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Badenoch and Strathspey Therapy Gardens
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Hours: approx. 15- 25 per week. Post open to job share applications
Salary: £14.00-£15.00 per hour depending on experience
Type of Contract: Self-employed basis, with own transport
Multiple sites - Growing Spaces, Am Fasgadh Allotments, Kingussie: Glen Centre, Aviemore; Wade Centre, Kingussie; Therapy Garden at Badenoch and Strathspey Community Hospital and Health Care Centre.
The post holder will be responsible for leading Badenoch and Strathspey Therapy Gardens’ (The Therapy Garden) project work, undertaking sessions in the Growing Spaces within the Am Fasgadh allotments, in the Glen and Wade Centres and at the Badenoch and Strathspey Community Hospital and Health Care Centre Therapy Garden.
The project aims to provide social and therapeutic horticulture to the different groups of service users who will have sessions in the Garden/s Growing Spaces or Day Centres.
These groups will be trainees and service users from Caberfeidh Horizons in Kingussie, and supported housing in Aviemore, older people at Day Care and Residential Care Centres, and people from the local communities who benefit physically and mentally.
The post holder will be responsible for supervising and supporting a small team of volunteers and taking a key role in delivering training to them. They will also ensure effective recording, reporting and evaluation of the Therapy Gardens project.
Please contact Mary or Jinty by phone or email.
Closing Date: September 30, 2022
Blooming Gardeners CIC
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Hours: 24 hours per week
Salary: £15.65 per hour
Type of Contract: Permanent
Barbaraville, Alness, Invergordon and other sites in the area as required
Blooming Gardeners is a thriving therapeutic gardening project in Easter Ross which promotes the health and well-being of its clients (gardeners) through involvement in horticulture. The gardeners have a range of learning disabilities and social communication disorders.
The Horticultural Trainers are key to the success of the project, creating a happy, secure environment for the gardeners and volunteers, while guiding and supporting them in plant production, garden maintenance, soft landscaping and fruit and vegetable growing. They make use of eco-friendly practices and encourage the gardeners to understand and care for the environment.
We hope to recruit another part time Horticultural Trainer to join the team. We are looking for someone who has horticultural knowledge and expertise, together with enthusiasm for working with disadvantaged groups. The ability to support and communicate with people with additional needs is essential.
The successful candidate will work in close collaboration with the other Horticultural Trainers in the practical gardening activities and planning, helping Blooming Gardeners to maintain high standards of service and support to its gardeners, staff and volunteers.
The horticultural trainers also engage with the directors in strategic planning and development and in ensuring Blooming Gardeners meets its aims and obligations.
You can request the full job description, person specification, and job application form from admin@bloominggardeners.org.uk
Contact Name: For more information phone Fiona on 07751 345639 or 07799 595200 How to Apply:
Please send the completed job application form together with your CV and a covering letter, outlining how your experience reflects the job description and person specification, to the Secretary of Blooming Gardeners at admin@bloominggardeners.org.uk
Closing Date: September 26, 2022 Interview Date: Thursday, 6 October, 2022
Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society (The Caley)
Fully expensed, including travel costs.
Various locations in the Central Belt in Scotland.
• 12 month fixed term contract.
• 5 days per week (37.5 hours).
• 28 days holiday.
• Pension auto enrolment with NEST.
• 4 months probationary period.
• Potential for promotion to permanent employee following completion of 12 months fixed term and subject to external funding.
• Immediate start.
About us
The Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society (The Caley) was established in 1809 to promote ‘the encouragement and improvement of the best fruit, the most choice flowers and the most useful culinary vegetables’. As a registered Scottish Charity [SC006522], The Caley seeks to encourage meaningful horticultural education for individuals of all abilities. More information on The Caley and our activities can be found here: www.thecaley.org.uk
The Caley X Coalfield Regeneration Trust (CRT) Partnership was established to help people of all backgrounds and abilities gain new gardening skills that work in harmony with nature through completion of The Caley’s Grow and Learn in Nature (GLiN) Award. We are now looking for a new member to join our small team. You will support and extend the delivery of the GLiN Award to 6 projects within East Ayrshire and the Central Belt. This role will involve development of a wide range of educational resources as well as administration and marketing duties. More information about our CRT partnership can be found at: https://thecaley.org.uk/grow-learn-in-nature
How to Apply:Please email CV and covering letter (no more than one page) to growandlearn@rchs.co.uk
If you would like to discuss the role in more detail or have any queries, please contact
growandlearn@rchs.co.uk
Closing Date: August 7, 2022
Cyrenians
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Hours: Between 15 hours - 30 hours per week
Salary: £22,622 – £25,296 pro rata, plus pension
Falkirk
Do you want to work outdoors, explore your creative flair, and make a real difference to your local community?
