Countryside Warden

Role Responsibility

We require a part-time Country Park Warden to help maintain the site and its facilities in a clean, safe and attractive state through litter picking, cleaning the toilets, carrying out minor repairs, keeping the lake clear of debris, assisting and guiding visitors, enforcing site rules and reporting problems to the ranger team. 

Pay is annualised at 13.23 hours per week, totalling 690 hours a year. You will work alternate weeks. As the post is one week on one week off the pro rata annual leave is paid as part of the salary so there is no annual leave. Bank Holidays are paid at double time. 

Hours are:

2 hours per day Mon-Fri, 5 hours Saturdays, Sunday and Bank Holidays in Winter

3 hours per day Mon-Fri, 5 hours Saturdays and 6 hours Sundays and Bank Holidays in summer. 5 extra hours to be used across the week where needed

The site needs to be opened at 8:30am and closed at dusk. On weekends it involves 3 visits to the site.

You will be reliable and possess good interpersonal skills and have a positive attitude towards customer care. A flexible attitude to working hours and the ability to attend the site at short notice as required. A level of physical fitness appropriate to the needs of the job, approx. 6 hrs of walking.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Contact Details

For further information regarding the vacancy please contact:

Mark Gracey 07980 997027 mark.gracey@kent.gov.uk

About the Company

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KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county’s working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.