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The Vales
The Vales
Think mellow stone villages and fluorescent countryside, packed with ancient castles and magnificent historical homes
Situated in the south-west region of Lincolnshire, The Vales offers towns such as Grantham, Bourne, Stamford and Market Deeping. Think mellow stone villages and fluorescent countryside, packed with ancient castles and magnificent historical homes such as Burghley House, one of the largest and grandest houses of the first Elizabethan Age.
Boasting excellent links to London, growing towns and a thriving economy with a host of job opportunities from engineering to digital, this is a beautiful area.
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There are hundreds of different jobs you could do in Lincolnshire. Here are just a few …

Training Manager
Training managers arrange and run training programmes in organisations.
Training Manager
Role Description
Entry requirements
You’ll usually need experience as a training officer.
A degree or postgraduate qualification in business studies, human resources or communications might be useful.
Other qualifications which may help are:
training qualifications offered by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)
qualifications in teaching or lecturing in further education (FE)
skills assessor or verifier awards
You could get into this job through an apprenticeship.
Skills required
You’ll need:
the ability to relate to staff at all levels
excellent communication and negotiating skills
the ability to coach people and give constructive feedback
presentation skills
IT skills
What you'll do
You’ll design and coordinate training that covers your organisation's present and future needs.
Your day-to-day duties could include:
identifying priorities and drawing up training plans
producing training materials
working with external providers to develop specialist courses
managing and leading a team
updating training records
writing reports, keeping records, and working within budgetsmaking sure training is cost-effective
In a smaller organisation you may also deliver some of the training.
Salary
Starter: £18,000 to £22,000
Experienced: £30,000 to £40,000
Highly Experienced: £45,000 or more
These figures are a guide
Working hours, patterns and environment
You’ll usually work 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday. You may need to be flexible, to cover things like residential courses or workshops, or work shifts.
You’ll be office-based, but may travel between company sites or to training venues like hotels or conference centres.
Career path and progression
With experience and contacts, you could become a freelance trainer or consultant.

Salary Guide
Minimum: £30000
Maximum: £45000

Production worker (manufacturing)
Production workers manufacture goods and parts in industries like pharmaceuticals, food and drink, construction and engineering.
Production worker (manufacturing)
Role Description
1. Entry requirements
There are no set entry requirements, but some employers may ask for a good standard of general education.
Some employers may prefer you to have previous experience on a production line, and forklift training could be useful for some jobs.
You may have to take a test to assess your practical skills.
You could get into this job through an apprenticeship.
2. Skills required
You’ll need:
- good practical skills
- the ability to work quickly and methodically
- the ability to concentrate while doing repetitive tasks
- the ability to follow instructions
3. What you'll do
Your day-to-day tasks may include:
- measuring, grading and feeding batches of raw materials into production machinery
- operating production line equipment, like a conveyor line in a canning factory
- assembling goods on a production line, like fitting circuit boards into computers
- reporting equipment faults to maintenance staff
- finishing products, for example applying protective coatings
- monitoring the production process and carrying out basic testing and quality checks
- storing goods and raw materials in the factory or warehouse
- using lifting equipment and forklift trucks
- packing goods ready for shipment
- cleaning and maintaining work areas and machinery
You’ll usually work as part of a team under the supervision of a shift leader, carrying out several tasks within the same shift.
4. Salary
Starter: £14,000 to £17,000
Experienced: £18,000 to £20,000
You may get extra payments for unsocial shifts and overtime, and productivity bonuses.
These figures are a guide.
5. Working hours, patterns and environment
You’ll usually cover a variety of shifts, including days, nights and weekends. Overtime is often available.
You’ll mainly work in a factory on a production line. You may spend a lot of your time standing while operating machinery, or sitting at a workbench or assembly line.
You’ll usually wear protective clothing, like overalls and safety shoes.
6. Career path and progression
With experience, you could be promoted to shift supervisor or move into quality control.

