Nature and Wellbeing Officer

We’re in search of an enthusiastic Nature and Wellbeing Officer to work with the England Nature
and Wellbeing Supervisor to develop our thrilling programme of RSPB Nature Prescriptions within the West
Midlands. A rising physique of proof signifies that people with a larger connection to
nature expertise improved psychological wellbeing, larger vitality and happiness, and are extra
glad with life. Analysis additionally reveals that growing your reference to nature can
positively affect a variety of situations, together with stress, nervousness and despair. RSPB Nature
Prescriptions are designed to encourage and immediate folks to connect with nature.

We imagine that everybody, irrespective of the place they reside or the challenges they face, has the fitting
to really feel this robust connection to the pure world. Inspiring healthcare professionals and
others within the NHS and social care, is a key route for the RSPB to allow extra folks from extra
various communities to entry nature. In so doing we hope to encourage folks to like nature and
work with us to reserve it. This can be a nice alternative to hitch a pleasant and supportive group
devoted to saving nature by strengthening folks’s connection to nature and enhancing
wellbeing by way of RSPB Nature Prescriptions. By this venture we intend to assist extra
various audiences to connect with nature, together with by way of the co-design of supplies in
completely different codecs.

We’re in search of somebody who’s:

• Passionate: About connecting folks to nature to enhance wellbeing
• Assured: In sharing this ardour to enthuse healthcare and different
  professionals together with by way of displays
• Inquisitive: A pure curiosity to discover and perceive
• Daring: Prepared to contribute modern concepts, significantly when addressing
  well being inequalities
• Optimistic and Personable: Fosters a collaborative and pleasant manner of
  working with our companions.
• Snug Difficult the Standing Quo: Nature Prescriptions provide a manner
  of enhancing wellbeing outdoors of the standard medical mannequin of healthcare

Key duties:

• Develop and ship a brand new RSPB Nature Prescriptions venture to folks dwelling in various
  communities throughout the West Midlands 
• Ship displays to a variety of potential stakeholders with the goal of acquiring
  engagement with the venture
• Have interaction with native healthcare professionals and group teams to establish methods of
  guaranteeing Nature Prescriptions attain a big range of individuals 
• Co-design Nature Prescriptions supplies with native folks, group teams and healthcare
  professionals
• Facilitate nature connection workshops to enhance the data, expertise and confidence of
  individuals who shall be delivering Nature Prescriptions
• Develop a venture plan for the supply of Nature Prescriptions and comply with venture
  administration ideas to make sure a profitable supply of agreed outcomes
• Faucet into native environmental networks to construct an image of nature primarily based actions
  out there and establish alternatives for partnership working
• Discover and contribute to the analysis of the venture, together with information gathering and
  gathering case research from venture companions
• Signify the RSPB on related native well being and wellbeing networks
• Construct inner relationships with RSPB workers and volunteers working throughout the West
  Midlands and past
• Additional develop our Nature and Wellbeing Sharepoint web site to supply folks throughout the RSPB
  entry to our newest supplies

Important expertise, data and expertise: 

• Expert in delivering nature connection workshops or coaching 
• Expertise of working throughout the well being and wellbeing sector
• Expertise of creating and delivering initiatives with various communities
• Expertise of creating exterior partnerships and balancing the wants of a number of
  stakeholders
• A wonderful verbal and written communicator in a position to talk RSPB messages in a manner
  that’s understood by a variety of audiences and that engenders their assist
• Expertise of efficiently creating and delivering initiatives
• Wonderful planning and organisational expertise with the flexibility to handle and ship a
  various workload 
• Expert in utilizing Microsoft 365 suite together with Phrase, Excel, Powerpoint and Groups

Fascinating expertise, data and expertise:

• Expertise of SharePoint administration
• Expertise of recruiting and managing volunteers

This can be a fixed-term, full-time function ending 31/03/2026. 

The RSPB reserves the fitting to increase or make this function everlasting with out additional promoting
on the finish of the contract time period.

We want to conduct interviews for this place on 29 and 30 Might 2024. For additional
info please contact [email protected] .

As a part of this software course of you can be requested to supply a replica of your CV and full
an software type together with proof on the way you meet the abilities, data, and expertise
listed above.

We’re dedicated to creating an inclusive and various RSPB, through which everybody feels
supported, valued, and in a position to be their full selves. To realize our imaginative and prescient of making a world
richer in nature, we want extra folks, and extra various folks, on nature’s facet. Folks of
color and disabled individuals are at the moment underrepresented throughout the setting, local weather,
sustainability, and conservation sector. When you establish as an individual of color and/or disabled,
we’re significantly focused on receiving your software. Contact us to debate any
further assist chances are you’ll want to finish your software.

The RSPB is an equal alternatives employer. This function is roofed by the Rehabilitation of
Offenders Act 1974.

This function will not be eligible for UK Visa Sponsorship – the profitable applicant might want to have
a pre-existing Proper to Work within the UK with the intention to be supplied an employment contract.