Learning Disability Community Support A dynamic community-based support service for people with learning difficulties, “enabling people to achieve their life goals”
Garden Support Assistants (location: Ripon Walled Garden): Negotiable hours, some weekend work required.
You will be part of the Ripon Walled Garden Team, in a dynamic, developing, unique and varied setting, and a local resource open to the public. You will provide care and enabling support to people with learning difficulties alongside delivering our garden nursery and gardening services.
Pay: Salary Scale NJC 11-13 (£15,807 - £16,491 pro rata per annum from 1.4.17) or hourly rate from £8.00/hour plus payment for accrued leave.
Successful applicant(s) will be: patient, proactive team players who also show their own initiative, being skilled gardeners who excel in enabling others.
Closing date for applications: Tuesday 21st March 2017 at 0900
Proposed Interview date: Monday 27th March 2017
Ripon Community Link provides a day time support service for people with learning difficulties, offering a wide range of community-based activities and opportunities. Our aims are to maximise independence, health, well-being, skills and fulfilment for our members. We are based across three sites: Ripon Walled Garden and two sites close to the centre of Ripon. Ripon Walled Garden is our garden nursery with shop, café and garden maintenance business. The garden has achieved a Duke of Edinburgh Community Award and a Ripon Civic Society Award, has won Gold Award at Harrogate Flower Show for a Show Garden, and continues to receive commendations for improvements to the garden year on year. Our Walled Garden café has been open since October 2014 and has a 5-star Environment Health rating, a NYCC Healthier Choices Gold Award, is featured on Trip Advisor and is a flourishing café with a plot-to-plate ethos and a growing customer base.
For more an application pack, please contact info@riponcommunitylink.org.uk or admin@riponwalledgarden.org
For informal discussion contact Julie Spink on 01765 609229 or via email j.spink@riponwalledgarden.org
