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Dragon School have an exciting opportunity for a Gardener to join their team.
Location: Oxford
Salary: Dependent on experience
Job Type: Part Time
Gardener - The Role:
Coinciding with the arrival of a new Head, this is an exciting time to be joining Dragon School. The successful candidate will be a key member of the Estates department.
To be part of a team providing a full range of Grounds services to the Dragon School. To maintain the grounds and gardens at both the Prep and Pre-Prep site including certain residential properties.
Gardener - Key Responsibilities:
- Lawn maintenance
- Maintaining the flower and rose beds, and all planters
- Maintaining hedges
- Weeding, Forking, mulching, watering, seed sowing, flower bed preparing and
planting, leaf blowing, path clearing, salt spreading and snow clearing
- Occasionally driving a school minibus in support of pupil transport requirements
- Carrying out other general, ad hoc grounds/estate duties, as directed by the Estates Bursar
and within capabilities; including working overtime to meet specific demands, at agreed
overtime rates
- Ensuring that all departmental (workshop and storage) areas are kept clean and tidy
at all times, and that appropriate tools/equipment are safely stored and serviceable,
and that the Estates Bursar is given adequate notice of the need to replenish stores
and equipment, including machinery repairs
- Assisting and overseeing contractors whilst on site, making sure they carry out their
works to the correct Health and Safety standards
- Ensuring, with the assistance of the Estates Bursar, that all machinery and tools are
serviced in accordance with published standards, and that records are maintained
- As required by the Estates Bursar, assisting in the performance of other “whole
team” duties occasionally undertaken by all members of the Estates team
- Complying with both statutory and School Health & Safety Policies and procedures,
maintaining records and control of substances covered by COSHH plus other
regulations. In particular, it is the post holder’s responsibility to ensure compliance
with all statutory and local instructions regarding use of tools and machinery,
wearing of protective clothing including footwear and ear defenders, working at
height, lifting and lone working
Gardener - You:
Essential
- Full driving license
- Minimum RSH level 2 or equivalent
- Safe Use of Pesticides
- Knapsack Sprayer
- PA1/PA6
- Formal Manual Handling
- Formal training in chainsaw use
- General Health and
- Safety awareness
- Knowledge gardening machinery
- Minimum of 3 years practical experience in a similar role
- Able to work unsupervised
- Excellent team worker
- Willingness to undertake a wide variety of tasks
- Understand and demonstrate willingness to promote positively equal opportunities outlined in School policies
- Ability to lift heavy goods
- Ability to work weekends as and when required
Desirable
- Driving license with minimum of D1
- Previous experience of working in a Prep School
Gardener - Benefits:
Pension
Support staff will automatically be enrolled into the School’s generous workplace
pension scheme.
Lunch
During term time School lunches are provided to staff.
Cycle to Work Scheme
Dragon School utilises the Cycle to Work Scheme which gives staff the option to
purchase a bike through the School and make payments back through their salary.
Death in Service
Eligible permanent employees are automatically enrolled into the School’s death in
service scheme. The benefit of this scheme is 3 x annual salary.
The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people
and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Applicants will be required to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including
checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
The closing date for completed applications is Monday 18th October 2021.
To submit your application for this exciting Gardener opportunity, please click ‘Apply’ now to be redirected to our careers page.
As Garden Development Manager, you’ll run Share Nurseries, our social enterprise that grows and sells plants to the public, and make sure it provides high-quality work experience for our horticulture students. You’ll maximise the huge potential to grow and develop the nurseries, bringing your passion, creative flair, and commercial sense.
This isn’t your everyday garden centre job. The Share garden is a beautiful hidden urban oasis, home also to our training programmes helping disabled people gain horticulture qualifications and enjoy the therapeutic benefits of gardening.
About Us
Share is a registered charity and a centre for training and wellbeing. We provide a range of programmes helping adults with learning disabilities, autism and other support needs live more independently. Our vision is a world where disabled people are fully included in society, living the life they choose, and we need talented people to help us make that happen.
About the role
You’ll deliver our ambitions plans for the garden, help us manage our resources and think about how we can engage with the public and local organisations. You’ll bring our teaching and social enterprise activities together in new and interesting ways.
Main responsibilities:
- You’ll work closely with our Head of Training to oversee and guide our educational and therapeutic gardening activities
- You’ll put Share Nurseries on the map, helping it become the garden centre of choice for our local community
- You’ll seek out and develop new opportunities to collaborate with other horticultural and environmental organisations, developing projects outside the garden
- You’ll use your vision to help shape our future and be a part of our exciting plans for growth as we redevelop the site
Your passion for social and therapeutic horticulture is plain to see. You truly understand how gardening has the power to improve physical and mental health, how it can help everyone, regardless of disability, age, or anything else.
Who we’re looking for
- You have excellent gardening knowledge and have worked in a community garden or similar setting before
- You have the drive and ambition to take our social enterprise to new heights, bringing fresh perspectives so we can keep providing first-class training to help people move towards employment
- You’re hands-on, driven to provide excellent customer service and care
- You’re a brilliant communicator and an inspiring leader, able to motivate others and help them reach their goals
- Most importantly, you understand people, you love working with diverse groups and you enjoy helping others thrive
For a full job description and person specification, please visit our website
Why work for us?
Share is committed to empowering disabled people. You’ll make a difference every day, helping people to live as independently as possible.
