Environmental Operative - Runcorn, United Kingdom - The Riverside Group

The Riverside Group

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Runcorn, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Environmental Operative
Permanent job role
Full time 35 hours a week

Salary:
£20,005 per annum

Location:
Halton

Want to make a real difference to the lives of people? For over 90 years, The Riverside Group has been providing affordable housing across the UK to people as well as care for the elderly and support for those who face homelessness.

The difference you'll make

You will undertake general maintenance to hard and soft landscaped areas owned by the Group including grass cutting, hedge trimming, litter picking, clearing leaves and shrub bed cultivations.

Provide a rapid flexible response to the removal of fly tipping, rubbish removal and graffiti removal.

You will also maintain safe working practices at all times when utilising appropriate hand tools and machinery and report health, safety and environmental breaches and issues to the Grounds Maintenance supervisor.

So, who are you?

It is essential that you have a clean driving licence, Environmental Services / grounds maintenance experience and are able to undertake manual work.

You will be customer focussed with excellent communication skills and possess basic IT skills including Microsoft Office.

Enjoy the rewards

Working with us, you'll enjoy competitive pay, 28 days holidays plus bank holidays, a wide range of benefits, flexible working and the chance to learn valuable new skills.

We empower our people to do great work by investing in learning, personal development and technology.

If you're the kind of person that wants to do a really great job and make a difference to our customers, we think you'll love it here.

Sound like a challenge you'd like to take on? Then get in touch and let's talk about how you can help us transform lives and revitalise neighbourhoods.

We encourage applicants from all sections of the community so that we can truly reflect the neighbourhoods in which we work.

Job Profile

Accountabilities or "What You Have to Do"

Undertake general maintenance to hard and soft landscaped areas owned by the Group,

- including grass cutting, hedge trimming, litter picking, clearing leaves and shrub bed cultivations.

Provide a rapid flexible response to the removal of fly tipping, rubbish removal and graffiti removal.
Maintain safe working practices at all times when utilising appropriate hand tools and machinery.
Report health, safety and environmental breaches and issues to the Grounds Maintenance
Supervisor in line with the agreed escalation route.
Provide community insight, reporting any environmental issues, community safety or resident

- feedback to the Environmental Supervisor as appropriate and in line with the agreed escalation route.

Maintain effective relationships with colleagues on each of our contracts.
Undertake personal development and training to keep up to date with all relevant legislation.
Work collaboratively and flexibly across all teams within the organisation.
Ensure work activities are compliant with the organisation's policies and procedures as well as external statutory and regulatory obligations.
Respond flexibly to any necessary changes in work priorities and undertake other duties when required to support the effective operation of the service.
Contribute to the continuous improvement of processes and procedures.
Ensure that health and safety requirements are met in accordance with the Group's policy, procedures and statutory requirements.

Ensure that all information security requirements, including data protection, are met in accordance with the Group's policy, procedures and statutory requirements.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Essential

Environmental Services / grounds maintenance experience.
Ability to undertake manual work.
Customer focussed with excellent communication skills.
Clean driving licence
Basic IT skills including Microsoft Office.
Excellent team player who can work flexibly to meet business requirements

Desirable

Successful completion of a horticultural course

Additional Information

The Group has offices across the UK and on this basis, there will be the requirement to travel to other locations to effectively perform this role.
It is a requirement that the role holder holds a current, valid UK driving licence.
The role will be exposed to sensitive information, therefore the role holder is expected to maintain levels of confidentiality at all times.
In order to fulfil the requirements of this role, you will be required to work flexibly during the hours of operation.
The role holder is expected to be committed to equal opportunities and to promote non discriminatory practices in all aspects of work undertaken.