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Do you want to help build a world where everyone feels part of a community?
Do you have experience engaging older adults in outdoor projects?
If you answered yes, this could be the role for you!
We’re looking for an experienced, part-time activities facilitator to deliver our Green Team gardening project.
What we do
Time & Talents is a lively, busy community centre in the heart of Rotherhithe, SE16. Set in a leafy heritage building, and ‘T&T2’, our second venue in Surrey Quays Shopping Centre, we offer something for everyone. With a history of 138 years of supporting people of all ages in Rotherhithe and Bermondsey, we bring people together for mutual support, fun and friendship, with a wide range of services and activities for older people and other adults, along with volunteering and other accessible activities for all members of the community.
T&T carries out a wide range of activities and events, but we need support and growing our voice. We have made some big changes in our ways of working since Covid, shifting and responding to community need and sector landscape. We intend to keep working flexibly to deliver the most impactful work possible and build our reach across social media, digital newsletters, website updates, while maintaining traditional communication like community noticeboards. You’ll play a key role in ensuring that local people know about what we do, connect with our services and activities, and join us in celebrating our successes.
The role
In this role, you’ll:
- Develop and deliver the twice-weekly Green Team gardening group for older adults
- Build partnerships across T&T’s Older Adults team to ensure that participants have the support they need
- Build partnerships across the community with other relevant partners around gardening and older adults work
About you
The role needs someone with experience of gardening projects and working with older adults in creative, energetic, passionate ways. You need to have lots of ideas and be highly ambitious, but also be able to make your ideas happen.
Most of all, we are looking for someone who cares deeply about the welfare of older adults and their carers, and is able to react quickly and appropriately to emerging issues – especially to the more serious care issues we inevitably encounter. While appropriate training will be given, we are looking for candidates with some social care experience ideally.
About us
We are an energetic, experienced, and passionate team of 15 mostly part-time workers with a strong sense of shared purpose and a lively sense of community. You’ll have the chance to make a big contribution to a strong and innovative organisation which has solidified its reach and impact in recent years.
This role is 10 hours per week, with flexibility for very occasional evening and weekend working.
Time & Talents is wholly committed to inclusion and diversity, and to building a culture and environment where everyone is appreciated for the unique person that they are. We actively encourage applications from a broad range of backgrounds and experiences.
If you would like an informal chat about the job, please email recruitment@timeandtalents.org.uk with your phone number and a suitable time for us to call.
The closing date is 09:00 Monday 24th March but may close earlier if suitable candidates are identified.
TO APPLY: All applications to be submitted online through CharityJob. Send a CV and a cover letter of no more than two sides of A4, explaining why you want the job and how your experience relates to the job description and person specification.
IMPORTANT: We’ll use cover letters to assess applications alongside CVs. Please ensure you take the time to include a well-written cover letter as detailed above. We won’t assess applications without one.
INTERVIEWS: Interviews will take place on a rolling basis starting week of 17th March.
