Apprentice Environmental Operative

**Job Title**: Apprentice Environmental Operative
**Contract Type**: 2 years Apprenticeship
**Salary**: £23,202.21 per annum
**Working Hours**: 35 hours per week
**Working Pattern**: Monday to Friday 08:00am until 15:30pm
**Location**: Carlisle, Cumbria

**The difference you will make as Apprentice Environmental Operative**

In this role you will be undertaking a range of grounds maintenance work within your assigned region to landscaped areas, gardens and open spaces owned by the Group, also you will undertake general maintenance to hard and soft landscaped areas owned by the Group, including grass cutting, hedge trimming, litter picking, clearing leaves and shrub bed cultivations. You will maintain safe working practices at all times when utilising appropriate hand tools and machinery and work collaboratively and flexibly across all teams within the organisation.

**About you**

We are looking for someone with:

- Environmental Services / grounds maintenance experience.
- Ability to undertake manual work.
- Customer focussed with excellent communication skills.
- Clean driving licence
- Basic IT skills including Microsoft Office.
- Excellent team player who can work flexibly to meet business requirements

**Why Riverside?**

At Riverside, we’re a housing association with a difference - enhancing the everyday for all our customers. For 90 years, we’ve been revitalising neighbourhoods and supporting communities by providing the homes they need to live full, fulfilling and rewarding lives.

We have a portfolio of over 75,000 affordable residential and retirement homes across the UK. Our work ranges from homelessness services to social care, employment support to retirement living, and we need the best people on board to help us.

**Working with us, you’ll enjoy**:

- Competitive pay & generous pension
- 28 days holidays plus bank holidays
- Flexible working options available
- Investment in your learning, personal development and technologyA wide range of benefits

**Diversity and Inclusion at Riverside**:
We are inclusive. At Riverside, we value diversity in all its forms. We foster a workplace where all individuals are respected, empowered, and heard. Our commitment to inclusivity drives our success and enriches the lives of our customers and colleagues.

**Role profile**

Role required to you:

- Undertake general maintenance to hard and soft landscaped areas owned by the Group, including grass cutting, hedge trimming, litter picking, clearing leaves and shrub bed cultivations.
- Provide a rapid flexible response to the removal of fly tipping, rubbish removal and graffiti removal.
- Always maintain safe working practices when utilising appropriate hand tools and machinery.
- Report health, safety and environmental breaches and issues to the Grounds Maintenance Supervisor in line with the agreed escalation route.
- Provide community insight, reporting any environmental issues, community safety or resident feedback to the Environmental Supervisor as appropriate and in line with the agreed escalation route.
- Maintain effective relationships with colleagues on each of our contracts.
- Undertake personal development and training to keep up to date with all relevant legislation.
- Work collaboratively and flexibly across all teams within the organisation.
- Ensure work activities are compliant with the organisation’s policies and procedures as well as external statutory and regulatory obligations.
- Respond flexibly to any necessary changes in work priorities and undertake other duties when required to support the effective operation of the service.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of processes and procedures.
- Ensure that health and safety requirements are met in accordance with the Group’s policy, procedures, and statutory requirements.
- Ensure that all information security requirements, including data protection, are met in accordance with the Group’s policy, procedures, and statutory requirements.

person specification

**Essential**
- Environmental Services / grounds maintenance experience.
- Ability to undertake manual work.
- Customer focussed with excellent communication skills.
- Clean driving licence
- Basic IT skills including Microsoft Office.
- Excellent team player who can work flexibly to meet business requirements

**Desirable**
- Successful completion of a horticultural course.Driving licence

**Additional Information**
- The Group has offices across the UK and on this basis, there will be the requirement to travel to other locations to effectively perform this role.
- It is a requirement that the role holder holds a current, valid UK driving licence.
- The role will be exposed to sensitive information; therefore, the role holder is expected to always maintain levels of confidentiality.
- To fulfil the requirements of this role, you will be required to work flexibly during the hours of operation.
- The role holder is expected to be committed to equal opportunities and