Grounds Maintenance Operative, Blackpool

Grounds Maintenance Operative

Location: Blackpool

Salary: 27,277

You will undertake grounds maintenance works to communal environments including communal grounds around homes, open space grassed area, and landscaped areas and to deliver a maintenance programme as part of a team that contributes to excellent service delivery. You will work with caretaking teams and other GPHG colleagues and external partners tomaintainclean,greenand safe environments. Seasonallyassistwith snow and ice removal, gritting and litter picking and fly tip removal and reporting of communal and environmental maintenance issues and joint working with others to deliver excellent services.

Whatyou'llbe doing

• Complete grounds maintenance activities to Great Places schemes and communal environmental areas to the requirements of Great Places Grounds Maintenance Specification including grass cutting, edging, hedge trimming, planting, spraying, and clearance of leaves and litter.
• You will beoperatinga range of hand tools and equipment (inc. power tools), and vehicles and to carry out daily defect checks of tools and equipment, completing basic maintenance tasks of it and reporting damage and maintenance issues with them.
• Report any graffiti, vandalism,repairsand defects in the external communal areas where you are working.
• Seasonallyassistwith snow and ice clearance, gritting activities and other health and safety maintenancerequiredon Great Places schemes.
• Adhere to all relevant quality standards and health and safety/COSHH requirements.
• You will undertake daily checks of vehicles and equipment and ensure equipment is kept in a clean condition and stored correctly.
• You will work safely with herbicides/pesticidesin accordance withregulations and report invasive weeds.
• You will report any safeguarding concerns in line with organisation guidelines.

Whatyou'llneed

• Full driving licence
• Previousexperience in Grounds Maintenance
• Excellent customer service skills

What we need from you

• A commitment to understand the challenges and opportunities that exist in the communities in which we work. We particularly value lived experience in social housing
• A passion to advocate on behalf of people and communities
• Respecting professional boundaries andconducting yourself and a professional manner at all times
• A commitment to work in partnership with others for the benefit of Great Places
• Ability to work flexibly and when needed outside normal working hours to ensure service continuity
• An ability to work in uncertainty
• To be professional and work with integrity,inclusivityand respect for diversity
• You willbe requiredto attend a number offace to facetraining sessions as well as virtual sessions and e-learning this part of your role is vital and of equal importance as theday to dayaspects

For the purposes of our van fleetinsuranceyou must have a minimum of 2 years driving experience with a full UK driving licence, be over the age of 21 and complete an on-line drivermonitoringAssessment prior to starting your role. If you are under 21 but with 2 years driving experience with a full UK driving licence you wouldbe requiredto complete an on-line drivermonitoringassessment andadditionalin vehicle assessment prior to starting your role funded by Great Places.

Great Places Housing Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expects all our colleagues to share this commitment.All successful applicant(s) will be subject to a basic criminal records background check. Further detail on our commitment to safeguarding children/young people & vulnerable adults can be found in the Great Places Housing Group Safeguarding Policy & Recruitment Policy on our website.

Closing date: 11thJune 2026

Shortlist date: 12thJune 2026

Interview date: TBC