Ground Maintenance & Bulk Operative

Join Southern Housing and help us create communities where everyone has a safe home in a place they’re proud to live.

We’re looking for a dedicated and physically fit Grounds Maintenance & Bulk Collection Operative to join our team. This is a hands-on role where you’ll be responsible for maintaining and enhancing our estates and neighbourhoods through high-quality grounds maintenance and bulk clearance services.

You’ll need to be comfortable working outdoors in all weather conditions and capable of undertaking physically demanding tasks, including manual heavy lifting you will be assigned to work across our estates in Bracknell or Reading.

To be successful in this role you will need to have a full clean UK driving license

What you’ll be doing

• Carry out a range of tasks required for grounds maintenance including, but not limited to, weeding, dead heading, hoeing, planting, pruning, cutting, and watering communal beds.
• Cut and maintain lawns and grass areas to a variety of finishes (fine to rough meadow type) using a variety of machines, including pedestrian operated, tractors & ride-on mowers, strimmer’s, and brush cutters, and including fertilizer and pesticide application.
• Use and operate a variety of tools, machinery, and equipment, in accordance with Group and manufacturers guidelines, in order to fulfil duties.
• Plan and execute small scale landscaping operations, as directed, to enhance the appearance of our communal grounds.

What you’ll need

• Experience of undertaking ground maintenance duties
• Have previously undertaken bulk, clearance duties.
• Basic knowledge and understanding of health and safety considerations as they apply to this role.
• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate well with residents, external agencies, and resident organisations.
• Work under your own initiative, with the team and under instruction.
• Able to plan and prioritise to ensure the effective use of own time.
• A valid UK Driving Licence with category C1 and the ability to drive company vehicles as and when required.

In your supporting statement, it is important that you address how you meet each of the above criteria providing real examples.

Closing date: Tuesday 2nd September 2025 at 23:59

Shortlisting: From 3rd September 2025

Interview: W/c 8th September 2025

Please note we reserve the right to close this position early, if we receive a high amount of applications.

About us

At Southern Housing, our residents are at the heart of everything we do. As one of the largest housing providers in the UK with over 77,000 homes across London, the Southeast, the Isle of Wight, and the Midlands, we give over 167,000 people somewhere affordable to call their own! We also understand the difference that safe, secure, and affordable homes can make to people’s lives.

A career at Southern Housing will allow you to make a difference every day you come to work. Working in the housing sector with us will bring fresh challenges and give you the opportunity to grow and develop, too.