If you have a passion for growing plants and supporting people to grow this could be the perfect role for you! Would you enjoy contributing and implementing new innovative ideas in our walled garden, helping to develop a ‘growing and maintenance’ plan?
A new opportunity for a Community Gardner within our Falkirk services has arisen that could be perfect for you!
About the Walled Garden
The Walled Garden is one of Cyrenians public facing services, where we support people on Community Payback Orders to put back into the community and develop their own horticultural skills.
Set in a public space of half an acre within Dollar Park, Falkirk the garden is highly valued by the community, and is a home for events, volunteering and enjoying the tranquillity it has to offer.
About the role
As Community Gardener you’ll contribute to developing a creative and interactive garden and programme for those engaging with our services. You’ll be surprised at how many opportunities you’ll have to perfect planting, bring new ideas and share your enthusiasm and garden knowledge with others. As you’d imagine, there are plenty of chances to get your hands dirty – and it’s safe to say you’ll never be bored!
You’ll be part of a small garden team who engage with a real variety of people to help us we meet our aims, including those on community payback orders and community volunteers.
About you
You’ll be an experienced gardener with a dynamic ‘can-do’ attitude and a genuine interest in people, gardening and working outdoors. Your enthusiasm and positive outlook will help you nurture an environment where people feel safe, valued and an opportunity to gain new skills
What we can offer you
- Our garden services are delivered 7 days a week and offer working flexibility for the postholder and meeting service delivery needs.
- You’ll be part of an enthusiastic, knowledgeable staff team who will help you develop and grow in your role and a supportive line manager.
- You’ll also have access to wider Cyrenians support, including our learning and development programme, and staff wellbeing services.
- Opportunities to participate in any relevant training for continued personal development.
About us
At Cyrenians we tackle the causes and consequences of homelessness. We understand that there are many routes into homelessness, and that there is no ‘one size fits all’ approach to supporting people towards more positive and stable futures. That’s why all our work is values-led and relationships-based.
Our values
- Compassion: We believe that everyone should have the chance to change, no matter how long that might take.
- Respect: We believe in tolerance, acceptance, valuing diversity and treating each other as equals.
- Integrity: We are committed to the highest quality of work, grounded in honesty, generosity, sincerity and professionalism.
- Innovation: We are willing to take risks, challenge convention and be creative in our search for new ways of working, in particular by taking account of the environmental impact of our decisions.
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Website
How to Apply:
Visit www.cyrenians.scot/jobs, or e-mail recruitment@cyrenians.scot.
CVs will not be accepted.
Closing Date: July 25, 2022
Amisfield Walled Garden Project
Background Information
The Amisfield Preservation Trust is a charity which has been set up to restore the historically important 8 acre walled garden at Amisfield Park, Haddington, East Lothian. Since 2007, our gardening group (all volunteers and amateur gardeners) has returned the walled garden from a severely neglected state back into a working productive garden. We have a long term lease of the garden from East Lothian Council and have ambitious plans to create a financially self-sustaining community resource where people can learn new horticultural skills within a beautiful historic setting. As our project has developed, we have welcomed all sections of the local community to work within our volunteer team, and we believe that the project demonstrates the therapeutic benefits to mental and physical health from hands on gardening and from working as a team to achieve a common goal.
The volunteer coordinator post is for an initial one year period. The position has been funded jointly by the National Lottery Fund and East Lothian Council for the past 4 years and funding is confirmed for the coming year. We anticipate that we will be able to secure funding beyond this, given our record of successful grant applications. The post will be subject to a 3 month probationary period.
We are looking for a practical, motivated person to manage and supervise our volunteer gardening team, to promote the project in the local community, to provide training and to work with the Trust’s board of directors to plan and develop the project.
Further information on the project is on our website: www.amisfield.org.uk
The job description and application form can be downloaded from https://www.amisfield.org.uk/job-vacancy/
How to Apply:Application Process and Timetable
Candidates are welcome to visit the walled garden prior to interview during our normal opening hours from 10am to 4pm, Monday to Friday, or from 10am to 1pm on a Saturday.
