Grounds Maintenance Operative

1 day ago

Stockport, United Kingdom Onward Homes Full time

Grounds Maintenance Operative

**Full Time Salary**
- £25,200

**Employment Type**
- Full time

**Hours Per Week**
- 37

**Region**
- Stockport

**Location**
- 20 Canley Close, Stockport, SK1 3QB

**Contract Type**
- Permanent

**Job Type**
- Environmental Services

**Closing Date**
- 03/11/2025

**Ref No**
- 2591

**What you can expect from us**
- We offer a competitive salary of **£25,200 per annum** (£13.10 per hour).
- 37 hour per week
- 32 days annual leave plus bank holidays a total of 40 days paid holiday per annum which is equivalent to 8 weeks.
- Salary Finance - access both short and long terms loans, plus provides access to a savings facility.
- Opportunity to further increase annual leave with service or though the holiday purchase scheme.
- Immediate entry to our Pension scheme (matched contributions up to 10%)
- A great flexible working environment, with a range of family friendly policies.
- Simply Health cash plan with financial benefits and the option to extend to your family. Cover includes dental, optical, physiotherapy, 24HR private GP access and much more.
- Paid leave for absence including sickness, maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
- Access of up to £150 annually through the ‘Learning for life’ scheme.
- Access to a wide range of discounts and cash back offers, ranging from retail and automotive to holidays and cycle to work scheme.
- Develop your career with support and access to training and qualifications.
- 2 paid half days volunteering per year.

**About the role**

The purpose of the role is to work as part of a mobile team to deliver a wide range of landscape maintenance and improvement works, resulting in a consistently high-quality environment, which improves our schemes and estates to create positive spaces for customers.
- Carrying out grass cutting, shrub pruning, weed control and the removal of litter
- Training will be given to successful applicants in all aspects of the job description.
- You will be required to ensure that all works, and safety procedures are followed, and record keeping is accurate and to undertake routine maintenance checks of plant, equipment, and machinery.

**What we require**
- Full UK Driving Licence
- Previous experience in a similar ground’s maintenance, environmental services, or estates cleaning role.
- Excellent customer service and communication skills
- Willingness to work as part of a team.
- Proactive approach to following procedure

**Advantageous experience.**
- Ride on movers, hedge cutter, leaf blowers
- PA1 and PA6 qualifications in pesticides
- NVQ Level 2 in horticulture
- NPTC CS30,31 Chainsaw
- 360 rotating excavator Trailers -B+E

**About Onward**

Onward Homes is one of the largest registered providers of social housing in the Northwest, with 35,000 properties across the region.

We believe that everyone deserves a place to call their own, which is why we’re committed to building 500 new homes each year. We do more than just provide a roof over our customers’ heads, we’re here to make a real difference.

In addition to creating positive spaces for our customers we continuously strive to create a positive and progressive workspace to enable our colleagues to achieve their full potential.

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