Assistant Care Farm Manager

Hours per week: 37.5

We're hiring a Assistant Care Farm Manager.

We are seeking an enthusiastic and dedicated Assistant Care Farm Manager to join our dynamic team.

Elm Tree Farm is a vibrant and inclusive care farm dedicated to providing a supportive environment for adults with learning disabilities and autism, providing an opportunity for training, employment, and wellbeing outcomes.

In this role you will lead on many of the back-office functions of the site, ensuring the best level of care and support to our co-farmers. Working closely with the Care Farm Manager you will provide them with valuable support and deputise for them as required in the day-to-day operational tasks and responsibilities involved in running a safe and compliant working care farm.

Benefits:

• On-going training and career development including professional qualifications.
• Contributory pension.
• We cover the cost of DBS checks.
• Access to Wagestream.
• Shopping discounts including Blue Light card, EE perks and Costco membership.
• Successfully 'recommend a friend' to join us and you'll receive a thank-you payment.
• Access to wellbeing helplines. 
• Health Cash Plan.

We're looking for:

• Maths and English qualifications at GCSE (grade A-C) level or equivalent OR able to demonstrate competence at this level through assessment.
• Full driving licence and own transport.
• Customer service experience, including dealing with complaints or difficult situations.
• Co-ordinating volunteers with learning disabilities / ensuring processes are supportive and accessible (desirable).
• Experience working on a care farm or similar enterprise setting.

Your responsibilities:

• Act as the first point of contact for all Elm Tree Farm enquiries.
• Oversee the Elm Tree Farm Corporate Volunteer Programme. Including responding to reactive enquiries, coordinating the team days, invoicing and proactively recruiting new business.
• Day to day management of the existing pool of volunteers at the farm site. Deputising and overseeing the safe operation of the farm site in the absence of the Care Farm Manager.
• Working with the Enterprise Social Media lead and Coms team to undertake marketing activity to increase sales and attract new business.
• Working in collaboration with Brandon’s Fundraising department, writing small scale fundraising grants and bids and identifying larger opportunities.
• Develop positive relationships with local commissioning authorities.

About Brandon

Brandon exists to enable children, young people and adults with a learning disability, autism, or both, to live life in the way they choose. We provide high-quality, individualised support to around 1,600 people and have a staff team of over 2,000. Operating across southern England and London, support is provided by a widely dispersed workforce, including public spaces and the homes of the people we support.