Assessing your Service

The Code of Practice has introduced the Core Roles of a Ranger, Professional Best Practice for Rangers and the Core Skills and Competencies for Rangers.

The Professional Best Practice and Generic competencies should be common to ALL Rangers, however each Service/or Rangers within each Service will place a different emphasis on the Rangers Role and subsequent Specialist Competencies

You need to assess your Service objectives against the Roles and Specialist competencies to identify those that will be of relevance to your Rangers.

Rangers role		Specialist competency
The provision of information		S3 Recreation and visitor management
Advice & activities		S5 Outdoor learning S7 Community and other stakeholder
Interpretation		S6 interpretation of the natural and cultural heritage
The management of sites & facilities		S1 Habitat management S2 Management Planning
Seeking to secure responsible behaviour		S4 Ensuring site and ecosystem integrity S8 Delivering training to others