Jobs & Careers

Our Jobs & Careers section has been designed to help you find your way into a career in therapeutic horticulture. You can also search the latest job advertisements - or advertise your project's vacancies on our jobs portal. Member organisations benefit from free job advertising

Therapeutic Horticulture

Therapeutic Horticulture is a process whereby trained practitioners, using plants, gardening and nature connection, work with people to help them improve their physical and psychological health and wellbeing, skills and abilities. At Trellis we can support you with:

  • Information on the benefits of therapeutic gardening and how it can best be used with different groups
  • Data, research and the therapeutic horticulture knowledge base
  • Statistics on the sector in Scotland/UK
  • Promotion of therapeutic horticulture

 

Want to find out more?

Learning and Professional Development

We can support you with:

  • professional development and recognition
  • Connecting you with other projects in the network to exchange good practice
  • on-site fieldwork support
  • Learning from others around the world

Latest news

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HMP Dumfies Garden

HMP Dumfries

One of our most recent projects took place at HMP Dumfries where they were designing and constructing a Wellbeing Garden...

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Murdostoun

Murdostoun Brain Injury Centre Therapy Garden

Murdostoun Brain Injury Rehabilitation and Neurological Care Centre, run by the Active Care Group in Wishaw, offers neurorehabilitation, care and...

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Perth Allotment

Perth & Kinross Community Mental Health Wellbeing Fund Sponsored Gardening Sessions.

This month we’re getting Summer off to a colourful start with our Perth & Kinross Community Mental Health Wellbeing Fund...

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NHS Scotland Event 2025

NHS Scotland Event 2025

Trellis CEO Fiona Thackeray and Training & Standards Officer Emma Martindale spoke at the NHS Scotland Event in Glasgow, presenting...

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Fiona Thackeray

The Wellbeing Garden Podcast - A Conversation with Fiona Thackeray

Fiona Thackeray, Trellis CEO, joined Cath Manuel on The Wellbeing Garden Podcast. "In this episode I’m joined by Fiona Thackeray...

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Health and Social Aspects of Urban Agriculture and Horticulture - SLU Lecture

Trellis CEO, Fiona, talked all things Therapeutic Horticulture in Scotland during a recent seminar with students from Swedish University of...