Grounds Maintenance Operative

5 days ago

Chelmsford, United Kingdom CHP Full time

We’re a local housing association that’s passionate about tackling the housing shortage in the East of England. We provide warm, safe and affordable homes. But we don’t stop there. We offer a wide range of support and services to help our customers and their communities to thrive. We want to be an organisation that cares about our customers and communities and is determined to make a difference. We'll be bold and open-minded in our pursuit of solutions to help people transform their lives.

**What you'll be doing**

We are looking for a Grounds Maintenance Operative who will deliver a high-quality effective grounds maintenance service within agreed timescales to all CHP properties in the CHP Portfolio and our partnership agreements, including sheltered schemes, communal areas and individual properties, ensuring CHP’s land is maintained to a high standard to meet customer needs.
- Deliver a high-quality grounds maintenance service by undertaking tasks such as grass cutting, hedge trimming, weed control, litter picking, planting and minor tree works, as well as Undertake repairs and maintenance as required to fencing, gates and posts.
- Carry out basic maintenance, cleaning and safety checks of horticultural machinery, vehicles and tools, reporting any defects or unsafe machinery/tools to your line manager.
- Effectively deal with issues/enquiries reported from customers or colleagues, reporting to your line manager any which you are unable to resolve and attending customers’ meetings where necessary.
- Assist team colleagues, supervisors and managers as required, working as part of a larger team to contribute to the delivery of small repairs, empty homes and larger project works.
- Conduct all work to comply with current health and safety (H&S) legislation, including manual handling, working at heights and asbestos awareness, with method statements and risk assessments undertaken where appropriate.

**Requirements**:
**What we're looking for**
- Evidence of attainment of good literacy and numeracy at GCSE level or equivalent.
- Full, current manual driving licence.
- Physically fit and able to carry out the demands of the job and prepared to work in all weathers.
- Experience of operating grass cutting equipment and other horticultural machinery.

Ability to use own initiative to organise work to ensure delivery of efficient service whilst working safely at all times.Wellbeing is a priority for us, and we aim to help our employees achieve a successful work/life balance and have adopted an agile working style. We host a range of learning activities to develop our people, support their career aspirations and professional qualifications. We encourage employee participation on all levels and we’re always open to new ideas or ways of working.

**Benefits**
- The salary for this post will be £22,410 Per Annum
- Learning and development opportunities
- Healthcare cash plan
- Robust employee reward and recognition programme
- Free and confidential Employee Assistance Programme
- CHParticipate volunteering programme
- Competitive pension scheme
- 25 days annual leave per annum, plus bank holidays and 3 extra days between Christmas and New Year.
- 37 hours per week - employees may be able to work flexibly by agreement with their line manager, taking account of business need. We operate a hybrid working policy at CHP.

We value our people and listen to feedback to ensure we are a great place to work and are able to attract and develop the careers of the best talent in the market.

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