Arborist

This is an exciting opportunity to use your arboricultural skills to help maintain the
world-renowned Epping Forest. We are looking for a suitably skilled arborist to join our
specialist teams caring for Europe’s largest collection of over 50,000 veteran trees. With the
largest concentration of Beech pollards in Europe to care for we are also pollarding for the
future and use a mixture of traditional and modern management practices.

About Us 

Epping Forest stretches from London’s East End for 14 miles out into Essex and covers over 6000
acres along with a further 2000 acres of ‘buffer land’ and receives over 10 million visits each
year. Two thirds of the Forest is designated as SSSI and SAC and is home to over 50,000 veteran
trees, ancient pollards, over 100 ponds and lakes, two registered parks, ancient monuments, and
listed buildings. The ancient wood pasture landscape is managed with the help of a resident
herd of 200 Longhorn cattle. 

Epping Forest is amongst 11,000 acres of open spaces, parks, and gardens in and around London
owned and managed by the City of London as part of its commitment to sustaining a first-class
city. Each open space is a unique resource for the use and enjoyment of the public and for the
conservation of wildlife and the historic landscape. 

The ideal candidate  

• You hold a recognised arboricultural (or related discipline) qualification at City and
  Guilds Level 2 or equivalent demonstrable experience and skills.
• You will be a multi-skilled arborist that enjoys a varied role combining aerial and
  groundwork with the use of forestry machinery such as winches, tractor mounted chippers and log
  forwarders as well as mobile elevated work platforms in addition to climbing.
• You will be proficient at tree safety work and willing to continue your learning on the
  job.
• You will have the highest regard to safe working practices and be confident in working in a
  highly visited public environment, able to deal with the public in a professional manner.

Benefits Include 

• Competitive salary starting at £34,210 depending on experience (clear incremental progress
  points).
• 24 days annual leave plus public holidays (or time in lieu where applicable).
• Pension scheme is operated in accordance with Local Government Pension Scheme.
• Excellent training, continuing professional development and career progression pathways.
• Excellent job-related personal welfare support.
• Employee assistance programmes including mental well-being support.
• Bicycle Loan scheme.
• Travel card scheme.

Closing date: 12 noon on 5 November 2025

To apply online please click the apply button.

Alternatively, please contact 020 7332 3978 (24 hr answerphone) quoting reference number
OENV917 if you experience any difficulties. A minicom service for the hearing impaired is
available on 020 7332 3732.

If this role is advertised as a secondment, secondments are subject to the agreement of your
department releasing you, therefore, you need to discuss this with your line manager prior to
applying. The purpose of this will be to discuss what, if any, impact your secondment might
have on the service and service delivery should your application be successful, and how this
might be addressed.

The City of London Corporation is committed to Equal Opportunities and welcomes applications
from all sections of the community.

We reserve the right to close the advert earlier should we receive a high number of
applications.

Because our roles are so varied, we don’t have a ‘one size fits all’ policy for workplace
attendance. How many days a week you’ll be required to attend your workplace will depend on the
requirements of your role. It’s important that you understand the requirements before applying
to ensure you are able to meet them. We are committed to considering requests to work flexibly
and job share. Requests will be considered by the recruiting manager in line with our policies
and business needs.

We will be reviewing this policy and approach at regular intervals to ensure we’re meeting our
attendance needs.

The City of London Corporation is currently undergoing a programme to ensure that our pay and
reward practices are competitive and equitable across the whole organisation, to ensure that
everyone has the opportunity to thrive in the work that we do.