Gardening Supervisor: Skilled Delivery Grounds Maintenance

**General Information**:

- Salary
- £28,122 - £29,611
- Working Pattern
- Full Time
- Vacancy Approach
- External
- Location
- Bicester, Oxford
- Region
- South Central, South West
- Closing Date
- 04-Sep-2025
- Business Unit
- Bullingdon
- Post Type
- Permanent
- Civil Service Grade
- AO
- Number of jobs available
- 1
- Reserve List
- 12 Months
- Job ID
- 9162

**Descriptions & requirements**:

- Job description

This is a delivery role within an establishment requiring an appropriate trade. This role involves working with and supervising prisoners.

All staff have a responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. The post holder must undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organisation.

**Summary**

The job holder will be responsible for the day-to-day maintenance of the grounds and amenity areas within the estate.

This is a non-operational job with no line management or supervisory responsibilities.

**Responsibilities, Activities and Duties**

The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities

and duties:

- Carry out soft landscaping - turf laying and hard landscaping - laying patio stones
- Maintain establishment’s grounds and amenity areas including maintenance of

lawns, ponds, water features and external grounds to the establishment including

woodland
- Work inside/outside establishment grounds: cutting, mowing and maintaining

areas in accordance with accepted practice
- Maintain sports fields, as per agreed plan, with both the Land based Activities

Manager and PE Department
- Carry out pest control preventative measures across area of responsibility
- Undertake small project work as advised/requested: including soft and hard

landscape development and erection of horticultural support structures w

the situation warrants
- Maintain correct soil husbandry, ensuring all stages of crop development are

followed in accordance with good horticultural practice
- Maintain the growing plant/crop to ensure optimum development and/or

cropping, ensuring that the plants needs are fully met
- Provide safe access and exits to the estate
- Supervise prisoners parties and undertake quality control over their work, as

agreed within the Service Delivery Agreement (SDA)

Undertake other trades tasks to:

- Ensure allocated planned maintenance and small repairs are carried out,

undertaking service requests raised by computer aided facilities management

system
- Undertake survey inspections in confined spaces and at height, recording all work

and completing associated registers/logs
- Carry out project work as required
- Advise on sufficient levels of stock and request procurement of goods and

services, and ensure all materials used are logged and are fit for purpose.
- Escort technical contractors as required, working with and supervising them in

accordance with Local Security Strategy (LSS)
- Maintain regular communications via radio net in accordance with the LSS.
- Undertake the role of banksman, directing the operation of plant equipment

and/or machinery
- Be responsible for all tools and plant machinery, carrying out checks at regular

intervals and completing all relevant documentation in accordance with the LSS

and National Security Framework (NSF)
- Comply with all Health and Safety policies, procedures and legislation to ensure

statutory and mandatory compliance.
- Drive estates vehicles and operate plant equipment
- Carry out locking duties as required
- Operate within command mode in line with local contingency plans
- Undertake incidental and emergency or urgent tasks and assignments as per

Service Delivery Agreement timescales, in a safe manner
- Assemble products on site as required
- Contribute to prisoner reports, including parole and sentence planning.

The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present and is not intended to be exhaustive.

The job holder is expected to accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be necessary. Significant adjustments may require re-examination under the Job Evaluation Scheme and shall be discussed in the first instance with the job holder.

An ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence through the medium of English or (w specified in Wales) Welsh.
- Additional Information

**Working Arrangements & Further Information**

If you are a current NPS employee, this vacancy may be available on a Loan basis for up to 2 years. Applications are invited from suitable qualified staff.

**Benefits**

**Annual Leave**
- The holiday year runs from 1 March. If you work a non standard work pattern your leave entitlement may be expressed in either hours or days as appropriate. Leave entitlement is calculated on a pro-rata basis and you will be advised of your actual entitlement on appointment. If you were appointed internally