Recreation Ranger - Facilities Management

Forestry England; Ashley Heath; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 33,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Civil Service Pension (Defined Benefit

25 days holiday

STaR discounts

Free parking

Free entry to National Arboretums

Career development support

Job summary

Forestry England is recruiting a Recreation Ranger – Facilities Management at Moors Valley in Dorset. You will support the Recreation Manager in day-to-day operations of a busy Forest Centre, plan and supervise work programmes, and help ensure a welcoming, safe visitor experience.

The role includes supervising the Craftsperson team, working with Dorset Council, and contributing to safety, efficiencies and potential income opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Support the Recreation Manager in day-to-day running of a busy Forest Centre.
• Plan, deliver, and supervise work programmes for contractors and staff to ensure compliance, safety and high standards of visitor experience across the site.
• Supervise the Craftsperson team and coordinate maintenance and forest management work with on-site colleagues and Dorset Council.
• Contribute to overall safety of the visitor experience, drive efficiencies and income opportunities.

Job description

We live and breathe forests.

Job title – Recreation Ranger, Facilities Management

Salary- £30,105 per annum

Contract type – Permanent

Hours – 37 hours per week, working a ROTA system, covering weekends and Bank Holidays

Vacancy closes - Tuesday 3rd November 23:58

We are Forestry England.

Join us. We're foresters, professionals and experts. We are a passionate team who love to share our enthusiasm and want to make a positive difference for you and the environment.

Together, we’re using our scale and expertise to grow the nation’s forests for everyone. We’re already adapting our landscapes for tomorrow, and getting stuff done today, like creating amazing places and experiences for you to enjoy. We're providing vital homes for wildlife, making our air cleaner to breathe and producing sustainable timber.

What You’ll Do…

As Recreation Ranger - Facilities you will support the Recreation Manager in the day to day running of a busy Forest Centre. The Recreation Ranger will plan, deliver, and supervise work programmes for contractors and staff to ensure compliance, safety and high standards of visitor experience across the busy site.

Your main responsibilities include making sure we have seamless day-to-day visitor operations, our visitors are having excellent experiences and maintaining a welcoming and safe environment for our customers.

You will supervise the Craftsperson team to ensure all maintenance and forest management work is undertaken alongside answering visitor enquiries and supporting your direct colleagues on site. A large part of the role is working in partnership with Dorset Council.

You will contribute to the overall safety of the visitor experience, drive efficiencies and income generation opportunities.

Please see the job description below for more information and details about what we need from you.

Where you’ll work…

Moors Valley Country Park and Forest is jointly owned and managed by Dorset Council and Forestry England, working closely with several onsite concessions. The Park has previously won Gold for Large Visitor Attraction in the Southwest Tourism Excellence Awards and is one of two popular visitor centres in the south district for Forestry England.

Moors Valley is one of the most visited attractions in the south with more than 1,000,000 visitors annually enjoying its lakeside walks and bike rides, innovative forest play structures, Tree Top Trail, steam railway, Go Ape, Segways, Nets Adventure and Golf Course. Prized as much by the local community as visiting tourists the park also offers stimulating play facilities, nationally recognised green exercise initiatives, locally sourced restaurant food and an extensive year-round events programme.

Benefits…

Alongside your salary, Forestry England contributes an average of 28.97% towards your pension. You will become a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension Scheme.

• 25 days holiday a year, raising by one day every year’s service, up to 30 days (pro-rated for part time employees) plus additional days off such as bank holidays.
• STaR is our employee benefits scheme offering discounts on everyday supermarket shopping, as well as other things such as hotel stays clothes, mobile phones, other electrical items, medical and car insurance, holidays, gym discounts, household bills, Headspace wellbeing app.
• free parking at Forestry England sites and free entry to our National Arboretums at Westonbirt and Bedgebury.
• a commitment to lifelong learning through career development. Forestry England will support your career development in a variety of ways, including continual professional development, support for individual learning plans and sponsored membership of professional bodies.

Read more about the benefits on the Forestry England website.

Nationality Requirements…

Read more about nationality requirements here.

Working for the Civil Service…

Forestry England is part of the Civil Service. The Civil Service has a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). This means candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria during the application process will be guaranteed an interview. We also offer a Redeployment Interview Scheme to current civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the role. This role is also part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans and Prison Leaver Recruitment initiative.

Within Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, it is essential that applicants should have the ability to provide conversation in accurate spoken English.

Our recruitment process makes appointments based on fair and open competition and merit, as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in in line with/according to these principles and you wish to make a complaint, please email: [e-mail].