Salary Guide
Minimum: £14000
Maximum: £20000

Sales assistant
Sales assistants sell products and help customers.
Sales assistant
Role Description
↵You might work in a supermarket, a department store, a garden centre, a small independent shop or one that's part of a chain. You'll be:
- serving and advising customers
- arranging goods in displays and on shelves
- rotating and replacing stock
- promoting extra products
- taking cash and card payments and making sure the till balances
- dealing with returns
- meeting sales targets

Salary Guide
Minimum: £11000
Maximum: £25000

Secondary School teacher
Secondary school teachers educate young people aged 11 to 16, and up to age 19 in schools with sixth forms.
Secondary School teacher
Role Description
You'll need:
- the ability to inspire and motivate
- the ability to manage classes and deal with challenging behaviour
- creativity to design activities and materials
- IT, organisational and planning skills
What you'll do
Most teaching jobs are in state schools and academies, but you could also work in independent schools, pupil referral units and hospitals. You could also register with an agency to provide ‘supply’ cover for other teachers.
You'll teach at key stage 3 (ages 11 to 14) and key stage 4 (ages 15 to 16). You may also teach in a sixth form (ages 16 to 19).
Your day-to-day tasks may include:
- planning and preparing lessons
- teaching your specialist subject
- creating a safe learning environment
- setting and marking essays and exams
- checking students’ progress
- developing new courses and teaching materials
- classroom administration and record keeping
- attending meetings and training courses

Salary Guide
Minimum: £23000
Maximum: £60000

Waiting Staff
Waiting staff serve customers in restaurants and cafes by taking orders and payment, serving food and preparing tables.
Waiting Staff
Role Description
Skills required
You'll need:
- the ability to remain calm under pressure
- the ability to memorise orders
- numeracy skills
What you'll do
Your day-to-day tasks may include:
- greeting customers as they arrive and showing them to their table
- giving out menus and taking orders for food and drink
- serving food and drinks
- dealing with bill payments
- making sure tables are clean and tidy
- You'll also be on hand to answer any questions and make sure that customers enjoy their experience.
In formal restaurants your work may include silver service (plating the items of a meal at the table). You'll usually work in a team under the supervision of a head waiter or waitress, known as the maître d’.
You could also specialise in work as a wine waiter or waitress, called a sommelier.

Salary Guide
Minimum: £12000
Maximum: £27000

Demolition Operative
Demolition operatives dismantle structures and buildings, remove hazardous materials, and carry out salvage operations.
Demolition Operative
Role Description
You’ll work in one of the following roles:
Labourer – preparing the site, putting up rails and safety screens, laying dustsheets and separating out re-usable building materials after demolition
Mattockman or Mattockwoman – stripping out fittings, removing doors and windows, dismantling roof structures
Topman or Topwoman – does all the tasks of the others as well as cutting steel framework at heights, stripping off fragile roofs and instructing others in safe demolition practices
You’ll use tools like hammer drills, oxyacetylene cutting equipment, plant machinery and explosives.
You might also use crane-mounted industrial magnets to recover metals, burners to incinerate materials, and put concrete slabs through crushers to make aggregate for road building.
You’ll also be trained to safely remove hazardous materials like asbestos and toxic chemicals.

