Countryside Ranger

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- Kingsbury

21/02/2024
- Countryside Ranger

The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

Job details

**Salary**

£28,770 - £31,364 per annum

**Contractual hours**

37

**Basis**

Full time

**Region**

North Warwickshire

**Package**

See advert details

**Job category/type**

Environment / Conservation

**Date posted**

24/01/2024

**Job reference**

RA0005690

Job description

**About Us**
- The Country Parks Service manages a portfolio of five Country Parks, three Greenways and two nature reserves across Warwickshire, welcoming around a million visits every year.
- We’re looking for an experienced Countryside Ranger to join our team in the north of the county, which includes Kingsbury Water Park, Pooley Country Park and Hartshill Hayes. All are manged with both visitors and wildlife in mind, balancing the needs of recreation with conservation.

**The Role**
- As our Countryside Ranger working weekends and bank holidays in all weathers, you’ll be using work vehicles to travel across the parks, helping to promote and assist visitors’ enjoyment of the countryside. Excellent customer service is at the heart of what we do, and being confident and welcoming with members of the public from all walks of life is an essential part of the role. Working within a team your duties will include practical habitat management, public access works, site compliance and safety checks. You will lead, as well as contribute to, events and school visits; ensure our parks are clean and tidy, carrying out routine maintenance as required; lead and manage volunteer groups; monitor and enforce car parking and bailiff the fishery at Kingsbury Water Park. In addition, you may be required to work at other parks across the county and work additional hours.

**Key requirements**
- To be successful in this role you will need:

- To be qualified or studying towards a qualification in countryside or recreation management;
- Have knowledge of conservation, recreation and countryside issues and have developed practical countryside skills. Relevant activities include the use of brush cutters, tractors, trailers, chainsaws and ride-on mowers.
- As you’ll be managing a variety of relationships it’s important you have strong communication skills and experience of leading on and providing events for children.
- It is essential that you want to work weekends and bank holidays and equally important you can work within a team, providing support to your colleagues, as well as on your own initiative.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work under pressure are also required.
- For further information please see the Job Description and Person Specification.

**Working for Warwickshire -**
**_This is the difference you make_**
- Warwickshire County Council is a place where everyone feels valued, included, safe, supported, and welcome. Our people are at the heart of this vision, could you be one of them
- At Warwickshire County Council we are committed to ensuring Warwickshire’s economy is vibrant and supported by the right jobs, training, skills and infrastructure. Our people vision for Warwickshire County Council is a great place to work where diverse and talented people are enabled to be their best.
- Your future matters to us, we provide a generous pension scheme which includes an employer contribution rate of typically around 19%, to help support your financial security during retirement. The scheme also offers a valuable package of benefits for members and their dependants.
- The benefits we offer include agile working, a valuable part of the pay and reward package for employees working in local government, generous annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays and an additional day at Christmas, and access to Vivup benefits and discounts platform.

**Additional Information**
- For further information about the role please contact

**Closing date**: Midnight 21st February
- Countryside Ranger