Leicester City Council
Park Ranger
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Reference: REQ8090
Description
Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Permanent
Play a key role in protecting Leicester’s parks and open spaces by enforcing local byelaws and environmental regulations, supporting community safety, and providing excellent customer service.
You’ll be joining the Park Services team, part of Neighbourhood & Environmental Services. We maintain safety, cleanliness, and community engagement across Leicester’s parks. The team includes Senior Rangers and Parks Rangers who work closely with the Police, ASB officers, and other council services to address littering, dog control, anti-social behaviour, and park byelaw violations. We are currently focusing on reducing ASB hotspots, raising awareness of byelaws, and improving reporting standards through targeted patrols and public engagement.
Rangers are based in Abbey Park and patrol parks and open spaces across the city, on foot or by vehicle. The role involves working outdoors in all weathers, with some flexibility depending on operational needs. This is a full-time, permanent role working 37 hours per week on a shift pattern, which includes evenings, weekends, and public holidays. Shift schedules rotate to ensure coverage across key times.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Patrol parks and open spaces to detect and address breaches of park byelaws, dog control PSPOs, and littering offences.
- Collect evidence, issue Fixed Penalty Notices (FPNs), write reports, and attend court when needed.
- Conduct health and safety inspections, report defects, and take action to ensure public safety.
- Liaise with the public, offering clear guidance and signposting to other council services.
- Work closely with police and other services to support awareness events and tackle anti-social behaviour.
- Be a public-facing council representative wearing uniform and using body-worn cameras and personal safety devices to ensure safety.
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What You’ll Need
- Excellent customer service and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to stay calm, be confident, and show assertiveness when handling difficult and/or challenging situations.
- Understanding, or willingness to learn, about environmental legislation and local byelaws.
- Good IT skills and understanding to log incidents, write accurate reports, and update inspection records.
- Full manual UK driving license and comfort working outdoors in all weather conditions.
- Flexibility and willingness to work evenings and weekends.
What We Can Offer You
- Satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester.
- Work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance.
- Generous annual leave.
- Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme.
- Option of flexible working.
- Various training and development opportunities.
- Flexible benefits including discounts on city buses and trains.
- Illustrative value of your benefits package 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. 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’d like to have a chat before applying, feel free to contact Alexander DeLauer on 0116 454 3164 or email alexander.delauer-sternberg@leicester.gov.uk.
Interviews will take place on Thursday 10th and Friday 11th September 2026.
Region: Central
Location: Abbey Park
Salary: GBP32,061 - GBP34,434 Per Year
Package: Total benefit value (includes pension contribution and full holiday entitlement): GBP46,953
Contractual hours: 37
Basis: Full time
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