Grounds Worker

**Contract: Full Time, Permanent, 37 hours per week**

**Closing Date: 8 March 2023**

**Interview Date: 15 March 2023**

We have an exciting opportunity for a Grounds Worker. In this role, you will provide an efficient grounds work service to both occupied and void whg properties.

**Main job responsibilities**:

- Paving / Slabbing and associated works.
- Cold tarmac repairs.
- Drainage/Inspection chambers, construction and repairs to associated drainage/blockages works
- Dig out work preparing for drainage/water supply works
- Fencing works.
- Installation / Repair of External timber handrails.
- Use of Sky (Gutter) Vacuuming equipment.
- Installation and repair of concrete bollards
- Dismantling brickwork
- Gutter cleans and minor repairs to rainwater goods
- Garden clearance/landscaping
- Assist trade colleagues to undertake their role.
- Installation and repair of L&B Gates.

**We're looking for someone who has**:

- A full driving licence (no more than 6 penalty points)
- The ability to travel efficiently from location to location around whg housing stock
- Demonstrable experience of labouring/ ground works.
- Experience of fencing & slabbing.
- Experience of working in a customer facing service.
- The ability to work to tight timescales in order to meet the demands of customers and the business.
- The ability to communicate clearly and effectively with customers and colleagues.
- The ability to listen and interpret information effectively, and able to obtain information from customers and take appropriate action and deal sensitively with complaints and customer dissatisfaction.

**What’s in it for you?**

In return, you will receive a competitive salary, 27 days annual leave (plus Christmas shut down), a defined benefit pension scheme, health cash plan, a range of shopping and leisure discounts.

We are output focused and flexible and believe in giving colleagues the right balance of autonomy and support to enable them to work to their full potential. Despite the high expectation for performance and delivery, we are committed to ensuring colleagues have a healthy work-life balance and able to work in agile ways which support them.

**About us**

Our People Strategy presents a clear picture of how we will achieve our Corporate Plan aim, ‘Be an exceptional place to work that **attracts**, **develops** and retains **talent’. **The Strategy focuses on three key themes that help us support our colleagues to **make a difference** to our customers, the communities we serve and to themselves.

It is important to us that we have a diverse workforce, representative of the communities we serve. Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) to us means colleagues living our values, dedicated to doing the right thing and exercising good judgement. This will encourage a culture where all can thrive, acknowledging that everyone is different; what matters to us is that everyone can come to work and feel comfortable to be themselves.

We are proud to be accredited as a Disability Confident Employer and ensure that disabled people and those with long term health conditions have the opportunity to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations while working with us. We want to make it clear that we welcome disabled applicants for all our roles. If in doubt look out for the Disability Confident logo.

We will ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, and we will interview applicants with a disability if they meet the essential criteria for a role. We will also support existing colleagues with a disability or long-term health condition enabling them to stay in work, making reasonable adjustments if necessary.