Response Support Operative- Temp to Perm Only

at  Bath and North East Somerset Council

TEMPORARY TO PERMANENT APPLICANTS ONLY

We are proud of the in-house services that we operate in keeping our neighbourhoods tending to our beautiful parks and open spaces. If you’d like to join our passionate, enthusiastic team we’d love you hear from you. You’ll need to be physically fit to meet the job description requirements and be prepared to work outdoors in all weather.
The primary purpose of this post is to assist the team leader III with the day to day monitoring of the Council’s Report It online system (Fix My Street) with the ability to travel to locations across the district to investigate and action requests for service. The team will predominantly carry out task relating to parks and open spaces, but will also be required to support our Highways and Street Cleansing teams with a number of their service requests.

KEY DUTIES:

Planting, pruning, seeding
Hedge trimming
Grass cutting parks, open spaces & verges
Strimming, leaf blowing, raking
Setting out and marking sports areas
Upkeep of pitches (artificial and natural)
Propagation and nursery care of plants
Site preparation
Manual litter picking and sweeping
Emptying litter & recycling bins, and replacing liners
Using electronic mobile devices to record work & log any issues
Resolving any complaints as directed by managers

THE ROLE:

37 hour weeks with some requirement for overtime to cover weekend and other duties as required by the service.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS ROLE IS SUBJECT TO AN ENHANCED/BASIC DBS CHECK.

Safeguarding Statement: The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable groups and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of this commitment anyone working in a post with children or vulnerable groups will be expected to undertake an Enhanced DBS check with/without barred list checks.