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Why This Role, Why You?

Ready to lead change with your feet on the ground and your ideas taking root? Join KMPT's innovative green spaces and volunteering strategy. Help manage therapeutic projects that bring nature and care together for patients and volunteers.

What You'll Do & What You'll Bring

Manage Webbs Garden, lead volunteering in East Kent, support fundraising and social value projects. You bring experience in volunteer management, leadership, and project delivery.

As Senior Volunteer & Social Value Coordinator, your work will support KMPT in our internal and broader system transformation roles to ensure we place the patient at the heart of everything we do. The role will contribute operationally to the formulation and delivery of the Trust and System strategic objectives, including overseeing all work programmes and projects related to the directorate portfolio, specifically our Green Spaces initiative.

Webb's Garden is a volunteer-led garden based in St Martins Canterbury. It serves multiple purposes and is a valuable asset to the trust and charity alike. The garden is used as a therapeutic space for inpatients supported by the Occupational Therapy Teams at St Martins.

You will actively promote and raise the profile of volunteering & charity in partnerships with the team across the Trust and wider local health economy.

You will have experience in growing and managing volunteers, income generation for charitable and social value projects, and bring an ambitious approach to the growth of our volunteering programme, social value, and charitable activities, to support the transformation of services for our patients.

Our Team & Culture

Join a warm, energetic team in the Transformation and Partnerships directorate. We value inclusion, flexibility, and celebrating our volunteers and staff.

Come and work with us in the Garden of England, where we combine professional development opportunities with a high quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability, and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.

Each year, we care for over 2,000 people in hospitals and 54,000 in the community.

We employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities and serve diverse communities across rural and urban areas.

You will join friendly, passionate colleagues committed to providing excellent care. Everyone from cleaners to the chief executive plays a vital role in our service.

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Key Results/Duties Areas

KEY RESULT AREAS:

• 30%: Responsible for recruitment, placement, and support of volunteers, including onboarding, supervision, and relationship building.
• 30%: Oversee management of Webbs Garden, including line management of a Garden Supervisor and volunteers, maintaining safety standards, and developing the garden as a therapeutic and charitable space.
• 20%: Support growth and development of greenspaces & social value, including securing funding, planning and delivering projects, and developing monitoring tools.
• 20%: Promote social value and charitable activities, creating communications and supporting engagement events.

This advert closes on Wednesday 4 Jun 2025.

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