications is Monday 6 May 2024.

Depending on application volume, we reserve the right to close this advert early. We, therefore, encourage an early application.

About us

We are a housing association- one that owns and provides 46,000 homes for people who can't access market housing; has individual relationships with more than 110,000 customers; has a strong balance sheet and plans to build 11,000 homes by 2030. all of this is only possible because of our 1,800 dedicated colleagues.

We take a simple view that nothing is more important to any individual or a family than their home. It's a matter of social justice that everyone should have a home that is safe, secure, and affordable. We exist to provide such homes. With the right home, people can achieve great things, not only for themselves but for wider society too.

We provide quality, affordable homes. But we care about the people who live in them too. We want each of them to be able to achieve their goals. This will be different for each customer. Put simply, we want people to thrive.

Diversity Statement

We are committed to providing a culture where our customers, our colleagues and our partners feel valued for being unique. We empower individuals to reach their full potential within an open, fair and supportive environment. In return we expect everyone to be respectful, collaborate effectively and embrace diversity. By listening, learning and acting we aim to constantly evolve our ambitions for equality, diversity and inclusion to ensure we can always achieve our purpose.

Great Place To Work Certified

Bromford have been certified as a Great Place To Work (Nov 22 - Nov 23). The 2022 Great Place to Work Trust Index Survey highlighted that our employees believe we have an amazing company culture and that 89% of our employees where made to feel welcome when they joined us. We are also proud to have been named on 'UK's Best Workplaces for Wellbeing' list, proving that colleague health and wellbeing remains a top priority and that our people are truly at the heart of everything we do.