RSPB
Project Officer - Nature Connections
We are looking for a Nature Connections Project Officer with a passion for nature and its benefits to people to develop and deliver our work with NHS Lothian Charity in Edinburgh’s Western General Hospital, as part of a wider programme of Giving Nature a Home (GNaH) activities.
Part time Nature Connections Officer - (Fixed Term)
Reference: MAR20242358
Location: Edinburgh
Salary: £25,723.00 - £27,614.00 pro rata
Hours: Part-Time, 22.5 hours pwk
Contract: 6 months fixed-term – start after 1st May 2024
This role will continue to build on the successful pilot project delivered in the hospital grounds and wards in 2023. The successful candidate will work with existing staff, patients, and volunteers to support them in their delivery of Nature Connections activities in hospital grounds, wards and departments, deliver a programme of staff wellbeing workshops, and deliver biodiversity enhancements to evaluate and enhance our offer and explore opportunities to extend the initiative into a longer-term partnership with NHS Lothian Charity in Edinburgh to support the creation of a flagship site for nature and wellbeing.
Our Nature Connections project will provide staff and volunteers in Edinburgh’s Western General Hospital with the resources needed to encourage patients to connect with nature as part of their recovery and treatment plan. The resources and activities offer ways of engaging with nature in an acute hospital setting that can support mental and/or physical health, as well as potentially aiding speed of recovery, shortening length of hospital stays and cultivating personal and lasting connections with nature that inspire a desire to protect it. This role will continue delivery of nature connections with patients through drawing, listening to birdsong, reminiscing about childhood memories and stories (worked especially well on acute elderly and dementia wards), and staff through wellbeing workshops – walks, dawn chorus, for example – with participating and new wards and departments.
This role will be responsible for supporting staff, volunteers, and patients in Edinburgh’s Western General Hospital to deliver appropriate and relevant activities and workshops, building on previous success of the hospital pilot, with support from the GNaH Project Manager, NHS Lothian Charity and NHS Lothian staff and will sit within the GNaH team. The GNaH work empowers people to connect and take action for nature across Glasgow and Edinburgh to make our cities greener, healthier, and wilder.
Closing date: 23:59, Sunday 14th April 2024.
Please CLICK HERE to be redirected to our website.
Closing Date: 14/04/2024 Location: Edinburgh