Our values drive us forward. They provide the framework for everything we do, including who we hire. We believe everyone has something to offer others, and we build on people's individual talents, interests and abilities. We think happy employees are successful employees.
We won employer of the year at the Wandsworth Business Awards in 2019 and we hold gold Investors in People accreditation. This means we truly understand the value of people: we focus on what people can do, not what holds them back. And we have robust policies in place so that every single person working at Share takes ownership for making our programmes come to life.
We’ve been praised for our thorough induction process and supportive working environment where everyone has a voice and is valued. You’ll be surrounded by people who support you, challenge you, and inspire you.
How to apply
To apply please visit our website
You can also download and complete the application form below, and send it to us via email.
We positively welcome applications from all parts of the community and from people with diverse cultural backgrounds and lived experience.
This job is subject to two satisfactory references, evidence of qualifications, an enhanced DBS check and providing evidence of the right to work in the UK. If you are disabled and would like to discuss other ways of submitting your application, please get in touch
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We’re looking for a new leader of our Housing and Property team to help bring a 400 year old charity to the forefront of 21st century best practice with an emphasis on the wellbeing of residents, including residents in our decision making and introducing new technologies to improve outcomes and run operations more effectively.
Responsibilities include overseeing the management of two sheltered housing schemes containing 91 flats, a small investment property portfolio, a small in-house team of Scheme Managers and gardeners and a varied team of external contractors.
About you
The ideal candidate will have a successful track record in a similar role and be proficient in all aspect of running a safe and efficient housing operation. You will have a good working knowledge of promoting independence, inclusion and wellbeing. You will have excellent leadership skills, good judgement and be a confident and robust decision maker. You will be up to date with relevant digital developments for housing and willing to embrace technological change. We are looking for an effective communicator, able to take the lead, build consensus and move everyone forward together at the right pace
All candidates will be required to undertake a DBS Check.
Please complete the Application Form and send along with your CV by 5 pm Weds 28th October. We anticipate that first interviews will be held online during week commencing 8th November, with in-person second interviews week commencing 22 November.
This is an exciting time to join APIL’s executive committee members who are committed to injured people. You will help to deliver key aspects of our challenging and visionary new strategic plan, ‘Building a Brighter Future for Injured People’.
We want to build a larger and more diverse community of lawyers committed to injured people. We strive to do our best for our members so that they are happy, engaged advocates of our Association, committed to excellence through ongoing professional development.
About APIL
The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) has been fighting for the rights of injured people since 1990. A not-for-profit campaign organisation, APIL’s 3,000 + member lawyers (mainly solicitors, barristers and legal executives) are committed to protecting and enhancing access to justice, improving the services provided for victims of personal injury, and campaigning to change the law wherever appropriate.
Over the years APIL has grown to become the leading, most respected organisation in this field, constantly working to promote and develop expertise in the practise of personal injury law, for the benefit of injured people.
As a unique voice for injured people it is essential that, as the beneficiaries of our campaigning work, they have a say in what we do and how we do it. Therefore in 2021 we brought forward a special resolution to enable lay persons to join the Executive Committee alongside lawyers.
About the role
We are looking to recruit our first Lay EC Member this year. The term of office is three years, with the possibility of an extension to that term, at the discretion of the EC.
Remuneration is an honorarium of £500 per EC meeting (4 x EC meetings a year); plus expenses in accordance with APIL’s travel and subsistence policy.
APIL holds four executive committee meetings a year, currently in virtual format. It is envisaged that the meetings will move to a hybrid format when safety permits. In addition, the Lay EC member will be expected to assist with some working parties convened to work on and/or respond to government consultations or other policy areas of work.
Person Specification
We are particularly interested in candidates who fit the following criteria:
Essential
- Has experienced personal injury, either to themselves or members of their family;
- A commitment to APIL’s aims and objectives;
- Good, independent judgement and the ability to think creatively;
- Good communication and interpersonal skills;
- Strategic and forward-looking vision in relation to APIL’s aims and objectives;
- Active commitment to equality and diversity;
- Not a personal injury lawyer;
- Free from conflicts of interest.
Desirable
- Has knowledge of and experience with the not-for-profit sector.
- Has experience of working within a committee structure;
- Demonstrates skills which are of assistance to the association.
We are looking for an individual who shares our vision for the future to help injured people not only within the litigation process, but in respect of rehabilitation and injury prevention. We are also keen to broaden the diversity of the EC to include people from a range of backgrounds and different life experiences, who support our commitment to equality and diversity.
The closing date for applications is 5 pm Friday 29th October 2021.
To apply, please download our recruitment pack and recruitment monitoring form from this site and submit:
- A detailed CV of no more than 2,000 words;
- A supporting statement, of no more than 500 words, describing how you meet the criteria in the Person Specification outlined in the recruitment pack. Please provide examples of where your knowledge and experience match the required criteria;
- Full contact details for two referees;
- Completed recruitment monitoring form,
How to Apply:
Please download our recruitment pack and recruitment monitoring form and submit:
1. A detailed CV of no more than 2,000 words;
2. A supporting statement, of no more than 500 words, describing how you meet the criteria in the Person Specification outlined in the recruitment pack. Please provide examples of where your knowledge and experience match the required criteria;
3. Full contact details for two referees;
4. Completed recruitment monitoring form.
Following the instructions in the recruitment pack.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.