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About Us
With around 150 colleagues we're small enough to be friendly and large enough to give you scope to develop and progress your career. Our Head Office is in Sutton Town Centre with great transport links and we have hubs where colleagues work and engage with residents all over the borough.
At SHP our strength and depth lies primarily in the knowledge, experience and commitment of our colleagues and their ability to deliver really excellent services to residents. As a landlord organisation this means enabling families and households to be successful, sustain their tenancy and lead healthy and rewarding lives. All colleagues can access a bespoke personal development plan with a blend of on and off the job training provided.
About The Role And Our Ideal Candidate
Sutton Housing Partnership is looking for a Tree and Voids Officer to join our organisation.
The candidate will have to carry out tree inspection duties, work within the tree team daily to ensure work is carried out efficiently and undertake specified climbing arboricultural duties, including tree pruning, aerial rescue, dismantling and felling etc. Assessment and pricing of void garden and residential garden clearances. Plan and manage workload within the arboriculture team, supervise and monitor the work of colleagues on site to ensure work is carried out safely and to proper standards,
Requirement For The Role
- Experience working within an arboricultural operations team
- City and guilds CS30, CS32, CS38, CS39, CS41.
- C1 driving licence
- PTI qualification
- ABC Level 2 Arboriculture qualification
Our offer
Colleagues at SHP take pride in delivering on our priorities and find working with us hugely rewarding. In turn, we strive to reward our colleagues fairly and roles are regularly reviewed to ensure pay reflects the responsibilities of the individual in line with our seven pay bands.
Colleagues are encouraged to work flexibly, a good work-life balance is key for us and our key benefits are:
- Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme – a career average scheme where employees contribute between 5.5% and 12% but more importantly we as the employer make a generous contribution.
- Annual leave of either 26 or 33 days per year plus paid time off on bank holidays.
- Simply Health Cash Plan which allows colleagues to claim cashback on dental, optical, consultations and scans.
- Confidential support from a 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme.
Application process
Before applying please refer to the job profile and ensure you meet the essential criteria. You will then need to complete the online application form, adding a supporting statement addressing how you meet the criteria outlined in the job profile.
Sutton Housing Partnership is an accredited Disability Confident Employer. We are signed up to the government’s Disability Confident scheme and have been recognised as a Disability Confident Employer since 2017. We guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the advertised role and ensure that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.
Important Information - Criminal Records
This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory result to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) helps employers make safer recruitment decisions and prevent unsuitable people from working with vulnerable groups, including children. It replaces the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) and Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA).
