Orchard Garden Project Volunteer

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust recognise and value the importance volunteer support is to us and our patients. We currently have a volunteer role available supporting us at The Orchard in Lancaster., The Orchard Unit Occupational Therapy Team would like people to get involved in their Garden project at the Orchard Unit in Lancaster. This will aid service user recovery, community engagement, environment and positive transformation. The project will bring people together promoting an active and engaging lifestyle as well as benefiting local wildlife, the environment and the local community. Preventing illness and supporting individuals in maintaining active and healthy lifestyles. Together we are dedicated in providing a sustainable project with the purpose to grow and harness the mood-boosting power of gardening. The project will provide all necessary support and equipment., The post-holder will assist in the creation and maintenance of a new garden environment in response to plans developed by service users, staff and volunteers under supervision of the occupational therapy team where necessary.
Typical tasks involve:
+ Offer knowledge around growing produce and assist service users in developing their knowledge and skills.
+ Attend relevant meetings as appropriate.
+ Watering plants.
+ Hand weeding inside and outside areas.
+ Sowing seeds and potting on.
+ Planting vegetables inside and outside raised beds.
+ Helping to raise bedding plants.
+ Other gardening maintenance task as required.
For this role applicants must be over the age of 18

Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism and community based services for the populations we serve.
As an integrated Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Trust, Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including:
+ Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, forensic services including low and medium secure care.
+ Specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
+ Community physical health and well-being services for children and adults.
The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,000 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health and general nurses, allied health professionals, Psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust supports flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, home/remote working, and flexi-time.
For more information about Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.

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Please ensure that you read the Person Specification attached below as your application will be measured against this document. Applications from job share partners are welcome and other forms of flexible working will be considered for all posts.
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Lancashire & South Cumbria Care is committed to celebrating difference as an asset and we know that recruiting talent from diverse backgrounds helps to create a more flexible, creative and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from people regardless of age, disability (especially those with experience of accessing mental health, or Learning Disability Services or caring for someone who has accessed mental health services or Learning Disability Services), ethnicity, gender, religion or belief or sexual orientation. Our goal is for the Trust to be truly representative of the communities we serve so we are particularly keen to receive applications from people in under-represented groups. The organisation is proud to be listed as one of the Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers and our HR department holds the Lancashire LGBT Quality Mark. If there is anything you'd like to discuss in relation to your application
then please ask.