Grounds Assistant

**Grade UE03: £20,400 - £21,197 per annum + 5% Premium Band £1020 - £1059,85**

**Corporate Services Group / Sport & Exercise / Peffermill Playing Fields**

**Full-time: 35 hours per week**

**Open-ended**

The University of Edinburgh’s, Sport and Exercise seeks a hardworking, diligent and enthusiastic individual t o help manage, maintain and deliver the grounds maintenance programme at the University of Edinburgh’s Peffermill Playing Fields ~ helping to ensure all surfaces (grass and synthetic) are delivered to a world-class standard.

**The Opportunity**:
As a member of the grounds team, reporting to the Grounds Manager, you will work a rotating shift pattern, with occasional weekends and share responsibility for the care and condition of Peffermill Playing Fields premium sports pitches. You will respond to changing conditions, including seasonal peaks and inclement weather, with the need to make play / no-play decisions.

**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- Possess a can do attitude and a flexible approach to work duties.
- Deliver ‘best in class’ service.
- Live by our values of being ‘Open to EveryBody’. Believe that ‘Anything is Possible’. Help us by ‘Enabling Excellence’.

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**As a valued member of our team you can expect**:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, gym membership, a defined benefits **pension scheme **, **staff discounts, **family friendly initiatives **and much more. Access our **staff benefits page **for further information and use our **reward calculator **to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

Interviews expected held to be held week commencing **13 **th **March 2023**

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our **right to work **webpages.

On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.