Garden and Playground Manager JOB DESCRIPTION

Reports to: Headteacher

Salary: Competitive

IMMEDIATE START

Responsible for the overall presentation of the school gardens including ongoing maintenance and development. Creating garden environments and maintaining playgrounds that are enjoyable, safe and secure for all users. 

Key Tasks and Responsibilities 

• Carry out a varied range of gardening duties requiring minimum supervision and using own initiative. Including weeding, digging, edging, pruning, seed sowing, plant cultivation, bed preparation and planting.
• Lawn maintenance, cultivation and landscaping
• Use of a wide range of hand tools, horticultural machinery and other powered hand tools.
• Ensuring all the tools, garden equipment and machinery are correctly maintained and serviced, that they are kept in good and safe working order.
• Review and update garden plan annually
• Organising comprehensive and regular watering in dry weather.
• Developing a system for producing compost.
• Identifying health and safety hazards

Health and Safety 

• To ensure sound Health and Safety practices are being adhered to providing a safe working environment for everyone working or using the gardens and playgrounds.

All employees have a responsibility

• to undertake training and development as required and to assist, where appropriate and necessary, with the training and development of colleagues;
• for their own and others’ health and safety, and for adhering to guidelines for the safeguarding of children;
• to be an ambassador for the school.

The above list is not exhaustive and other duties may be attached to the post from time to time. Variation may also occur to the duties and responsibilities without changing the general character of the post.

To apply, contact 0261663923 or 0246905329 to submit your cover letter and curriculum vitae (CV). Alternatively, submit via email at enquiries@houseofhopeschool.com.