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Award winning local charity seeks Therapeutic Garden Worker
Learning Disability Partnership Board Consultant

Award winning local charity seeks Therapeutic Garden Worker

Sydenham Garden provides therapeutic gardening and creative activities for people coping with physical or mental health issues in Lewisham and Bromley. Be part of our small, friendly and committed team, improving local people’s gardening skills, confidence and quality of life.

Our ideal Therapeutic Garden Worker has fantastic horticultural knowledge, able to plan gardening activities in our one acre site near Forest Hill, experience delivering services to the community and a proven ability to work with adults with physical or mental health problems. A can-do attitude and experience working well in a small team would be a big advantage.

In exchange, we can provide a great atmosphere and a truly beautiful work environment and you can expect bagfuls of job satisfaction!

We are also offering a salary of £24,000, 6% pension contribution and up to 31 days holiday a year. This is a full time post.

Interested? To find out more, download a full job description and person specification at http://www.sydenhamgarden.org.uk/supporting-us/jobs. For an informal chat, call Catherine Winsor or Jennie Graham on 020 8291 1650.

Closing date for applications: Monday 29th March 2010
Interviews: Thursday 8th April and/or Friday 9th April 2010

Learning Disability Partnership Board Consultant

8 hours per month (to be worked flexibly)
£12 per hour + 5% pension contribution

Bromley Mencap is an independent charity providing services for people with learning disabilities, families and carers in Bromley.

The Learning Disability Partnership Board aims to improve the quality of life for people with learning disabilities and supports the modernisation of services.
The Partnership Board Consultant’s role is to make sure that people with learning disabilities have their say at Learning Disability Partnership Board meetings and that they are listened to.

You need to have a good understanding of inclusion. You will need to be able to communicate with and support people with a range of learning disabilities in large groups and one-to-one. You will be required to work flexibly over the 8 hours and be able to travel independently around the borough

If you are interested and want to know more please contact Rem on 020 8466 0790 or email rem.besim@bromleymencap.org

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