Job summary
- Main area
- Estates
- Grade
- Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Winter Gritting On Call Rota)
- Job ref
- 205-7854868
- Employer
- University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Stoke University Hospital
- Town
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Salary
- £24,465 Per annum + R & R Premium 8%
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Estates Gardener
Band 2
Job overview
Please note, we are unable to provide sponsorship for this role due to the required Skill Level and salary threshold.
The University of North Midlands is looking to recruit an Estates Gardener to work within the Estates Team at Royal Stoke University Hospital.
You will be keen and enthusiastic working within a large team to assist in the provision of a high level of service to the hospital. Your duties will include carrying out Grounds & Gardening maintenance and to be part of the winter Gritting On Call Rota for the hospital.
Main duties of the job
The candidate will ideally have experience of Grounds & Gardening Maintenance. It's essential that you are an effective team worker, with the ability to provide support to other colleagues within the Estates Department.
Working for our organisation
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.
All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.
UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.
At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more information on working for the Trust, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification, or contact the hiring manager for further details about this vacancy using the contact details below.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Meets the essential criteria of the job description
Desirable criteria
- Meets the desirable criteria of the job description
Working Experiance
Essential criteria
- Meets the essential criteria of the job description
Desirable criteria
- Meets the desirable criteria of the job description
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Mr Marc Porter
- Job title
- Estates Services Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01782676575
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