Job Description

Come and Join the Arts, Parks and Events team as a senior park ranger

The successful candidate will be creative and energetic with a can do attitude, an effective communicator who can work with a flexible approach and ability to work across multiple workstreams and stakeholders

Tower Hamlets is one of the UK\'s most culturally vibrant and diverse areas, at the heart of east London. The Arts, Parks and Events department has an opportunity for a new team member to support our busy commercial service area, and provide excellent customer services to our users.

To supervise the Community Park Rangers and Playleader in delivery of regular and seasonal activities and programmes for children.

To act as duty manager for the Parks and Open Spaces service on weekend days and in line with the rota.

To lead on Adventure Play facilities and activity.

To work across any of the 120+ parks in Tower Hamlets, and to be an approachable and recognisable uniformed presence in the parks and play areas and to communicate with the users, providing information and support as necessary in all weather conditions.

To plan, provide support and lead small-scale events, play programmes and activities both outdoors and in council owned buildings for children, families and volunteers.

To protect and maintain the infrastructure of the parks and play areas including undertaking cleaning, gardening, repairs and maintenance as required and monitoring security. To support the development and delivery of park improvement projects. To ensure the health and safety of the public using our facilities.

We are proud of our values because they demonstrate how we work and interact with customers, partners and colleagues on a day-to-day basis.

We have five core values:

Together - We work TOGETHER across boundaries and with partners to achieve the best outcomes for Tower Hamlets

Open and honest - We are OPEN and transparent

Willing - We are WILLING to challenge, innovate and be accountable

Excellence - We empower each other to be EXCELLENT and go the extra mile

Respect - We RESPECT all communities; they are the heart of everything we do

Additional Details

Tower Hamlets vision for our borough is that: people are aspirational, independent and have equal access to opportunities; we are a borough that our residents are proud of and love to live in; and we are a dynamic, outcomes-based council using digital innovation and partnership working to respond to the changing needs of our borough. We want people who aspire to our TOWER values: Together; Open; Willing; Excellent; Respect.

Tower Hamlets has a zero-tolerance approach to, and works to eradicate, all forms of discrimination on the basis of race, sex, disability, age, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, status as a civil partner, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy and maternity and looks to employ a diverse workforce representative of those groups. We recognise that people can also be disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so we will work to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class.

We welcome applicants interested in flexible working arrangements and also applicants who live in the borough.

A full UK Manual Driving licence is required for this role.

Interviews scheduled week commencing Monday 28th August 2023

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