Adult Wellbeing

Volunteering with: Growing Together, Gardening for Dementia, Woodland Wellbeing

Responsibilities

• Support staff to prepare resources for and set up for sessions
• Support participants to engage in activities during sessions.
• Safeguarding/health and safety
• Support with providing refreshments at lunch and break times
• Encourage participants to work with and interact with others.
• Helping to clear up after participants have left.
• Supervising participants over lunch breaks and occasionally when staff are required to do other things. 

Skills

• Interest in natural world and understanding of the health benefits
• Creativity
• Compassionate
• Able to meet people’s individual needs
• Understanding of dementia
• Patience and understanding with a commitment to being supportive and companionable.
• Flexibility - tasks may need to change and participant’s behaviour may be surprising or erratic.
• Reliability - for both staff and the participants, this is important for continuity and trust.
• Ability to explain tasks clearly and in simple ways.
• Prepared to work outdoors in most weather.
• Ability to observe professional boundaries and confidentiality in relation to working with adults at risk.