Salary: Please state your expectations within your application
Contract: Full Time, 42 hours a week
Location: The Nigel Doughty Academy, Nottingham, NG2 7SR
Department: Pitch Performance
Reporting to: Pitch Performance Manager
Closing Date For Applications: 1st August 2025
About the Role:
Joining the Pitch Performance department as a Skilled Groundsman, based at the club’s Training Ground. Prepare and maintain all the football pitches and playing surfaces at The Training Ground in line with industry standards. Maintain all surrounding areas of pitches and any other designated area as reasonably requested.
The Pitch Performance department plays a key role in ensuring the club’s professional players have the best surfaces possible to perform in both training and in matches.
The Perks of the Job:
- Opportunity to access tickets for events at The City Ground.
- Employee Assistance Programme.
- Access to high street and gym discounts.
- Discount within our Club shop.
- Free on-site parking.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Assist the Pitch Performance Manager/Deputy in the preparation, presentation and maintenance of all playing surfaces and football pitches at the Training Ground.
- Ensure all areas are maintained and kept to the highest professional and industry standards.
- Undertake all grounds management duties including but not limited to cutting, mowing, line marking, aerating, devoting, spraying, fertiliser and sand application, strimming and rotary mowing, and grooming of artificial surfaces.
- Drive ride on mowers, tractors and using all associated attachments and implements responsibly, verti-draining and multi-coring.
- Keep surrounding areas and Ground storage areas, etc tidy.
- Wear any personal protective equipment provided, and comply with all Health and Safety guidelines, working in a manner not to cause injury or harm to yourself or anyone else, or the property of the Club.
What are we looking for:
- Demonstrable experience in working as a grounds person preferably within a sporting institution.
- NVQ Level 2 in Sports Turf Grounds Maintenance essential. Level 3 beneficial.
- Pa1, Pa6 & Pa2 spraying qualification an advantage.
- Experience of driving relevant vehicles such as tractors and ride on mowers.
- Excellent timekeeping, attendance and is reliable.
- Dedicated to working to the highest standard at all times, displays a positive attitude, is discrete and trustworthy.
- Resilient and comfortable working outdoors.
- Excellent physical fitness including the ability to walk up to 6 miles at any one time and to lift goods of up to 25kg without the use of manual handling equipment.
Forest For Everyone
We aim to create a culture which embraces and celebrates our differences, enables individuals to feel comfortable, maximise their potential and eliminate discrimination.
Nottingham Forest Football Club is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, marital / civil partnership status, pregnancy / maternity leave, race, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected characteristic.
Nottingham Forest Football Club is a signatory of the FA’s Football Leadership Diversity Code. We are committed to developing policies to promote equal opportunities and diversity within our workforce. To monitor our progress against these commitments, we require all applicants to provide accurate diversity data during the application process.
Disability Confident Committed Employer
We are a Disability Confident Committed employer. We encourage applications from people with disabilities and long-term health conditions. If you need disability-related adjustments to the recruitment process, please indicate this in your application.
If you are likely to meet the definition of being a "disabled person" according to the Equality Act 2010, you may be eligible to apply for an interview via the Disability Confident Scheme - please indicate this in your application form below. The information you share with us about your health or disability will not be used in recruitment selections.
Our Commitment to Safeguarding
As part of the Club’s commitment to safeguarding, the successful applicant may be required to undergo a Disclosure Barring Service (“DBS”) check or an enhanced DBS check. The results of a DBS check will be considered on an individual basis, and the Club will act in a proportionate manner when deciding whether or not to proceed with the appointment.
An FA Enhanced DBS disclosure is required for all relevant new appointments to the Club. Individuals will be asked to declare any convictions, cautions or reprimands, warnings or bind-overs that may have been incurred. The Club reserves the right to carry out risk assessments where content has been disclosed on a DBS disclosure if it feels that it is relevant to the job requirements. Failure to satisfy the Club and the PL's safeguarding requirements may lead to the job offer being withdrawn or, if they have already started employment, summary termination of the employment.
