Estates Groundskeeper

Estates Groundskeeper

Company:
Portland College Salary: £30,686.55

Hours:

Full-time

Location:

Mansfield, NG18 4TJ
Working pattern:
On-site Job type:
Permanent Posting date: 24 Jul 2026 Closing date: 17 Aug 2026

We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Estates Groundskeeper to join our Estates team and help maintain and enhance the grounds across our estate. This role is based at our main campus in Mansfield, but travel across our multiple sites is required.

Working closely with the Area Estates & Project Manager, you will play a key role in developing and delivering a five-year vision for our grounds, creating attractive, welcoming, and sustainable outdoor spaces for our learners, citizens, staff, visitors, and wider community.

The role combines hands-on grounds and landscape maintenance with creative development, including planting and lawn creation, seasonal floral displays, woodland and sports pitch management, biodiversity areas, and the upkeep of external features and infrastructure. You will also lead and coordinate volunteers, community groups, and external partners, ensuring projects deliver meaningful improvements.

We are looking for someone with professional experience in horticulture, landscaping, greenkeeping, or commercial grounds maintenance, supported by a relevant qualification such as NVQ Level 3, RHS or equivalent. You will need a full UK driving licence; experience operating grounds maintenance machinery; and the physical ability to undertake outdoor manual work, such as using tools and equipment; gutter cleaning, heavy lifting, hanging baskets, running drip feed systems etc.

You will be creative, organised, self-motivated, and confident working independently, with the leadership skills to engage volunteers and community partners. Experience in hardscapes, sports pitch maintenance, Biodiversity Net Gain, pesticides, chainsaw operations, and working within an estate, campus, or public park environment would be advantageous.

This is an opportunity to do more than maintain our grounds; you will help shape the future of our estate and create outdoor spaces that make a genuine difference to the people who use them.

As part of our pre-employment checks, we will be required to carry out an Enhanced without Barred Lists DBS check – this role doesn’t involve regulated activity.

* We will not accept applications submitted after the campaign has been closed. We may close campaigns early if we have a high volume of applications.

You can see more about what we do at Portland Charity by looking at the Who We Are and Choose Your Future pages on our website

At Portland Charity, our learners, citizens and staff are at the heart of what we do. We are passionate about our vision that all people with disabilities will have a lifetime of opportunity, and you could help us to achieve that. Our priority for staff is to create an outstanding place to work where the rewards of a job well done can be seen in the faces of our learners and citizens.

• A rewarding career and working towards positive outcomes for our learners and citizens
• Enhanced holidays of 33 days per year when you join us (pro rata) and you are able to buy up to 10 additional days of holiday
• Eligible for a Blue Light Card with access to lots of great discounts
• Free and confidential access to an Employee Assistance Programme
• Free parking on site and access to a subsidised canteen with a variety of meal options (main campus only)
• Opportunities to develop your knowledge and skills on the job through training, mentoring and qualifications.
• Free life assurance – your family will benefit from a payment of 4x your annual salary if the unthinkable should happen

We are committed to promoting equality, challenging discrimination and developing community cohesion. We welcome applications from all sections the community.

• Horticulture, Greenkeeping or Landscaping qualification (e.g. NVQ 2/3, RHS or equivalent)
• Full UK Driving Licence

• Safe use of pesticides/herbicides certifications (e.g. PA1 / PA6)
• Chainsaw maintenance & cross-cutting qualification (e.g. NPTC/LANTRA)
• Formal health and…