21 hours per week. Flexible hours to meet the project’s requirements but including at least one Saturday per month.
DBS Check:
Closing Date: 12/02/2025 at 08:00
Reference: OTH/25/303069
This vacancy is being advertised on behalf of Jealott's Hill Community Landshare
Our Project:
Jealott’s Hill Community Landshare is a successful and well-established, award-winning community project based in Warfield, Bracknell Forest, focusing on people’s wellbeing, gardening, and the outdoor environment.
We are supported by a dedicated team of volunteers who, led by our Landshare Manager, utilize their gardening and other practical creative skills to plant and maintain our 6-acre site. They grow vegetables, fruit, and flowers, tend our large orchard, help run events, and create items for our pop-up shop.
Working together, we provide support and empowerment for a diverse group of community members in East Berkshire, including those with autism, learning and physical disabilities, and those seeking to improve their mental and physical health by connecting with nature. Our beneficiaries include individuals in addiction recovery, with dementia, and offenders on community service. Our volunteers and beneficiaries come to us for many reasons, including loneliness and isolation, and find that by working and sharing together, community engagement is enhanced, gardening skills are learned, and lives are transformed.
We are now ready to develop the project further to provide a range of services to a wider group, including commissioned services, children’s activities, and corporate working parties.
Further information about the work and aims of JHCL CIC can be found at: www.jealottshilllandshare.org.uk
The Role:
* Reporting to the Landshare Manager and working with our volunteers, you will create, manage, and execute the annual horticultural plan for the Landshare.
* You will enhance the mental and social wellbeing of all our volunteers, members, and visitors by providing purposeful and fulfilling visits and tasks for them.
* You will provide advice, support, and practical assistance with all aspects of the Community Landshare operation, including standing in for the Landshare Manager and undertaking some administrative tasks.
Main Duties:
* Collaborate with the volunteers to plan and manage the annual horticultural plan for the site, facilitating the growing of fruit and vegetables, flowers, and plants, including purchasing seeds, plugs, bulbs, etc., within a given budget.
* Plan and help deliver structured therapeutic horticultural and other creative practical activities, recognizing clients' individual skills and abilities.
* Organize and evaluate an engaging programme of varied activities for groups attending the Landshare, helping individuals develop personally and socially, gain confidence, independence, and a sense of wellbeing.
* With the Landshare Manager, liaise with external statutory and voluntary services to provide appropriate person-centred services for their clients.
* Monitor individuals’ achievements, evaluate, and report on the effectiveness of horticultural therapy and other activities.
* Support the implementation of planned activities, guiding and supporting volunteers working alongside you.
* Offer appropriate support and guidance with everyday challenges encountered, referring situations where more external support may be needed.
* Take responsibility for maintenance of the Landshare tools and equipment.
* Assist with the planning and operation of larger events targeted at the wider local community.
* Provide administrative support on an ad-hoc basis.
* Cover for the Landshare Manager in their absence.
Preferred Person Specification:
* Strong interest in and aptitude for horticulture, with a background in a horticultural discipline or significant voluntary/work experience in horticultural/gardening activities.
* A formal qualification in a horticultural discipline such as RHS or City and Guilds is preferable.
* Experience of working with/teaching vulnerable people, and/or a qualification in Social and Therapeutic Horticulture (STH) would be a distinct advantage.
* Excellent interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills as the role requires effective multi-tasking.
* Ability to motivate and encourage others.
* Patience, understanding, empathy, and the ability to work collaboratively with a wide range of people.
* Creativity and the ability to think outside the box.
* Comfortable working outdoors in all weather conditions.
* IT literate, able to use email, Excel, and maintain social media channels.
* Common sense, pragmatism, and a willingness to use your initiative and work independently.
* Willingness to undertake an enhanced disclosure check.
Terms and Conditions:
* Part-time, 21 hours per week.
* Flexible hours to meet the project’s requirements but including at least one Saturday per month.
* Salary - £13.70 per hour.
* Benefits include 20 days annual leave and a stakeholder pension or pension contribution.
* Free on-site parking.
* PPE provided.
Interviews
Interviews will be held on Monday 17th February 2025.
If you have any questions regarding the role, please contact Claire Wallen - Director at 07484 679215.
Bracknell Forest Council – Working for Equality. We welcome applications from all sections of the community.
How to apply
Please complete the attached Application Form and return it by email to mch3472@gmail.com or post it to Jealott’s Hill Community Landshare, 3B Holly Close, Farnborough GU14 0ED.
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