Location:
Worksop College and Ranby House
Hours:
Full-time, 37.5 hours per week
Salary:
£30,000 per annum
Contract:
Permanent
Overview:
You will work autonomously to oversee and develop the school grounds, sports pitches, and external areas of both School sites. You will ensure the school maintains a safe and habitable facility for the use by pupils and staff by responding to requests for the preparations of the grounds in such a way that they meet fully the requirements to provide a full sports programme and maintain the appearance of the school to an exceptionally high standard throughout the year.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure the programme of sporting fixtures and pitch requirements ensuring there is sufficient maintenance time for grounds activities.
- Marking and the subsequent over-marking of pitches for Cricket, Rugby, and Girls Football
- Preparing facilities for external hirers or partnership activities
- Provide leadership and direction to the staff within the grounds team
- Ensure the optimal playing quality of the sports grounds
- Advise on priorities and manage the agreed annual budget
- Control and account for all the materials, stock, and machinery within your area of control
- Ensure that safe working procedures are in place so that staff are competent with equipment
- Ensure that all H&S regulations are adhered to by staff and that risk assessments are in place
- Be able to respond in an emergency.
- Supervision of work undertaken by contractors to ensure compliance
- Ensure a clean and safe working environment is maintained by all Grounds staff
- Maintaining full attendance records for the team.
- Carry out annual Performance Development Reviews and training requirements for the Grounds staff.
- Maintaining a tree programme.
- Assist in budget process, capital replacement plan and projects.
- Ensure that the formal School gardens are planted, weeded and maintained to a high standard.
- Coordinate the grounds department at both College and Prep School sites.
- Maintenance of artificial sports surfaces.
Person Specification:
Essential:
- 5 years' experience in a similar role, preferably minor county's Cricket and/or Football and Rugby.
- NVQ Level 3 (or an equivalent qualification or significant experience) in Sports Turf Management.
- Possess a passion for cricket pitches and sports turf maintenance.
- Able to motivate and communicate effectively with staff.
- Track record on preparing and producing top quality playing surfaces for Cricket, Football and Rugby.
- Understanding of current Health and Safety regulations.
- Understanding the seasonal nature of the role and need for flexibility.
- Hold a PA1, PA2, and PA6 pesticide certificate.
- Knowledge and experience of artificial playing surfaces.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to relate effectively with a wide range of people.
- Excellent analytical skills and a systematic and disciplined approach to problem-solving.
- Proven experience at supervisory/management level in a similar role.
- Full clean driving with the ability to pull trailers and drive tractors and other horticultural machinery.
- Must be polite and professional at all times.
- The ability to work effectively as part of a team in a multicultural environment
- Fully knowledgeable of the Health and Safety regulations in the areas of responsibility
- Proven experience of completing risk assessments and training in safe working.
- Possesses a thorough understanding of legislation relating to chemicals and dangerous substances.
- ICT literate.
Desirable:
- IOG membership or equivalent.
- Educated to "A" level or equivalent standard.
- H&S qualification and experience.
- General qualifications grade A-C or 9-4 in Maths and English or equivalent.
- PTC Chain Saw
Safeguarding & Child Protection:
Applicants for this post must be willing to undergo child protection screening including but not limited to reference checks with previous employers, prohibition checks, and a criminal record check via the Applicants Disclosure and Barring Service (including Barred List Check). All offers of employment are conditional upon the satisfactory outcome of child protection screening checks.
We will appoint, train, develop, and promote based on merit and ability alone. It is a stipulation of the Governors and a statutory requirement that members of staff appointed to Worksop College should be shown not to have any criminal record which might prevent them from accepting a post at the College. Accordingly, the College requires permission from all members of staff to make an appropriate investigation. Offers of employment are subject to a satisfactory outcome of this enquiry.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the school is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
Equal Opportunities:
Worksop College is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to a policy of treating all our employees and job applicants equally. It is our policy to take all reasonable steps to employ and promote employees on the basis of their abilities and qualifications without regard to age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, pregnancy, maternity, marital or civil partnership status, race (which includes colour, nationality, and ethnic or national origins), sexual orientation, trade union membership, religion or belief.
Grounds Supervisor, Sports Turf Manager, Facilities Manager, Grounds Maintenance Manager, Head Groundskeeper, Sports Grounds Manager, Grounds and Gardens Manager, Grounds Operations Manager, Head Groundsman, Parks and Grounds Manager, Landscape Manager, etc.
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