Grounds and Property Maintenance Supervisor's - Belfast, United Kingdom - The Turnaround Project

Description

Grounds Maintenance

Supervisor's Assistant

JOB DESCRIPTION

JOB TITLE:

Grounds Maintenance Supervisor's Assistant:

ENTERPRISE:
Outwork - a Turnaround Project enterprise


SALARY:
£20016 per annum


RESPONSIBLE TO:
Turnaround Project Head of Operations


DURATION:
Permanent.


LOCATION:
Operational base in Belfast, but delivering contracts at various locations


HOURS OF WORK:35 hours per week.


ABOUT THE TURNAROUND PROJECT:

The _Turnaround Project_ helps people who have been given prison or community sentences to turn around their futures.

Working with people before and after they complete their sentences, and providing real jobs in transitional employment opportunities, Turnaround works to tackle the barriers between them and employment.

In the process, Turnaround engages the wider community in supporting people on their journey and reducing the social and financial impact of reoffending.

Our approach seeks to address as many of the factors that impact on that journey as possible.

But transitional training and employment opportunities, before and after people complete their sentences, sits at the centre of what we do.

Those transitional training and employment opportunities are provided within social enterprises established and run by the Turnaround Project. Real training and real jobs, in real enterprises.

Transitional employment is different to conventional employment, with our enterprises providing a supportive environment that recognises the particular challenges faced by many of the people we exist to support.

That means we look for staff who we believe have the right mix of skill, empathy, flexibility and commitment that is necessary to make our enterprises a success.

We need people who will work to make our enterprises a commercial success - we need to sustain our income if we are to provide people with jobs.

But we also need people who will share our determination to make the journey through our programme a success for our trainees and employees.

Like any other enterprise, we need to generate income. But our most important bottom line is how many people we have supported to turn their lives around.


ABOUT OUTWORK:

Outwork is our property services enterprise comprising of grounds maintenance and other property services such as painting and communal cleaning.

Outwork typically operates in crews of three to five staff working under an on-site Supervisor, depending on the task, often supported by a Supervisor's Assistant.

We deliver contracts for clients who want us to do as good a job - or better - as any other commercial provider.

ABOUT THE JOB:


The Supervisor's Assistant role is:

• To support Outwork Supervisors to ensure that we deliver high quality services for our clients and meet contract requirements, in line with service level agreements and timescales.
• To work with the Supervisor to help to maintain all of the procedures required to keep the organisation running efficiently and effectively.
• To work with Transitional Employees to encourage and bring more stability to our Outwork crews.
• To provide a positive example to other crew members of how they should behave and work while employed with Outwork, so helping them prepare for followon employment.
• A Supervisor's Assistant is working towards taking on responsibility and the potential to perform a supervisory role in the future. The Supervisor's Assistant may be asked by a Supervisor to show other crew members how to use equipment or undertake particular tasks.

Key duties:

• To be involved in and committed to growing Outwork's business so that more opportunities can be offered to people as they move out of the justice system.
• To work independently on client sites when asked to do so by the Supervisor, allowing the Supervisor to provide more intensive supervision to other crew members. This includes being willing to undertake the full range of tasks for which the Assistant has been trained.
• To help Supervisors to ensure that all appropriate health and safety measures are in place to safeguard the welfare of crews and anyone else involved on sites in which Outwork's work crews are deployed; and to contribute to the ongoing development and monitoring of Outwork's Health and Safety policies and procedures.
• To support the Supervisor to maintain the vans and all equipment and materials within them in a neat and tidy manner; to clean down and store equipment at the end of each site visit and working day; and to maintain equipment registers including reports of faults or damages.
• To assist the Supervisor in maintaining records of site visits, and any other paperwork required.
• To ensure that the necessary personal protective equipment and method is used for each task to reduce any risk to their own and others' personal health and safety.
• To follow the relevant Outwork policies and procedures at all times.
• To undertake relevant learning and selfdevelopment,