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Countryside South
Countryside South
Set in The Heart of Lincolnshire is a bustling market town with a long and varied history
Just south of the city of Lincoln is the Countryside South area, this is rural England at its very best – a perfect base to make the most of Lincolnshire’s incredible aviation heritage and historic landscapes. The area covers Sleaford and Woodhall Spa, and is home to a range of businesses including leading edge SHD Composites, food manufacturer Tulip, the National Golf Centre and the world's largest producer of chlorophyll!
Countryside NorthThe Wolds
There are hundreds of different jobs you could do in Lincolnshire. Here are just a few …

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

Order Picker
Order pickers select the products that online customers choose.
Order Picker
Role Description
1. Entry requirements
There are no set requirements, but a good standard of general education is important, including GCSEs in maths and English. Computer skills will also be useful for using online sales systems and scanners.
You could get into this job through an apprenticeship.
2. Skills required
You’ll need:
good timekeeping skills
the ability to work quickly and accurately
a well organised approach
3. What you'll do
Your day-to-day tasks may include:
selecting items to match the customer’s order sheet
using voice-activated picking machines and scanners
requesting freshly made items from in-house departments like bakeries
checking product quality
choosing suitable replacements where stock has sold out
packing items ready for despatch
updating customer records on computer systems
helping customers if working in-store
4. Salary
Starter: £14,000 to £17,000
Experienced: £18,000 to £20,000
Highly Experienced: £23,000
You may receive higher pay for night shifts or meeting targets.
5. Working hours, patterns and environment
You’ll usually work up to 40 hours a week on shifts, which may include weekends and nights.
You’ll be based in a warehouse, distribution centre or larger retail store. The job can be physically demanding and you could work in cool temperatures, for example in chiller rooms.
You’ll need your own transport to get to work when shifts fall outside normal public transport hours.
6. Career path and progression
With experience, you could become a shift supervisor then move into section or warehouse management.
You could also become a delivery driver if you work for a supermarket.

Salary Guide
Minimum: £14000
Maximum: £23000

Legal Executive
Legal executives specialise in one area of law and carry out similar tasks to solicitors.
Legal Executive
Role Description
1. Entry requirements
You’ll need to take the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEx) graduate fast-track diploma to become a chartered member.
To become a chartered member, you’ll need:
to have completed a law degree recognised by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) within the last 7 years, or
to have completed a common professional examination (CPE), or graduate diploma in law (GDL, sometimes known as GDip) conversion course, if you’re a non-law graduate
If you don't have any law qualifications:
you could work for a law firm and study part-time for a level 3 diploma or level 6 professional higher diploma, or
start as a clerical assistant or legal secretary
You’ll then need to work for a further 3 years before qualifying.
Even if you’re not working in a legal environment, if you meet the entry requirements, you could study for the CILEx graduate fast-track diploma full-time, part-time or at home.
CILEx has more information on becoming a legal executive.
2. Skills required
You’ll need:
excellent communication skills
administrative and IT skills
accuracy and attention to detail
research skills
an organised approach
the ability to work under pressure
3. What you'll do
You’ll specialise in a branch of law, like:
conveyancing – the legal side of buying and selling property
probate – wills, trusts and inheritance tax
family law – divorce and children’s matters
civil litigation – disputes between people
criminal law – defence or prosecution of people accused of crimes
company and business law – tax, contracts and employment law
Depending on your specialism, your work might include:
advising clients and explaining legal matters
contacting professionals, like mortgage lenders, planning officers or other lawyers on behalf of clients
researching and summarising legal information
preparing legal documents
writing to clients
drawing up wills
preparing contracts
representing clients in court
preparing bills for clients
4. Salary
Starter: £15,000 to £28,000
Experienced: £35,000 to £55,000
Highly Experienced: up to £100,000
These figures are a guide.
5. Working hours, patterns and environment
In many full-time jobs you’ll work standard office hours Monday to Friday. Flexible hours and part-time work are often possible.
You’ll be based in an office, but may also spend some of your time at courts and police stations.
6. Career path and progression
With experience, you could take on more complex cases and build up a large client base. You could also progress to leading a team of legal executives and secretaries, or become a practice manager in a law firm.
With further study, you could qualify as a solicitor.

