Volunteer Gardener - Farnborough, United Kingdom - Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
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Farnborough, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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To assist in the weekly care of a small garden by undertaking garden maintenance i.e. replanting, weeding, deadheading, caring for shrubs/plants mowing, strimming and general upkeep of the gardens. It is unlikely there will be any patient contact in the garden.

Specific Tasks

Under supervision and guidance from the placement supervisor(s) to perform the following tasks

  • Help with general gardening duties, strimming, general tiding up of the garden, planting, weeding.
  • Chatting to patients and encourage them to do light duties in the garden.
  • Behaving at all times in a professional manner.
  • Be confident when communicating with persons who may have specific difficulties, such mental illness.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings.

Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies.

Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives.

Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent.

We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs.

We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London.

We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.

This is strengthened by our new values:

  • We're Kind
  • We're Fair
  • We Listen
  • We Care
To assist in the weekly care of a small garden by undertaking garden maintenance i.e. replanting, weeding, deadheading, caring for shrubs/plants mowing, strimming and general upkeep of the gardens. It is unlikely there will be any patient contact in the garden.

Specific Tasks

Under supervision and guidance from the placement supervisor(s) to perform the following tasks

  • Help with general gardening duties, strimming, general tiding up of the garden, planting, weeding.
  • Chatting to patients and encourage them to do light duties in the garden.
  • Behaving at all times in a professional manner.
  • Be confident when communicating with persons who may have specific difficulties, such mental illness.
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