Within their geographic beat, a Beat Forester represents Forestry England and ensures that the nation’s forests demonstrate exemplar standards in the sector.

Through close collaborative working with colleagues across the organisation, Beat Foresters identify local priority actions that meet our commitments to nature, society, and the economy.  They draw these into a Beat Delivery Plan, allocating staff time and budgets to achieve work programmes effectively and efficiently, and monitoring progress and outcomes.

In addition to managing planned work, Beat Foresters frequently need to react to unexpected or unusual situations that arise; organising a response that complies with our procedures and achieves the best outcome, for example liaising with emergency services to prevent and control forest fires, dealing with hazardous trees, or clearing up fly-tipped hazardous waste.

This post is based at the Santon Downham Office near Brandon, Suffolk.  Meetings and training events may take place in other parts of the country.

The standard working pattern is 44 hours a week 7am Monday to Friday but the operational pay and responsibilities of the role require flexible working to meet the needs of the team and out-of-hours on-call availability at times.

Candidates should be chartered or working towards chartered status or Professional membership of the Institute of Chartered Foresters or another relevant professional body is desirable.