Parks and Green Spaces Officer

3 months ago

Kidderminster, United Kingdom Wyre Forest District Council Full time

Job Introduction
**About Wyre Forest District Council**

Whatever your role within Wyre Forest District Council, every day you will be working to benefit people living in the area. The District is a mix of urban rural, market and riverside town communities covering 195 square kilometres. The three main towns of Kidderminster, Bewdley and Stourport-on-Severn and several surrounding villages including Arley, Rock, Chaddesley Corbett and Wolverley make up the district. Over 100,000 people live here and you can help shape our district’s future as part of our 390 strong workforce that strives to make a difference in making sure the services we offer meet the aspirations and needs of our local community.

**Working for us**:
At Wyre Forest District Council, people depend on us - every day we provide essential services across the district which make a real difference to residences’ lives. That’s why we need people we can depend on too, who can perform well within a challenging social and economic environment. We value our employees and aim to create a positive, progressive and open work culture that supports everyone to thrive. We focus on supporting your physical, financial and emotional wellbeing so working for us you can expect to enjoy a range of learning and development opportunities designed to enhance you in your role and our excellent benefits package includes:

- a competitive salary
- an excellent local government pension scheme
- favourable holiday entitlements with an option to purchase additional annual leave
- flexible working options, hybrid working is part of our culture
- Regular job-specific training
- Discounted gym and swim membership
- Health and wellbeing support with an optional health cash plan
- Employee Assistance Scheme including access to counselling services
- Employee discounts with a range of companies
- Kaarp discount scheme which provides employee discounts on days out and holidays

If you have ambition for yourself and this district, thrive on challenges and getting results, share our values and strive to make others feel valued, then we want to hear from you.

**The Role**

We are looking to recruit a Parks and Green Spaces Officer with experience and skills from the Greenspace sector. Responsibility for the strategic delivery of the councils Parks & Green Spaces function that ensures all areas of the council’s public open space are Safe Clean & Looking Good. The right individual will have strong operational management skills and experience leading a large multi-functional team delivering the very highest standards of public service delivery. They will have a robust & resilient nature together with a can-do attitude that is able to drive the whole team to succeed. A confident and motivated individual who is able to lead from the front. In return the right person will be joining a highly energised and focussed team, who are very clear on their priorities and plans. This is a senior post within the team and attracts all the normal benefits of joining the local government family.

**Special Conditions**

The normal working week is one of 37 hours but reasonable working hours beyond this will be required in the effective performance of your duties and responsibilities and such working will include attendance at evening meetings. Special working arrangements for Bank Holidays and Christmas working applies.

The Council’s scheme of flexible working hours applies to this post. This allows an officer some discretion in arranging working time.

It is desirable that the post holder provides an appropriate means of transport for use in connection with the duties of this post.

To work outside normal office hours from time to time as the demands of the post and emergencies dictate in additional to the out of hours rota. You may be required to respond to out of hours call outs as required.

Wyre Forest District Council is an Equal Opportunities Employer

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