Are you looking for a hands-on role where you can make a meaningful contribution to the community? Do you take pride in maintaining public spaces with dignity and care? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for a Horticulturalist to join our Green Spaces, Sport and Leisure team within Resident Services at the London Borough of Hillingdon.
We are seeking individuals with relevant gardening experience to join our Green Spaces team in maintaining parks, open spaces, highways, and housing estates across the borough. The ideal candidate will have a proactive approach, be able to complete simple paperwork, meet targets and deadlines, and demonstrate flexibility, conscientiousness, and strong customer focus. As a team player who enjoys collaborative work, you will also be required to hold a full driving licence.
If you have a keen interest in gardening and are looking to broaden your gardening experience, we would be delighted to hear from you!
Responsibilities
- Ensure health and safety excellence – champion a zero-injury culture.
- Maximise safety performance ensuring zero tolerance on non – compliant working.
- Create a positive safety culture where everyone works efficiently and safely, risks are mitigated and injuries and accidents to do not occur.
- Ensure all near miss and hazards are reported and all hazards removed from the working environment.
- Litter picking, grass cutting, manual weed control, mulching. manual handling of heavy materials, Site clearance, cleaning and sweeping leaves.
- Assisting other operatives in a range of tasks and responsibilities.