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Community Activities & Volunteering Lead

Sydenham Garden
Sydenham, South East London

Posted: 7 Oct 2024

Deadline: 1 Nov 2024

Compensation: £31,848 + 6% pension contribution

Paid Full-time Flexible hours Fixed term / contract

Job description

Sydenham Garden is seeking a Community Activities & Volunteering Lead on a Fixed term 3 year contract to join our team of 15 staff and approximately 60 volunteers in delivering adult mental health and dementia services in our beautiful garden setting in south-east London. 

Why we need you

Sydenham Garden, based in Lewisham in South-East London, is a unique wellbeing centre utilising its gardens, nature reserve and activity rooms to help people living with and recovering from mental and physical ill-health. We provide nature and arts based creative, social and therapeutic activities for co-workers (the name we give to our primary beneficiaries). With 3-year funding from The National Lottery Community Fund to help us ‘grow our community’ and increase the sustainability of our impact we’re seeking a Community Activities & Volunteering Lead to drive continuous improvement and development of volunteer-led community activities for the benefit of co-workers as well as managing the day to day running of our volunteer programme.

Why you should join us 

We’re a friendly team who are passionate about creating a supportive and inclusive community for people living with mental and physical ill-health. You’ll be part of a supportive team of staff and volunteers, and benefit from spending time in our beautiful gardens and nature reserve.  

What we’re looking for

• Experience of delivering group activities and working with people with mental/physical-ill health and/or Dementia.
• Experience of recruiting, working with, and managing volunteers and be confident building positive relationships with a wide range of people.
• Ability to innovate and develop new initiatives as well as balance competing priorities while being willing to play a team role and get stuck into different activities.

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Sydenham Garden is committed to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). We want to build a diverse and inclusive staff, volunteer and trustee team where everyone feels that they belong and that reflects the profile of the communities we serve. Therefore, we will welcome and consider applications from candidates of all backgrounds and protected characteristics, and we particularly encourage applications from people of African or Caribbean heritage to ensure our staff team represents the communities we serve.

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Community Activities & Volunteering Lead – Sydenham Garden

Application information

To apply, please send us a CV together with a supporting statement that addresses how you meet the Person Specification, including how you have gained the experience and abilities required (maximum 2 pages). Applications should be made by email to: jobs@sydenhamgarden.org.uk with ‘Community Activities and Volunteering Lead’ in the subject line. Please provide the names, positions, organisations and telephone contact numbers of two referees, relevant to this role. References will only be taken up with your express permission.

Community Activities & Volunteering Lead – Sydenham Garden

Equal Opportunities Form

A diverse workforce is important to us, and for this reason, we request that you complete our equal opportunities form here, which is kept separately from the recruitment process. 

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