Salary Guide
Minimum: £15000
Maximum: £100000

Bricklayer
Bricklayers build and repair walls, chimney stacks, tunnel linings and decorative stonework. They may also refurbish brickwork and masonry on restoration projects.
Bricklayer
Role Description
Your day-to-day tasks could include:
- measuring the work area and setting out the first rows of bricks (courses) and the damp course
- mixing mortar by hand or with a mechanical mixer
- laying the bricks on top of each other and applying the mortar with a trowel
- shaping and trimming bricks using hammers, chisels and power tools
- checking that courses are straight using spirit levels and plumb lines
- You'll work on a particular section of a building alongside other bricklayers on larger jobs.

Salary Guide
Minimum: £15000
Maximum: £30000

Product Developer
Product developers or designers create new products and improve existing ones.
Product Developer
Role Description
You'll specialise in anything from electronics, domestic appliances and machinery to company services and web apps.
Your day-to-day duties could include:
- discussing what your client wants
- investigating how existing products work or how services are used
- developing ideas and making initial sketches or outline plans
- deciding on suitable materials or resources
- using computer design software to produce detailed blueprints
- making samples or working models, known as prototypes
- testing and refining designs
You'll need:
- creative ideas and a logical approach
- the ability to express your ideas through drawings, 3D models and computer-aided design
- the ability to plan and organise a project through several stages
- the ability to work out costings and budgets

Salary Guide
Minimum: £19000
Maximum: £50000

Road haulage load planner
Road haulage load planners control the transfer of goods around the country’s road transport network.
Road haulage load planner
Role Description
1. Entry requirements
There are no set entry requirements but employers may look for:
IT skills for using spreadsheets
GCSEs in English and maths, or an equivalent level 2 qualification
experience of working in transport or distribution a background in stock control or administration
You could also get into this job through an apprenticeship.
2. Skills required
You’ll need:
customer service and communication skills
problem solving skills and the ability to adapt plans
negotiating skills
geographical knowledge
the ability to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
3. What you'll do
You’ll make sure freight is moved in the most efficient way around the country’s road network. You’ll need to take into account schedules, costs, and health and safety.
You might work for a road haulage company or other business with their own fleet of vehicles, like a retail chain.
Your day-to-day duties could include:
deciding how many vehicles will be needed to deliver each shipment of goods
working out how much it will cost to make each delivery
planning the safest way to load and unload goods
monitoring each delivery as it makes its journey
reviewing load plans with clients
making backup plans to cover changes in circumstances
You might also use computer software packages to help with some of these tasks, for example, to match the size of loads with the vehicles needed to move them.
4. Salary
Starter: £16,000 to £19,000
Experienced: £20,000 to £28,000
These figures are a guide.
5. Working hours, patterns and environment
You’ll often work shifts on a rota, including early mornings and late nights.
You’ll usually be based in an office within a warehouse or distribution depot.
6. Career path and progression
You could progress to senior or regional load planner, or, with qualifications, you could move into distribution, supply chain or transport management.

Salary Guide
Minimum: £16000
Maximum: £28000

Care Worker
Care workers help vulnerable people to manage their daily activities and to live as independently as possible.
Care Worker
Role Description
You'll be helping people in their own homes or in day centres, residential or nursing homes.
Your day-to-day duties may include:
- getting to know clients and their interests and needs
- helping with personal care like washing, using the toilet and dressing
- food preparation, feeding and giving out medication
- carrying out general tasks like housework, laundry and shopping
- helping clients manage their budget, pay bills and write letters
- supporting families to get used to new caring responsibilities
- giving emotional and practical support to children and young people
- working with other health and social care professionals to provide individual care and development plans
- helping to organise leisure activities
- going with clients to and from a residential home

Salary Guide
Minimum: £12500
Maximum: £25000

Metrology Engineer
Metrology is the science of measurement or scientific study of measurement. It can sometimes include calibration of instruments and programming.
Metrology Engineer
Role Description
All measurements have an associated uncertainty and if the uncertainty is not understood, the result of a measurement may lead to incorrect end results and conclusions. The Metrology Engineer is responsible for the management and control of all systems, devices, equipment and items requiring calibration. The Senior Metrology Engineers primary role is day-to-day technical management of the calibration/metrology program.
- Maintain a laboratory quality management system
- Develop procedures and methods.
- Review, revise, document and maintain calibration systems and procedures and methods
Perform:
- Analyse data and caliberation to acheive reliable goals
- Analyse, evaluate and measure the capability of lab and equipment
- Evaluate equrements to measure and make recommendations on products to purchase.
- Identify abnomralities and trends
- Apply measurement science, mathematics, physics and engineering to design and develop systems, equipment and methods of calibrating electrical, dimensional, optical, physical, mechanical, environmental, and/or chemical inspection, measurement and test equipment.

