Landscaper x2

Come join Incommunities as our new Landscaper
, delivering a high quality landscaping and external works service, this includes supporting minor groundworks and ensuring our customers gardens are safe.

We are a social housing landlord and one of the largest housing providers in the region with over 22,000 social and affordable homes, mainly in the Bradford district. We employ a talented workforce of nearly 1,000 people.

In 2024 we launched our five-year Corporate Strategy, which runs to 2029. Our purpose is to provide high quality homes, services, and support to our customers, so we’ve worked with colleagues and customers to find out what’s important to them. Our customers sit at the heart of what we do, and our colleagues are the people who’ll help us achieve our vision, which is to create the best customer experience to improve everyday lives.

• Carry out green landscaping works, including grass cutting and edging, shrub, bush, and hedge cutting as well as clearance of overgrown areas impacting visibility, access, or safety.
• Install, repair, and maintain fencing and boundary features, including fence panels, posts, and gates, boundary lines between properties, simple boundary edging and demarcation.
• Assist with small retaining walls and level adjustments, including supporting construction, repair, or stabilisation of low retaining walls, making safe changes to garden levels where required and helping to manage transitions between different ground heights.
• Work closely with a Groundworker on minor external works such as Paths, paving, and access routes, external steps and level changes, Low walls and small retaining structures.
• Prepare and tidy work areas, ensuring surfaces and boundaries are left safe, stable, and compliant.
• Support works that improve drainage, access, and safe movement within gardens.
• Identify, reduce, and report HHSRS hazards, particularly uneven or unstable ground levels, trip hazards along paths and boundaries, falls from height risks caused by level changes, retaining walls, or exposed edges.
• Safely use and maintain all tools, including but not limited to powered gardening equipment, hand tools for fencing and groundworks and any construction tools used for small walls and level works.
• Participate in risk assessments and toolbox talks as required.

• Experience in a similar role including landscaping, grounds maintenance, or external works.
• Relevant landscaping qualification or be qualified by relevant experience and be willing to work towards a qualification.
• Knowledge of working with boundaries and fencing and uneven ground and level changes.
• Strong awareness of health and safety risks in domestic environments.
• Good communication skills to be able to speak clearly with colleagues, contractors and customers.
• Full UK driving licence and able to drive manual fleet.

• Right to Work in the UK
  - Visa Sponsorship is not available
• A basic DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) check will be required for the successful candidate as part of the pre-employment process
  - Criminal Conviction Checks

• Salary of £30,962 per year
• Social Housing Pension Scheme with up-to 10% employer contribution
• 28 days annual leave that increases with service plus bank holidays
• Option to buy and sell annual leave
• Training, development, and qualification opportunities
• Our Hub: our wellbeing and benefits site, with exclusive access to discounts and savings (at over 800 retailers)
• Corporate health scheme membership
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Local gym membership discounts.
• A team of trained Mental Health First Aiders who are available for colleagues to contact for support

We’re looking for great people to join us! At Incommunities
, we’re committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued, included, and supported. We actively welcome applicants from all backgrounds, abilities, and experiences—because we know that
diverse perspectives make us stronger
.

Based in
Bradford
, a city known for its rich cultural diversity, we serve
vibrant communities
. As a social housing provider, we’re passionate about making a real difference by providing
safe, affordable homes
and
improving lives
.

Our recruitment process is designed to
support you every step of the way
. If you need any adjustments or assistance, just let us know.

We’re proud to be a
Mindful Employer
, committed to mental health and wellbeing. We also hold the‘Committed’ Menopause Friendly Accreditation
, recognising the importance of support in the workplace.