# Volunteer Gardener - Young Onset Dementia Group > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/volunteer-gardener-young-onset-dementia-group/a98eab95-8184-4774-a53a-c88a3eb5e99e - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/volunteer-gardener-young-onset-dementia-group/a98eab95-8184-4774-a53a-c88a3eb5e99e.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Dartford - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Estates and facilities - **Salary:** VOLUNTARY ROLE - **Contract type:** Voluntary - **Closing date:** 2026-06-15T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-05-28T16:21:47.967Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Oxleas_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Volunteer/Volunteer-v8042801 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8042801?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.oxleas.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview With an underused sensory garden and garden at the back, Highpoint House, home to Children & Young People’s therapies, has an invaluable opportunity to:- - 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 eco-systems. ### Main duties of the job ### Key Task and Responsibilities: A volunteer would provide invaluable support to: - 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 site - Work with small groups of service users as ‘garden buddies’ - Share knowledge and experience with ‘garden buddies’ - Encourage participation of ‘garden buddies’ - Maintain and monitor the upkeep of any tools and materials - Report any concerns or issues about ‘garden buddies’ to named          employee for Oxleas NHS Trust at that time - Report any concerns or issues about the garden or materials to the Sustainability Manager When working with Oxleas Service Users: Responsibility for the group (or any service user working with the volunteer) will lie with a named employee of Oxleas NHS Trust.  Someone employed by the Trust will be with the group (or individual) throughout any activity ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities With a underused sensory garden and garden at the back, Highpoint House, home to Children & Young People’s therapies has an invaluable opportunity to:- ### Key Task and Responsibilities: - 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 eco-systems. A volunteer would provide invaluable support to: - 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 site - Work with small groups of service users as ‘garden buddies’ - Share knowledge and experience with ‘garden buddies’ - Encourage participation of ‘garden buddies’ - Maintain and monitor the upkeep of any tools and materials - Report any concerns or issues about ‘garden buddies’ to named          employee for Oxleas NHS Trust at that time - Report any concerns or issues about the garden or materials to the Sustainability Manager When working with Oxleas Service Users: - Responsibility for the group (or any service user working with the volunteer) will lie with a named employee of Oxleas NHS Trust.  Someone employed by the Trust will be with the group (or individual) throughout any activity ## Job Details With an underused sensory garden and garden at the back, Highpoint House, home to Children & Young People’s therapies, has an invaluable opportunity to:- 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 eco-systems. ## Job Description A volunteer would provide invaluable support to: 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 site Work with small groups of service users as ‘garden buddies’ Share knowledge and experience with ‘garden buddies’ Encourage participation of ‘garden buddies’ Maintain and monitor the upkeep of any tools and materials Report any concerns or issues about ‘garden buddies’ to named employee for Oxleas NHS Trust at that time Report any concerns or issues about the garden or materials to the Sustainability Manager When working with Oxleas Service Users: Responsibility for the group (or any service user working with the volunteer) will lie with a named employee of Oxleas NHS Trust. Someone employed by the Trust will be with the group (or individual) throughout any activity ## Responsibilities With a underused sensory garden and garden at the back, Highpoint House, home to Children & Young People’s therapies has an invaluable opportunity to:- 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 eco-systems. A volunteer would provide invaluable support to: 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 site Work with small groups of service users as ‘garden buddies’ Share knowledge and experience with ‘garden buddies’ Encourage participation of ‘garden buddies’ Maintain and monitor the upkeep of any tools and materials Report any concerns or issues about ‘garden buddies’ to named employee for Oxleas NHS Trust at that time Report any concerns or issues about the garden or materials to the Sustainability Manager When working with Oxleas Service Users: Responsibility for the group (or any service user working with the volunteer) will lie with a named employee of Oxleas NHS Trust. Someone employed by the Trust will be with the group (or individual) throughout any activity ## Person Specification ### Care **Essential** - Applicant must have a care of the environment and the wildlife habitat ### Skills **Essential** - Applicant must be extremely patient, kind & caring and be able to adapt to change at the last minute ### Knowledge **Essential** - Applicant must have a knowledge of gardening, plants, wildlife ## Documents - [staff benefits (pdf, 2.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1847) - [privacy notice for staff (pdf, 268.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1659) - [volunteer gardener - young onset dementia group (pdf, 120.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10331399) - [volunteer gardener - young onset dementia group (pdf, 368.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10331398) - [important additional information for candidates (please read carefully) (pdf, 160.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1656) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.