Countryside Ranger Apprentice

Introduction

You’ll help care for the National Cycle Network and surrounding land across the Walk Wheel Cycle Trust Estate. This hands-on apprenticeship builds skills in land maintenance, and habitat management, working with experienced staff, volunteers, and partners.

About the Employer

If our streets were safer, if our air was cleaner. If we connected with our communities. If we reconnected with the world around us.

If every person in every community could connect with the things that matter to them safely, healthily and joyfully.

If our everyday actions added up to something much, much bigger. Imagine if one small change could do all that.

We’ve been making that change happen since 1977.

Making it possible for every one of us to roll, ride, amble, gambol, stroll, stride, trek and tread.

And today, we’re gearing up to do more than ever.

Uniting under a new name for Sustrans and a renewed mission to deliver more joy per journey, more peace per pedal, more smiles per mile.

To work with communities to effect change on the ground and evidence the impact to influence policies that push those changes further. It’s grassroots action with added oomph.

We call it people-powered movement.

What You'll Do

Due to the driving aspect of this role you will need a full clean UK driving license. You will be working in Chester, Deeside, Merseyside, Greater Manchester and Lancashire.

Looking for an active career where each day varies? This Level 4 apprenticeship is a great opportunity to work outdoors, learn practical skills, and make a real difference

You’ll be part of a small, supportive team maintaining cycle paths and associated green spaces, using tools and machinery, driving across sites, and helping protect spaces for wildlife and communities. You will help plan tasks, organise and carry out a programme of works across the north west. 

You will gain hands on experience of active land management in an outdoor setting.

If you enjoy being outdoors, in all weathers, teamwork and a variety of practical work in both urban and rural settings, this could be the apprenticeship for you.

Training Outcome

• A permanent post may be available for suitable candidates on successful completion of the apprenticeship

Skills Required

• Communication skills
• Organisation skills
• Team working
• Physical fitness
• Land management understanding

Qualifications

• Essential - GCSE - English - 4/C or above
• Essential - GCSE - Maths - 4/C or above
• Desired - GCSE - Science - 4/C or above

Course Information

Course: Countryside ranger (level 4)

Level: 4

Route: Agriculture, environmental and animal care

Apprenticeship Level: Higher

Working Arrangements

Working Week: Monday to Friday with occasional weekend work, shifts to be confirmed.

Expected Duration: 2 Years

Training Provider: BRIDGWATER AND TAUNTON COLLEGE