Job Description
About The Role
Bradford City Football Club seek to appoint a Grounds Person to support the pitches and facilities at the Club’s training ground. With prior relevant work experience in a similar role the successful applicant to this full-time post will understand the need of integrating well into an established staff team. This role includes working unsociable hours and involves manual handing, the use of machinery, chemicals and fertilizers.
- Job title: Grounds Person
- Location: BD10 0NR.
- Department: Operations.
- Responsible to: Head Grounds Person.
PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES:
To ensure that training ground facilities are maintained to a consistent professional standard that support and enhance first team activities.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITES:
Main Duties:
- Maintain the quality of playing surfaces across both pitches at the training complex.
- Manage training pitch preparations including marking, mowing, and overall presentation.
- Monitor pitch usage and implement strategies to minimise wear and tear.
- Operate and maintain all grounds machinery and equipment to a high standard.
- Maintain a regular service schedule and report any equipment issues promptly.
- Ensure all practices comply with relevant health and safety regulations.
- Conduct regular risk assessments across all relevant locations.
- Maintain records of chemical applications, servicing, and training.
- Liaise with coaching staff to coordinate pitch availability and schedules.
- Provide pitch condition reports and weather forecasts as required.
- Identify and implement sustainable practices in ground management.
- Remain up to date with industry innovations, technology, and best practices.
Other requirements:
- Be an active, engaged and effective member of the staff team.
- Develop positive working relationships with key stakeholders across the Club.
- Act as an ambassador of the Club, promoting a positive image in all that you do.
- As requested by your Line Manager, or members of the football management department, undertake all other reasonable duties.
About The Candidate
ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS:
- Previous experience managing sports pitches within a professional/elite sport or high performance sporting environment
- Understanding of drainage and irrigations systems
- Good knowledge of sports turf maintenance machinery and techniques
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Able to multi task and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Able to adapt and react positively to changes in planned activities/routines.
- Able to work flexibly accepting that working days and hours will be largely driven by the needs of the football management team.
- A full UK driving licence.
- Committed to undertake self-development to ensure knowledge and skills remain current, as techniques and technologies evolve.
DESIRABLE EXPERIENCE & SKILLS:
- Previous experience of working within professional football
- Previous experience of ‘working well’ in a multi-disciplinary environment as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
About The Club
RIGHT TO WORK:
SAFEGUARIDNG STATEMENT:
We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and adults at risk and require all our staff, workers, volunteers and contractors to share this commitment, and to promote the welfare of these groups at all times. Staff, workers, volunteers and contractors will, depending on their role at the Club, need to return a satisfactory basic or enhanced disclosure from a DBS check, with barred list checks as appropriate. Many roles are exempt from Section 4(2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and require applicants without exception to disclose any previous convictions, cautions, reprimands, including those that are considered ‘spent’ as defined by the Rehabilitation Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amended 2013).
EQUALITY STATEMENT:
We take pride in being an equal opportunity workplace, It is our hope that our workplace reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Our Core values foster a strong ethical culture, enabling us to meet the needs of our diverse audience, on and off the pitch. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, and marriage or civil partnership.
YOUR DATA & PRIVACY:
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You have the right to access the personal data that we hold about you. We treat personal data collected during the recruitment process in accordance with our Data Protection Policy. Information about how your data is used and the basis for processing your data is provided in our Job Application Privacy Notice.
MODERN SLAVERY STATEMENT:
Modern slavery is a crime and a violation of fundamental human rights. It takes various forms, such as slavery, servitude, forced and compulsory labour and human trafficking, all of which have in common the deprivation of a person’s liberty by another in order to exploit them for personal or commercial gain. We are committed to acting ethically and with integrity in all our business relationships and have a zero-tolerance approach to modern slavery. In our continued efforts to achieve this we have sought to implement and enforce effective systems and controls to ensure modern slavery and other forms of unethical activities are not taking place anywhere in our own business or in any of our supply chains.
