Job Title: Nature Recovery Ranger (x3)
Salary: £24,000 for 4 days a week (£30,000 FTE), plus Outer London weighting of £3,600 (£4,500 FTE) for East and North Herts post
Full/part-time: 0.8FTE, 4 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)
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.
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 healthcare’s carbon footprint.
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 three Nature Recovery Rangers and 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, including sites supporting people experiencing acute mental illness.
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 disperse team. They will also ideally have experience in bid writing and/or securing funding for community-based activities.
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.
Job and Person Specifications
To view the Job and Person Specifications, please click here for the Nature Recovery Rangers and here for the Senior Nature Recovery Ranger.
Location
These posts will be based across the following NHS sites in one of four locations:
Nottinghamshire at two main sites:
* Sherwood Oaks Hospital, Sherwood Avenue, Sherwood Oaks Business Park, Mansfield, NG18 4GW
* Blossomwood, Kings Mill Hospital, Mansfield Road, Sutton-in-Ashfield, NG17 4JT
And to a lesser extent at:
* Bracken House Rehabilitation Unit, 1-6 Heather Close, Stockwell Gate, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, NG18 5QJ
* Hopewood Unit, Foster Drive, Nottingham, NG5 3FL
* Highbury Hospital, Highbury Road, Bulwell, Nottingham, NG6 9DR
East and North Herts at one main site:
* Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, Rickmansworth Road, Northwood, Middlesex, HA6 2RN
And to a lesser extent at:
* Lister Hospital, Coreys Mill Lane, Stevenage SG1 4AB
* New QE2 Hospital, Howlands, Welwyn Garden City AL7 4HQ
* Hertford County Hospital, North Road, Hertford SG14 1LP
Newcastle upon Tyne:
* Royal Victoria Hospital, Queen Victoria Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4LP
* Freeman Hospital, Freeman Road, High Heaton, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE7 7DN
* Regent Point, Regent Farm Road, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE3 3HD
* Various local NHS community sites and local parks
Dorset:
* Dorset County Hospital, Williams Avenue, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 2YJ
* South Walks House, Charles Street, Dorchester, DT11EE
* Dorchester Borough Gardens, Cornwall Road, Dorchester, Dorset, DT11RU
* Community Allotments, Poundbury, Dorchester, DT1 3AR
We encourage the use of sustainable travel where this is feasible.
To apply please email your CV and a cover letter (max. 2 A4 pages), explaining how your skills and experience match this role, and including referees, to: info@sustainablehealthcare.org.uk. Please show clearly at the start of your application which of the four project locations you are applying to work at and where you are currently based. Please also mention whether you are interested in the Nature Recovery Ranger or Senior Nature Recovery Ranger role or would like to be considered for both.
* Closing date: 6th April
* Interview dates:
o Nottinghamshire: 24th April 2025
o Newcastle upon Tyne: 25th April 2025
o Dorset: 28th April 2025
o East and North Herts: 29th April 2025
* Proposed start date: 1st June
For any questions please contact info@sustainablehealthcare.org.uk
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