Senior Groundsperson

**Senior Groundsperson**

Department: Estates
Responsible to: Grounds Manager
Location: On Campus
Contract: Full-time, permanent, 52 weeks per year

**Salary**: Up to £28,000 per annum depending on experience

**We offer a great range of staff benefits including**:

- Contributory pension scheme
- Fee remission for children
- Enhanced family friendly policies including support for emergency time off for dependants
- State of the art, restaurant quality hot and cold food available (complimentary)
- Death in service scheme - 4 times your annual salary
- Friends and Family referral scheme (£250 for each referral)
- Give as you earn and staff volunteering day
- Use of wide-ranging school facilities - swimming pool, tennis, walks, trails etc
- Excellent social and sporting events for staff within the school

The Senior Groundsperson will report directly to the Grounds manager and be responsible for ensuring that the College’s extensive and varied sports fields and campus on 1200 acres continue to provide an attractive and inspiring setting for us all to enjoy.

The College continues to invest heavily in its outdoor spaces, including around 10HA of new sports pitches innovative irrigation systems and around £1m in state-of-the-art machinery.

To assist the Grounds manager in maintaining the highest standards of playing surfaces, sports and amenity surfaces for the College. The post holder will use their technical and detailed operational expertise to ensure safe and consistent quality playing surfaces are always available as required. This position will deputise in the absence of the Head Groundsperson.

Please be aware this is a physically demanding and active post.

Lord Wandsworth College is a registered charity (Number: 1143359) providing outstanding caring education for boys and girls since 1922.