Playground Inspector

**Why Lancaster?**

We’re an award-winning, kind and responsible council, and we’re incredibly proud of our district and communities that reach from the coast to the mountains, including the historic City of Lancaster, Morecambe, Carnforth and many other beautiful places.

**The Role**

Lancaster City Council are looking to appoint an energetic and motivated individual to join the Playgrounds / hard landscaping team within the Environment & Place Directorate, to contribute to making our districts play provision well maintained. The individual will need to be hard working, take pride within their work and have a passion for making improvements.

The role involves working as part of a team to provide high quality environmental maintenance services including playground installation, hard landscaping, amenity grass cutting, litter management, graffiti removal, leaf clearance, dyke management, street furniture, weed growth, and cultivating of the districts bedding areas.

You will be required to have a good knowledge and experience in playground installation and maintenance to ensure safe places for children and young people to interact. Also, to have a good technical knowledge of grounds maintenance techniques and practice, as duties will also include mowing, strimming, hedge cutting, weeding and litter picking within the Authority’s parks, open spaces and streets. You will be able to demonstrate flexibility and commitment to delivering high quality customer service.

The work is physically demanding and will involve bending, kneeling, lifting and carrying. It is essential that you are able to lift weights of up to 20kg.

You will be able to demonstrate flexibility and commitment to delivering high quality customer service.

A full current UK driving licence is required and it will be desirable for the post holder to tow a trailer.

As a result you will be required to sign up to the authorised external DVLA driving licence validation organisation that we use to manage and monitor our employees driving licence data.

This is a permanent post and the hours of work are 37 hours per week. Your normal working week will be on a shift rota basis, working 5 days out of 7, including evenings, weekends and bank holidays in line with business needs. This post will be based at White Lund Depot.

**About You**

You will identify with our organisational values of Pride, Ownership, Working Together and Ambition.

**Our Benefits**

Lancaster is a great place to work, as well as being part of something special you will also benefit from:

- Generous annual leave allowance
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- A range of employee benefits including discounted gym membership, cycle to work scheme, the opportunity to purchase extra time off, as well as discounts on days out, activities and retail.

Lancaster City Council has unanimously declared a climate emergency and will therefore work towards reducing carbon emissions to net-zero by 2030. As part of this role, you will be expected to participate and work towards reducing both carbon emissions and the impacts of climate change.

We are a disability confident committed employer.

**Closing date: 16.08.23**

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £22,369.00-£26,845.00 per year

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: 48_23