6644 - Grounds Maintenance - HMP Send
| Posting date: | 11 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £27,040 to £28,472 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 June 2025 |
| Location: | Woking, Surrey |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Ministry of Justice |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6644 |
Summary
Introduction to the role:
HMP Send is a closed female prison close to Woking, Surrey and has an operational capacity of 255 prisoners. We take great pride in the grounds that we live and work in and it is often complimented on by visitors to Send. We have also had great success at the Guildford in Bloom gardening competition.
This role offers a rarely available opportunity to join this proud and award winning team, working closely with other members of the horticulture team, which also offers qualifications in horticulture to our prisoners.
Responsibilities, Activities and Duties:
The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:
• Carry out soft landscaping - turf laying and hard landscaping – laying patio stones • Maintain establishment’s grounds and amenity areas including maintenance of lawns, ponds, water features and external grounds to the establishment including woodland
• Work inside/outside establishment grounds: cutting, mowing and maintaining areas in accordance with accepted practice
• Maintain sports fields, as per agreed plan, with both the Land based Activities Manager and PE Department
• Carry out pest control preventative measures across area of responsibility • Undertake small project work as advised/requested: including soft and hard landscape development and erection of horticultural support structures where the situation warrants
• Maintain correct soil husbandry, ensuring all stages of crop development are followed in accordance with good horticultural practice
• Maintain the growing plant/crop to ensure optimum development and/or cropping, ensuring that the plants needs are fully met • Provide safe access and exits to the estate
• Supervise prisoners parties and undertake quality control over their work, as agreed within the Service Delivery Agreement (SDA) Undertake other trades tasks to:
• Ensure allocated planned maintenance and small repairs are carried out, undertaking service requests raised by computer aided facilities management system
• Undertake survey inspections in confined spaces and at height, recording all work and completing associated registers/logs
• Carry out project work as required
• 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. OR-JES-420-JD-B3 : SD : Grounds Maintenance v8.0
• Escort technical contractors as required, working with and supervising them in accordance with Local Security Strategy (LSS)
• Maintain regular communications via radio net in accordance with the LSS.
• Undertake the role of banksman, directing the operation of plant equipment and/or machinery
• 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)
• Comply with all Health and Safety policies, procedures and legislation to ensure statutory and mandatory compliance.
• Drive estates vehicles and operate plant equipment
• Carry out locking duties as required
• Operate within command mode in line with local contingency plans
• Undertake incidental and emergency or urgent tasks and assignments as per Service Delivery Agreement timescales, in a safe manner
• Assemble products on site as required
• 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
HMP Send is a closed female prison close to Woking, Surrey and has an operational capacity of 255 prisoners. We take great pride in the grounds that we live and work in and it is often complimented on by visitors to Send. We have also had great success at the Guildford in Bloom gardening competition.
This role offers a rarely available opportunity to join this proud and award winning team, working closely with other members of the horticulture team, which also offers qualifications in horticulture to our prisoners.
Responsibilities, Activities and Duties:
The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:
• Carry out soft landscaping - turf laying and hard landscaping – laying patio stones • Maintain establishment’s grounds and amenity areas including maintenance of lawns, ponds, water features and external grounds to the establishment including woodland
• Work inside/outside establishment grounds: cutting, mowing and maintaining areas in accordance with accepted practice
• Maintain sports fields, as per agreed plan, with both the Land based Activities Manager and PE Department
• Carry out pest control preventative measures across area of responsibility • Undertake small project work as advised/requested: including soft and hard landscape development and erection of horticultural support structures where the situation warrants
• Maintain correct soil husbandry, ensuring all stages of crop development are followed in accordance with good horticultural practice
• Maintain the growing plant/crop to ensure optimum development and/or cropping, ensuring that the plants needs are fully met • Provide safe access and exits to the estate
• Supervise prisoners parties and undertake quality control over their work, as agreed within the Service Delivery Agreement (SDA) Undertake other trades tasks to:
• Ensure allocated planned maintenance and small repairs are carried out, undertaking service requests raised by computer aided facilities management system
• Undertake survey inspections in confined spaces and at height, recording all work and completing associated registers/logs
• Carry out project work as required
• 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. OR-JES-420-JD-B3 : SD : Grounds Maintenance v8.0
• Escort technical contractors as required, working with and supervising them in accordance with Local Security Strategy (LSS)
• Maintain regular communications via radio net in accordance with the LSS.
• Undertake the role of banksman, directing the operation of plant equipment and/or machinery
• 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)
• Comply with all Health and Safety policies, procedures and legislation to ensure statutory and mandatory compliance.
• Drive estates vehicles and operate plant equipment
• Carry out locking duties as required
• Operate within command mode in line with local contingency plans
• Undertake incidental and emergency or urgent tasks and assignments as per Service Delivery Agreement timescales, in a safe manner
• Assemble products on site as required
• 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