If you require any further information or wish to discuss the post, please call Kate Rycroft, Chair of the Amisfield Preservation Trust, on 07870 213731 or enquiries@amisfield.org.uk.
To apply for the post of Volunteer Coordinator, please complete the application form and email it to: enquiries@amisfield.org.uk
or post it to : Amisfield Preservation Trust, Lady’s Field, Whitekirk, Dunbar, East
Lothian EH42 1XS
Closing Date: July 22, 2022
Camphill Wellbeing Trust
Camphill Wellbeing Trust is a medical charity which provides extended approaches to address illness, support resilience and maintain wellbeing. We have a dedicated and passionate team of employees and volunteers, based across three sites approximately 6 miles west of Aberdeen City. A vacancy has arisen within the Compass Project team for an enthusiastic and capable Head Gardener / Outdoor Areas Manager to take on the development and coordination of our Compass project outdoor areas and related activities.
The role involves care for all aspects of the 4.1 acres outdoor site, including its mixed woodland. Gardening/ Horticultural/agricultural experience is required and experience of beekeeping is highly desirable. Ability to forward plan with regards to planting and land management is essential as is ability to operate a range of appropriate land management power tools.
Key responsibilities include:
- Management of Compass outdoor areas in line with sustainability and organic / biodynamic principles
- Liaising with Camphill organisations to facilitate meaningful outdoor activities for volunteers, patients and people with additional support needs
- Managing health & safety of outdoor areas including repairs and maintenance
- Managing outdoor areas budget
- Supporting and educating volunteers, service users and local community in healthy food production on a small scale while maximising growing opportunities and production in gardening areas
- Documentation of progress through photography and video
If you have the relevant experience along with strong communication and people skills, we would love to hear from you.
For further information and application pack, please email admin@cwt.scot or contact us on 01224 862008. Site visits can be arranged at your request.
How to Apply:For further information and application pack, please email admin@cwt.scot or contact us on 01224 862008.
Closing Date: June 3, 2022
Cyrenians
Role
Are you passionate about promoting inclusion to the Arts, and understand the benefits of greenspace for wellbeing and recovery? Are you creative in your working approach?
If so, this new role working with people and in partnership with others may be the perfect opportunity for you.
About the role
You will lead the delivery and implementation of arts-based activities and approaches in greenspaces designed to support wellbeing and recovery, as well as coordinating the development of greenspaces to support staff wellbeing across Edinburgh.
Partnership working will be central to this role, and you will work alongside other Cyrenians colleagues, 3rd sector, statutory partners and service users to shape the vision for this project.
About You
You will be an outgoing individual with excellent organisational skills and with a creative and innovative approach. Experience of working in the arts and in community-accessed greenspaces is essential.
You will be committed to promoting inclusion, and will have experience of working with people with a broad range of life experiences.
How we’ll support you
You’ll be working independently with a supportive manager and a range of internal and external colleagues and partnerships. You will have access to wider Cyrenians support, including our learning and development programme, and staff wellbeing services.
About us
At Cyrenians we tackle the causes and consequences of homelessness. We understand that there are many routes into homelessness, and that there is no ‘one size fits all’ approach to supporting people towards more positive and stable futures. That’s why all our work is values-led and relationships-based.
Our values
• Compassion: We believe that everyone should have the chance to change, no matter how long that might take.
• Respect: We believe in tolerance, acceptance, valuing diversity and treating each other as equals.
• Integrity: We are committed to the highest quality of work, grounded in honesty, generosity, sincerity and professionalism.
• Innovation: We are willing to take risks, challenge convention and be creative in our search for new ways of working, in particular by taking account of the environmental impact of our decisions.
Application details: For full details and an application pack please visit cyrenians.scot , call 0131 475 2354 (during working hours) or e-mail: recruitment@cyrenians.scot
CVs will not be accepted.
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Closing Date: May 23, 2022 Interview Date: Thursday, 9 June, 2022
Bannockburn House
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Hours: 0.5 FTE (17.5hrs pw) with an additional 3.5 hours per week until August 31st.
Salary: £25k pro rata
Type of Contract: Fixed term to March 31st, 2023
Bannockburn House, Stirling, FK7 8EY
Bannockburn House Trust is a community owned 30-acre historic estate to the south of Stirling. We have a vacancy for a 0.5 FTE person to coordinate our volunteer gardeners. The post is fixed term to March 31st, 2023, with a possibility of an additional 3-year extension. Salary is c.£25k pro rata.
