Band 5 Connecting with Nature Coordinator - Bristol

at  Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

We are recruiting for a ‘Connecting with Nature Co-ordinator’ for our Bristol Recovery Teams. We have Recovery Team bases in North Bristol (Greenway Centre), Central & East Bristol (Speedwell Centre) and South Bristol (Petherton Resource Centre) and the role would cover all 3 sites.
We are passionate about delivering nature based interventions to our service users with mental health needs and have allotment projects in Speedwell and at Petherton which have established groups running.
This is a unique opportunity to lead on the development of delivering Nature Based activities across the city, setting up a new service in North Bristol.
To oversee and maintain allotment projects, currently within Speedwell allotment and Petherton Resource Centre.
To initiate, develop and facilitate Nature based 1: 1 activities and groups to Service Users within Recovery teams throughout the Bristol Locality.
To active educate, facilitate and motivate service users of the benefits to their Health and Wellbeing through access to green projects and activities.
To Co-produce and work alongside our lived experienced colleagues in all development and maintenance activities.
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
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