Are you passionate about the power of gardening? Do you want to help people with learning disabilities learn horticultural skills, build confidence, and improve their social skills?
We need a part-time gardener to help maintain our beautiful garden in Tooting and help our students thrive. It’s an exciting time to join the team as we’re planning a redevelopment of the garden site to improve our training opportunities and wellbeing programmes even further.
Share is a registered charity and a centre for training and wellbeing. We provide a range of programmes helping adults with learning disabilities, autism and other support needs become more happy, healthy, and independent. Our vision is a world where disabled people are fully included in society, living the life they choose, and we need talented people to help us make that happen.
Main responsibilities
- You’ll work with groups of students, encouraging them and sharing your gardening expertise to help make sure the garden is maintained to a high standard.
- You’ll work with our Garden Development Manager and Senior Gardener to help shape activities during student sessions.
- You’ll contribute to the cyclical planning for the garden.
About you
- You’ve maintained a high quality garden before, working within a horticultural, conservation, or community setting.
- You’ve got excellent plant, garden, and landscaping knowledge.
- You’re also great with people, you can enthuse and motivate those who may at times find learning challenging, with patience, empathy, and understanding.
- Most importantly, you share our strong commitment to the inclusion of disabled people in society, and you believe in equality for all.
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Why work for us?
Share is committed to empowering disabled people. You’ll make a difference every day, helping people to live as independently as possible.
Our values drive us forward. They provide the framework for everything we do, including who we hire. We believe everyone has something to offer others, and we build on people's individual talents, interests, and abilities. We think happy employees are successful employees.
We won employer of the year at the Wandsworth Business Awards in 2019 and we hold gold Investors in People accreditation. This means we truly understand the value of people: we focus on what people can do, not what holds them back. And we have robust policies in place so that every single person working at Share takes ownership for making our programmes come to life.
We’ve been praised for our thorough induction process and supportive working environment where everyone has a voice and is valued. You’ll be surrounded by people who support you, challenge you, and inspire you.
Full list of benefits when working at Share
How to apply
Please send us your CV and a cover letter addressing the following 3 questions:
1. How would you maintain the Share Garden to a high standard whilst working with students with learning disabilities?
2. How has prior experience shaped your Horticulture/gardening skills when working in a community setting?
3. How would your previous gardening knowledge transfer/align with Share’s mission, vision and mission?
Please also fill in and include the Equal Opportunities form (available at the bottom of this page).
Please send the 3 documents by 29/03/2022 at 4pm to hradmin@sharecommunity.org.uk.
If you would like to have chat about the role or visit us prior to applying, please contact Florence Hansford on florenceh@sharecommunity.org.uk or on 0207 801 9829.
This job is subject to two satisfactory references, evidence of qualifications, an enhanced DBS check and providing evidence of the right to work in the UK. If you are disabled and would like to discuss other ways of submitting your application, please call us on 0207 801 9829.
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We look forward to receiving your application.