Estate Assistant

6 months ago

Preston, United Kingdom Coventry City Council Full time

What is the job role?

This a rare opportunity to work in a parks and countryside setting providing an excellent steppingstone to developing a career in conservation and grounds maintenance.

We are looking for someone to join our team as an Estate Assistant to support the maintenance of Coombe Abbey Park by undertaking various grounds maintenance, cleansing and retail activities on site.

In this role, you will be ensuring a good visitor experience and will be assisting with improving standards and the continuous development of the park.

The main day-to-day duties of the role include:

Patrol the park ensuring that visitors can fully enjoy its facilities. Carry out routine maintenance including clearing litter, cleaning, basic horticultural tasks such as pruning, leaf clearing and path edging. Actively promote Coombe's facilities through face-to-face interaction. Encouraging positive involvement with the site by providing information on things to see/do and how to get involved in activities and events.

This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

Who are we looking for?

To apply for this role, you MUST have a full UK driving license and be available to work weekends and bank holidays on a rota basis.

The ideal candidate will have:

Knowledge of basic maintenance and horticultural operations. Verbal communication skills - communicating with the general public, external organisations and other employees, face to face and over the telephone. Able and willing to carry out routine cleaning work of Coombe's facilities. Able to lift and carry materials and resources. Experience in the safe use of a variety of tools e.g. strimmer, leaf blower, secateurs, bowsaw. Able and willing to work outside for long periods of time.

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Guaranteed Interview Scheme - As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role and identify with one of the below criteria:

Members of the Armed Forces and veterans Are currently in care or have previously been in care If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition

For full details on the application process please read the attached document on our jobs page labelled 'Coventry City Council Application Process'. If there is any evidence of a candidate using AI to complete their application, then the application will be rejected unless the candidate can provide a justification which the Council considers to be reasonable.

Interview date: Monday, 22nd July

About Coventry

Coventry has a proud, innovative and creative spirit that throughout its history has seen communities come together to tackle problems and bring about real social change.

We are cutting-edge, challenging, youthful, vibrant and diverse.

At Coventry we are committed to excellence in everything we do. With around staff from a range of different backgrounds, our aim is to recruit and develop talented people who will focus on our customers, take responsibility, work together and find better ways of doing things.

To deliver the best services to our residents, we need the best people working for us to make a difference to our communities.

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