Description
Discover yourself in Lewisham where what you do makes a difference to our vibrant and culturally diverse communities!
We are looking for someone who can provide high-quality, customer-focused, and responsive service to Lewisham residents.
What's the role? Our gardeners maintain the shared green spaces on our estates. They take pride in ensuring that our residents live in an environment that is clean, tidy, and pleasant.
Responsibilities:
- Maintaining communal gardens and green spaces
- Ensuring the safe use of appropriate chemicals, materials, and equipment
- Identifying and reporting any welfare/safeguarding concerns about vulnerable residents
- Identifying and reporting nuisance, anti-social behaviour, or criminal behaviour and providing evidence to support enforcement action
- Looking after and using appropriate uniform and personal protective equipment, including mobile phones, personal safety devices, and vehicles, when appropriate
What's in it for you? Excellent training and development opportunities, plus a range of benefits including:
- Generous holiday allowance
- Local Government Pension scheme
- Flexible working and family-friendly policies
- Season ticket and bicycle loans
- A range of staff discounts, including local subsidised gym memberships
- Supportive staff networks
What we're looking for:
- Takes pride in their work
- Has an awareness of - and a commitment to - equality of access and opportunity in a diverse community
- Maintains excellent customer service in all areas of work
- Takes responsibility for their own learning and development
- Engages with colleagues and management to support the delivery of excellent services for the benefit of our residents and stakeholders
- Complies with all policies and procedures, including those relating to Health & Safety and Equality & Diversity
Location: Our gardeners work at and from a variety of locations across the borough.
Special conditions:
- A clean, full manual UK/EU driver's licence with Category B is desirable
- The job is subject to a basic DBS check