Grounds Maintenance Supervisor with Outwork

ABOUT TURNAROUND:

The Turnaround Project is a charity that aims:

• to work with people serving sentences in prison or in the community, helping them turn around their futures; and 
• to turn around the wider community, encouraging others to support people on their journey out of the justice system.

At the core of our model are transitional employment opportunities that we provide before and after people complete their sentences.  Those opportunities are provided within social enterprises established and run by the Turnaround Project.  Real training and real jobs, in real enterprises.  But transitional employment is different to conventional employment, with our enterprises providing a supportive environment that recognises the particular challenges faced by many of the people we exist to support.  That means we look for staff who we believe have the right mix of skill, empathy, flexibility and commitment that is necessary to make our enterprises a success. 

We need people who will work to make our enterprises a commercial success – we need to sustain our income if we are to provide people with jobs.  But we also need people who will share our determination to make the journey through our programme a success for our trainees and employees.  Like any other enterprise, we need to generate income.  But our most important bottom line is how many people we have supported to turn their lives around.

ABOUT OUTWORK:

Outwork is our grounds maintenance enterprise.  Outwork generally operates in crews of three trainees / staff working under an on-site Supervisor.  We deliver contracts for clients who want us to do as good a job – or better – as any other commercial provider. 

ABOUT THE JOB:

Our Grounds Maintenance Supervisors’ primary responsibility is to ensure Outwork’s work crews deliver for our customers. They ensure that when Outwork commits to delivering a contract, we do so.  That involves personal drive and commitment and utilising their skills and personality to get the very best out of the crew that they are leading on the ground.

The Supervisors are also responsible for ensuring that appropriate health and safety measures are in place and observed wherever Outwork’s work crews are deployed.

Working in a small organisation, the Supervisors are also required to work closely with the Director of the Turnaround Project to develop the enterprise and advise on relevant policies and procedures.

HOW TO APPLY:

The criteria that we will use to select candidates for the role of Grounds Maintenance Supervisor are set out in the Job Description.  Please read it in detail before applying. 

To apply for the role, please send a CV that clearly sets out your employment history and any relevant qualifications.  We will compare your employment history and experience with the criteria in the Job Description, so make sure that your CV includes enough detail about your current or previous roles to allow us to understand whether your experience matches what we are looking for.

Please email your CV to [email protected].