Horticultural Instructor

| South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Location: Bethlem Royal Hospital

Salary: £34,521 – £41,956 per annum inc of HCA

Full Time: 37.5 hours per week

Closing Date : 11/02/2025 23:59

Job Description

The walled garden is part of the Occupational Therapy Department at Bethlem Royal Hospital, which provides therapeutic activities and vocational opportunities to clients with mental health issues and takes referrals from all mental health units on the Bethlem site, including all acute, specialist and forensic services.

We are seeking a Horticultural Instructor to join our team within the Occupational Therapy Department. This is an opportunity to co-ordinate, develop and facilitate a flexible, client centred programme of horticultural activities for individuals and groups of clients who experience mental health difficulties.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work within the Walled Garden in the Main Occupational Therapy Department and provide a programme of therapeutic horticultural activities for individuals who experience mental health difficulties. This will include managing the food growing project which includes activities in the therapeutic gardens, orchards and kitchens on a day-to-day basis and ensuring that Health & Safety standards are met.

Working for our organisation

Benefits:

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It’s important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer

Some of our benefits are highlighted here:

• Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
• Work life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
• Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
• Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars
• Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites
• NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website. Other benefits include:
• Counselling services
• Wellbeing events
• Long service awards
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Childcare vouchers
• Staff restaurants

How To Apply

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