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Bradgate Park, Leicester

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

Posted 1 week ago, 18 Apr | Get your application in now before you miss out!

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: cc511e42b9504ee3b79093a43503f88b

Full Job Description

This role is part of a Ranger team who work alongside the Wardens, volunteers and other teams to maintain and improve the Park and manage the visitor pressures on it. With 1,200 acres of incredible green space, a Visitor Centre, Café, amazing ruins and monuments, we are looking for a motivated, skilled individual to join the team. As an Assistant Ranger, enthusiasm and a willingness to learn is key and ideally you will already have some of the following skills: experience of similar roles / estate work (including fencing, dry stone walling, woodland management); working with volunteers; use of hand tools, & power tools, first aid and other certificates., Bradgate Park is seeking dedicated Catering Assistants to join our vibrant team, responsible for delivering fantastic customer service in our Deer Barn Café and helping us to deliver the highest quality of hospitality., We are looking for permanent staff to join our café rota; you should have previous café (or similar) experience and be willing to work at least 3 shifts per week including some weekends. The number of hours per week is flexible and can be discussed with successful candidates.

The Deer Barn Café is a community hub where people can meet, relax, and refresh. As a busy Country Park, the Trust is looking for Catering Assistants with excellent interpersonal skills who thrive on being part of a team.

Bradgate Park offers 830 acres of publicly accessible countryside close to Leicester with another 146 acres at Swithland Wood. Most of the park is designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest and offers a wild and rugged landscape with dramatic rocky outcrops and ancient trees. The landscape is home to herds of red and fallow deer, some of the oldest in-situ fossils in the UK, the ruins of one of the most important country houses of Tudor England and many species of locally scarce wildlife.