Estate Worker

RSPB Haweswater is one in all Northern England’s largest and most spectacular nature reserves,
located within the Lake District Nationwide Park. From mossy oak woodlands, to flower wealthy crags,
hay meadows, tarns, bogs and fells, Haweswater helps an enormous vary of habitats and species.

We’re looking for a succesful and competent full-time property employee to affix the workforce that cares for
this particular place.

What is the position about?

This position might be targeted on the upkeep of Haweswater’s bodily infrastructure and
habitats and also will contain aiding with grazing and farming operations.

The reserve has many miles of dry-stone partitions and fences, and you will have to work with the
remainder of the positioning workforce to plan and ship the work required to maintain them in good order. We’ll
additionally need you to help tree planting and aftercare, together with working within the Haweswater tree
nursery, as effectively be a variety of different property and habitat administration works required with a view to
ship the positioning administration plan.

A part of the position will contain working with the positioning’s farming workforce, supporting conservation
grazing and farming actions. From livestock checking, to supporting gathering, medicating
and different farming duties, you should have the chance to develop livestock abilities and
contribute to the position that grazing performs within the website’s conservation and demonstration
aims.

Line managed by one of many Haweswater Wardens, you can be based mostly at Naddle Farm and change into a
key a part of the reserve’s dynamic workforce. You can be anticipated to work with volunteers on a
common foundation and have a very good understanding of how greatest volunteers must be motivated and
supported.

The position will contain working in a variety of habitats, together with some robust terrain and
regularly difficult climate circumstances. You will want to have a very good angle in the direction of well being
and security and the calls for of working in an upland setting.

There could also be alternatives to become involved with a variety of different duties, together with ecological
monitoring, folks engagement and demonstration occasions, relying in your expertise and
pursuits.

Key actions will embrace:

• Contributing to the event and supply of a plan to make sure well timed and cost-effective
  restore, upkeep and substitute of property boundaries and different infrastructure
• Help the positioning workforce within the administration of the positioning’s habitats, with a deal with tree
  planting and aftercare
• Help the positioning’s grazing and farming operations, working with farming employees as required

What we want from you:

Important abilities, data and expertise:

• Servicing and sustaining automobiles, equipment, instruments and gear to agreed requirements
• Equipment and gear operations
• Sensible land administration expertise and delivering property administration works
• Full driving licence or means to entry distant places with out public transport.

Fascinating {qualifications}, data, abilities and expertise:

• Organic recording digital knowledge enter
• Livestock administration.
• Information/understanding of nature conservation
• Lantra or equal qualification in tractors, toppers, trailers, chainsaws, brushcutters,
  ATV and automobiles

Extra data:

• This position will contain lone working and dealing in distant places.
• This position would require occasional weekend, early morning and night working so will want
  somebody who is ready to be versatile.

This can be a Everlasting, Full-Time position for 37.5 hours per week. 

We wish to conduct interviews for this place on Thursday twenty eighth March 2024. For additional
data please contact [email protected]

As a part of this utility course of you can be requested to finish an utility type together with
proof on the way you meet the talents, data, and expertise listed above.

We’re dedicated to creating an inclusive and numerous RSPB, wherein everybody feels
supported, valued, and capable of be their full selves. To attain our imaginative and prescient of making a world
richer in nature, we want extra folks, and extra numerous folks, on nature’s facet. Folks of
color and disabled individuals are at the moment underrepresented throughout the setting, local weather,
sustainability, and conservation sector. For those who determine as an individual of color and/or disabled,
we’re significantly focused on receiving your utility. Contact us to debate any
further help you might want to finish your utility.

The RSPB is an equal alternatives employer. This position is roofed by the Rehabilitation of
Offenders Act 1974.

This position is just not eligible for UK Visa Sponsorship – the profitable applicant might want to have
a pre-existing Proper to Work within the UK with a view to be supplied an employment contract.