Job Description
An opportunity has arisen within Neighbourhoods, Regeneration and Sustainability for 3 Natural Environment Officers (Arboriculture) to join our Greenspace-Biodiversity Service on a permanent basis.
NRS brings together a diverse range of Glasgow City Council operational, technical and development services that focus on sustainable transport, place making and delivering essential city services.
If you’re interested in working within a service that touches on all aspects within the city, please read on.
Position Details
You will deliver a range of tasks covering tree inspections & surveys of GCC owned trees adjacent to highways, schools, properties, open spaces, Cemeteries/Crematoriums and Parks. You will inspect, survey and re-inspect trees as per the SLA as well as inspecting dangerous trees in emergency situations such as storms.
Providing written responses to Senior Management, Elected Members and members of the public is also a requirement of the role. The successful candidates should have a background in arboriculture operations and have experience in delivering arboriculture projects, including on the ground e.g., tree planting, pruning, felling, tree dismantling and removal, etc. on a significant operational scale.
A full current driving licence and a Lantra Professional Tree Inspection Certificate are essential requirements for this role. As is previous experience in an arboriculture capacity.
Further details regarding what this role entails are noted within the Role Profile for the post, whilst the Person Specification document confirms the key competencies you are required to demonstrate in your application.
Contract Details
Weekly Hours: 35
Work Pattern: Monday - Friday
Annual Salary: £34,922.37 - £40,664.84 on an incremental scale
Benefits of working with us
Glasgow City Council employees have access to a wide-ranging and generous benefits package. If you’re successful in your job application, you’ll have access to these benefits which include:
• 26 days (182 hours) paid annual leave, rising to 29 days (203) hours after 5 years’ service
• 12.5 days (87.5 hours) paid public holidays each year
• Local government pension scheme
• Life and Personal Accident Insurance
• Occupational Sickness Pay
• Staff Benefit Scheme
• Glasgow Credit Union
Details of Council policies can be found here.
For guidance on completing your application, and to view other benefits on offer for employees of Glasgow City Council, please visit the following link:
https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/vacancies.
Application Packs
The following alternative Application Packs can be requested in other format for example, Braille, Audio and other languages. To request an alternative Application Pack please phone 0141 287 1054. Packs will be posted out to you 2nd class within 3 working days of receiving your telephone request. Please note the closing date of the job advert if requesting this to ensure that you give yourself plenty of time to complete your application form and return to us.
Further Information
Please note that Glasgow City Council is currently completing a Job Evaluation exercise and introducing a new pay and grading structure which may impact on current salaries quoted in job adverts, see
GCC Job Evaluation
For further information about working for us please refer to our website GCC HR Policies
