Our Values

It’s great to know that you are interested in working with us at Coventry City Council. As a prospective employee, it is important that everyone who works for us is committed to our One Coventry values and shares our commitment to becoming a more diverse and inclusive organisation. 

Our Values are:

About the team we are recruiting to

Coombe Country Park is set on the outskirts of Coventry on the Brinklow Road. It is managed as part of the Park Service for the city council. Coombe has won many awards for it’s quality and excellence in management, conservation, visitor experience and education. These include SSSI status for 40years, Green Flag (Park and Green spaces excellence award), Visit England visitor attraction quality scheme, Natural England’s Country Park Accreditation and Trip Advisor certificate of excellence for consistently high ratings in our customer reviews. Our staff provide high quality provision in terms of green space care, development and restoration based on an important site for biodiversity amongst the wider ancient woodland landscape setting and the cultural & heritage setting of listed building (Coombe Abbey Hotel). We are visitor focussed, family friendly and encourage visitors to explore the site for heritage and biodiversity.

What is the job role?

We are looking for someone to join our team as an Estate Assistant to support the maintenance of Coombe Abbey Park by undertaking various grounds maintenance, cleansing, and retail activities on site.

You will be ensuring a good visitor experience and will be assisting with improving standards and the continuous development of the site.

The main day-to-day duties of the role include:

• Patrol the park ensuring that visitors are able to fully enjoy its facilities.
• Carry out routine maintenance including clearing litter, cleaning, and basic horticultural tasks such as pruning leaves, clearing, and path edging.
• Actively promote Coombe's facilities through face-to-face interaction. Encouraging positive involvement with the site including providing information on things to see and how to get involved in activities and events.

This is a fixed-term contract until 30/09/2023.

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 response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

Who are we looking for?

To apply for this role you must have a full UK driving license and be available to work weekends on work on a rota basis.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Knowledge of basic maintenance and horticultural operations.
• Verbal communication skills - communicating with the general public, outside organisations and other employees, face to face and over the telephone.
• Able and willing to carry out routine cleaning work of Coombe's facilities.
• Able to lift and carry materials and resources.
• Experience of safe use of a variety of tools, e.g. strimmer, hedge cutter, bill hook, bowsaw, etc.

We need someone who is able and willing to work outside for long periods of time. In this role you may be asked to work bank holidays, weekends and for special events.

When applying for this role you will be asked to write a personal statement, when writing your personal statement please include the following:

1. ​An example of how you are customer focused
2. How you are able to work as part of a team, please give an example
3. Where you have had good attention for detail

For full details on the application process please read the attached document on our jobs page labelled 'Coventry City Council Application Process'

Interview date: 15 March 2023

About Coventry

Coventry has a proud, innovative and creative spirit that throughout its history has seen communities come together to tackle problems and bring about real social change.

We are cutting-edge, challenging, youthful, vibrant and diverse.

At Coventry we are committed to excellence in everything we do. With around 4800 staff from a range of different backgrounds, our aim is to recruit and develop talented people who will focus on our customers, take responsibility, work together and find better ways of doing things.

To deliver the best services to our residents, we need the best people working for us to make a difference to our communities.

If you join us, we will provide a fantastic rewards and benefits package - to find out more please visit https://www.coventry.gov.uk/council-vacancies

Coventry City Council