Grounds & Garden Maintenance Assistant

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 29 December 2025

We are looking for a motivated individual with excellent communication, interpersonal and organisational skills who is dedicated to working as part of our friendly team.

We take pride in nurturing a supportive environment in which to work while ensuring we deliver a high quality service.

To carry out routine and planned maintenance duties as directed by the Senior Grounds and Gardens Officer and EFM site senior team.

Works to include garden and grounds maintenance, ensuring litter bins are cleared and litter collected from around the site, path cleaning and minor maintenance to ground furniture, gridding and snow clearance, sweeping hospital grounds including all hospital carpark.

You will need to be polite, helpful, discreet and should be able to accommodate any reasonable request from management team.

To carry out planned and requisition maintenance requests to all grounds and gardens managed by Broomfield Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Maintain litter-free sites and ensure main entrances are litter-free, swept and power-washed when required, change outdoor bins daily.

Ensure all path, entrances, car parks and walkways are free of obstruction from trees, tree leaves, shrubs, weeds or plant material. Water all new planting, tubs and hanging baskets either seasonally or until plant maturity and weed kill and remove all weeds from the site.

Strim, mow and prune according to seasonal demands ensuring that all perimeter areas including fencing are litter free and in a good state of repair. Also report all defects to the Facilities Helpdesk so relevant trades can be arranged to repair/make-good.

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.

Please see attached a full job description setting out the details of the role and responsibilities.

• Good standard of general education
• Qualified to NVQ or City & Guilds standards

• Knowledge of gardening techniques, equipment and materials
• Knowledge of COSHH regarding the correct use & storage of chemicals
• Horticultural Experience

• Minimum of 2 years' experience in a similar field
• Commercial grounds maintenance experience
• Project planning and responsibility
• Previous NHS experience
• To have worked in a similar environment dealing with a variety of day-to-day activities

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

£22,383 a year

Per Annum (Pro Rata for Part Time)