Role: Outdoor Sessional Worker

Location: At our Brook Street building and various locations across Kirklees

Salary: £12.24 per hour

Hours: Up to 5 hours per week on a Wednesday

Contract: Sessional

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Organisation Overview:

​Support to Recovery (S2R) is a small independent mental health charity based in Huddersfield and working across Kirklees. Our TGO (The Great Outdoors) Project helps people connect with the natural environment to improve their emotional and physical wellbeing. At the heart of that project is our allotment site in Birkby, Huddersfield.

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Purpose:

We are searching for an inspiring individual who can lead on this project and, working in partnership with the participants there, maintain and develop both the allotment space and the community there. A good knowledge of allotment growing is an advantage but more important is that you have a calm, inspiring and nurturing manner that can help individuals get the most out of their time at our sessions

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Role and Responsibilities:

Our allotment sessions currently take place on a Wednesday between 11:00 and 14:00 but these times may change in the future. In addition to these session times, our Outdoor Sessional Worker will be expected to spend time planning and reporting on sessions, attending training and team meetings, making occasional visits to the allotment outside of session times and undertaking additional sessional work within the team when it becomes available.

 

Skills / Experience:

You must be self-motivated as the role requires independent working, but you will be supported by and managed as part of our existing outdoor team. S2R prides itself on an open friendly culture and practices co-production in service delivery for participants, staff and volunteers. Everyone is encouraged to reach their potential in our kind and sharing organisation. We celebrate diversity and welcome all applications. Lived experience of mental health is not in itself a barrier and may prove an advantage in this role.

Essential Skills: Facilitation skills and experience, empathic nature, ability to organise a work schedule, some experience of health and safety, ability to work under own initiative, basic knowledge of admin and IT, ability to work as part of a team, good communication skills,  a commitment to equal opportunities and an understanding of the relationship between nature and wellbeing.

Desirable skills: Fire-lighting and camp cooking, some horticultural experience, mental health or support work experience, additional outdoor skills, experience with volunteer and community groups, experience working with partners in the community, a working understanding of confidentiality and safeguarding procedures, fluency in community languages.

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Please note that the successful candidate will be subject to enhanced DBS check and employment regulation checks.

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How to apply:

Please download an S2R Application Form and an Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form using the buttons below. Once you have filled out both forms, please email them to: contact@s2r.org.uk

For informal enquiries, please contact Jason Kerry at: jason@s2r.org.uk

 

Application Closing Date: Friday 6th June