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

- 248961**Salary**:

- £23,315**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer- Adviser**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Environment and Sustainability
- Operational Delivery**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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- South West EnglandAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- This position is based at St Dennis**Job description**:
Role title: National Nature Reserve, Stocksperson

Team: Devon, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Sub-Team: Cornwall NNR Team

Staff Framework level: Adviser

Reporting to: Goss Moor NNR Farm Manager

Location: Goss Moor NNR Reserve Base

Hours per week: 43 Annualised

**Goss Moor NNR Reserve Manager, Natural England**

**Salary**

**£23,315**

**Grade**

Adviser (NNR Reserve Manager)

**Contract type**

Permanent

**Working pattern**

Full-time

**Number of posts**

1

**Summary**

This position is based at Goss Moor NNR, Penrose Veor, St Austell, Cornwall

**About NE**

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.

**About the Team**

This is an exciting opportunity to join Natural England’s National Nature Reserves (NNR) team in Cornwall. Based at Goss Moor NNR, the role will be part of a wider team that manage Natural England’s three NNRs in Cornwall. NNRs play an increasingly important role as places where people can connect with nature and contribute to the recovery of nature in the surrounding landscape.

Over the last decade Natural England has relied upon a grazing model where both animals and land have been leased to graziers. We have developed now to the point where Natural England will directly deliver the conservation grazing management across 630ha of Goss Moor NNR. This strategy is supported by a herd of 40 breeding Belted Galloway cattle, plus followers and 25 Dartmoor and Shetland ponies.

The breeding herd have been developed further to become Pasture for Life accredited, a member of a high health scheme and are a big part of a regenerative system being implemented at the base at Lower Penrose Veor farm.

Here, herbal leys are mob/tall grass grazed through the spring and summer, along with the principles of organic farming being followed. Fertility is the biggest target for the herd, with birth and weaning weights, plus cow/calf weaning efficiency being recorded to drive a low input herd suitable for the future of farming. The system is being developed further to lower the wintering costs by bale grazing hay.

Job description

**Role description**
- As a key member of the National Nature Reserve (NNR) team, the post holder will be integral to maintaining the positive, progressive and strategic approach to Natural England’s management of its conservation grazing at Goss Moor NNR and Penrose Veor Farm.
- The post holder will work closely with the Goss Moor Farm Manager to maintain and develop a sustainable, high nature value, farm system.
- Support the Farm Manager and the farming operation to lead in the development of regenerative agriculture.
- Assist the team in maintaining the key habitats on the site which are important for rare species such as the dormouse.
- Support the day-to-day management of the livestock, including but not limited to, stock checks, calving, tagging, weighing, movement of stock, vaccinations, vet health checks.
- Assist in delivering the grazing management plan, including setting up electric fences for daily moves, measuring grass growth and using software to manage feed budgets, moving cattle around the NNR and the maintenance of water systems.
- Support the day-to-day management of farming operations at Penrose Veor Farm, and the off lying pasture, including hay making, pasture management and winter yard work.
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