Nature Connections Officer

We’re in search of a Nature Connections Venture Officer with a ardour for nature and its
advantages to individuals to develop and ship our work with NHS Lothian Charity in Edinburgh’s
Western Normal Hospital, as a part of a wider programme of Giving Nature a House (GNaH)
actions. This position will proceed to construct on the profitable pilot venture delivered within the
hospital grounds and wards in 2023. The profitable candidate will work with present employees,
sufferers, and volunteers to assist them of their supply of Nature Connections actions in
hospital grounds, wards and departments, ship a programme of employees wellbeing workshops, and
ship biodiversity enhancements to guage and improve our provide and discover alternatives
to increase the initiative right into a longer-term partnership with NHS Lothian Charity in Edinburgh
to assist the creation of a flagship website for nature and wellbeing.

Our Nature Connections venture will present employees and volunteers in Edinburgh’s Western Normal
Hospital with the sources wanted to encourage sufferers to attach with nature as a part of
their restoration and remedy plan. The sources and actions provide methods of partaking with
nature in an acute hospital setting that may assist psychological and/or bodily well being, in addition to
probably aiding velocity of restoration, shortening size of hospital stays and cultivating
private and lasting connections with nature that encourage a need to guard it. This position
will proceed supply of nature connections with sufferers by way of drawing, listening to
birdsong, reminiscing about childhood reminiscences and tales (labored particularly nicely on acute
aged and dementia wards), and employees by way of wellbeing workshops – walks, daybreak refrain, for
instance – with collaborating and new wards and departments.

RSPB Scotland developed Nature Prescriptions as a result of we recognised that for nature to thrive it
required individuals to entry, get pleasure from, and worth it, and in flip, lend their assist to saving it.
Edinburgh Nature Prescriptions pilot was delivered throughout unprecedented instances, however constructive
responses of those that obtained them, demonstrated the big worth in supporting well being and
encouraging constructive relationships with nature. In 2023, we examined how this mannequin may work in
an acute hospital setting provided that some sufferers aren’t capable of entry nature whereas receiving
remedy and in addition recognized the constructive results of nature on wellbeing of employees and sufferers
and efficiently achieved all outcomes. A abstract report of the hospital pilot is out there

here, with additional info on Edinburgh Nature Prescriptions here.

This position can be chargeable for supporting employees, volunteers, and sufferers in Edinburgh’s
Western Normal Hospital to ship acceptable and related actions and workshops, constructing
on earlier success of the hospital pilot, with assist from the GNaH Venture Supervisor, NHS
Lothian Charity and NHS Lothian employees and can sit inside the GNaH staff. The GNaH work empowers
individuals to attach and take motion for nature throughout Glasgow and Edinburgh to make our cities
greener, more healthy, and wilder. 

Important abilities, data, and expertise:

• Expertise of working inside the well being & wellbeing sector.
• Curiosity in how nature can contribute & improve wellbeing & data of
  inexperienced/social prescribing.
• Expertise of growing & implementing initiatives referring to well being & wellbeing.
• Presentation & communication abilities.
• A capability to provide clear written communications & studies.
• A capability to steer & affect a variety of individuals.
• In a position to work underneath strain & adapt to altering circumstances.
• Confirmed time administration & organisational abilities.
• Working with venture groups & stakeholders.
• Competent IT consumer (e.g., MS packages, Outlook and many others).

Fascinating abilities, data, and expertise:

• Ideally has data of NHS/well being sector constructions & methods of working
• Expertise or curiosity in organic recording &/or gardening for wildlife

It is a Fastened-Time period Half-Time position for 22.5 hours per week for six months. 

The RSPB reserves the suitable to increase or make this position everlasting with out additional
promoting depending on enterprise wants and topic to funding on the finish of the contract
time period.

We want to conduct interviews for this place from W/c 22 April 2024
. For additional info please contact [email protected].

As a part of this software course of you can be requested to finish an software type together with
proof on the way you meet the talents, data, and expertise listed above.

This position would require completion of a DBS along with the usual pre-employment
checks.

We’re dedicated to growing an inclusive and various RSPB, wherein everybody
feels supported, valued, and capable of be their full selves. To realize our imaginative and prescient of making a
world richer in nature, we’d like extra individuals, and extra various individuals, on nature’s aspect. Individuals
of color and disabled individuals are at present underrepresented throughout the setting, local weather,
sustainability, and conservation sector. If you happen to establish as an individual of color and/or disabled,
we’re significantly all for receiving your software. Contact us to debate any
extra assist chances are you’ll want to finish your software.

The RSPB is an equal alternatives employer. This position is exempt from the
Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

The RSPB is a licenced sponsor. This position shouldn’t be eligible for UK Visa Sponsorship – the
profitable applicant might want to have a pre-existing Proper to Work within the UK as a way to be
supplied an employment contract.