Grounds and Garden Operative

Job description

ENGIE are recruiting for a Grounds and Garden Operative to be based at Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital, Blackburn BB2 3HH. This is a  temporary 6 Month full time role working 40 hours per week, 
Monday - Friday 9 am - 5 pm  . On offer is a salary banding of £17,000 - £20,000, dependent upon skills and experience.


General Overview: 

The successful candidate will work within a team providing an essential grounds and gardens maintenance service to the site. Ensuring the Site remains clear of litter and Organic debris and remains neat and tidy at all times. The individual must be able to work to with their own initiative to prioritise workloads and within the wider to team to provide a first class service to our client. There would be the need to work weekends on a 1 in 3 rota bases. Reports to the Building Fabric supervisor
Main Responsibilities/Duties Include:

·  To maintain a litter free site, removing all accumulations of litter, cigarettes, debris, and leaves
·  To progress a schedule of external litter bin and cigarette disposal bin maintenance, inclusive of the removal and disposal of existing refuse bags, physically cleaning / disinfecting the receptacles prior to the insertion of replacement refuse bags.
·  To undertake the use of electrically operated water propelling, pressure jetting units, to remove graffiti, and extraneous accumulations from wall areas, floor areas, and grounds maintenance equipment.
·  To progress the planned maintenance of all formal bedding areas, with the works inclusive of all necessary digging over, hoeing, manure / fertiliser applications, planting operations, staking / tying back, and pruning in accordance with approved horticultural practices.
·  To progress the planned maintenance of hard landscaped areas, to be inclusive of paved areas, walling elements etc.
·  To assist the estates department’s general building assistants, on an ad-hoc basis, to progress any other works necessary to ensure safe and efficient maintenance of the estate.
·  To undertake the clearance of frost, ice, snow accumulations from all highways, carparks, footpaths, access ramps / stairways, employing rock salt, together with a range of ice dispersants, which are to be applied to both manually, and with the aid of mechanically propelled gritting equipment. For more information about ENGIE please visit:http://www.engie.com/en/candidates-area/

Qualifications or Required Experience: 

·  Experience of Healthcare Environment essential
·  Experience of working with members of the public and customer focus
·  Experience of Grounds maintenance
·  Enhanced DBS 
·  Algaculture qualification (Desirable)
·  Full Driving Licence
·  Qualified to use various pesticides 
·  Tractor Driving Licence
This role requires an enhanced disclosure
An enhanced disclosure contains the following information:

·  All convictions both current and past,
·  Cautions, reprimands and warnings help on the police national computer for England and Wales,
·  Relevant convictions in Scotland and Northern Ireland may be included,
·  Checks against the Children’s and Vulnerable adults barring list,
·  Additional checks for relevant information held by the local police forces for the position being applied for For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. There is no re-location package with this job role. ENGIE do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

This job advert is supported by the ENGIE Resourcing Team. Agency involvement is not required. All related enquiries must come to the resourcing team not direct to ENGIE Managers.