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Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
About
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides specialist mental health, learning disability, children’s and community healthcare services for the population of the Black Country.
Across the whole of the region we provide:
- Adult and older adult mental health services
- Specialist learning disability services
- CAMHS
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was formed on 1 April 2020, after NHS England and NHS Improvement approved the merger of Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust.
Combining resources, strategies and talented workforce enables us to deliver a wider variety of outstanding services that are based on best practice and are continually improving.
We currently employ over 4,000 members of staff and just like the population we serve, we are made up of diverse cultures and backgrounds.
Whatever your background or education, working in a healthcare setting like ours is a demanding yet extremely rewarding experience. We offer exciting and rewarding career opportunities in a variety of fields, from nursing, psychiatry, counselling and pharmacy to admin and support roles such as IT, estates and facilities and human resources.
We take pride in supporting, developing and engaging with our workforce. Staff engagement, recognition and wellbeing are vital to the success of our organisation, and we strive to provide a setting in which our staff can showcase their skills, innovative solutions and dedication to healthcare.
By becoming part of our growing organisation, we will invest in your career with a variety of professional training courses, development and progression opportunities to enable you to reach your potential. From apprenticeships and clinical placements to volunteering roles and agency work, there is something for everyone within our Trust, so take a look at our current vacancies and what we can offer you.
If we don’t currently have what you’re looking for, register your interests with the NHS Jobs notification service and be one of the first to know of new vacancies within our Trust. You can also follow us on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to keep up-to-date with what’s happening in our Trust.
BCHFT is paying the REAL LIVING WAGE
Our success as Black Country Healthcare depends on our people. Every day, in so many ways, colleagues in so many roles are going above and beyond to deliver the best for our service users and our communities.
We’re working with the Living Wage Foundation, which works to support workers on lower pay, to make sure everyone who works for our trust can benefit from the Real Living Wage.
BCHFT is committed to being an anti-racist organisation
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust reaffirm our condemnation of all forms of discrimination, racism and violence, and we declare our commitment to become an anti-racist organisation. Please see our full declaration on the work we are doing to achieve this.
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Gardening Volunteer
Accepting applications until: 26-Jun-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 26-Jun-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Varied sites in the Black Country
- Town
- Black Country NHS Foundation Trust Sites
- Postcode
- WS10 9JB
- Major / Minor Region
- West Midlands
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Voluntary
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Grade
- N/a
Specialty
- Main area
- Volunteer
Job overview
Purpose of volunteering role: To help maintain and develop green spaces for an Dorothy Pattinson inpatient mental health hospital in Walsall.
This is a voluntary role which is unpaid.
Black Country Healthcare is a major provider of NHS mental health services for more than a million people across Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton:
Adult and older adult mental health services
- Specialist learning disabilities services
- Mental health services for children and young people
- Community healthcare for children, young people and families in Dudley
We’re proud to be rated Good by the Care Quality Commission, and that many of our staff have won awards for their work.
Advert
Volunteers will use their gardening knowledge and expertise to help us design, grow and maintain gardens and green spaces on site at Dorothy Pattinson Hospital in Walsall. There are small garden areas for patients to use. We would like volunteers to plant, weed, prune and tidy garden areas. We would like volunteers with an interest in plants and ideas to share about making a therapeutic natural environment.
Volunteers must be available Wednesdays 9:30 - 12 to attend the gardening sessions.
Working for our organisation
How we can support you:
- Training and Induction.
- One to one and group volunteer support meetings.
- We can provide a reference for future employment.
- Travel expenses will be paid.
- Further training opportunities.
- Support you to learn new skills and gain experience.
- Create a plan together to meet your volunteering goals
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are looking for volunteers who have these qualities:
- Knowledge of plants and skills in gardening
- Physical ability to do low level gardening activities such as planting, pruning, weeding, maintenance of paths.
- Awareness of mental health and desire to help patients
- Punctual and reliable.
- Able to follow confidentiality policy and professional boundaries for their own safety and safety of the patients.
- Ability to use some digital technology for training and communications – we can support you with this.
- Live within a reasonable travel distance to site.
- Volunteers must be over 18
Our Trust Values:
Caring
We care for everyone as individuals, being compassionate, empathetic and kind with a willingness to help.
Enabling
We enable ourselves and others to act with confidence and authority in order to achieve the best outcome for everyone.
Working Together
We work together in partnership, being inclusive by understanding and valuing others to achieve the best results for everyone in everything we do.
Integrity
We act with transparency and honesty; respecting and valuing others to do the right thing at the right time for everyone.
We’re committed to building a workforce and culture that reflects our varied population – and to create a culture of belonging. We always engage and involve when making key decisions, regardless of role or level. For example, we have worked closely with staff, patients, community groups and other key partners, in putting together our clinical strategy.
Due to the nature of our work some volunteering roles may be subject to a Standard or Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, through the Disclosure and Barring Service as stipulated under part V of the Police Act 1997. Having a criminal record will not necessarily bar you from volunteering with us; this will depend on the nature of the role and the circumstances of your offences.
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Person specification
values
Essential criteria
- can display trust values
- live within the Black Country or Birmingham areas, within a reasonable travel distance to our sites
- over 18 years old
- interest in mental health services and supporting them
Desirable criteria
- passion for mental health services
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rebecca Craddock
- Job title
- Volunteer Coordinator
- Email address
- [email protected]
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