Site Checks and Maintenance Volunteer (Hide cleaning & trail maintenance)

We need Hide Cleaning and Trail Maintenance Volunteers to help look after our reserves. This role is about ensuring that our reserve remains clean, tidy and safe for our our visitors, helping to make a real difference for nature.

Hide Cleaning and Trail Maintenance Volunteers play an important role. This role is all about ensuring that we keep Minsmere's nature trails and visitor facilities as tidy as possible. Essentially, we like to have volunteers out on the reserve every week. We are looking for people who can help us out by taking on a regular shift walking the reserve and undertaking a selection of small tasks.

Our nature reserves are very special places for people and wildlife. Right across the UK the RSPB manages woodlands and wetlands, heathlands and meadows. A real mosaic of different kinds of habitats for a wide range of wildlife.

This role can vary from site to site, but can include the following:

• Checking paths, fences and benches and reporting any issues.
• Sweeping out hides and cleaning hide windows.
• Litter picking.
• Clearing leaves and encroaching vegetation.
• Reporting inappropriate behaviour.
• Checking/replacing signage.
• Reporting back to the site team.

Training and support will be provided but for this role the following are essential:

• Excellent attention to detail
• Problem solving skills

This is a really rewarding role. You will enjoy doing your role in a beautiful wildlife rich setting, the great outdoors will be your place of work and you will be able to take it at your own pace. By talking to visitors as you go along, you'll have the pleasure of helping people learn more about the reserve and the work of the RSPB, or just be a familiar friendly face to our regulars.

You will be making a genuine contribution to nature conservation, and you might find it rewarding to safeguard nature in the area you are working to protect. This role will involve a reasonable amount of physical activity, so it will enable you to keep your fitness levels high.