The Village of Renton Community Integration Project

Cordale Housing Association work in a group partnership with Caledonia Housing Association. Cordale Housing Association is a registered charity that provides affordable housing in Renton, West Dunbartonshire and has had an active approach to community development to achieve wider regeneration. As part of this wider role, the Association has secured Big Lottery Funding for the transformation of underused open space as a Community Garden to provide communal growing and event space to benefit tenants and the wider community. The aim is to use the garden as a catalyst for wider regeneration to offer opportunities to bring people of all ages and backgrounds together, to enhance wellbeing, to promote skills and confidence and enable access to affordable healthy food produce. The Association have consulted with and secured the support of a range of organisations including schools and care providers that are keen to be involved in development and use of the garden.

The Association is now seeking to employ a Community Garden Project Co-ordinator with suitable skills and experience in horticulture, community food growing and community development. This post holder will lead the development and delivery of the Community Garden and all associated programmes to engage local people and groups in set up and ongoing use of the space and ensure the garden is well maintained, attractive and productive. The aim is to use the Garden as a catalyst for wider change and a community learning approach will be needed to increase the skills and capacity of local people to establish a community gardening group to make best use of the space and manage the day to day running of the Garden on a self-reliant basis.

We want to create opportunities for local people from a wide range of ages, abilities and background to come together and build stronger village integration and social relationships. Our new community integration project in the village of Renton will help local people have more access to opportunities to improve their lives and will help to tackle loneliness & isolation. The project will improve community integration and intergenerational growth through the provision of new opportunities for the local people to come together; and will provide new volunteering opportunities which will enable local people to take part in physical and social activities.

If you are the person who can deliver on all our objectives in this project we would like to hear from you.

As an award-winning innovative care provider, we support the elderly and people living with physical disabilities and long-term conditions across Scotland. We pride ourselves on our knowledge and passion for delivering complex care, making sure that our customers receive high quality care services that can range from visiting a few hours a week to several daily visits.

We deliver our vision of helping our customers live their life to the full through the hard work and dedication of our Support Workers who provide our customers with a wide variety of assistance such as personal hygiene, dressing, medication prompts and light household chores in line with their personal support plans.

Blackwood are currently looking for Support Workers to join our Care Services teams to support our customers living in their own homes in the community and/or in our Care Homes. We operate care services in Aberdeen, Dundee, Perth & Kinross, Edinburgh, Stirling, Lanarkshire, Glasgow, Ayrshire and Inverclyde.

Don’t worry about having any previous care experience, we provide comprehensive training and development opportunities to help you become a great carer!

Our main priority for this job role is to find people who can show our values and behaviours. These are:

• Taking responsibility
• Being open and honest
• Keeping our promises
• Having respect and understanding

The ideal candidate must have:

• A commitment to delivering high quality care
• Strong communication, interpersonal and IT skills
• An ability to work independently in the community and as part of a team
• A relevant qualification (SVQ2), this is not essential as training will be given
• Flexibility to work on a rota basis, including early mornings, evenings and weekends.

…Could this be you?

Blackwood offers a range of employee benefits, including:

• Travel expenses and paid travel time between customer visits
• Fully funded SVQ training on completion of probationary period
• Company sick pay scheme on completion of probationary period
• 34 days’ holiday per annum, pro rata for part-time hours
• Company mobile phone
• Company pension scheme and other benefits
• Payment of PVG and SSSC registration
• Recruit both drivers and walkers on care at home runs
• Fully paid induction and shadowing with experienced carers.
• EE Perks – discount packages for family and friends.