Grounds Operative

1 day ago

Oxford, United Kingdom Dragon School Full time

Dragon School have an exciting opportunity for a **Grounds Operative **to join their team.

Location: Oxford

**Salary**: Dependent on experience

**Job Type**: Full Time

**Grounds Operative** - The Role:
To be part of a team providing a full range of Grounds services to the Dragon School. To maintain the grounds and gardens at both the Prep and Pre-Prep site including certain residential properties.

**Grounds Operative** - Key Responsibilities:

- Assisting with the preparation and maintenance of sports and amenity surfaces including,

strimming, and line marking
- Lawn edging, maintaining shrub boarders, maintaining rose and flower beds and planters,

forking, mulching, watering, raking, weeding, pruning, bed preparation, planting
- Leaf blowing/sweeping/clearing
- Hedge cutting
- Salt spreading/Snow clearing
- Removing rubbish from grounds area, helping to keep the grounds compound a tidy and safe

environment
- Carrying out general maintenance duties as required in relation to the upkeep of the grounds

structure such as pavilions, scoreboards, fences and garden benches
- Being familiar with the School sporting calendar and program
- Being fully knowledgeable of the Health and Safety regulations pertaining to not only the

grounds activities and plant machinery, but also the general School environment
- Displaying at all times a thorough understanding of legislation relating to chemicals and

dangerous substances
- Promoting safe working practices
- As required by the Estates Bursar, assisting in the performance of other “whole team” duties

occasionally undertaken by all members of the Estates team

**Grounds Operative** - You:
**Essential**
- Full driving license
- (NCQ/IOG etc) in ground’s maintenance and sports turf management
- Safe Use of Pesticides
- Knapsack Sprayer
- PA1/PA6
- Formal Manual Handling
- Formal training in chainsaw use
- General Health and Safety awareness
- Knowledge and proficient use of grounds and gardening machinery
- At least 3 years practitioner experience in a ground’s maintenance environment
- Able to work unsupervised
- Excellent team worker
- Patience and an eye for details
- Team player
- Self-motivated Reliable, trustworthy and enthusiastic
- Willingness to undertake a wide variety of tasks
- Understand and Demonstrate willingness to promote positively equal opportunities outlined

in school policies
- Ability to work outside in all weather conditions
- Ability to lift heavy goods
- Ability to work weekends as and when required

**Desirable**
- Driving license with D1
- Previous experience of working in a Prep School

**Grounds Operative** - Benefits:
**Pension**

Support staff will automatically be enrolled into the School’s generous workplace

pension scheme.

**Lunch**

During term time School lunches are provided to staff.

**Cycle to Work Scheme**

Dragon School utilises the Cycle to Work Scheme which gives staff the option to

purchase a bike through the School and make payments back through their salary.

**Death in Service**

Eligible permanent employees are automatically enrolled into the School’s death in

service scheme. The benefit of this scheme is 3 x annual salary.

The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people

and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Applicants will be required to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including

checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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