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Job summary

Main area
Grounds & Gardens - E00494
Grade
Band 2
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
413-96496-EF-DA
Employer
The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Grounds & Gardens - E00494
Town
Manchester
Salary
£24,465 Per annum, Pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
26/12/2025 23:59

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Environment Officer - Grounds & Gardens

Band 2

Job overview

The Gardening Services provides a high-quality service to maintain the grounds and gardens of The Christie NHSFT Withington site and portfolio of off-site properties to provide a safe and pleasant external environment. 

The Environmental Officer – Grounds & Gardens will assist in providing support with the maintenance of the sites cleanliness. 

Working alongside and under the Head Gardeners instruction. 

Along with the above tasks additional daily various types of work including road sweeping and litter/debris collection as well as snow clearing and gritting of the footpaths and roads.

Main duties of the job

1)    Road sweeping, litter/debris, the emptying of bins across the main site and off-site properties by hand and with machinery.
2)    Gritting of footpaths and roads during adverse winter weather conditions.
3)    To complete daily and weekly maintenance and service tasks as requested.
4)    Participate in ad hoc local arrangements for snow clearing and gritting when weather     conditions dictate outside out of hours working.
5)    Support Estate personnel in assisting/liaising with site customers and contractors.

6)    To work with all Estates Supervisors and managers in the management of Risks. This will     include working to agreed Risk Assessments and assisting in the development of     additional Risk Assessments.
7)    Advise the Head Gardener regarding plant and equipment failure, identify materials     required to complete tasks.
8)    Carry out all duties in a professional and conscientious manner.
9)     Wear The Christie NHSFT maintenance service uniform, identification badges and     personal protective equipment at all time.

Working for our organisation

The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.

We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years.

We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities


1)    Road sweeping, litter/debris, the emptying of bins across the main site and off-site properties by hand and with machinery. To complete daily and weekly maintenance and service tasks of clearing waste bins around the site.

2)    Gritting of footpaths and roads during adverse winter weather conditions.

3)    Participate in ad hoc local arrangements for snow clearing and gritting when weather conditions dictate outside out of hours working.

4)    Support Estate personnel

5)    To work with all Estates Supervisors and managers in the management of risks. This will include working to agreed Risk Assessments and assisting in the development of additional Risk Assessments.

6)    Advise the Head Gardener regarding plant and equipment failure, identify materials required to complete tasks.

7)    Carry out all duties in a professional and conscientious manner.

8)    Wear The Christie NHSFT maintenance service uniform, identification badges and personal protective equipment at all times.

9)    Carry out work in line with all trust policies including but not extensive to:

a.    Patient areas
b.    Working at heights
c.    Confined spaces
d.    Radiation controlled areas
e.    Hostile environments
f.    Permit-to-Work / Safe Systems of Work

10)    Undertake training where necessary to learn new techniques.

11)    To be skilled in the safe use of all relevant hand tools and equipment.

12)    Undertake training where necessary to learn new techniques.

13)    Have a clean full driver’s license and to undertake training to drive trust vehicles in relation to role. 

14)    Understand fully the inter-relationship between the various maintenance and facilities functions.

15)    Demonstrates the agreed set of values and accountable for own attitude and behaviour.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • GCSE Garde A-C or equivalent English & Maths
Desirable criteria
  • Knowledge of Gardening equipment: • Brush cutters • Trimmers • Health and Safety

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Able to demonstrate previous experience in a maintenance support role within a building/maintenance environment/team.
Desirable criteria
  • Previous experience in NHS building/maintenance, public facing environment/team.

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Basic practical skills in the use of • Access equipment • Hand tools • Power tools • PPE
Desirable criteria
  • Have undertaken a course in • Health and safety • Manual Handling

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Basic knowledge of Health & Safety regulations within the workplace.
Desirable criteria
  • Basic knowledge of IT systems

Values

Essential criteria
  • Ability to demonstrate the organisational values and behaviours.

Other

Essential criteria
  • Flexible approach to working within an acute patient Care Hospital, which may require being available for out of hours work. Be able to work alone or as part of a team.
Desirable criteria
  • Driving License

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Brodie Muir
Job title
Head of Technical Estates
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0161 918 7111
Additional information

07766780878

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