Forest Ranger Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
Job description
We have an exciting opportunity available for a Forest Ranger to join our team working on a part time permanent basis, 24 hours per week (which will include working every other weekend). In return we will offer you a competitive salary, a place to develop your skills and the chance to work in some of the UK’s most stunning forest environments.
If you are truly passionate about creating wonderful guest experiences, love the outdoors, and want a genuinely different career, you have come to the right place. At Forest Holidays, our purpose is to create authentic experiences in Britain’s amazing forests, connecting people, nature, and local communities.
The Forest Ranger Role:
Open all year round, as our Forest Ranger you will work within the Forest Retreat team and report to the Visitor Centre Manager. Your responsibilities will include:
- Delivering a programme of led and self-led events ensuring a varied programme for children, adults and family groups based on the environment.
- Create safe and enjoyable routes for events and activities and continue to monitor them for issues.
- Promote safety and abundance of wildlife and flora on location (dogs on leads, ground nesting birds, fungi etc.).
- Carry out minor pruning and vegetation control and liaise with the Operations Manager to ensure seasonal grass cutting and manicuring does not have a detrimental effect on the local flora and fauna.
- Support the locations bike hire facility, and issue bikes to guests.
- Deliver archery and axe throwing sesions - we are launching these exciting new activities in June, and full training will be provided.
Passionate about our forest environment, you will enthusiastically share your expert knowledge of woodland flora and fauna and the world around us. Your aim is to inspire our guests to experience, enjoy and respect our British forests by championing our ethical and ecological values, making sure every guest experience that Forest Feeling during their stay.
As our Forest Ranger we can offer you:
- Full training will be given and the opportunity to develop into managerial role with our Leadership Academy and Apprenticeships
- Get paid early with Access Early Pay - a great help for covering the unexpected
- Save on cabin breaks - pre-book a break with up to 20% off or travel last minute for just £50 a cabin. You also get a friends and family discount giving them 15% off all breaks
Our ideal Forest Ranger:
We are looking for dynamic individuals who work with energy and enthusiasm to deliver on our exceptional brand standards making sure every guest experience that Forest Feeling. The ability to build good working relationships with colleagues and work to set timescales is essential. You will need to manage your daily schedule, be comfortable working on your own outdoors and will ideally have:
- Relevant qualification for the role in an environmentally-based subject
- Walking leader or professional outdoor leadership qualification
- Experience of public speaking, leading groups and passionate about the subject
- Outdoor First Aid certificate and PVG certificate
At Forest Holidays, our purpose is to help people experience and reconnect with forests, each other and rural communities. Because these connections are good for people and good for nature.
We’re privileged to be situated in beautiful corners of the UK’s forests and employ over 700 people in rural communities Our promise, hand in hand with our local partners, Forestry England, Forestry and Land Scotland and Natural Resources Wales is to help the forests thrive, so that they are better than ever for future generations.
We have 11 locations across the UK and we’re growing. We opened our most recent location at Delamere Forest in April 2021 and are due to open a new location in Garwnant, Brecon Beacons in winter 2022. Forest Holidays is a thriving company, whether you want to grow your experience, nurture meaningful connections or allow your wildest aspirations to bloom, here you’ll find jobs where you really CAN see the wood for the trees.
Don’t miss out on the opportunity to join our fantastic team! Click ‘Apply’ now!
