Tree Officer Oxfordshire County Council

[janey]

After what seems like endless holdups, we're finally able to advertise for a fourth Officer to join our Arb' Team here at Oxfordshire County Council. As well as being advertised in all the usual places, I wanted to add a link to the advert to try and get it out to a wide an audience as possible:

 

https://newjob.tal.net/vx/lang-en-GB/mobile-0/channel-1/appcentre-4/brand-1/xf-c79f03b41eee/candidate/so/pm/4/pl/7/opp/26794-Officer-OCC2815325/en-GB/posting/35036

 

This is a fairly unique position as you will be required to do an amount of general enquiries for potholes, gullies, roadsigns etc. as well as the Arboricultural side of the job. 

 

If you want any further information about the job that's not in the description or want to spend a few hours on site with me actually seeing what's involved, then please PM me for my direct contact details.

 

 

[Khriss]

Impressive - hard to find a County with two TO these days , Oxford is nice . K

[janey]

I took a massive salary drop to take a job here and move out of Laaaahhndan a couple of years ago and I haven't once regretted it. 

 

We're actually way understaffed (which LA isn't?!?) and are down to about half the Arb staff that the County had only a few years ago. Not including City, it works out that we have one Officer per District (ie, there's currently three off us and one vacant position) and one Technical Officer. Each Officer has to do EVERYTHING in their area for the Highways and OCC property maintained trees, plus the additional generic duties not related to the specialism. So that's enquiries, cyclical inspections, work issuing, contractor monitoring, a small amount of planning work, and so on.  It's, cough, challenging but also varied and interesting. The District that's currently sans it's own Officer is South Oxfordshire, which is from Henley in the south up to Wheatley in the north, with a large tract of the Thames running through it. I've covered this area myself and I love it. 

 

Tempted? Awww, gwan, gwan gwan ?

[Paul Barton]

Sounds like a great opportunity to work in a nice area!