Assistant Trees and Woodlands Officer – Inverleith Depot
Salary: £29,173 – £33,287. Hours: 36 per week, 52 weeks.
Ensure that the City owned stock of trees in parks, gardens, street walkways and woodlands is safely and effectively managed whilst ensuring the amenity value of the City's treescape is maintained and enhanced.
Responsibilities
* Carry out cyclic condition surveys on council maintained trees, keep up-to-date records of inspections and make recommendations for remedial works as necessary.
* Produce accurate and detailed works orders and liaise with the Forestry Supervisor to prioritise their implementation.
* Carry out the council's annual disease control programmes.
* Be placed on the standby rota, to ensure the Council can respond 24‑hour a day, 365‑days a year, including public holidays such as Easter, Christmas and New Year periods.
* On occasion may be given other ad‑hoc tasks and be expected to cover for other officers during periods of leave.
Qualifications
* Educated to a minimum HNC level in Arboriculture or Forestry. Other closely related qualifications may also be considered.
* Lantra Professional Tree Inspection certification, or equivalent.
* Qualifications may be satisfied through relevant experience and demonstrated competence.
* A full, clean, UK driver's licence.
This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure check.
We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.
As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we're bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.
To help achieve this, we're changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.
Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.
Happy to talk flexible working.
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