Gardener

Coxlease School and Clay Hill School are recruiting for a Gardener to join their maintenance team. We are looking for a passionate person and an enthusiastic gardener, who will carry out reactive day-to-day maintenance issues within their grounds and keep the overall standard of the site to a high level.

Our benefits include:

• Exclusive access to reward and discount scheme
• Comprehensive induction
• Blue Light Card
• Commitment to your ongoing training and career progression
• Pension scheme
• Paid for enhanced DBS
• Wellbeing support
• Cycle to work scheme and more!

Coxlease School is set in the heart of the New Forest in Lyndhurst and multiple acres of well maintained grounds. We have 2 schools and 1 Offsite Unit specialising in children ages 6 to 8 with SEMH (Social, Emotional and Menth Health and ASD. Our children and young people may also exhibit challenging behaviour. We offer a safe, structured and predictable environment where students can develop the skills needed to live as independently as possible allowing them to make real life choices as they approach and reach adulthood.

You will ensure that the grounds are maintained to high standards to assist the well-being, safety and comfort of pupils, children and young people. Duties will include; leaf clearing, planting, pruning, grass cutting, hedge trimming and everything that you would expect to keep the grounds to a high standard.

The successful applicant will:

• Maintain a safe and habitable environment throughout the schools gardens and grounds, in line with quality standards and ensures that work processes comply with statutory regulations
• Undertake a variety of general Garden Maintenance jobs as required on the gardens/grounds
• Identify and suggest improvements to the gardens and grounds – thereafter, actions as agreed
• Liaise with local contractors on site, as required, providing local knowledge and guidance, in order that planned and preventative maintenance schedules can be completed in a timely fashion

If you would like to find out more detail, please contact Jamie Seymour on 02380 283633.

As part of Aspris Children’s Services, we are immensely proud of the career pathway and training we can offer you. We ask that you can demonstrate the values needed for a role, transferable skills and life experience and in return we will give you all the training and support you need to progress.

Ideally, you will have experience in some of the following areas: plumbing, electrical, carpentry, plastering (qualifications are not essential) along with the following characteristics:

Communication – During your role your working environment may involve interacting with our young people we support that may display varying degrees of emotional behavioural difficulties, autism, ADHD and associated difficulties

Organisation – As well as supervising the staff team, you’ll need to be confident and organised in record keeping, ensuring issues are logged on the internal computer systems and keeping up to date with routine maintenance checks.

Attentive – No two jobs will be the same so being attentive to understand them and identify areas where we can support is important.

Above all, we provide a supportive and collaborative working environment where you can flourish in your career and feel incredibly rewarded by helping those who need it most.

If you want to progress your career, Aspris Children’s Services will help you get there.

Aspris is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All applicants must be willing to undergo safeguarding screening appropriate to the post, including checks with Disclosure & Barring Service/Disclosure Scotland and at least 2 references which cover the last 3 years; for all our services we will request references from where you have worked with either Children or Vulnerable Adults. Please be advised that references may be requested prior to interview for roles within our Schools.