86979 - Land based Activities - Skilled Delivery (SD): Grounds Maintenance - HMP Norwich

2 weeks ago

Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom Ministry of Justice Full time
Land based Activities - Skilled Delivery (SD): Grounds Maintenance - HMP Norwich
Building/Site HMP NORWICH NORWICH, NR1 4LU
Post Type Permanent
Working Pattern Full Time, Part Time/Job Share
Role Type Environment & Sustainability
Responsible for Grounds Maintenance at a prison, you will enjoy a wide range of responsibilities.

We will look to you to help maintain and improve grounds and amenity areas - from gardens and lawns, to ponds, water features and woodland.

But your impact in this unique environment will go beyond landscaping, mowing and maintenance. You will carry out projects including soft and hard landscape redevelopment. Leading a team, you will oversee their work with an eye for quality control.

This is not always easy, but the difference you can help to make in terms of self-esteem and employability is hugely rewarding.

What is more, with the chance to enter our annual competition for best kept prison garden, judged by the Royal Horticultural Society, you might find a lot more to be proud of.

Naturally, demonstrable skills and experience in grounds maintenance are essential.
Committed to quality in everything you do, you are comfortable working at a fast pace. Please note you may be required to work some evenings and weekends.
This is a delivery role within an establishment requiring an appropriate trade.

The job holder will be responsible for the day-to-day maintenance of the grounds and amenity areas within the estate.

Carry out soft landscaping - turf laying and hard landscaping - laying patio stones

  • Maintain establishment's grounds and amenity areas including maintenance of lawns, ponds, water features and external grounds to the establishment including woodland
  • Maintain sports fields, as per agreed plan, with both the Land based Activities Manager and PE Department
  • Undertake small project work as advised/requested: including soft and hard landscape development and erection of horticultural support structures where the situation warrants
  • Maintain correct soil husbandry, ensuring all stages of crop development are followed in accordance with good horticultural practice
  • Supervise prisoners parties and undertake quality control over their work, as agreed within the Service Delivery Agreement (SDA)
Ensure allocated planned maintenance and small repairs are carried out, undertaking service requests raised by computer aided facilities management system

  • Undertake survey inspections in confined spaces and at height, recording all work and completing associated registers/logs
  • Carry out project work as required
  • Escort technical contractors as required, working with and supervising them in accordance with Local Security Strategy (LSS)
  • Maintain regular communications via radio net in accordance with the LSS.
  • Comply with all Health and Safety policies, procedures and legislation to ensure statutory and mandatory compliance.
  • Operate within command mode in line with local contingency plans
  • Undertake incidental and emergency or urgent tasks and assignments as per Service Delivery Agreement timescales, in a safe manner
  • Contribute to prisoner reports, including parole and sentence planning.

An ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence through the medium of English or (where specified in Wales) Welsh.

Managing a Quality Service

  • Must have a Vocational Qualification at Level 3, or be willing to work towards gaining this qualification within an agreed timescale
Full UK Driving Licence
Additional Information Working Arrangements & Further Information
The MoJ offers Hybrid Working arrangements where business need allows.

This is an informal, non-contractual form of flexible working that blends working from your base location, different MoJ sites and / or from home (please be aware that this role can only be worked in the UK and not overseas).

Some roles will not be suitable for Hybrid Working. Similarly, Hybrid Working will not suit everyone's circumstances.

For nationally advertised roles, the successful candidate(s) will be appointed to a MoJ office location, which may include their nearest Justice Collaboration Centre or Justice Satellite Office.

Standard full time working hours are 37 hours per week excluding breaks which are unpaid. HMPPS welcomes part-time, flexible and job-sharing working patterns, where they meet the demands of the role and business needs.

All applications for part-time, flexible and job-sharing working patterns will be considered in accordance with the HMPPS' Flexible Working policy.

The Loan/Secondment is subject to the approval of the selected candidate's Business Unit, which should be obtained before confirmation of appointment.

Annual Leave

  • The holiday year runs from 1 March.
Bank, Public and Privilege Holidays

  • You are entitled to 9 days (66 hours 36 minutes) in recognition of bank, public and privilege holidays.
These hours are added to your annual leave allowance. There is a requirement to work some public and bank holidays subject to your shift pattern and the operational needs of the establishment
Pension

  • The Civil Service offers a choice of two pension schemes, giving you the flexibility to choose the pension that suits you best.
Work Life Balance
HM Prison & Probation Service (HMPPS) is keen to encourage alternative working arrangements.

Work life balance provides greater opportunities for staff to work more flexibly wherever managers and establishments can accommodate requests to do so.

HMPPS offers flexible working subject to completion of a satisfactory probationary period and NVQ
After two months' service, you'll be eligible to apply for a season ticket advance to purchase a quarterly or longer-period season ticket for travel between home and your place of work
Childcare Vouchers
For any moves across the Civil Service may have implications on your ability to carry on claiming childcare vouchers
Training
HMPPS is committed to staff development and offers a range of training and development opportunities, including areas such as Equality and Diversity, Dealing with Challenging Behaviour, Suicide Prevention and Anti Bullying Programmes

  • There are opportunities to access promotion programmes and HMPPS provides a variety of training appropriate to individual posts
  • All staff receive security and diversity training and an individual induction programme into their new roles
All external candidates are subject to 6 months probation. Internal candidates are subject to probation if they have not already served a probationary period within HMPPS

  • Should you feel that the recruitment process has breached the recruitment principles you are able to raise a formal complaint in the following order
To Shared Service Connected Ltd Monday to Friday 8am - 6pm) or e mail Moj-recruitment-vetting- );
To Ministry of Justice Resourcing team (resourcing-management-.As a Disability Confident employer, MoJ are committed to providing everyone with the opportunity to demonstrate their skills, talent and abilities, by making adjustments throughout all elements of the recruitment process and in the workplace. If you need additional help completing the application form, please contact the SSCL Recruitment Enquiries Team.

For more information on applying for a role as a candidate with a disability or long-term condition, please see our Disability Confident Scheme Frequently Asked Questions webpage.

Diversity & Inclusion

To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .

This flexible approach to recruitment focuses more on finding the right candidate for the specific role.

We have provided detail of the assessment stages and areas being assessed to help you prepare for completing your application form, and to advise of what will be assessed following this, if you successfully pass the application stage.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Please note that plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.

The MoJ are committed, as part of the Redeployment Interview Scheme, to providing opportunities to those who are 'at risk of redundancy'.

Candidate's will not be eligible for the Redeployment Interview Scheme if they are applying on promotion.
Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
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