Assistant Countryside Ranger

Overview

Hart job description and personspecification

Job Description

Job title

Department

Communities

Grade

D

Manager

Job summary

Overview

To provide countryside services, including

• Supporting with the management of sites and delivery of management plans.
• Leading volunteers, work experience and other external groups and educationalactivities.
• To work with people under the age of 18, through work experience and volunteerplacements. This includes regular training with students and potentiallysupervising them on a one-to-one basis. As such, an Enhanced DBS includingthe regulated activity check will be required.
• Promote the service and key council priorities positively.
• Provides support for events and other promotional/commercial activities
• Responding to enquiries.

Dimensions of Job

• To work evenings, weekends, bank holidays and callout as required.

Main responsibilities and activities

1. Supporting the ranger team to ensure that the management of all sites arecarried out to the highest of standards, including (where appropriate) achievingand maintaining “favourable condition” on SSSI’s and retaining all Green Flags.Including actively promoting and delivering the Council’s priorities in line with the “2030 Vision”, Corporate Plan, Service Plan and other key corporate priorities as directed by the Senior Ranger.
2. Undertake works and assist with trees on council land, countryside estatemanagement and practical conservation tasks as indicated by the rangers.
3. Assist the ranger team to implement grazing across the countryside sites.
4. Working to all relevant Health and Safety legislations, plans and processes,including carrying out dynamic risk assessments and safety plans for all parts ofyour normal working environment.
5. Actively and positively promote the council and its activities in line with agreedcommunication plans, policies and strategies.
6. Support the ranger team to plan and deliver community and corporate events,volunteer activities and other public engagement activities. Where relevant, trainvolunteers, trainees and other groups / individuals in appropriate management
7. Maintain all equipment (in line with PUWER regs) and vehicles in a safe and tidymanner, including sourcing replacement / new parts and reporting losses /breakages as required by the Senior Ranger. Keep all work areas neat and tidyincluding outside the workshop and yard/storage areas on sites.
8. Maintain level of competency that is relevant to the delivery of quality servicesrequired for the management of the countryside sites.
9. Demonstrate respect and support your team/ others through attendingoperational activities on others’ sites, using effective and appropriate language to communicate and resolve issues, utilising skills and experience to equip othersto carry out their role effectively, demonstrate a willingness to adopt a flexibleway of working and applying a holistic approach to working within CountrysideServices.
10. Use of initiative to identify value added and efficiency improvements for sites and
11. drive positive change, including working with colleagues to delivercommercialisation, climate change and biodiversity initiatives.
12. Where a post involves working with members of the public, the post holder has aresponsibility to be vigilant in identifying potential safeguarding issues and
13. conduct themselves in a manner that protects both themselves and members ofthe public.
14. Provide a high-quality service for our residents, staff, managers, and externalpartners.
15. Make customers feel warm, welcome, wanted, and cared for when they areinteracting with you.

Standard Clauses

• To work in an internal and external customer related way in accordance with the Council’s core HART values, and in accordance with adopted procedures andgood practice.
• To assist in/manage the identification, development and implementation of Manual and Information Technology systems and procedures.
• To comply with the Council’s Equal Opportunities policy, Code of Conduct and other relevant policy, procedures, and legislation.
• To comply with and/or ensure compliance with the Council Data ProtectionPolicies and the Data Protection Act and other relevant legislation.
• All employees have a responsibility to ensure they take a vigilant approach at all times to safeguard members of the public, colleagues, and themselves and thatthey follow adopted procedures and good practice to aid in the identification andeffective reporting of any safeguarding concerns.
• In the event of a Civil Emergency to take on any new roles andresponsibilitiesallocated by Leadership Team, and to be available toundertakeany training that maybe required to fulfil this role.
• (For Management Posts) This post carries specific responsibilities for Health and Safety in particular the carrying out/updating of Risk Assessments.
• Hart District Council’s Safety Policy and other safety procedures and guidelines are deemed part of this job description. Employees must look after their own health, safetyand welfare and be mindful of other persons who may be affected by theiracts. Employees must cooperate and comply with management instructions regardingHealth and Safety issues and report all accidents, incidents and problems as soon aspracticable to their supervisor, manager or other senior members of staff available.
• This is not a complete list of all the responsibilities and activities of the job.Some responsibilities and activities may change to meet service needs. Thesechanges will be discussed with the post holder and will not significantly affectthe nature or level of responsibility or job grade.
• Job description revised (date) ……20/03/2022………………………Hay grade evaluated (date) ………20/04/2022………………………

Person specification

Job title

The HART Values

We aim to recruit candidates who are committed to our core values. We wantcustomers to feel warm, welcome, wanted and cared for when interacting with Hart

To achieve this, all staff should promote the HART Values by being:

• Helpful
• Approachable
• Responsive, and;
• Taking ownership of challenges and problems to ensure they are dealt withappropriately.

Educationandqualifications

• Recognised (HND,Degree or Equivalent)qualification in relevantsubjects or relevantexperience (seebelow)
• Membership ofrelated professionalbody
• Application formand certificate

Experience and knowledge

• At least 1 years’ postqualificationexperience in landmanagementservices or arecognised (HND,Degree or Equivalent)qualification in relevantsubjects.
• At least 1 years’experience workingwith volunteers,education activitiesand/ or workexperienceplacements
• A working knowledgeof related legislationtogether with a workingknowledge of Healthand Safety issues.
• Repair of tools,equipment and/ ormachinery
• Committed to providinghigh-quality customerservice
• Working withstakeholders,partnershiporganisations andother departments
• Working withanimals or similar
• Application formand interview

Skills andabilities

• Effectiveboth oral and written.
• Computer literate andproficient in MicrosoftOffice software.
• Ability to makecustomers feel warm,wanted, welcome andcared for.
• Ability to takeownership of tasks,challenges, andproblems to achievean appropriateoutcome.
• Application formand interview

Personalqualities

To be able to adapt,develop and maintainconstructiverelationships at alllevels both internallyand with ourcustomers.Self-driven with acommitment toprofessional andpersonaldevelopment.Team player,respectful toand others.Ability to manage owntime.Commitment todelivering the bestpossible services forresidents, and internaland externalcustomers.

To be able to thinkinnovatively whencomplex issues ariseand identify solutionswhen advice is notreadily available.

Otherworkingrequirements

• Full driving licence andaccess to a car forwork purposes,insured for businessuse.Ability to attendmeetings out of hoursand emergency
• To be able to workand bank holidays asrequired.
• Application form