Join Our Team at Windsor Great Park

Imagine working in one of the UK’s most iconic landscapes, where every day brings the opportunity to protect nature, support visitors, and be part of a heritage that spans centuries. As a Warden, you’ll play a vital role in ensuring the safety, enjoyment, and conservation of this unique environment.

Purpose of Role:

To assist in delivering exceptional Visitor Services across the Windsor Estate, ensuring the safety and security of visitors, the protection of wildlife and habitats, and the safeguarding of property. This role provides a visible Crown Estate presence, offering guidance and information to visitors while responding to incidents and emergencies.

Context of opportunity / Main accountabilities:

• Patrol the Estate efficiently and engage with visitors to ensure a safe and enjoyable experience.

• Act as first responder to incidents including accidents, severe weather, criminal activity, and medical emergencies.

• Enforce Windsor Great Park Regulations and relevant legislation such as the Countryside Rights of Way Act (CROW).

• Participate in an on-call duty rota providing basic first aid cover.

• Liaise with event organisers to ensure compliance with licence conditions.

• Communicate effectively with emergency services, stakeholders, and local councils regarding Estate activities.

• Report and resolve hazards, maintain cleanliness, and complete incident reports and weekly returns.

• Ensure vehicles are maintained and report any issues promptly.

• Carry out general warden duties and other customer-facing tasks as required.

Most important skills-based requirements:

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including tact and diplomacy.

• Ability to manage challenging situations calmly and professionally.

• Knowledge of relevant legislation (CROW Act, Windsor Great Park Regulations).

• First Aid trained.

• Full, valid manual driving licence.

• Basic IT skills and ability to complete reports accurately.

We encourage applications from candidates who may feel as though they do not possess all of the essential skills. The Crown Estate is firmly focused on skills-based hiring and recognises transferable skills and experiences.

Our Offering / Benefits:

As well as a competitive salary, pension and performance-related bonus offering, we have a wealth of benefits available ranging from flexible working; market-leading family policies and shopping discounts in the West End, to private healthcare; life and critical illness cover and 28 days holiday with the option to buy more. We value work-life balance and your wellbeing highly, enabling you to be your best self at work.

Disability Disclaimer:

We are a proud disability confident employer and operate the offer of interview scheme Disability Confident employer scheme - GOV.UK.

We are happy to offer alternative application methods or formats and can be flexible on our process to enable you to have the best opportunity.

If you have any questions about our recruitment process or would like to talk about adjustments, please contact us on careers@thecrownestate.co.uk.