NT Assistant Ranger Apprenticeship (Countryside Worker) - Cheshire
- Employer
- National Trust
- Location
- Cheshire
- Salary
- Competitive
- Closing date
- 22 Jan 2021
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- Specialism
- Agriculture & Animal Care
- Sector
- Unspecified
- Role Type
- Apprenticeship
- Start Date
- March
- Duration
- Undisclosed
Job Details
This role is for a National Trust Assistant Ranger Apprenticeship. You will be working as part of the Ranger team locally delivering our ambitions for the Natural Environment.
No previous experience or related knowledge is required.
The broad purpose of the occupation is to create a safe environment where the public can enjoy our environments and surrounding land and buildings, whilst protecting the environment, and creating habitats for species to thrive.
Employees will work with contractors, volunteers, and other teams from their organisations.
Whilst part of a team, you may be working alone in the field, and will be required to carry out duties in a safe manner in accordance with the National Trust’s health, safety and wellbeing procedures. They will be expected to be aware of the safety of others.
You will be required to work outdoors in all weathers, so must be prepared to be involved in all aspects of the role (suitable equipment and clothing will be provided).
As a frontline representative of the National Trust, you are expected to display our values and behaviours and respond to customer queries in a positive manner.
- Development and learning role
- Includes range of duties that will help you learn to operate in this role
- Includes training to a set programme
- Works under supervision, as part of a team
- Maintains good relations with other departments
- Assist in the delivery of events and other engagement activities
Skills Required:
•Good people skills enabling strong relationships externally and internally, to be built and maintained.
•Able to work flexibly as part of a team
•Able to follow clear instructions given
•May have some knowledge of relevant Health and Safety procedures
•Able to use tools, equipment as required for the role
•Due to the nature of the role a full, clean driving licence
Personal Qualities:
•Commitment to completing the apprenticeship and incorporated qualifications
•Enthusiasm and willingness to learn
•Commitment to customer service standards
•Demonstrate a positive attitude when working alongside colleagues and volunteers
•Empathy for the National Trust
Future Prospects:
Can lead to L4 Countryside Ranger
We have lots of different opportunities in conservation and the environment across our special places, regional and central offices and outdoor spaces. These include Assistant Ranger, Ranger, Area Ranger, Lead Ranger and Countryside Manager – and that’s just to name a few.
The role will be primarily based outside all year across the specified area. Flexibility on working hours will be required, for example weekend working and events with the public.
Benefits include flexible working whenever possible plus free parking at most locations. You’ll be entitled to discounts in high street stores and cinemas, National Trust shops and NT cafes, and have free entry to NT properties for you, a guest and your children (under 18).
Your health and wellbeing is important to us and is supported through generous annual leave and the option to buy additional days (minimum contract length applies), a cycle to work scheme, subsidised health cash plan and confidential access to a free support service 24 hours a day should you need it.
Your future financial health is helped by an employer matched - up to 10% of basic salary - contributory pension scheme and you can further your career with training and development tailored to you.
All of this and the opportunity to give something back to your community with up to 5 days of paid volunteering per year.
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Our 21st-century ambition is to meet the needs of an environment under pressure, and the challenges and expectations of a fast-moving world.
Underpinning this is our renewed commitment to diversity and inclusion and playing our part to create a fair, equal society, free from discrimination.
We want to continue to maintain the highest standards of care for everything you help us look after, while working in a way that feels relevant and necessary to people and their day-to-day lives. Finally, we want to equip everyone in the National Trust with the skills and resources they need to do their jobs with ease and confidence, and to feel proud of our work.
Our strategy For everyone, for ever, which will take the organisation through to 2025, outlines how we will achieve this. We will:
Look after the places in our care by:
- reducing our conservation backlog and funding our annual conservation needs
- reducing energy use by 15% and sourcing 50% of energy from renewables by 2020/21, against our 2008 usage as a baseline
Play our part in restoring a healthy, beautiful natural environment by:
- improving our habitats, soils and water to a good condition for nature on our estates
- working with others to conserve and renew the nation’s most important landscapes
- developing and sharing new economic models for land use that support nature
- championing the importance of nature in our lives today
Create experiences of our places that move, teach and inspire by:
- raising the standard of presentation and interpretation at all the places we look after
- making our outdoors experience better for all ages and needs
- revealing and exploring our cultural heritage through events and exhibitions
Help look after the places where people live, by:
- finding new solutions for managing local green space
- celebrating local heritage and equipping communities to care for it
- engaging in shaping good housing and infrastructure development
Welcome everyone, for ever, by:
- making our places better for people who need support to access them, working through partnerships and testing new approaches
- working with others to increase access to parks and green spaces in, around and near urban areas
- playing our part to create a fair and equal society, free from discrimination.
Our staff, volunteers, members, donors and supporters will all help us to achieve this, and over the coming years we will: improve our membership offer; give visitors better experiences; introduce simpler and more efficient processes for our staff; and create more ways to volunteer and for volunteers to feel their skills are recognised.
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