Successful candidates will have a good knowledge of horticultural work, as well as volunteer coordination, and implementing/managing learning programmes.
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How to Apply:Please apply by covering letter and CV by e-mail to admin@bannockburnhouse.scot for all by 5 p.m. on Sunday, 22nd May, 2022.
Closing Date: May 22, 2022
Edinburgh Garden Partners
Over the past eleven years, Edinburgh Garden Partners has developed a unique approach to addressing the risks of social isolation in our communities.
By matching volunteers who are looking for a space to grow with local garden owners who have a space to share, our garden partnerships create meaningful and lasting social connections between people of different ages and cultural backgrounds.
It is the shared interest in gardening and the exchange of skills, knowledge and life experience that make our garden partnerships so special and rewarding for everyone involved.
The position of Volunteering Development Coordinator is an exciting opportunity for someone who is a natural collaborator to support, connect and grow our brilliant community of volunteers.
Reports to: Project Coordinator
This is a permanent position, subject to successful continuation funding. The post is 3 days a week, which can be worked flexibly in discussion with EGP. EGP strives to be an employer that promotes the wellbeing of its staff: the postholder will receive the pro-rata equivalent of 25 days holiday entitlement plus 8 public holidays, employer’s pension contribution, as well as opportunities for flexible working and training and development.
EGP is an equal opportunities employer. We value diversity in ability, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, class and other protected characteristics and are committed to improving diversity amongst our staff, trustees and within our volunteer community. We encourage individuals from Black and ethnic minority communities, as well as those who identify as having protected characteristics to apply for this role.
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Application notes
If you would like to discuss any additional requirements you may have during the application process, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Please download and complete the Application Form and the Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form, and send them to info@edinburghgardenpartners.org.uk by 5pm, Monday 2nd May.
Interviews will be held on Wednesday 11th May. Currently we plan to hold interviews in person in Edinburgh; this will be reviewed and further information provided when candidates are shortlisted.
This post will be subject to a PVG check and satisfactory references.
For more information about EGP, our vision,mission and values, please visit edinburghgardenpartners.org.uk/about-us
Cyrenians
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Hours: part-time, 32 hours per week
Salary: £23,801 - £26,115 (pro rata) plus pension
Walled Garden, Dollar Park, Falkirk
Do you want to work outdoors, explore your creative flair, and make a real difference to your local community?
If you have a passion for growing plants and supporting people to grow this could be the perfect role for you! Due to retirement an exciting opportunity has arisen for a Cyrenians Walled Garden Coordinator.
About the Walled Garden The Walled Garden is one of our Cyrenians public facing services, where we support people on Community Payback Orders to put back into the community and develop their own horticultural skills. Set in a public space of half an acre within Dollar Park, Falkirk the garden is highly valued by the community, and is a home for events, volunteering and enjoying the tranquillity it has to offer. Walled garden page
About the role As Garden Coordinator you’ll contribute to designing and managing a creative and interactive garden and programme for those engaging with our services. You’ll be surprised at how many opportunities you’ll have to perfect planting, bring new ideas and share your enthusiasm and garden knowledge with others. As you’d imagine, there are plenty of chances to get your hands dirty – and it’s safe to say you’ll never be bored! You’ll also support, engage and manage a real variety of people to help us we meet our aims, including a small staff team, people on community payback orders and community volunteers.
About you You’ll be an experienced garden coordinator with a dynamic ‘can-do’ attitude and a genuine interest in gardens and working outdoors. Your optimistic, forward-thinking outlook will help you to nurture an environment where people feel safe, valued and have a purpose as well as ownership of their own journey plan. As you’ll inspire participants to achieve their future goals, it will help to have knowledge of the Justice system, and like us, you’ll be values-led and relationships-based in all that you do. You’ll also use your excellent interpersonal skills to motivate and inspire participants to get the most out of the opportunities that the garden presents.
How we’ll support you We’ll encourage you to be creative and innovative, and to take a pragmatic approach to planning and implementing new initiatives. You’ll have an enthusiastic, knowledgeable team of staff and volunteers, and a supportive manager. You’ll also have access to wider Cyrenians support, including our learning and development programme, and staff wellbeing services. www.cyrenians.scot
How to Apply:
Visit www.cyrenians.scot/jobs, or e-mail recruitment@cyrenians.scot.
CVs will not be accepted.
Closing Date: March 28, 2022 Interview Date: Wednesday, 13 April, 2022