Arborists Wanted - London

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.

Closing date: 12 noon on 5 November 2025

To apply online please click the apply button.

Alternatively, please contact 020 7332 3978 (24 hr answerphone) quoting reference number OENV917 if you experience any difficulties. A minicom service for the hearing impaired is available on 020 7332 3732.

If this role is advertised as a secondment, secondments are subject to the agreement of your department releasing you, therefore, you need to discuss this with your line manager prior to applying. The purpose of this will be to discuss what, if any, impact your secondment might have on the service and service delivery should your application be successful, and how this might be addressed.

The City of London Corporation is committed to Equal Opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

We reserve the right to close the advert earlier should we receive a high number of applications.

Because our roles are so varied, we don’t have a ‘one size fits all’ policy for workplace attendance. How many days a week you’ll be required to attend your workplace will depend on the requirements of your role. It’s important that you understand the requirements before applying to ensure you are able to meet them. We are committed to considering requests to work flexibly and job share. Requests will be considered by the recruiting manager in line with our policies and business needs.

For more information on our categories for workplace attendance, please view our guide here.

We will be reviewing this policy and approach at regular intervals to ensure we’re meeting our attendance needs.

The City of London Corporation is currently undergoing a programme to ensure that our pay and reward practices are competitive and equitable across the whole organisation, to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to thrive in the work that we do.

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