Clynfyw CIC Care Farm
Meaningful enterprise in a safe and supported inspirational environment
Post title: Horticulture Project Leader, Clynfyw Care Farm
Salary: £8.10 per hour
Contractual term: 15 hours/week (three mornings) for 52 weeks starting January 2016
Location: Clynfyw Care Farm, Abercych, Boncath, Pembrokeshire SA37 0HF
Responsible to: Jim Bowen (Director), Jane White (Deputy Head of Learning Centre and Project Co-ordinator)
Closing date: 1st December 2015
Responsible for: the overall development of Clynfyw Horticultural Project.
Part-funded by a grant from the Dulverton Trust, this role is to develop the Horticultural side of our work at Clynfyw Care Farm, growing vegetables and fruit for use in soup making and other projects on the Farm and also for sale locally.
The role is also to support participants to engage and take part in meaningful activities, which promote positive outcomes that have been identified as an assessed need, and which enhance the participants’ wellbeing. Participants are regarded as vulnerable through having a learning disability, mental health issues or other challenges.
Work with Participants will usually be with the support of Clynfyw Development Workers who work as part of a team to implement quality person centred support based on individual needs with employment skills and wellbeing training at core of service provision. Project Leaders are responsible for enabling Development Workers to support participants to get the most they can from each project.
The role may entail supporting trainees, apprentices and run Agored Cymru accredited training courses in various (previously agreed) areas of horticulture.
Hours: 15 hours/week for the first year, potentially increasing depending on evidence-based success and grant funding. Some attendance at monthly team meetings will be necessary, and there will be mandatory training.
Mileage: Clynfyw pays 44p/mile for previously agreed journeys which are part of working role including going to training courses.
Holiday entitlement: Your full-time holiday entitlement is 5.6 weeks (including bank holidays) during each complete holiday year which will be pro-rata according to the number of hours you work.
Working patterns: Your normal hours of work will be three mornings a week (probably Monday, Wednesday, Friday) but this may be flexible.
Key Skill Requirements of the Post include:
- Being a knowledgeable horticulturalist, willing to share and demonstrate this knowledge and engage participants, staff, volunteers and others in the project.
- To be welcoming and encouraging to all people who access Clynfyw services without any discrimination.
- To be able to work alone, as part of a group and also to delegate tasks for others to complete unsupervised if required.
- To be capable of running Agored Cymru courses, supporting Development Workers and Participants to complete and achieve accreditation and qualification.
- Previous experience of working at a community project and managing volunteers is not essential, but would be beneficial.
Post Requirements also include:
- Writing reports on daily activities and a monthly summary of project progression.
- Ensuring participants accessing services from Clynfyw CIC are safeguarded from undue risk of harm and abuse.
- Ensuring participants are able to achieve positive outcomes as recognised through individual care plans created by social services, and needs assessments carried out by Clynfyw CIC’s Case Co-ordinators.
- Documenting and reporting how positive outcomes have been achieved, and working with Clynfyw CIC’s Development Workers to ensure that participants’ needs are being met with suitable activities.
- Providing advice, signposting and sourcing information when appropriate.
All Clynfyw staff are expected:
- To ensure participants are receiving the care which is appropriate to them, and that it is within your remit to provide, and to report it when this is not the case.
- To respect the choices of participants, whether stated personally or through their advocate, and ensure that their dignity is preserved and upheld at all times.
- On occasion, to collect and transport participants to and from Clynfyw CIC activities in a safe manner, in accordance with instructions laid down in the staff handbook.
- To establish appropriate and meaningful working relationships with people to ensure clear professional boundaries at all times.
- To attend and participate in training, supervision (including appraisals), team meetings and handovers.
- To develop good working relationship with other agencies, while preserving Clynfyw’s confidentially policies.
- To ensure you work to the highest professional standards conforming to Clynfyw’s policies and procedures at all times.
- To undertake any other reasonable tasks as requested by your line manager or another senior staff member
Clynfyw CIC is a Community Interest Company (Company number: 7574014)
Clynfyw CIC, Abercych, Boncath, Pembrokeshire, SA37 0HF
Tel: 01239 841236 Email: www.clynfyw.co.uk