Grounds Maintenance Worker – Creating Great Places to Live

Salary £24,242 plus benefits

Location Bath

Contract Type Permanent: Full-Time

Grounds Maintenance Worker (Estates Services) – Creating Great Places to Live

£24,242 ¦ Bath ¦ Full Time

Permanent ¦ 37 hours per week (typically 7 AM to 3 PM, with some flexibility)

Closing date: Tuesday 15th April 2025

Your Pride. Our Spaces. Happy Communities.

At Curo, we take pride in creating clean, safe places where people want to live. Our estates and communal areas are the first thing residents see when they come home – and we need people who care about making that first impression count.

This hands-on role puts you at the heart of our communities. Working as part of a two-person team, you'll travel across our estates, keeping communal areas, parks and woodlands clean and tidy.

You'll meet our residents along the way and make their surroundings cleaner and safer each day.

What you'll be doing

Cleaning communal areas including stairwells, entrances and shared spaces
Performing reactive cleaning tasks to resolve specific complaints or issues
Removing bulk waste items like furniture and handling fly-tipping
Using power tools and equipment (pressure washers, strimmers) to clear things like leaves, moss and weeds
Performing specialist cleaning, including carpet cleaning and hazardous waste removal
Carrying out minor repairs like replacing bins, door locks or installing bike racks
Completing 5-6 jobs daily across your assigned area

What you'll get in return

Beyond a competitive salary and the chance to make a real difference every day, you'll get:

26 days annual leave per year (plus bank holidays) rising to 29 days after 3 years
Your birthday off as an extra holiday
Up to 10% matched pension contribution
Free parking at many of our locations
Flexible benefits which might include a Health Cash Plan
Access to an Employee Assistance Programme for your own wellbeing

More about you

Essential:

Experience in a customer-facing role where attention to detail matters
A full, clean driving license for travelling between locations
Ability to follow instructions and work as part of a team
Reliable attendance and good time management

Desirable:

Previous experience in cleaning, maintenance, gardening or similar hands-on roles
Knowledge of health and safety practices when using equipment
Basic familiarity with mobile devices (full training provided on our systems)

You'll primarily work in one of our service areas (Bath, Bristol, or Somerset), though you may occasionally support other areas. Your schedule will be provided in advance, with some flexibility to adjust start and finish times that work for your team.

We value transferable skills from various backgrounds - whether you've worked in retail, hospitality, warehousing, or other service roles, your customer service experience and practical skills could be perfect for this position.

We believe that diverse teams create better services for our diverse communities. Your unique perspective and experience will help us ensure our estates and communal areas are welcoming and accessible for everyone who calls them home.

About Curo

We're a leading South West housing association with social purpose at our heart. We provide affordable homes and create positive futures in our communities. We're proud to be among the UK's top 100 companies to work for, and the 5th best housing association nationwide.

We actively welcome applications from candidates who identify as disabled, LGBTQ+, from ethnic minority backgrounds, and from our Curo customers. We're committed to making our recruitment process accessible to everyone -- if you need any adjustments to help you apply or interview, please contact our recruitment team at recruitment@curo-group.co.uk

Would you like to have an informal discussion about the role?

Please contact Bogdan Dascalu on 07811998811.

About Curo

Curo is an organisation with social purpose at its heart. We provide affordable homes that help people find security and stability and a positive future. We’re one of the largest housing associations in the South West and an expanding house builder, using our profits to create more affordable housing in our communities.

Our values are at the core of how we work. We care about our colleagues and their wellbeing and recognise their sense of pride in the work they do to support our customers.

We’re proud to say that since 2016 we have been ranked by Best Companies as being in the UK's top 75 Large Companies to work for. We're also listed in the top 10 best housing associations to work for in the country, and among the top 25 best companies to work for in the South West!

One more thing

We provide homes and services to a community that is diverse. We recognise that we need to do more to ensure that the colleagues in our organisation better reflect and understand the community we serve and for that reason we particularly welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and abilities. We are a recognised ‘disability confident’ employer and we have also signed up to the Social Housing Anti-Racism Pledge (SHARP). We guarantee to interview all disabled, black or minority ethnic applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria for our vacancies.

If you need support to assist you to make an application or attend an interview, then please email our recruitment team at recruitment@curo-group.co.uk and we will be happy to help.