Salary Guide
Minimum: £14000
Maximum: £30000

Social Media Manager
Social media managers communicate with organisations’ customers and clients through social media channels.
Social Media Manager
Role Description
Entry requirements
There are no set requirements but some employers may expect you to have a degree. Relevant subjects include:
advertising
media and communications
digital marketing
journalism
public relations
business management
You could get into this job without a degree if you have the skills and experience in areas like marketing, advertising or PR.
You can do college courses in social media and business.
You could also start as an assistant manager and work your way up.
You’ll usually need some knowledge and experience of social media. To get experience you could:
manage your own social media profiles
volunteer to manage social media for a charitable organisation
ask to get involved in social media sites of the company you already work for
You’ll need excellent IT skills as you’ll be using social media software and tools. You’ll also need knowledge of search engine optimisation (SEO) methods and ‘key’ or ‘searched for’ words to drive more users to your social media site.
Experience of graphic design and digital editing software can help. You can use these skills to make your social media posts better by adding videos, photos and infographics.
You could get into this job through a creative and digital media apprenticeship.
iCould has a video interview with a social media assistant.
Skills required
You’ll need:
an eye for detail and the ability to work accurately
the ability to deal with more than one task at a time
creativity
presentation skills
an analytical approach to data
writing skills
What you'll do
You’ll monitor and upload content to sites like:
Facebook and Twitter
Instagram and Pinterest
YouTube and Vine
Your day-to-day duties may include:
updating social media sites
writing blogs, articles and posts
responding to social media posts and developing discussions
checking online for company mentions and customer feedback
searching for interesting posts, news and articles to attract site visitors
overseeing competitions and campaigns promoting your company
taking part in conferences and group chat relevant to your industry or company
educating other staff on social media use
promoting social media use within your company
developing strategies to increase your audience
using social media tools like Hootsuite, TweetDeck or Buffer to manage multiple sites
using web tracking tools like Google Analytics, Social Report or Bitly
Salary
Starter: £23,000
Experienced: £25,000 to £35,000
Highly Experienced: £75,000 (head social media manager)
These figures are a guide.
Working hours, patterns and environment
You’ll usually work normal office hours, 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday. You may need to work evenings and weekends when working on a campaign or with deadlines.
If you’re freelance, you may work longer hours depending on the needs of your clients and the amount of work you take on.
You’ll be based in an office and spend a lot of time working on a computer. You may also attend meetings and make presentations about your work to clients or colleagues.
Career path and progression
With experience, you could move into managing social media for larger companies or progress to a senior or head social media manager job.

Salary Guide
Minimum: £23000
Maximum: £70000

Tour Guide
Tour guides show visitors around places of interest like cities, historic buildings and art galleries.
Tour Guide
Role Description
1. Entry requirements
There are no set requirements, but it may help if you have some GCSEs or equivalent including English and maths.
Experience of dealing with the public and giving presentations could be useful, and additional languages may also help.
You may need a Blue Badge in Tourist Guiding to work in places like Westminster Abbey and York Minster.
2. Skills required
You'll need:
- excellent communication skills
- the ability to present information in an interesting way
- a good memory for facts, figures and events
- organisational skills for planning tours
3. What you'll do
You'll work in one place or accompany groups on driving or walking tours.
You'll escort groups around sites, giving information about history, purpose, architecture or other points of interest.

Salary Guide
Minimum: £18000
Maximum: £30000
Employers in The Vales

Garford Farm Machinery Limited
Garford Farm Machinery Ltd is a development, manufacturing and distribution company supplying high quality products to the UK and world agricultural market.
Garford Farm Machinery Limited

Specializing in row crop equipment Garford are recognized as a world leader for their range of Robocrop Precision Guided Hoes and Robocrop InRow Weeders. The Robocrop range of products use video cameras and image analysis computers to locate crop position and then guide the hoes quickly and accurately.
Garford are now running a factory in Frognall, Lincolnshire.
The Garford brand is built upon listening to the customers' needs and then, through the custom build manufacturing facility, Garford can provide for the exact needs of the individual.

The Retail Data Partnership Ltd
The Retail Data Partnership Ltd was established in 1997 to develop our ShopMate EpoS system. It is just as important to us that a new employee’s personality fits with the team they will be working in as to whether they can do the job required.
The Retail Data Partnership Ltd

