Salary: £35,000 FTE, plus Outer London weighting of £5,250 for East and North Herts post
Full/part-time: Full time, 5 days a week
Contract type: Fixed term until 31st March 2027
Location: Across NHS sites in one of four locations: Nottinghamshire, East and North Herts, Newcastle upon Tyne and Dorset.
Job Title: Senior Nature Recovery Ranger (x1)
The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare inspires and empowers people to transform healthcare for a sustainable future. We collaborate with partners inside and outside healthcare to engage professionals, patients and the wider community in understanding the connections between health and environment, and to reduce environmental impacts. Our Green Space for Health Programme helps to realise the value of green space for physical and mental health, both at healthcare sites and across communities. We support and encourage NHS sites in developing their green space for the benefit of patients, staff and wider communities, while also improving biodiversity and combatting climate change.
This can mean planting trees, creating therapeutic gardens, vegetable gardens, orchards, meadow areas and outdoor trails, and offering outdoor wellbeing activities.
With new funding from the National Lottery Community Fund, we are appointing one Senior Nature Recovery Ranger to develop a programme of green space activities and community engagement at specific NHS sites in Nottinghamshire, East and North Herts, Newcastle upon Tyne and Dorset.
We are looking for outdoor conservation/ecology professionals, with excellent skills in community engagement. You will have a good background knowledge about wildlife and habitat management in the context of urban sites, practical technical and horticultural skills, and experience in the safe use of tools and machinery. You will be a passionate advocate for biodiversity and nature recovery and an engaging communicator, with the ability to manage and inspire volunteers and to involve them safely in a wide variety of exciting outdoor projects. You will be well organised and able to plan, promote and deliver a programme of on-site conservation-focused activities, in consultation with our NHS partners and – crucially – with the local communities in which the sites are located.
In addition to the above knowledge and skills, the Senior Nature Recovery Ranger will also have line management and project management experience and must be confident leading and providing guidance and direction to a small and geographically dispersed team. They will also ideally have experience in bid writing and/or securing funding for community-based activities. The Senior Nature Recovery Ranger can be based in any of the four project locations.
Each of the Nature Recovery Rangers appointed will work with an NHS partner to develop a bespoke programme of activities for the NHS site(s) where they are based. Activities will be designed to engage patients, health staff and local residents and may include managing food growing projects, supervising tree-planting with local residents, conducting habitat and species surveys, running community events to support biodiversity, for example through creation of ‘hedgehog highways’ and wildlife homes, and leading on other green space enhancements such as the creation of meadow areas, green on-site walking routes and pollinator-friendly planting schemes.
In addition to delivering a programme of activities for the NHS site(s) where they are based, the Senior Nature Recovery Ranger will spend one day a week providing project and line management support and guidance to the wider team of Nature Recovery Rangers.
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Other
* Industries: Think Tanks
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