Salary Guide
Minimum: £25000
Maximum: £38000
Employers in Countryside South

Tatums
Our team is motivated, flexible and passionate about food!
Tatums

Located in a courtyard just off Ironmonger Street in the centre of Stamford, Tatums Bistro offers relaxed & comfortable dining, serving good British food, sourcing quality local produce served in a modern & imaginative way.
WINNER OF THE STAMFORD MERCURY GREAT TASTE AWARD 2018

Jarell Group
The Jarell Group have over 3000 employees Nationwide and operate across locations in the North, Midlands & south of the country.
Jarell Group

Jarell Group are a collective of professional service organisations focusing on the workforce solutions marketplace. The Jarell Group incorporates in excess of 100 years’ worth of experience in the recruitment and training sectors.
We identify best practice, highlight new trends and encourage communication and collaboration between members. The Jarell group draws on industry experts working for large & small B2B organisations.
As a group of highly experienced professionals, our people redefine best practice on a daily basis. For now, we’re focusing on the recruitment, technology and payroll sectors, with transformative solutions, systems and software.
Our collective insights, skills and talents are streamlining administration, saving time and improving bottom lines for companies and brands across the UK, as well as offering individuals a better way to find and manage their employment, or get a better deal on loans or logistics

Strutt & Parker
Helping people lead the lives they aspire to, we aim to ensure our people achieve their own ambitions.
Strutt & Parker

Our people are approachable and trustworthy - true specialists, for whom reputation, relationships, innovation and service is balanced with intelligence, knowledge, professionalism and a thoughtful approach to work.
Graduate Programme
Strutt & Parker’s residential, rural, development and planning teams will continue to operate under the Strutt & Parker brand, whilst the commercial arm of the business will operate under the BNP Paribas Real Estate brand.
Every year we hand-pick a number of Graduates who we believe have the ambition and talent to play a key part in the future of our expanding business.
Respect
As a partnership we have a culture of respect for each other’s knowledge and expertise. We educate, train and nurture our people, and actively engage in social programmes.
Trust
One of our core values is based on the trust placed in us by our clients and by our colleagues. We actively seek to avoid conflicts of interest. Over the changing landscape of the past 125 years, we have grown and developed into new disciplines.
True Partnership
The partnership between ourselves, our staff and our clients has always been at the heart of what we do. An encapsulation of our beliefs, it informs how we conduct ourselves as a business and as individuals.
Delivery
We ensure we deliver our services diligently, creatively and intelligently, with an absolute focus on our clients. We like to celebrate our past successes, whilst keeping our focus on the future.
Professional
We apply the highest standards of expertise to all our activities to achieve the best results. Our working environments are fun and friendly, while also professional and hardworking.
Involvement
Ours is a collaborative environment which encourages ideas, innovation and discussion. Supported through the opportunities of progression and personal development, our people tend to stay with us for many years.

Interflora
We are proud to be the world’s largest and most experienced flower delivery network.
Interflora

Interflora is based in Sleaford, Lincolnshire.
Every day, thousands of people trust us to deliver their good wishes and thoughtful sentiments on their behalf. But it's not just about being the largest - we pride ourselves on being the most personable too.
Everyone involved - from our florists, to our delivery drivers, to our customer advisors - all take care to add a little personal touch to the Interflora experience.
We're also proud that so many award-winning florists choose to be part of the Interflora family. Each of our expert florists has the unique blend of skills, creativity and attention to detail needed to create every handmade Interflora bouquet.

