Green Team Supervisor

Location: London

Salary: £30,000 - £31,500 per annum

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full Time

Closing Date: 11^th May 2026

Are you passionate about horticulture, landscaping and would you like to introduce trainees into the industry? If so, we’d love you to join us at London’s leading community and environmental charity.

You will liaise with our clients for these contracts and support the Green Team Programme Manager in the development of new contracts and relationships. And that our long-term unemployed trainees are offered the best opportunity to develop their skills and experience to enable them enter horticulture roles within Green and Open Space programmes and initiatives.

Please contact us if you:

• Have a strong track record of delivering gardening and grounds maintenance contracts.
• Can demonstrate the ability to lead a small team and put our trainees at the heart of our service delivery and support their progression into careers in the industry.
• Have the ability to build and maintain great client relationships.

Job Background:

The role sits within Groundwork London’s Green Team, and as such plays an important role in our mission to deliver excellent horticultural and landscaping services alongside offering the best opportunity for unemployed Londoners to develop their skills and experience to enter long term roles within the green space sector.  

Working to the Green Team Operations Manager, the Green Team Supervisor is responsible for delivering our programme of grounds maintenance and landscaping project & contracts. Our work includes: domestic gardens for vulnerable residents: maintenance of public open space; historic gardens maintenance; improvements to community green spaces and allotments.

Main Objectives:

• Delivery of high quality grounds maintenance & landscaping projects across the sites and contracts held by Groundwork.  Ensuring all tasks are delivered on time and to specification.
• Supervision and on-the-job training for trainees assigned to your projects and contracts.
• Maintaining good working relationships with our clients.

Key Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Oversee the delivery of all scheduled tasks, responsive and ad hoc tasks associated with the projects / contracts assigned to you. Ensuring they are completed according to best practice.
• Ensure total compliance with Health and Safety, including completion of all RAMS for all activities; ensuring they are fully documented; ensure they are read, understood, signed and adhered to by all staff and trainees; supporting the Operations Manager to regularly review safe working practices.
• Maintain strong and cooperative working relationships with The Green Team’s clients, visitors to site and members of the public.    
• To assist the Operations Manager and the Green Team Project Support Officer to ensure that any we collect and provide all performance information required by our clients and the Trust.   

Other Responsibilities:

• Undertake any other related responsibilities commensurate with the evolving objectives of the post and the evolution of the Trust, as may reasonably be requested by the Programme Manager.
• Work with due regard for Groundwork’s core values and objectives
• Ensure the effective implementation of and adherence to, the Trust’s Diversity, Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety and Environmental Management System.

Personal & Professional Development:

• Participate in the Groundwork London Performance Management and Appraisal process, and agree short, medium and long term goals with line manager, and with direct line staff.
• Identify learning and development needs with line manager and evaluate T&D to demonstrate needs have been met.
• Share best practice and achievements, and actively seek opportunities to present outcomes and case studies.
• Contribute to the learning of others across the organisation by sharing knowledge and skills both informally and formally by participating in the trust’s training and development programme

To Apply

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