Ranger

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. The Senior Nature Recovery Ranger can be based in any of the four

project locations.  

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.  

For a full job description and details of how to

apply, visit our website:  

https://sustainablehealthcare.org.uk/csh-are-hiring-3-nature-recovery-rangers-1-senior-nature-recovery-ranger