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Countryside Ranger Apprentice

Walk Wheel Cycle Trust · Cheshire · posted 30 July 2026

Wage
£25,074 a year
Hours
35 hours a week
Duration
2 Years
Level
Higher (Level 4)
Standard
Countryside ranger (level 4)
Starts
5 October 2026
Closing date
21 August 2026
Positions
1

Apply on the official government service →No Apprentice League account needed — we never gate applications.

Due to the driving aspect of this role you will need a full clean UK driving license. You will be working in Chester, Deeside, Merseyside, Greater Manchester and Lancashire.

Looking for an active career where each day varies? This Level 4 apprenticeship is a great opportunity to work outdoors, learn practical skills, and make a real difference

You’ll be part of a small, supportive team maintaining cycle paths and associated green spaces, using tools and machinery, driving across sites, and helping protect spaces for wildlife and communities. You will help plan tasks, organise and carry out a programme of works across the north west. 

You will gain hands on experience of active land management in an outdoor setting.

If you enjoy being outdoors, in all weathers, teamwork and a variety of practical work in both urban and rural settings, this could be the apprenticeship for you.

Your training

Countryside Ranger Level 4 Apprenticeship Standard:

  • Level 4 Countryside Ranger- Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours
  • LANTRA Level 3 Award in Emergency First Aid at Work
  • C&G/NPTC 0014-26 L2 Award in the Safe Use of Brush-cutters and Trimmer

Where it leads

  • A permanent post may be available for suitable candidates on successful completion of the apprenticeship

About Walk Wheel Cycle Trust

If our streets were safer, if our air was cleaner. If we connected with our communities. If we reconnected with the world around us.

If every person in every community could connect with the things that matter to them safely, healthily and joyfully.

If our everyday actions added up to something much, much bigger. Imagine if one small change could do all that.

We’ve been making that change happen since 1977.

Making it possible for every one of us to roll, ride, amble, gambol, stroll, stride, trek and tread.

And today, we’re gearing up to do more than ever.

Uniting under a new name for Sustrans and a renewed mission to deliver more joy per journey, more peace per pedal, more smiles per mile.

To work with communities to effect change on the ground and evidence the impact to influence policies that push those changes further. It’s grassroots action with added oomph.

We call it people-powered movement.

Things to consider

  • The work can be physically demanding and in all weathers
  • Interview date Friday 4th September
  • Attendance is required at UCS College Group for a weeks block release on two occasions during the apprenticeship and for the rangers mandatory tickets (typically two days)

Skills they're looking for

Communication skillsOrganisation skillsTeam workingPhysical fitnessLand management understanding

Entry requirements

  • GCSE English (grade 4/C or above) — essential
  • GCSE Maths (grade 4/C or above) — essential
  • GCSE Science (grade 4/C or above) — desired

Where you'll work

  • Chester Millennium Greenway, Chester, Cheshire, CH2 2HD

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