Site Checks and Maintenance Volunteer (Hide Cleaner at Frampton Marsh)

We need Site Check and Maintenance Volunteers to help look after our reserves. This role offers the opportunity to use your practical skills to make a real difference for nature.

This role will include the following:

• Checking the hides for damage and reporting any issues
• Sweeping the floor of the hides clean
• Litter picking, in the hides and en route.
• Checking paths, fences and benches and reporting any issues.
• Checking/replacing/cleaning signage.
• Removing cobwebs from hide ceilings -Cleaning hide windows

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

• Excellent attention to detail
• Good 'people skills', including diplomacy as there may be visitors in the hides
• 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.