Ground Maintenance

6 days ago

Bracknell, United Kingdom Southern Housing Full time

**The role**

Join Southern Housing and help us create communities where everyone has a safe home in a place they’re proud to live.

We’re looking for a dedicated and physically fit Grounds Maintenance & Bulk Collection Operative to join our team. This is a hands-on role where you’ll be responsible for maintaining and enhancing our estates and neighbourhoods through high-quality grounds maintenance and bulk clearance services.

You’ll need to be comfortable working outdoors in all weather conditions and capable of undertaking physically demanding tasks, including manual heavy lifting you will be assigned to work across our estates in Bracknell or Reading.

To be successful in this role you will need to have a full clean UK driving license

**What you’ll be doing**
- Carry out a range of tasks required for grounds maintenance including, but not limited to, weeding, dead heading, hoeing, planting, pruning, cutting, and watering communal beds.
- Use and operate a variety of tools, machinery, and equipment, in accordance with Group and manufacturers guidelines, in order to fulfil duties.
- Plan and execute small scale landscaping operations, as directed, to enhance the appearance of our communal grounds.

**What you’ll need**
- Experience of undertaking ground maintenance duties
- Have previously undertaken bulk, clearance duties.
- Good interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate well with residents, external agencies, and resident organisations.
- Work under your own initiative, with the team and under instruction.
- Able to plan and prioritise to ensure the effective use of own time.
- A valid UK Driving Licence with category C1 and the ability to drive company vehicles as and when required.

**In your supporting statement, it is important that you address how you meet each of the above criteria providing real examples.**

**Closing date**: Tuesday 2nd September 2025 at 23:59

**Shortlisting**: From 3rd September 2025

**Interview**:W/c 8th September 2025

**About us**

At Southern Housing, our residents are at the **heart** of everything we do. As one of the largest housing providers in the UK with over 77,000 homes across London, the Southeast, the Isle of Wight, and the Midlands, we give over 167,000 people somewhere affordable to call their own**We also understand the difference that safe, secure, and affordable homes can make to people’s lives.

A career at Southern Housing will allow you to make a difference every day you come to work. Working in the housing sector with us will bring fresh challenges and give you the opportunity to grow and develop, too.

**What's in it for you**

**Pension**

**Life**
**assurance**

**Healthcare cash plan**

**Eyecare & dental**

**Birthday**
**leave**

**Retailers discounts**

**Cycle**
**to work**

**Buy & sell**
**annual leave**

**Season ticket loan**

**In-house academy & career development**

**Flexible working**

**Inclusion & Diversity**

We work hard to create a diverse and inclusive culture and environment where people are respected for who they are. Encouraging inclusion is not just about protected characteristics, it’s about celebrating differences of thought, opinion, experience and perspective of each individual.

We’re all different in our own way and we want our colleagues to feel comfortable, that they belong, and are safe to be themselves at work, without fear of being judged or excluded, but valued for their contribution to our One Team approach.

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