Activity Engagement Worker - Perth, United Kingdom - PKAVS

PKAVS

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Perth, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Job Title:
Activity Engagement Worker - Hospitality

Salary:
£13, £22,986.00 FTE) + benefits

Hours of Work:21hours per week - usually Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.

(This may also include unsociable hours including working evenings and weekends.)

Location:
Based at The Walled Garden, Muirhall Road, Perth PH2 7BH

Contract Type:
Permanent

Responsible to:
The Walled Garden & Wisecraft Service Managers

Responsible for:
A team of volunteers and client groups

We are The Walled Garden and Wisecraft at PKAVS.

It's our mission to enable adults and young people to engage in activities that improve their mental health and wellbeing.

We provide a community-based service that aims to create an environment of wellbeing, offering a range of meaningful activities to support clients in achieving their individual goals through a recovery and outcomes-based model.

Activities include gardening, creative arts, hospitality experience, woodwork, and physical/nutritional activity.

PKAVS has been supporting people and communities in Perth & Kinross for over 50 years; but there's never been a more exciting time to join us.

The role

Reporting to the Service Managers, the Activity Engagement Worker (Hospitality) will promote holistic wellbeing and recovery while facilitating hospitality and catering workshops and practical learning activities that will enable clients to understand and experience all aspects of hospitality operations and customer service roles within our café at the Walled Garden.

Clients will also have the opportunity to put their learning into practice by providing a full dinner or lunch service (in the form of an 'event') to members of the public at least once per month.

This role has a balanced focus of client engagement, customer service and income generation that sustains the continuity of the café.

You'll be working in line with our ethos of client development and empowering people to move towards positive destinations within the fields of hospitality, catering, food, and nutrition.

What you'll need to be successful
If you have the following skills, knowledge, qualities, and experience, you are guaranteed to succeed in, and thoroughly enjoy this varied role:

The ability to create and facilitate engaging and interesting practical learning on all aspects of hospitality and customer service.
A good understanding of health and wellbeing and the ability to translate a holistic focus on recovery and wellbeing into the practical, fun, and enjoyable learning you provide to clients.
Experience in coordinating and managing safe hospitality operations and processes.
You are a great motivator and enjoy leading a team to achieve both personal and team goals.
You are super organised; you work at pace and are excellent at taking action and making great things happen.

Benefits of working at PKAVS

We offer an inclusive culture that's based on compassion, togetherness, speaking from the heart, and our drive to make a positive impact.

As well as opportunities to learn and grow every day we also offer excellent benefits such as a minimum of 6.8 weeks holiday, enhanced occupational sick pay, pension auto enrolment, a commitment to your health and wellbeing through our employee assistance programme and a flexible working environment that enables you to excel at work while being able to balance things at home.

PKAVS values everyone as an individual
We define diversity as valuing each person's uniqueness and what makes us who we are.

We are committed to creating a great place to work where everyone feels valued and able to play to their strengths in the delivery of our charitable purpose.

We promote diversity and inclusion in employment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy, maternity, race, religion, or belief.