Community Park Ranger

Directorate: Place
Hours: 21 hours per week to include evening and weekend working. (3 days / week)
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Darley Fields base and working across all parks and green spaces across the city

We currently have a vacancy for a Community Park Ranger. We are looking for an enthusiastic and self-motivated person to join our team working across the city. You will be working in Derby’s beautiful parks and green spaces which are visited by over a million people each year and provide a vital role in delivering health and wellbeing outcomes and enhancing people’s quality of life. As part of the Parks Team, you will be involved in the management of a wide range of sites including around 400 green spaces which include six Green Flag Parks, Local Nature Reserves, Children’s Playgrounds, Park Buildings, and extensive Playing Fields, which support an extensive programme of grassroots outdoor sport. We work with a wide range of partners, including over 25 Parks Friends Groups and the Derby Park Volunteers who undertake nature conservation work on parks two days a week.

We are seeking a hard-working team player who can work independently using their own initiative across a wide range of different parks sites and nature reserves and make a difference for people and nature.

You will need to have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, be approachable, friendly and self-motivated with a commitment to delivering a high-quality service.

We are looking for someone with a genuine interest in working in parks who can work both on their own and as part of a “can do” team. You must also have a flexible approach to working, be willing to carry out cleaning duties and ideally have a full clean driving license to be able to drive Council vehicles to parks across the city.

Next Steps
The closing date for this vacancy is at midnight on 14 April 2024. Any applications received after the closing date will not be accepted.

Interviews will be held: May 2024 TBC

Important Information
Links to the full Job Description and Person Specification are below.

All employees will normally be appointed to the minimum of the grade for the job.

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Remember to align your personal statement to the essential criteria in the Person Specification.

Please be aware that where there are colleagues within the organisation who are 'at risk' of redundancy, requirements to redeploy to another suitable role will apply and take priority.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. We recruit for diversity and value difference. As many of our roles can now be home-based, we are able to offer more opportunities for people who need this facility.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you are a disabled person, you have the choice to apply under our Guaranteed Interview Scheme so long as you demonstrate that you meet the essential requirements for the job.

We feel it is essential that we recruit a talented workforce that is as diverse as the community we work for.

Please let us know of any individual requirements or reasonable adjustments you may have during the application, interview, or onboarding process and we’ll do all we can to help. We strongly believe in social understanding of disability and for us it’s all about removing barriers to equality.

If you have any questions regarding this vacancy or are having difficulty applying, please contact our Recruitment Team on 01332 640844 (Relay UK - 18001 01332 640 844) or at recruitmentteam@derby.gov.uk. https://www.derby.gov.uk/signing-service/