The Retail Data Partnership Ltd was established in 1997 to develop our ShopMate EpoS system. The name of the business says a lot about us. We are firmly committed to serving the independent retail sector. We believe that if retailers are to manage their businesses effectively in these days of tough competition, they need up to date and accurate data about their sales, profits, stock etc.
Partnership is a crucial part of our business. In order to make the most of our approach to EpoS systems, we have built strong relationships and partnerships with wholesalers and retailers. We need the wholesalers to give us price files so that we can provide them to the retailers. We need the retailers to work with us to give us feedback on how to improve our EpoS systems and services.
We employ 61 people in a variety of roles like Customer Service, Customer Support, Marketing, and Software Development to name but a few. It is just as important to us that a new employee’s personality fits with the team they will be working in as to whether they can do the job required. At the moment we are recruiting for an installer based in Lanarkshire and our Head of Operations has traveled to Glasgow to interview.
Our values really do say a lot about the company:
- Put customers first
- Listen to our customers
- Work with purpose and integrity
- Support our colleagues
- Stand by our word
- Provide solutions that add value
We would like our employees to live, whilst at work, by these values and the values are embedded into our culture. Whilst we may not pay top dollar we believe we offer something unique. The company and employees work in partnership to make a really good environment to work in with a give and take attitude.
We are always looking at ways of improving our offering to the retail sector by either improving our products & services or by partnering with other providers such as Barclaycard, Worldpay, Netpay, ePay etc.

P3
We absolutely love what we do, and we’re passionate about the way we do it, and we’re looking for people who share this attitude.
P3

We’re a charity and social enterprise, made up of passionate people, who care about people. We exist to improve lives and communities by delivering services for socially excluded and vulnerable people to unlock their potential and open up new possibilities.
Our vision is that every person has the opportunity to be a full and valued member of a society where social exclusion and isolation no longer exist. It’s that simple!
Everything we do is centred on our core values - being innovative, different, creative, focused entirely on being helpful in everything we do, being passionate about the people we work with, our determination to tackle problems that others won’t, and working together as one team.
P3 services are highly diverse; we operate housing services, community-based support, advice and guidance service
Apprenticeships too!
At P3, we have a track record in supporting apprentices to gain their qualifications, on-the-job experience and in many cases, go on to permanent employment.
Not only will you get training as you work, you will also be able to study for a qualification in your chosen subject; earning while you are learning. We will provide you with a buddy who will support you while you settle into the role. They will be an existing member of staff who has experience in the area that you are working in.

Genie UK Limited
At Terex AWP, the concept of lifting people and materials higher extends beyond the products we build. It reflects the spirit of partnership behind everything we do. We’re a global company that’s deeply connected to our customers — working to help you build your business, whether you own one store or one hundred stores. Though Genie is now a worldwide company, Genie UK is based in Grantham.
Genie UK Limited

At Terex AWP, the concept of lifting people and materials higher extends beyond the products we build. It reflects the spirit of partnership behind everything we do. We’re a global company that’s deeply connected to our customers — working to help you build your business, whether you own one store or one hundred stores. GenieUK is based in Grantham.
Genie Industries began in 1966 with the introduction of the Genie® Hoist, a portable, pneumatic material lift. It was followed by additional material lifts and a series of aerial work platforms to meet customer demand — products that quickly gained worldwide recognition and often represented breakthroughs in design.
Today, as a subsidiary of Terex Corporation, we remain at the forefront of innovation and quality production. But our customer-focused values keep us grounded. From Denver to Dubai and Hong Kong to Helsinki, customers ask for our distinctive blue lifts on the jobsite because of our uncompromising service and support.

Mid UK Recycling Ltd
With over 20 years experience in the waste industry, Mid UK Recycling is one of the UK's leading independent waste processing company's ensuring zero material to landfill. Based in South Lincolnshire, we process material from all over the country as well as dry mixed recycling from all Lincolnshire households. Once processed, we supply fuels to UK and European Cement Kilns & EfW Plants.
Mid UK Recycling Ltd

With over 20 years experience in the waste industry, Mid UK Recycling is one of the UK's leading independent waste processing company's ensuring zero material to landfill. Based in South Lincolnshire, we process material from all over the country as well as dry mixed recycling from all Lincolnshire households. Once processed, we supply fuels to UK and European Cement Kilns & EfW Plants.
Mid UK currently employs almost 480 people including; Recycling Line Operatives, Mobile Plant Operatives, Mechanical Engineers and Electricians. We also have established teams for Health & Safety, Compliance, Quality Control, Human Resources & Finance.
Our Transport & Skip Fleet, Mountain Transport & Skip Hire, currently operate over 70 vehicles and operates a drivers apprentice scheme.
Mid UK Recycling is committed to the development of its employees ensuring that external training is provided for a wide range of courses. Staff development and safety is at the heart of the business.
The waste processing and recycling industry is relatively new and is constantly evolving, making it incredibly fast paced and innovative which makes Mid UK Recycling an exciting place to work.

