Leicester City Council
Arborist
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Reference: REQ7279
Description:
Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Permanent
Play a key role in maintaining our trees and woodlands. We are a team of professionals engaged in the management of trees and woodlands which are located on the highway, housing estates and 1,250 hectares of parkland. We undertake the full range of tree maintenance work to specified standards whilst complying with Health & Safety, COSHH and other appropriate regulations.
Working within specialist teams and under the guidance of a Team Leader, you’ll work across the city undertaking tree work at a range of sites including parkland, housing estates, the highway, domestic gardens and woodlands.
You’ll start at 7.00am and on occasion you may be required to work outside of normal working hours, including providing emergency cover for out of hours. You need to be able to work outside in all weathers, anywhere in the city and wear PPE where appropriate.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Undertake tree work operations, including work at height, operating specialist machinery and equipment, planting, pruning, and felling operations, often in difficult locations.
- Apply chemicals such as herbicides as and when required.
- Ensure tree work is carried out in compliance with health and safety regulations and environmental protection to recognised standards.
- Undertake duties efficiently and effectively to ensure a high standard of customer service is achieved.
- Cover the operational Team Leader during absences.
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What You'll Need
- Appropriate NPTC/CS Unit certifications.
- Experience of practical tree work operations including aerial work.
- Ability to work without close supervision and use your own initiative.
- Ability to work well in a team environment.
- Highly safety conscious and able to understand and apply principles of Health and Safety relating to practical arboriculture.
- Good literacy and numeracy skills to complete relevant paperwork and ensure records are accurate and up to date.
- Full driving licence (essential), HGV licence (desirable).
What We Can Offer You
- Satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester.
- A work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance.
- Generous annual leave.
- Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme.
- Option of flexible working.
- Opportunity to develop skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities.
- Several flexible benefits, including discounts on city buses and trains.
- Illustrative value of your benefits package available via our benefits calculator.
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We’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That’s why we’ve designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, take a look at the ‘our approach to recruitment’ page.
If you would like a chat about this post, please feel free to contact Dave Jones on 0116 454 4939 or email dave.jones1@leicester.gov.uk
Region: Central
Location: Beaumont Park
Salary: GBP28,598 - GBP31,022 Per Year
Package: Total benefit value (includes pension contribution and full holiday entitlement): GBP42,300.95
Contractual hours: 37
Basis: Full time
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