Grounds Person Grade 2

JOB DESCRIPTION

REPORTS TO: Team Supervisor, or other supervising officer

JOB PURPOSE

The person appointed shall work as a member of the Grounds Maintenance Service and be responsible for carrying out grounds duties under the direction of the Team Supervisor or other supervising officer.

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Basic setting out and marking of playing facilities.
• Maintaining sports and amenity areas.
• Preparing, planting and maintaining tree and shrub areas.
• Preparing, seeding, turfing and maintaining grass areas.
• Simple pruning, hedge cutting, chemical control and application under supervision.
• Construction labouring duties associated with the post and assisting more skilled operators.
• Use and routine maintenance of all powered plant, vehicles and tractor operated machinery necessary for the job.
• Driving and routine maintenance of any vehicle necessary for the transportation of goods, materials, equipment and personnel.
• Opening, closing and locking gates where appropriate.
• Any other duties commensurate with the post that may reasonably be required by the team supervisor or other supervising officer.
• All duties must be carried out to comply with:
• The Health and Safety at Work (N1) Order 1978.
• Acts of Parliament, Statutory Instruments and Regulations and other legal requirements.
• Agreed Codes of Practice; including the COSHH regulations and Safe Working Practices manuals.
• Any other statutory regulations which may apply.
• Carrying out all duties in the working conditions normally inherent in the particular job, including the agreed flexible working hours arrangement.
• Completing all necessary paperwork.
• Carrying out duties for jobs up to and including those in the same grade, provided such duties are within the competency of the employee.

Training

• Employees will accept any training to facilitate the undertaking of duties for jobs up to and including their own grade.
• Employees will accept training for jobs graded at higher levels than their own. Payment will only be made where there is a requirement by the authority for the higher level duties to be carried out, in adherence to EA guidelines.

This job description will be subject to review in light of changing circumstances and is not intended to be rigid and inflexible but should be regarded as providing guidelines within which the individual works. Other duties of a similar nature and appropriate to the grade may be assigned from time to time.

In accordance with Section 75 of the Northern Ireland Act (1998), the post-holder is expected to promote good relations, equality of opportunity and pay due regard for equality legislation at all times.

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NOTES TO JOB APPLICANTS

• 1. You must clearly demonstrate on your application form under each question how, and to what extent, you meet the required criteria as failure to do so may result in you not being shortlisted. You should clearly demonstrate this for both the essential and desirable criteria, where relevant.
• 2. You must demonstrate how you meet the criteria by the closing date for applications, unless the criteria state otherwise.
• 3. The stage in the process when the criteria will be measured is outlined in the table below.
• 4. Shortlisting will be carried out on the basis of the essential criteria set out in Section 1 below, using the information provided by you on your application form.
• 5. Please note that the Selection Panel reserves the right to shortlist only those applicants that it believes most strongly meet the criteria for the role.
• 6. In the event of an excessive number of applications, the Selection Panel also reserves the right to apply any desirable criteria as outlined in Section 3 at shortlisting, in which case these will be applied in the order listed. It is important therefore that you also clearly demonstrate on your application form how you meet any desirable criteria.

• Hold an NVQ Level 1 in Horticulture or equivalent or a higher level qualification relevant to amenity horticulture.
• OR have one year’s paid professional experience of working in grounds maintenance.
• Shortlisting by Application Form.
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