Grounds and Gardens Assistants

The Estates & Facilities Grounds & Gardens Department at Broadmoor Hospital has a vacancy for a Full Time, Grounds & Gardens Assistant to support & undertake general gardening duties within the hospital grounds and wider estate. You should have good general plant knowledge and a willingness to develop your skills further as part of a team maintaining a wide range of environments, these include carefully managed patient gardens, formal & informal planting, lawns and hard surface areas within the hospital. Open grassland, woodland, ecologically sensitive and public access areas also form part of the wider estate grounds. The Estates & Facilities Grounds & Gardens Department at Broadmoor Hospital has a vacancy for a Full Time, Grounds & Gardens Assistant to support & undertake general gardening duties within the hospital grounds and wider estate. You should have good general plant knowledge and a willingness to develop your skills further as part of a team maintaining a wide range of environments, these include carefully managed patient gardens, formal & informal planting, lawns and hard surface areas within the hospital. Open grassland, woodland, ecologically sensitive and public access areas also form part of the wider estate grounds.

As part of the Grounds & Gardens team you will be responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of all Trust land within the 500-acre hospital estate and ensure that all work is carried out to the standards required within the hospital maintenance plan and to ensure the safety of all service users, staff, visitors & the wider public.

You will need to exhibit a professional attitude to the role with the ability to communicate well with others and demonstrate a team focussed approach to working with all Trust staff as well as members of the immediate team.

You should possess a full clean driving licence and a willingness to develop skills to drive a wide range of vehicles and you should have the ability to operate a wide range of ground care plant & equipment.

You should have a good understanding of Health & Safety with the ability to follow instructions to ensure that all Safe Systems of Work are adhered to.

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK.

Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.

We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.

We’re rated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Together, we’re committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.

We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.

Covid-19 vaccination is a condition of employment for this role, unless an exemption applies. The successful applicant may have contact with vulnerable service users and we will therefore seek proof of being fully vaccinated during the recruitment process.
- Hoeing, digging, planting out, cultivating, fertilizing, staking and tying of plants and shrubs as appropriate
- Pruning of flowers, trees, plants and shrubs
- Watering, scarifying, spiking, rolling and re-seeding
- Cutting grass, road and path sweeping, leaf clearance, edge cutting, litter clearing, cutting and disposal of undergrowth by either hand operated or mechanically propelled equipment
- Operating the rotary mowers, trimmers and associated gardening equipmen
- Cleaning of gardening equipment and gardening department accommodation and storage areas
- Gardening equipment and machinery check
- Assistance to other departments with extraneous tasks and other reasonable duties as directed