Application closing date

05/07/2026

Working Pattern

As specified

Salary

Grade H - £37,280 - £39,862 a year

Contractual hours

Basis

Full time

Job category/type

Parks / Gardens

Attachments

Blank

Job description

Salary: £37,280 - £39,862
Location: The Council House/Home Working
Hours: 37 hours a week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 05 July 2026

Do you have the skills to lead teams of Chargehands and Gardeners, as well working proactively with colleagues across the council and the city’s partners to support its overall successful future, maintaining and enhancing our parks and greenspaces within Derby. Then we would love to hear from you.

An opportunity has arisen for a Grounds Maintenance Officer to join the Parks and Greenspace Operations team. To ensure that services are delivered efficiently and effectively, the successful candidate must be able to lead and assist with managing transformation and change, ensuring that staff at all levels are involved in shaping the future of the service.

You will organise and manage grounds maintenance operations on Parks, Greenspaces and third-party sites such as Education and Health Care premises. Ensure that all operations are fully integrated with the work of other sections of Climate and Active Environments as well as other Streetpride services, promoting excellent service standards throughout in accordance with Derby City Councils specifications.

The Opportunity
In the role of Grounds Maintenance Officer, here’s an example of what you’ll be doing to make an impact:
Leading a team of gardeners and chargehands to deliver cyclical mowing, weed management programmes, empty homes clearance through our Derby Homes contract, ensuring health surveillance of the team is kept up to date and assist in the development of the team as well as your own personal development.

About You
To be successful in this role, you’ll ideally have...

3 years practical experience of all types of grounds maintenance work.
2 years’ experience in the supervision of grounds maintenance work.
Ability to understand site plans and documentation.
A good level of IT skills.
Thorough knowledge of health and safety issues and legislation relating to grounds maintenance work.
Willing to participate in emergency out of hours standby rota system.
NVQ Level 2 in Horticulture or equivalent.
Possession of a full UK driving licence.
Ensure that you work to the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion practices adopted by the Derby City Council in line with the Equality Act 2000.
Excellent leadership skills
Great and effective communication

Who We Are
Here at Derby City Council, we’re dedicated to delivering nearly 250 first-class services to citizens and businesses in the heart of the Midlands. People are at the centre of all that we do, and we have an outstanding track record of recruiting and developing talented individuals by providing them with varied and fulfilling career opportunities. Find out more about what it’s like to work for us.

What We Offer
You too could be part of something brilliant by becoming a colleague at Derby City Council; in addition to making a difference to the lives of people across the city, you’ll also receive:

Flexible work/life balance scheme (depending on your role)
Continued professional development opportunities & career conversations
27 days annual leave (rising to 32 days after 5 years' service), plus bank holidays (depending on contract)
Local Government Pension Scheme (depending on contract)
Team Derby Rewards – retail and leisure discounts
Tusker Car Benefit Scheme
Cycle2Work Scheme & free cycle training
Employee Assistance Programme, Wellbeing Calendar and Support
Access to our Equality Employee Networks – LGBTQ+, Disabled Employee Network & Carers and our Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic Employee Support Network and Neurodiversity Network
Support for colleagues who are carers

Next Steps

If you would like to apply for this vacancy via an application form, please submit an application via the Derby City Council website.

The closing date for this vacancy is at midnight on 5 July 2026. Any applications received after the closing date will not be accepted.

Interviews will be held in person at Stores Road depot on 16 July 2026.

If you would prefer to apply for this job using your CV, then please download the attached Declaration Form and send it to kiley.mcdonald@derby.gov.uk Without a completed declaration form, your application will not be accepted. We also encourage you to download the Equalities Form and return this to recruitment.team@derby.gov.uk, however this is optional and will not affect your application.

Important Information

Links to the full Job Description and Person Specification are below.

All employees will normally be appointed to the minimum of the grade for the job.

Remember to align your personal statement to the essential criteria in the Person Specification.

Please be aware that where there are colleagues within the organisation who are 'at risk' of redundancy, requirements to redeploy to another suitable role will apply and take priority.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. We recruit for diversity and value difference. As many of our roles can now be home-based, we are able to offer more opportunities for people who need this facility.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you are a disabled person, you have the choice to apply under our Guaranteed Interview Scheme so long as you demonstrate that you meet the essential requirements for the job.

We feel it is essential that we recruit a talented workforce that is as diverse as the community we work for.

Please let us know of any individual requirements or reasonable adjustments you may have during the application, interview, or onboarding process and we’ll do all we can to help. We strongly believe in social understanding of disability and for us it’s all about removing barriers to equality.

If you have any questions regarding this vacancy or are having difficulty applying, please contact our Recruitment Team on 01332 640844 (Relay UK - 18001 01332 640 844) or at recruitmentteam@derby.gov.ukhttps://www.derby.gov.uk/signing-service/

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