Care Worker - Horticultural Skills Unit
Job Summary
Working Pattern:
Full time
Advert Start Date:
28/09/2016
Advert End Date:
Closed for applications on 12/10/2016 12:00
Salary:
£17,891 - £19,939 per annum pro rata
Job Category:
Social Care - Adult Service
Employment Location:
Hepscott Park Horticultural Training Unit
Further Information
You must be able to work individually or as part of a team to enable and promote independence, minimise intervention and attend to the needs of service users, maintaining a safe, hygienic and supportive environment in accordance with the culture, standards and objectives of the service. You will be supporting service users to gain work experience in horticulture. You will have a good general education demonstrating literacy and numeracy, together with an NVQ Level 2 qualification in Care.
You should have the ability to work to and follow, Individual Service Users Plans, Risk Assessments and Moving and Transferring Plans. You will also be required to produce simple, short and clear case notes as well as working unsupervised as part of a team.
You should have a keen interest in growing plants, and practical experience and skills in some aspect of horticulture for example plant production in greenhouses, managing flower beds, using grass cutting machinery, allotment scale vegetable growing.
For a more detailed description of the duties of the post, please read the attached Job Description/Person Specification.
Please note
This job is closed for applications.