Gardener - Open Spaces

5 months ago


St Helens, United Kingdom St. Helens Council Full time

**Job Description**:
We Are St Helens Borough Council.
Located in the heart of the Northwest close to Liverpool, Manchester and Lancashire, St Helens is a transformational Council which is passionate and ambitious for the communities we support. We provide a wide range of local authority services to the residents, businesses, schools, and visitors to the borough. We can only do this because of our highly valued, highly skilled workforce.
Working together, our workplace vision and values guide our organisation, and the contribution of our workforce is key to our culture journey. Employees with us receive a wide range of benefits including well-being in work, financial benefits, ways of working and learning and development support.
Making A Difference as A Gardener in the Operations Department
St. Helens Borough Council is looking to recruit several enthusiastic, motivated and skilled Gardeners.
This is a great opportunity to join an existing team of highly trained staff responsible for the maintenance of Parks, Playing Fields, Open spaces, Cemeteries and Schools throughout the borough. It is essential for these areas to be maintained to a safe and high standard throughout the seasons.
St Helens Council will offer you an attractive salary with 185 hours annual leave (rising to 207.20 hours after 5 years' service) plus Bank Holidays.
A comprehensive range of employment benefits, including access to the local government pension scheme and sick pay scheme and on-site parking.
Duties will include maintenance of Bowling greens, sports pitches, landscaped areas Schools & Parks.
A Gardener is expected to deputies for higher graded staff in the event of absence and assist with the supervision and training of apprentices, work experience employees and lower graded staff. A Gardener will need to be flexible and willing to assist with the operation of Burial Services including grave digging if required.
Carry out work to written specifications, and subsequent completion of relevant documentation to agreed timescales, including timesheets, record of inspections and records of pesticide use.
Applicants must hold at least 1 year experience of carrying out horticultural and grounds maintenance tasks.
NVQ level 2 qualification in Amenity Horticulture or equivalent

A full driving license is essential - minimum of category B and willingness to take further training to B+E within 12 months
Hours of work are 7:30am to 4:30pm Monday to Thursday and 7.30am to 4:00pm Friday.
Interested to Find Out More?
You can review our full job description details, and person specification information here.
You are also welcome to contact us for a chat before applying, please contact:


Equality & Diversity

St Helens Borough Council is a Disability Confident Employer. Disability Confident Employers lead the way in helping to take action that changes attitudes, behaviours, and cultures for the better.
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All Council employees are required to abide by the ethical standards embodied by the 7 Nolan Principles: Selflessness, Integrity, Objectivity, Accountability, Openness, Honesty, and Leadership.


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