Job Introduction
What you’ll do
As one of the landscape services officers you will work closely with our contractors. You will make sure the day-to-day landscape services are delivered in line with the contractual timeframes. Focusing on the better places arm of our NHG making London home strategy you will drive the aesthetics on our estates. This will see you working across both elements of horticulture and arboriculture.
How you’ll do it
You will do this by spending a large amount of time on our sites with our contractors and residents. You will set clear guidelines around what is expected making sure the quality of work provides value for our residents and makes the green spaces as nice as possible. Through your close working with our contractors you will proactively target investment and increase biodiversity across the sites in your region. Your proactive inspections of sites will help generate actions plans for appropriate seasonal work all with the aim of providing better places to live.
The ideal candidate
We believe great service starts with great people, and we are committed to recruiting and developing passionate, enthusiastic, and talented individuals who can add value to our thriving organisation. Pending confirmation of legislative changes, this role may require a qualification to demonstrate competence. If not already qualified, there may be an expectation to study towards a professional qualification. The role is a great chance to build on an already existing passion for both customer services and horticulture. Training will be provided to support embedding knowledge picked up through experience though a qualification would be greatly received.
Essential:
- A passion for being outdoors with a good knowledge of plants, trees and landscape management
- Experience in contract management
- A drive to deliver excellent services for residents
Desirable:
- Appropriate qualification at level 2 or above in horticulture
- A good knowledge through qualifications or experience of arboriculture
What’s in it for you?
Once you join us, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to grow within our organisation. You’ll also have access to a wide range of learning opportunities to help you achieve and maximise your potential. Benefits include:
- Excellent annual leave allowance and flexible working opportunities (qualifying period may apply)
- Generous pension scheme
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay in addition to statutory entitlements (qualifying period may apply)
- Employee assistance - free confidential advice and counselling services provided by independent specialist organisations.
- Health cash plan
- Staff discounts - we give our staff access to discounts at hundreds of major retailers, gyms, restaurants, entertainment, days out, insurance, and much more.
- Interest free loans - season ticket loan, tenancy deposit loan, and training loan
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Life Assurance x 4 annual salary
All about us
Notting Hill Genesis is a not-for-profit organisation providing affordable homes for Londoners and it is now one of the largest housing associations in London. We are both a landlord and a developer, with more than 60,000 existing homes and 10,000 more in our pipeline and we employ around 1,500 staff.
For more information on what we do and what makes us different please visit:https://group.nhg.org.uk/careers/
We welcome applications from everyone. We actively monitor the diversity of our workforce and strive to show equal representation throughout all levels of the organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident employer amongst other diversity commitments.
To find out more about our approach to equality, diversity and inclusion please visit: https://group.nhg.org.uk/careers/diversity-is-our-strength/
Selection Process
Step 1: If you are interested, please send your application now! Closing date is 23 April.
Step 2: Successful candidates will be asked to do an assessment
Step 3: Successful candidates will be invited to interview
Please apply for this role online. If you are not able to apply online or if you have any reasonable adjustment requirements arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our hiring team via jobs@nhg.org.uk.
Should a redeployee apply for this role, their application will be considered before any others.
NHG reserves the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role, so we advise you to submit your application at your earliest opportunity.
