Norfolk County Council
Farm Manager
26th September 2024
Location: Gressenhall, Dereham
Job reference: 6988
Job type: Permanent Contract
Salary: £32,076 to £33,945 per annum
Full time, 37 hours per week – Monday to Sunday on a rota basis, including Bank Holidays and Occasional Evenings, Competitive salary and benefits.
Norfolk County Council is looking for an organised and self-motivated individual with farm management experience to be the professional lead to develop and manage the operation of Union Farm, the heritage farm at Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse.
What are my responsibilities?
Operating within a visitor environment, you must be able to work confidently and safely with a range of livestock including heavy horses and cattle. The heavy horses are used to demonstrate traditional farming techniques across the farm site.
You must also be able to safely operate a range of farm machinery and equipment, both traditional and modern.
You should have demonstrable experience of working in a heritage farm setting including working with and handling traditional breeds of livestock plus maintaining all animal welfare and healthcare, including administering all veterinary medicines.
Experience of varied agricultural work and an excellent understanding of farm legislation and health and safety procedures is also required.
What qualities will I need?
We need a skilled communicator with a strong customer service focus who excels at working with the public, audiences and colleagues at all levels.
You will be able to work alone but also as part of the wider heritage site team.
You will have a good standard of education and a relevant degree or industry-recognised qualification is desirable. Good computer literacy and numeracy skills are essential.
If you have a passion for service delivery and improvement in a heritage farming environment, will take ownership and show initiative and you’re ready to take on a challenging yet rewarding role, we’d love to hear from you.
We want our people to be inspired and motivated to work well together, make the most of our workspaces, enjoy a healthy work-life balance, and deliver excellent services to Norfolk and its people. Flexibility is built into the way we work, with hybrid working a key feature for many roles. Our technology platform and equipment are first class, enabling you to connect and collaborate remotely. We ask that you have in place good Broadband connectivity.
Benefits:
- Generous holiday entitlement with the ability to buy and sell leave
- Health and Wellbeing services including fast-track physiotherapy and a free counselling service
- Flexible working opportunities including flexitime, part time, remote and hybrid working – dependent on your job role and business need.
Financial benefits:
- Norfolk Rewards’ is our employee discounts programme which helps you save money on almost anything, from everyday groceries and clothes, to holidays, new technology, gym membership, trips to the cinema and days out.
- A Blue Light card for Fire Service and Social Care Workers
- Relocation expenses (where applicable)
- An advance of your expenses if you travel for work
- Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution, life assurance, death in service payments and dependants’ pensions
- Tax efficient ways of getting extra pension and new bikes
- Access to our tax efficient car lease scheme for greener travel enabling you to lease a brand new, ultra-low emission vehicle (subject to eligibility)
- A payment if you refer someone you know to a hard to fill job
Before you apply, please see the full job description and person specification via the apply link– this will help you to shape your application to demonstrate how you meet the criteria for the role.
To apply for the farm manager position, click here.
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Closing date: 24th October 2024.
