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This is an exciting opportunity to use your arboricultural skills to help maintain the world-renowned Epping Forest. We are looking for a suitably skilled arborist to join our specialist teams caring for Europe’s largest collection of over 50,000 veteran trees.
Arborist
| City of London
Location: Epping Forest
Salary: £35,930 – £40,105
Full Time: Permanent
Closing Date: 10/11/2025
Job Description
Attachments: Job Information Pack
This is an exciting opportunity to use your arboricultural skills to help maintain the world-renowned Epping Forest. We are looking for a suitably skilled arborist to join our specialist teams caring for Europe’s largest collection of over 50,000 veteran trees. With the largest concentration of Beech pollards in Europe to care for we are also pollarding for the future and use a mixture of traditional and modern management practices.
About Us
Epping Forest stretches from London’s East End for 14 miles out into Essex and covers over 6000 acres along with a further 2000 acres of ‘buffer land’ and receives over 10 million visits each year. Two thirds of the Forest is designated as SSSI and SAC and is home to over 50,000 veteran trees, ancient pollards, over 100 ponds and lakes, two registered parks, ancient monuments, and listed buildings. The ancient wood pasture landscape is managed with the help of a resident herd of 200 Longhorn cattle.
Epping Forest is amongst 11,000 acres of open spaces, parks, and gardens in and around London owned and managed by the City of London as part of its commitment to sustaining a first-class city. Each open space is a unique resource for the use and enjoyment of the public and for the conservation of wildlife and the historic landscape.
The role
The ideal candidate
You hold a recognised arboricultural (or related discipline) qualification at City and Guilds Level 2 or equivalent demonstrable experience and skills.
You will be a multi-skilled arborist that enjoys a varied role combining aerial and groundwork with the use of forestry machinery such as winches, tractor mounted chippers and log forwarders as well as mobile elevated work platforms in addition to climbing. You will be proficient at tree safety work and willing to continue your learning on the job.
You will have the highest regard to safe working practices and be confident in working in a highly visited public environment, able to deal with the public in a professional manner.
Benefits Include
- Competitive salary starting at £34,210 depending on experience (clear incremental progress points).
- 24 days annual leave plus public holidays (or time in lieu where applicable).
- Pension scheme is operated in accordance with Local Government Pension Scheme.
- Excellent training, continuing professional development and career progression pathways.
- Excellent job-related personal welfare support.
- Employee assistance programmes including mental well-being support.
- Bicycle Loan scheme.
- Travel card scheme.
The City of London Corporation is committed to Equal Opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.
How To Apply
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