Head Groundsperson

Full-time, permanent, 52 weeks per year, 40 hours per week We are seeking a Head Groundsperson to assist the Grounds and Gardens Manager in maintaining the highest standards of playing surfaces, sports and amenity surfaces for the College. You will use your technical expertise and detailed operational expertise to ensure safe and consistent quality playing surfaces are always available as required. This position will deputise in the absence of the Grounds Manager. Working alongside the Head Gardener, you will support the wider to team to achieve their objectives. You will also assist the team at St Neots preparatory school, as required, to support the success of the LWC Group. Please be aware this is a physically demanding and active post. We offer a great range of staff benefits including:

• Contributory pension scheme
• Fee remission for children
• Enhanced family friendly policies including support for emergency time off for dependants
• State-of-the-art, restaurant-quality hot and cold food available (complementary)
• Death in service scheme - 4 times your annual salary
• Friends and Family referral scheme (£250 for each referral)
• Give as you earn and staff volunteering day
• Use of wide-ranging school facilities - swimming pool, tennis, walks, trails etc
• Excellent social and sporting events for staff within the school
Should you wish to discuss the role in strict confidence, please feel free to contact Lidia Pocock, Director of Estates, by email: pocockl@lordwandsworth.org Closing date: midnight on Sunday, 13th October 2024. Interview date: Tuesday, 22nd October 2024. We welcome people of all faiths and those that are committed to these values. We recognise that we have under-represented groups within our workforce. As part of our commitment to diversity and equality of opportunity we are actively encouraging applications from underrepresented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions and those with a lived experience of poverty as well as any other under-represented group in our workforce. We are committed to ensuring the safety and protection of our employees from all forms of harm. Appointments will be made subject to receipt of satisfactory references and enhanced DBS check. The College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people. The successful applicant will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Services (DBS) check and references. We are an equal opportunities employer.

We offer a great range of staff benefits including:
• Contributory pension scheme
• Fee remission for children
• Enhanced family friendly policies including support for emergency time off for dependants
• State-of-the-art, restaurant-quality hot and cold food available (complementary)
• Death in service scheme - 4 times your annual salary
• Friends and Family referral scheme (£250 for each referral)
• Give as you earn and staff volunteering day
• Use of wide-ranging school facilities - swimming pool, tennis, walks, trails etc
• Excellent social and sporting events for staff within the school