Position reference: 50132117
Directorate: Growth & Sustainability | Service: Environment & Transport
Salary: £41,511 - £44,711
Working Arrangements: Monday to Friday
Hours per week: 37
Contract type: Permanent
We are happy to talk flexible working arrangements with you, please get in touch.
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Closing date: 28/02/2025 at 23:59
The successful candidate will be required to be available outside of services normal working hours as part of a standby rota to respond to out of hours service needs. A standardised standby payment will be made in respect of these duties.
This post requires a Basic Criminal Record Check
Prospective employees will be required to give a reasonable account of any significant periods (6 months or more in the past 3 years) of time living abroad.
When applying, please ensure you are prepared to start work with all the necessary legal documents, such as a valid visa, relevant to the type of work you will be undertaking. Please be aware that our organisation does not possess a Home Office license and, as a result, is unable to provide sponsorship for anyone seeking a visa as a skilled or temporary migrant worker.
Pensions Regulations have provisions to reduce pension payments in certain circumstances of those who return to work within local government service. If you are in receipt of a pension upon commencing employment with the authority, this may affect your pension entitlements and you should therefore seek advice from the relevant Pensions Authority.
At Barnsley Council you can start a career that makes a real difference to people’s lives, helping our council and residents to be the best they can be.
We’re an award-winning council and one of the biggest employers in the borough, supporting around 243,000 people. We put people at the heart of everything we do, and that includes our employees. As part of the team, we offer lots of benefits and rewards to support you to thrive and grow, like flexible working, employee discounts, support for your health and wellbeing, and opportunities for training and development to grow your career and develop your skills.
There’s so much happening in our thriving borough, and now’s the perfect time to join our excellent Environment & Transport team as we work to make Barnsley the place of possibilities.
- We’re an award-winning team and one of the biggest employers in the borough supporting around 243,000 people.
- Working at Barnsley Council means being part of a team that makes a real difference to people’s lives, where you can develop the skills you need to make change happen.
- If you join the team you’ll receive great pay alongside an excellent pension scheme. With flexible working we’ll also support your work/life balance, helping you to adjust your hours and take time off when you need it.
- We’ll help you to develop your career and grow your skills with opportunities for training and development.
- There’s so much happening in our thriving borough and your talent and skills will help us make Barnsley the place of possibilities.
- Key to our success is working with our residents, partners, businesses and organisations and building these partnerships to bring about change in Barnsley.
About the Post:
Neighbourhood Services are seeking a highly motivated and experienced arboricultural specialist to lead on the delivery of an efficient and effective core service offer for the council’s Tree Team and asset base. With significant experience of arboricultural work coupled with either a professional tree inspection qualification or equivalent extensive experience working in the arboricultural environment, you will be responsible for the strategic, tactical and operational management and direction of the Arbor Team working borough-wide to maintain the health, safety and integrity of the Council’s tree stock.
A key part of the role will be working with our Arbor Team, undertaking tree inspections to inform the development of technical reports aligned to the councils’ Tree Risk Management Framework whilst managing the scheduling of tree maintenance ensuring the delivery of safe, highly efficient, customer-focused right first-time services. You will ensure the principles and priorities set out in the Tree Risk Management Framework are embedded in front-line practice whilst maintaining service agility to mobilise effective responses to emerging priorities through the adoption of a risk-based approach. A key requirement of the role will be the need to make arboricultural decisions assessing risk, impact and consequence planning required interventions with minimal supervision.
You will have highly developed leadership skills with the ability to negotiate, implement and manage change across a front-line operational service embedding a culture of excellence, safety first and promoting continuous improvement. The role will require an adaptive leadership approach requiring skills to respond to new ways of working whilst undertaking effective liaison with key stakeholders to gather facts and clearly convey decisions.
The creation and maintenance of an up-to-date database of Council owned trees will be an integral part of the role, so the use of modern surveying techniques and of data-capture technology will be an essential part of the role.
If you feel you have the necessary skills and abilities to help us develop our modern and efficient arboricultural service, we would very much welcome your application.
Please use the documents below to help support you with your application form.
Job Profile: Tree Inspection & Maintenance Manager Job Profile.pdf
Vacancy Exposure Profile: Exposure Profile - LOW.pdf
Help with your application form
Please ensure you view the job profile for this role, as you will need to demonstrate in your application form how you meet the required criteria.
We welcome the opportunity to have a chat about the role and are happy to address any questions you may have about flexible working arrangements, including as a result of caring responsibilities.
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