Farm Advice Lead Advisor - West Midlands, United Kingdom - Natural England

Natural England

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West Midlands, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Salary:

- £27,273
Job grade:

Higher Executive Officer
Lead Adviser
Contract type:
Fixed Term
Length of employment:
For a period of up to 12 months
Type of role:
Environment and Sustainability
Working pattern:
Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
Number of jobs available:
2Contents

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Location

West Midlands (England)About the job

Job summary:

This position can be based at Telford or Worcester
Job description:

Do you have a passion for nature and the environment? Do you want to make a real difference and secure significant environmental gains in the present and the future? Do you enjoy working in a team? Can you see yourself advising communities and customers to maximise gains for the Natural Environment?

If this appeals to you, a career at Natural England offers rewarding opportunities to secure environmental improvements and play your part in creating a better future for people and nature.

The priority work Natural England is delivering includes:

Establishing a Nature Recovery Network to help wildlife thrive
Monitoring environmental changes to identify and help reduce the effects of climate change
Working with farmers and landowners to develop greener food production methods
Advising on plans for new developments to maximise gains for nature
Providing ways for people to better connect with nature, including green social prescribing

We are the Government's advisor for the natural environment, playing a vital role in delivering the Government's 25 Year Environment Plan, an ambitious vision which brings new opportunities to protect and enhance and to achieve real outcomes for the environment.

See more about the work of Natural England at:

Wherever possible we will accommodate requests for both full-time and part-time hours and other flexible working patterns to help employees achieve a good work/life balance and maintain their health and wellbeing.

From induction to ongoing learning and development, everyone in Natural England is supported to develop their skills and capabilities. Where appropriate there will be offers of training under our apprenticeship schemes.

Area Teams

We have 25 main offices across 12 area teams.

Map of area teams and offices - Natural England Offices and Area Teams July These roles will be based in the West Midlands area team.

The posts are to be located from Telford or Worcester Offices.

The West Midlands is a really exciting area to work in, we are focussed on working in a collaborative and integrated way, internally and with partners to delivery nature recovery across the West Midlands on a large scale.

Our landscape scale approach means you will be operating at a variety of scales across the area.

Natural England is adopting hybrid working - which means that our staff will work from a flexible range of locations, encompassing home, offices (ours and our partners) and relevant sites.

All new staff will be formally linked to one of our 25 offices across England and the expectation is that all new staff will be able to access their local office to be part of the community of staff in their geographic area.

Full time staff are expected to attend their associated office for a minimum of one day a week.

Job description

Natural England (NE) delivers a wide range of farm advice to improve the condition of protected sites by working with farmers to help them deliver measures through advice and schemes, including Countryside Stewardship.

Catchment Sensitive Farming (CSF) in partnership with Defra and the Environment Agency as a part of NE's on farm advice service, provides advice to farmers to reduce diffuse water pollution from agriculture.

CSF operates through a network of locally based farm advisers (CSF farm advisers) and partner organisations to deliver Defra's 25-year plan ambitions for water quality, air quality (ammonia) and sustainable water management through nature-based solutions.

We are also looking to expand CSF's capabilities to tackle environmental impacts from agriculture in relation to water quality, ammonia, and flood risk.

The primary focus of the role is to work with and provide on the ground advice to farmers.

The role-holder will also work with partner organisations, the agricultural industry, and colleagues from the Defra group to build our capabilities to deliver a range of priority outcomes for NE.

All CSF farm advisers will have the opportunity to enrol in a structured training programme.

Key Tasks

The role of the CSF farm adviser is to:

Evaluate and understand environmental priorities for CSF within the specified catchment(s), using national data validated locally.
Work in priority areas to develop and lead specific CSF training, information and advice campaigns for farmers and landowners. Give bespoke advice onfarm to farmers and or