National Centre of Food Manufacturing - University of Lincoln
The NCFM is dedicated to helping food industry employees advance their careers. We understand the demands of studying while working in this fast moving, dynamic industry and balancing family commitments. Our part-time Degree Apprenticeships provide one of many flexible study options for those working in Quality, Technical roles and Operations Management.
National Centre of Food Manufacturing - University of Lincoln

The NCFM is dedicated to helping food industry employees advance their careers. We understand the demands of studying while working in this fast moving, dynamic industry and balancing family commitments. Our part-time Degree Apprenticeships provide one of many flexible study options for those working in Quality, Technical roles and Operations Management.
The NCFM is also committed to helping the sector innovate. We work with employers and partners towards this goal, aided by our partnership with leading equipment suppliers and our outstanding specialist facilities, food factory and cutting-edge automation.
NCFM offer a range of opportunities for business and employees. These cover opportunities for studying apprenticeships and degree apprenticeships, research and innovation.

Home From Home Care Ltd
Our staff are the cornerstone of delivering exceptional care and support. We recruit people with the right attitude and an enthusiasm for making the difference.
Home From Home Care Ltd

“Inspired by Laura, our daughter and Hugo’s sister, we created Home From Home Care.
We’re looking for people from all walks of life who may or may not have experience in supporting people with a learning disability to join our team.
We offer a comprehensive training programme and real career development opportunities within great working environments.
Over the last 12 years we have developed specialist residential care homes for adults with learning disabilities and complex special needs. We are based in Dorrington, Lincoln but have home throughout the region.
Combining our family perspective with experienced professionals, we create dynamic and therapeutic services around each person in exceptional environments.
We offer a full and active life to meet personal aspirations, delivering meaningful outcomes and fulfilled days.”
We are driven by wanting to make the difference and setting high standards in everything we provide – from the design and layout of a home, to the colour of the curtains. Creating a warm and homely environment is just the start – it is the quality of the care & support that is essential to delivering fulfilled lives for all our sons and daughters.
We recognise that training is crucial to providing exceptional support.
Our twelve week Induction Programme encompasses the Skills for Care Common Induction Standards.
Mandatory, in-house training and distance learning are opportunities for accreditations, including Level 2 & Diploma in Health & Social Care.
Refresher training and additional specific training ensure we respond positively to the changing needs of each individual we support.
Training programmes are designed to be a pathway to career progression.

Water Management Alliance
Whether you work for us as a digger driver or as a member of the senior management team, there will be a considerable variety of challenges in your diverse workload and you will be offered real opportunities for career development.
Water Management Alliance

The Water Management Alliance
The Water Management Alliance (WMA) is a group of like-minded Internal Drainage Boards (known as IDBs) operating in the Anglian Region. We are building resource and capacity in the Anglian region in order to meet the challenges of climate change, sustainable water and flood risk management. The WMA works closely with our IDB’s, partners, communities and individuals to secure new funding streams and deliver innovative approaches at a local level.
We welcome partnership approaches and aim to deliver value for money projects using local expertise and experience.
Did you know Internal Drainage Boards…?
- date back some 900 years and are one of Europe’s oldest water management organisations.
- have statutory powers to undertake flood defence and water management works.
- aim to manage water levels and flood risk management for people and wildlife sustainably and aim to limit impacts of flood and drought within their drainage districts.
- are collectively one of the biggest managers of freshwaters and wetlands in the UK.
- manage drainage districts that cover 10% of the land in England and Wales.
- manage and maintain over 500 pumping stations, 22,000 km of watercourse and numerous sluices and weirs for people and wildlife.
The Water Management Alliance works for and on behalf of other Flood Risk Management Authorities as well as community groups, NGO’s and landowners. We also deliver significant flood risk management benefits and enhanced environmental outcomes on the ground. Our members are all independent and democratically accountable statutory bodies who seek to protect some 548,000 hectares in East Anglia.
The WMA Eastern Drainage Boards include the Broads IDB, East Suffolk IDB and the Norfolk Rivers IDB.
South Holland:
This includes some of the most fertile arable land in the world and is widely recognised as the bread basket of Britain. The area is home to around 60,000 people, a thriving local economy and an increasingly popular tourist destination that attracts visitors from around the country. The area is both locally and nationally important and worth the cost of defending and protecting, now and in future.
Although the entire area is at considerable theoretical risk of river flooding and inundation from the sea, the actual risk is substantially reduced by the work that we do in partnership with Local Authorities, the Environment Agency and Natural England.
The area's full watershed catchment area draining to the Drainage District is the same as the Drainage District, which means that we can provide a better service than we might otherwise be able to: this is because we are not compelled to take surface water from outside the Drainage District that we have no control over. This gives us an advantage in being able to protect the people of South Holland and reduce the risk of flooding.
If you choose to work for the WMA or any of its Member Boards you will be joining an organisation which is striving to provide employees with a positive employment experience. Whether you work for us as a digger driver or as a member of the senior management team, there will be a considerable variety of challenges in your diverse workload and you will be offered real opportunities for career development.
To find out more about the WMA follow them on @The_WMA

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.

