Reserve Warden

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 304495**Salary**:

- £21,200**Job grade**:

- Administrative Officer- Support Adviser**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Environment and Sustainability**Working pattern**:

- Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- West Midlands (England)About the job

**Job summary**:

- This position is based at Aqualate Mere NNR, Newport**Job description**:
The team

Do you have a passion for nature and the environment? Do you want to make a real difference and secure significant environmental gains in the present and the future? Do you enjoy working in a team? Can you see yourself advising communities and customers to maximise gains for the Natural Environment?

If this appeals to you, a career at Natural England offers rewarding opportunities to secure environmental improvements and play your part in creating a better future for people and nature.

The priority work Natural England is delivering includes:

- Establishing a Nature Recovery Network to help wildlife thrive
- Monitoring environmental changes to identify and help reduce the effects of climate change
- Working with farmers and landowners to develop greener food production methods
- Advising on plans for new developments to maximise gains for nature
- Providing ways for people to better connect with nature, including green social prescribing

We are the Government’s advisor for the natural environment, playing a vital role in delivering the Government’s 25 Year Environment Plan, an ambitious vision which brings new opportunities to protect and enhance and to achieve real outcomes for the environment.

See more about the work of Natural England at:
**The team**

**NNR Location**

This role will be based at the Aqualate Mere National Nature Reserve base (The Old Pumphouse, Aqualate Estate, Stafford Rd, Newport, TF10 9DB) on the Staffordshire border to the east of Newport, Shropshire.

Aqualate Mere NNR is a wetland nature reserve, which is leased from a local estate. The site is important for its variety of wetland habitats, including the mere itself, which is the largest naturally occurring water body in the West Midlands, and its breeding bird assemblage. It is managed in conjunction with graziers, contractors and volunteers. Management activities include, tree and scrub management, fencing, management of a small herd of Exmoor ponies, maintenance of access features and control of invasive species.

Chartley Moss NNR is Britain’s largest example of a floating bog or ‘schwingmoor’. The majority of the site has been leased from a local landowner and managed as a NNR since 1963. The site is important for its bog habitat and associated species of plant and invertebrate, including nationally rare species such as the white-faced darter dragonfly and the caddis fly _Hagenella clathrata_. It is managed in conjunction with contractors and volunteers. Management activities include tree and scrub management and control of invasive species.

Mottey Meadows NNR is an area of floodplain meadows, which have been managed as hay meadows for hundreds of years. The whole NNR is owned and managed by Natural England. The site has an extremely rich plant community, hosting over 240 species of flowers, grasses and sedges. It is managed in conjunction with graziers, contractors and volunteers. Management activities include maintenance of fencing, hedgerow management and control of invasive species.

In Cheshire, Wybunbury Moss NNR is a floating bog, which hosts many similar species to Chartley Moss, but also is the last English site to retain a population of the rare leaf beetle _Cryptocephalus decemmaculatus. _Rostherne Mere NNR is the largest, deepest and one of the least disturbed of the Cheshire meres. The site is extremely important for its wild bird population.

**Role Description**
- Deal with day to day reserve management and estate maintenance tasks and activities
- Work as part of small management teams to deliver the NNR management plan targets through daily tasks
- Ensuring a high standard of upkeep of the visitor facilities
- Deal with day to day problems to complete assigned tasks, processes and activities
- Species management, including pest and invasive species control
- Supervise volunteer groups to carry out management tasks
- Assist with some monitoring and survey work
- Helping control undesirable activities
- Liaise with landowners, graziers and contractors as necessary
- Build constructive relationships within the team and with visitors
- Assist with health and safety management e.g. risk assessment, maintaining servicing records

**You will**:

- Have a passion for nature and National Nature Reserves (NNRs). A basic knowledge of the key habitats and species would be desirable.
- Be willing and able to work outside in all weathers in a variety of remote locations.
- Be physically fit as th