Belton Woods
Are you looking for a brand new, fulfilling and extraordinary career?
Belton Woods

Some of our 7500 talented, passionate, fun and exceptional people told us the reasons why they choose to work with us. The response was overwhelming and had some really strong common themes, the most reoccurring reasons were:
We focus on health, wellbeing and our communities
Our people are truly engaged at work
There’s open, clear communication from the top
We have great career development opportunities
There’s a culture of transformation and innovation

Lincolnshire Talent Academy
The Academy delivers proactive services to aid recruitment and skills development of our current and future workforce, whilst also ensuring the portability and integration of skills across the health and care system.
Lincolnshire Talent Academy

The Talent Academy concept was originally formed in June 2015 as an initiative by United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust to support engagement of younger people into its workforce.
Due to its success, the Academy evolved in April 2016 incorporating its Lincolnshire stakeholders to strengthen and support local partnership and the benefits of collaboration.
Today, the Lincolnshire Talent Academy is an umbrella body made up of health and care organisations within the County. Led by United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust, the Academy represents a wide range of stakeholders from the health and care sector.
What do we do?
The Academy delivers proactive services to aid recruitment and skills development of our current and future workforce, whilst also ensuring the portability and integration of skills across the health and care system.
As employers, we work with students, schools, colleges and universities in addition to other agencies such as the DWP to provide services for individuals from the age of 14 and above, all of which are delivered in partnership though our stakeholders. Our remit includes careers inspiration activities incorporating the engagement of the education sector and delivery of careers guidance and work experience, through to the management of apprenticeship training and support for apprenticeship trailblazer standards development across our stakeholders.
With a common shared goal across all stakeholders – to adopt a “grow our own” culture within the county, the Lincolnshire Talent Academy provides the foundation for our collaborative approach to the engagement, recruitment and development of talent within the Health and Care community.

Lincolnshire Community and Voluntary Service
Our core purpose is to help individuals, particularly at transition points in their lives, improve their mental and physical health and well-being and choose healthier lifestyles.
Lincolnshire Community and Voluntary Service

Who we are – strengthening communities, supporting individuals
Lincolnshire Community and Voluntary Service (LCVS) promotes volunteering through its four accredited Volunteer Centres - in Boston, Manby (near Louth), Spalding and Grantham, matching would-be volunteers with opportunities and supporting volunteer involving organisations to recruit, train and retain volunteers.
LCVS is a charity working to support the health and wellbeing of communities and individuals.
It supports community groups to get established, survive and thrive by providing help and guidance with paperwork and governance, resources, sourcing funding and finding and training volunteers.
In addition, LCVS delivers and enables health-related community projects.
Find LCVS at www.lincolnshirecvs.org.uk

The Woodland Trust
The UK's largest woodland conservation charity.
The Woodland Trust

We are the UK's largest woodland conservation charity, we've planted 36 million trees since 1972 and we’re recruiting.
Work across multiple woodland sites, organise a national appeal, take care of our accounts or help support our growing workforce.
As part of our employment we offer a benefits package including; life assurance, a 6% employer contribution into a personal pension, childcare vouchers, a cycle to work scheme, copious amounts of office cake and plenty of opportunities to get out and about in the woods.
Whatever you do at the Woodland Trust you will be supporting our work to protect trees and woods.

Did You Know?
Did you know?
Bakkavor supply products for retailers such as Marks & Spencers, Tesco, KFC, Waitrose and Cafe Nero!
Did You Know?
Did you know?
Bakkavor supply products for retailers such as Marks & Spencers, Tesco, KFC, Waitrose and Cafe Nero!
