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Would you like to join the Wilderness England guiding team? Do you currently guide clients around England, introducing them to our landscape, history and culture? Do you have a passion for outstanding service, a love of England’s natural landscape, and a curious mind?
If the answer to these questions is a YES then keep on reading.
The Wilderness Guide plays a pivotal role in the company, ensuring that our clients experience outstanding adventures throughout England.
Wilderness England is seeking guides to deliver experiential travel in England for our clients. To be an experiential guide, you do not need to have an NGB qualification (but great if you do) as any such activities would be delivered in tandem with a qualified guide. You may currently hold a formal guiding qualification (such as being a Blue Badge or Green Badge guide) or you may simply have gained experience working in the sector. You will need to hold a valid first aid qualification. You will need a curious mind which thrives on seeking out interesting new experiences and encounters for our clients.
Our experiential guides will lead small groups of clients around England, sharing their passion for the destination. As well as being knowledgable with regards to Scotland’s history, heritage and culture, you will introduce our clients to England’s nature through various experiences designed by our team. These are much more than regular sightseeing trips – we want to connect our clients to England’s natural and cultural heritage and your role is crucial in achieving this aim. Therefore, you must be able to demonstrate a great love of and knowledge of England’s natural environment.
Vitally important is the ability to demonstrate great familiarity with many areas of England. Knowledge of English history, culture, environment, geology and geography is also important to us. Of course, we aim to provide our clients with the best possible experience, so our guides must take pride in their work and have a natural flair for customer care and hospitality.
Such high standards mean that we are unable to offer work to guides who have not worked in England before or who have just graduated from a tourism degree but lack guiding experience in the field.
If, however, you have the knowledge, character and experience to work for Wilderness England, we would love to hear from you and can offer you an excellent wage, good working conditions and the opportunity to lead superb trips in some of the most beautiful wilderness regions of England.
While we have a lot of fun at Wilderness England, our team is 100% focused on delivering 5-star world-class client experiences. As such, the successful guide will bring a professional and high-energy approach with an unwavering focus in all aspects of the client travel experience.
We offer a special combination of interesting work, career opportunity and supportive culture in which to thrive as a freelance guide. We have steadily grown over the years and plan to continue this growth path, which in turn, will offer a wide range of guiding opportunities.
We commit with passion to providing our customers with the most inspiring experiences of their lives, ensuring our experiences are delivered sustainability, promoting the value of wild places, setting new standards for tourism experiences and creating a rewarding, meaningful and truly fun place to work
Being a guide for Wilderness England is more than just another freelance job. It means being part of a dynamic team that are always seeking new ways in which we can improve with guide feedback highly valued and acted upon. The successful guide will thrive in this fast-paced environment and within the wider Wilderness team but will be encouraged to bring new ideas and enthusiasm to the role and the company as a whole.
Please send a CV detailing any relevant qualifications, work experience and a summary of areas of England where you have worked as a guide. Please note that we get many applications for guiding work and if your application does not cover the above, it will not be considered or responded to.
Please also include a 1 page cover letter and send together with your CV to [email protected]. The cover letter should detail the following:
1/ Why you wish to work for Wilderness England in a guiding capacity
2/ What motivates you to guide in England
3/ Your interpretation of what is meant by outstanding customer care and hospitality when guiding experiential travel holidays
To informally discuss guiding with us, please call +44 (0)1768 721 210 and ask to speak to Julian or Myles.
If you wish to join us as a guide then you will be required to progress through our in-depth guide selection process detailed below. Our aim is to take on guides who are looking to work with us for many years to come and hence this should be your intention if you are keen to join our guiding team.
We believe our guide selection process offers a robust and transparent approach to guide recruitment, selection and subsequent work allocation. A fundamental principle of the approach is that it’s a two-way process; offering the potential guide the opportunity to learn as much about Wilderness as Wilderness learns about them.
If you are keen to work for Wilderness Scotland then please consider the following steps before applying. All applications should be sent to [email protected] in the first instance and include a cover letter highlighting why you wish to work for us and what sets you apart from all other potential guides who are keen to work with us.
Whilst the details below do not cover every element of the freelance Wilderness Guide role, they do provide a general overview of what you can expect.
April – October is the main season during which we run trips in England with the majority of trips taking apace from May-September.
All locations across England, with a particular focus on Northern England.
Wilderness England guides are at the heart of the business. The success of any one trip depends upon many people, arguably none more so than the commitment and performance of the guide. We’re dedicated to achieving greater recognition for the guide community – as a profession which is respected by our clients and the wider tourism industry. This recognition starts with doing the highest quality job on each and every trip – be that the first outing of the season or the last when you may well be running on empty. We expect our guides to be dedicated professionals and committed to the relentless pursuit of amazing client experiences. In return, we strive to offer working conditions which lead the way for the adventure travel industry.
The role and responsibilities of a Wilderness guide are as follows:
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