Do you enjoy being in the great outdoors, where you can create pleasant outdoor spaces for some of the most vulnerable people build a brighter future?
As a Gardener, you will work 37.5 hours a week as you utilize your gardening and DIY skills as you take pride in creating and maintaining pruned bushes, a tidy lawn and colourful flower beds. You will be responsible for the general upkeep of the grounds.
Working alongside the Maintenance Lead, you will be responsible for the general upkeep of the grounds and buildings. This will see you mend, improve and create beautiful outdoor spaces for staff, service users and visitors to enjoy.
As a gardener, you will enjoy a hands-on approach as you oversee regular duties, including using mowers, maintaining flower beds, trimming and pruning hedges, leaf clearing and treating lawns.
You will participate in horticultural long-term projects to develop Arbury Courts grounds, which includes promoting and encouraging wildlife throughout the service grounds.
As a Gardener you will be:
- Assisting with ensuring that the service, buildings, facilities and equipment requirements are maintained and fit for purpose.
- Utilising good DIY skills to ensure safety of service users is maintained.
- Assisting in regular checks and maintenance.
- Assisting in the repair and maintenance of all buildings.
- Assisting in all decorating.
- Liaising with a manager reporting all faults and defects.
- Maintaining the perimeter fencing around boundaries
- Maintaining the grounds including, grass cutting, weeding, hedges, flower beds.
- Facilitating gardening groups with patients
To be successful in this role, you will:
- Comply with system and procedures.
- Have previous experience within a maintenance role.
- Have gardening experience
- Work effectively as part of a team and independently.
- Show courtesy and respect to residents at all times to ensure that they enjoy the highest quality of service.
- Attend and participate in training sessions and staff meetings.
Where you will be working:
Location: Townfield Lane, Winwick, Warrington, Cheshire, WA2 8TR
You will be working at Arbury Court, a service that provides care and treatment for women in differing levels of security, enabling clear care pathways and a positive patient experience.
You will be working alongside a multidisciplinary team focusing on medium, low Secure and psychiatric intensive care PICU) for women, over the age of 18, with Personality Disorder and Mental Illness. The treatment approach at Arbury Court which is rehabilitation and recovery dictates that care is ‘person-centred' as opposed to ‘disease-centred'.
What you will get:
- Annual salary of £23,693
- The equivalent of 33 days annual leave – plus your birthday off!
- Free meals and parking
- Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance.
- Career development and training to help you achieve your career goals.
- Pension contribution to secure your future.
- Life Assurance for added peace of mind.
- Enhanced Maternity Package so you can truly enjoy this special time.
There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts, special offers and much more.
About your next employer:
You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.
Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.
Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person's individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.