90483 - Land based Activities - Skilled Delivery (SD): Grounds Maintenance - HMP Norwich
Number of jobs available: 1
Detail of reserve list: 12 Months
Region: East of England
City/Town: Norwich
Building/Site: HMP NORWICH, NR1 4LU
Grade: AO
Band: 3
Post Type: Permanent
Working Pattern: Full Time
Role Type: Education and Training, Environment & Sustainability
Will the successful applicant have line manager responsibilities? No
Responsible for Grounds Maintenance at a prison, you will enjoy a wide range of responsibilities. We will look to you to help maintain and improve grounds and amenity areas - from gardens and lawns, to ponds, water features and woodland.
But your impact in this unique environment will go beyond landscaping, mowing and maintenance. You will carry out projects including soft and hard landscape redevelopment. You will also maintain soil husbandry and growing crops, ensuring optimum development.
Perhaps your most important contribution to development here will be your work supervising prisoners. Leading a team, you will oversee their work with an eye for quality control. This is not always easy, but the difference you can help to make in terms of self-esteem and employability is hugely rewarding.
What is more, with the chance to enter our annual competition for best kept prison garden, judged by the Royal Horticultural Society, you might find a lot more to be proud of. Whether or not your work wins RHS acclaim, we can certainly offer nationwide opportunities to develop a great career.
Ideally, you will bring to the role a relevant vocational qualification or equivalent suitable experience. Naturally, demonstrable skills and experience in grounds maintenance are essential.
Committed to quality in everything you do, you are comfortable working at a fast pace. Strong communication skills are important too - from leading, to persuading and influencing. We expect you to be committed to achieving a safe and secure environment. Please note you may be required to work some evenings and weekends.
Overview of the job
This is a delivery role within an establishment requiring an appropriate trade.
Summary
The job holder will be responsible for the day-to-day maintenance of the grounds and amenity areas within the estate.
This is a non-operational job with no line management or supervisory responsibilities.
Responsibilities, Activities and Duties
1. Carry out soft landscaping - turf laying and hard landscaping - laying patio stones.
2. Maintain establishment's grounds and amenity areas including maintenance of lawns, ponds, water features and external grounds to the establishment including woodland.
3. Work inside/outside establishment grounds: cutting, mowing and maintaining areas in accordance with accepted practice.
4. Maintain sports fields, as per agreed plan, with both the Land based Activities Manager and PE Department.
5. Carry out pest control preventative measures across area of responsibility.
6. Undertake small project work as advised/requested: including soft and hard landscape development and erection of horticultural support structures where the situation warrants.
7. Maintain correct soil husbandry, ensuring all stages of crop development are followed in accordance with good horticultural practice.
8. Maintain the growing plant/crop to ensure optimum development and/or cropping, ensuring that the plants needs are fully met.
9. Provide safe access and exits to the estate.
10. Supervise prisoners parties and undertake quality control over their work, as agreed within the Service Delivery Agreement (SDA).
Undertake other trades tasks to:
1. Ensure allocated planned maintenance and small repairs are carried out, undertaking service requests raised by computer aided facilities management system.
2. Undertake survey inspections in confined spaces and at height, recording all work and completing associated registers/logs.
3. Carry out project work as required.
4. Advise on sufficient levels of stock and request procurement of goods and services, and ensure all materials used are logged and are fit for purpose.
5. Escort technical contractors as required, working with and supervising them in accordance with Local Security Strategy (LSS).
6. Maintain regular communications via radio net in accordance with the LSS.
7. Undertake the role of banksman, directing the operation of plant equipment and/or machinery.
8. Be responsible for all tools and plant machinery, carrying out checks at regular intervals and completing all relevant documentation in accordance with the LSS and National Security Framework (NSF).
9. Comply with all Health and Safety policies, procedures and legislation to ensure statutory and mandatory compliance.
10. Drive estates vehicles and operate plant equipment.
11. Carry out locking duties as required.
12. Operate within command mode in line with local contingency plans.
13. Undertake incidental and emergency or urgent tasks and assignments as per Service Delivery Agreement timescales, in a safe manner.
14. Assemble products on site as required.
15. Contribute to prisoner reports, including parole and sentence planning.
The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present and is not intended to be exhaustive. The job holder is expected to accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be necessary. Significant adjustments may require re-examination under the Job Evaluation Scheme and shall be discussed in the first instance with the job holder.
An ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence through the medium of English or (where specified in Wales) Welsh.
Behaviours
* Delivering at Pace
* Managing a Quality Service
* Communicating and Influencing
* Leadership
Essential Experience
Competent in relevant skill.
Technical Requirements
Must have a Vocational Qualification at Level 3, or be willing to work towards gaining this qualification within an agreed timescale.
Mandatory Eligibility Requirements
Licences
Full UK driving licence.
Working Arrangements & Further Information
The MoJ offers Hybrid Working arrangements where business need allows. This is an informal, non-contractual form of flexible working that blends working from your base location, different MoJ sites and/or from home (please be aware that this role can only be worked in the UK and not overseas). Some roles will not be suitable for Hybrid Working. Similarly, Hybrid Working will not suit everyone's circumstances. Arrangements will be discussed and agreed with the successful candidate(s) and subject to regular review.
For nationally advertised roles, the successful candidate(s) will be appointed to a MoJ office location, which may include their nearest Justice Collaboration Centre or Justice Satellite Office. This will be discussed and agreed on the completion of pre-employment checks.
If you are a current NPS employee, this vacancy may be available on a Loan basis for up to 2 years. Applications are invited from suitable qualified staff.
The Loan/Secondment is subject to the approval of the selected candidate's Business Unit, which should be obtained before confirmation of appointment.
Benefits
Annual Leave
The holiday year runs from 1 March. If you work a non-standard work pattern your leave entitlement may be expressed in either hours or days as appropriate. Leave entitlement is calculated on a pro-rata basis and you will be advised of your actual entitlement on appointment.
Bank, Public and Privilege Holidays
You are entitled to 9 days (66 hours 36 minutes) in recognition of bank, public and privilege holidays. These hours are added to your annual leave allowance. There is a requirement to work some public and bank holidays subject to your shift pattern and the operational needs of the establishment.
Pension
The Civil Service offers a choice of two pension schemes, giving you the flexibility to choose the pension that suits you best.
Work Life Balance
HM Prison & Probation Service (HMPPS) is keen to encourage alternative working arrangements. Work life balance provides greater opportunities for staff to work more flexibly wherever managers and establishments can accommodate requests to do so. HMPPS offers flexible working subject to completion of a satisfactory probationary period and NVQ.
Training
HMPPS is committed to staff development and offers a range of training and development opportunities, including areas such as Equality and Diversity, Dealing with Challenging Behaviour, Suicide Prevention and Anti Bullying Programmes.
Eligibility
All candidates are subject to security and identity checks prior to taking up post. All external candidates are subject to 6 months probation.
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles.
As a Disability Confident employer, MoJ are committed to providing everyone with the opportunity to demonstrate their skills, talent and abilities, by making adjustments throughout all elements of the recruitment process and in the workplace.
For more information on applying for a role as a candidate with a disability or long-term condition, please see our Disability Confident Scheme Frequently Asked Questions webpage.
Diversity & Inclusion
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