Volunteer Gardener - Young Onset Dementia Group

Main Duties of the Job

• Bring people together to improve their health and wellbeing
• Improve the aesthetics of the sensory garden
• Be creative in providing a calm and relaxing space within the sensory garden
• Co‑produce with service users and the local community
• Improve biodiversity through plant diversity
• Provide good quality habitat for wildlife
• Allow nature to be therapeutic
• Increase the quality of access to nature
• Reduce harmful practice in daily practice to limit the loss to our ecosystems

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

• Maintain planted areas, with regular watering, weeding, mulching etc.
• Support improvements to the sensory garden
• Create wildlife habitats, such as insect hotels, bird boxes
• Monitor butterflies, pollinators, plants and other wildlife
• Work alongside and support volunteer gardener at Memorial Hospital...