Branston
From our sites in Lincoln, Scotland and the South West, we supply retail, wholesale and food manufacturing customers with fresh and ready prepared potatoes. We do all this with the help of dedicated and professional potato growers who deliver the high standards we demand, day in, day out.
Branston

Still a privately owned company, over the years we’ve continued to grow, invest and succeed. We’re as focused as ever on our fresh potato business, while continuing to build on the success of our innovative prepared vegetable ranges. From our sites in Lincoln, Scotland and the South West, we supply retail, wholesale and food manufacturing customers with fresh and ready prepared potatoes
Our Main Board members have a wealth of experience – from farming right through to retail – and they continue to set the strategic direction for the business. They’re supported by the Executive Board, whose diverse range of expertise helps them to take that direction and work out how to turn the plans into reality. And the whole thing is underpinned by the 700-strong team of people who keep everything moving – day in and day out.
Whether running our factories and offices or looking after our growers and customers we’re all passionate about what we do and about how we do it. From maintaining our stringent Environmental Policy to ensuring that we provide safe and ethical working conditions for everyone in our supply chain through the UK Modern Slavery Act, everything we do is guided by a shared vision of ‘How we do business’. Supported by our values, this is what drives our actions every day.
The relationship we have with every single one of our suppliers is incredibly important to us and we pride ourselves on our ability to develop partnerships based on mutual trust. It’s an extremely important part of our approach to business.
We work with all sorts of suppliers: specialist niche growers supplying very small quantities, family farms, large farming businesses supplying huge tonnages, growers supplying in tight seasonal windows and overseas suppliers filling the gaps that our home crop cannot fill.

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.

Barkston Refinishing
A traditional body shop in Grantham, passionate about cars and apprenticeships.
Barkston Refinishing

What do we do? Barkston Refinishing is a traditional bodyshop. That means that we are able to repair anything that is part of or attached to the vehicle body. This includes bonnets, roofs, glass, wings, doors, quarter panels, boot lids, sills, door mirrors you name it!
All productive staff have been apprentice trained and qualified to city & guilds / NVQ3.
Meet the team:
David (Company Director) has been working on cars since the age of 11 when he first got behind the steering wheel of a 1956 Morris Isis and learned to drive around the yard at the family home. Apprenticed in 1971 for five years and still learning 37 years later , proud to have worked with some real tradesmen. During that time the job has seen many changes mostly good, but sadly some things not so. Every day brings a new challenge, sometimes frustration, but always satisfaction and pride.
Andy has shadowed his brother Dave since he left school with a few variations of employers but shares the same love of the job. He joined Barkston Refinishing in May 1983 and celebrates 35 years with the company this year.
Paul son of David was born to spray. Loves to paint something different and wants to hear from you! Normally nobody sees the efforts of his labour as his job is to repair the car so that no one can tell its been done. Give him something different to do and make him happy!
Rosemarie married David in 1977 and still loves him. – what a woman! Rosemarie mans the office on a Friday and generally looks after the money. She is a pussycat most of the time but is feared in accounts departments and by debtors who dare to exceed our credit terms without telling her
Adam has loved classic cars every since he was 11 when he built a 1976 Triumph Spitfire 1500 from a bare shell upwards and every since he was ready to do anything with a car from learning how to paint it to how to do bodywork on it from welding to panel beating, Adam is our apprentice, joined in September 2016 and is making a good start to his career

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

Did You Know?
Do you know about Dynex?
Dynex products throughout the years have been applied in projects that vary from Traction, Power Quality through HVDC, Renewable Energy production, to helping science advance.
Did You Know?
Do you know about Dynex?
Dynex products throughout the years have been applied in projects that vary from Traction, Power Quality through HVDC, Renewable Energy production, to helping science advance.
