Job summary
- Main area
- Estates Maintenance - E00482
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 413-89504-EF-SD
- Employer
- The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Estates Maintenance - E00482
- Town
- Manchester
- Salary
- £24,071 - £25,674 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Technical Support Worker - Grounds & Gardens
Band 3
Job overview
The Gardening Services provides a high-quality service to maintain the grounds and gardens of The Christie NHSFT Withington site and portfolio of off-site properties to provide a safe and pleasant external environment.
The Technical Support Worker – Grounds & Gardens will assist in providing support with the maintenance of the grounds and gardens as well as the upkeep of the mowed lawns, general grassed areas and wild gardens, low maintenance borders ornamental flowering borders and trees.
Working alongside and under the Head Gardeners instruction to undertake general horticultural duties such as seasonal planting.
Along with the above tasks additional daily various types of work including road sweeping and litter/debris collection as well as snow clearing and gritting of the footpaths and roads.
The work relates to both domestic and specialist commercial aspects of grounds & gardens maintenance.
Main duties of the job
The Gardening Services provides a high-quality service to maintain the grounds and gardens of The Christie NHSFT Withington site and portfolio of off-site properties to provide a safe and pleasant external environment.
The Technical Support Worker – Grounds & Gardens will assist in providing support with the maintenance of the grounds and gardens as well as the upkeep of the mowed lawns, general grassed areas and wild gardens, low maintenance borders ornamental flowering borders and trees.
Working alongside and under the Head Gardeners instruction to undertake general horticultural duties such as seasonal planting.
Along with the above tasks additional daily various types of work including road sweeping and litter/debris collection as well as snow clearing and gritting of the footpaths and roads.
The work relates to both domestic and specialist commercial aspects of grounds & gardens maintenance.
Working for our organisation
The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.
We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years.
We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1) Undertake grass mowing of ornate lawns, general areas using hand and ride-on grass cutting machinery.
2) Preparation, pruning and seasonal planting of decorative borders using mechanical rotovators, tractor/trailer and ranger vehicle.
3) Hedge trimming and strimming to gradients and, edges and embankments.
4) General upkeep of horticultural areas (Shrubs and planted flower boarders)
5) Road sweeping, litter/debris, the emptying of bins across the main site and off-site properties by hand and with machinery.
6) Gritting of footpaths and roads during adverse winter weather conditions.
7) To complete daily and weekly maintenance and service tasks of garden machinery.
8) Undertake unsupervised routine maintenance and minor repair work within the building discipline.
9) Participate in ad hoc local arrangements for snow clearing and gritting when weather conditions dictate outside out of hours working.
10) Support Estate personnel in assisting/liaising with site customers and contractors.
11) To work with all Estates Supervisors and managers in the management of Risks. This will include working to agreed Risk Assessments and assisting in the development of additional Risk Assessments.
12) Advise the Head Gardener regarding plant and equipment failure, identify materials required to complete tasks and to call for external contractors as and when required.
13) Carry out all duties in a professional and conscientious manner.
14) Wear The Christie NHSFT maintenance service uniform, identification badges and personal protective equipment at all times.
15) Carry out work in line with all trust policies including but not extensive to:
a. Patient areas
b. Working at heights
c. Confined spaces
d. Radiation controlled areas
e. Hostile environments
f. Permit-to-Work / Safe Systems of Work
16) Undertake training where necessary to learn new techniques.
17) To be skilled in the safe use of all relevant hand tools and equipment.
18) Undertake training where necessary to learn new techniques.
19) Understand fully the inter-relationship between the various maintenance and facilities functions.
20) Demonstrates the agreed set of values and accountable for own attitude and behaviour.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GCSE Garde A-C or equivalent English & Maths
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of Gardening equipment: • Brush cutters • Trimmers • Health and Safety
Experience
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate previous experience in a maintenance support role within a building/maintenance environment/team
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience in NHS building/maintenance, public facing environment/team
Skills
Essential criteria
- Basic practical skills in the use of • Access equipment • Hand tools • Power tools • PPE
Desirable criteria
- Have undertaken a course in • Health and safety • Manual Handling
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Basic knowledge of Health & Safety regulations within the workplace
Desirable criteria
- Basic knowledge of IT systems
VALUES
Essential criteria
- Ability to demonstrate the organisational values and behaviours
OTHER
Essential criteria
- Flexible approach to working within an acute patient Care Hospital, which may require being available for out of hours work. Be able to work alone or as part of a team.
Desirable criteria
- Driving licence
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Simon Elliott
- Job title
- Head of Operational Estates
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 918 7332
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