Are you passionate about hands-on activities, creativity, and the great outdoors?
Then working for Minstead Trust as a Floating Instructor could be a perfect match for you.
Floating Day Instructor – A hands-on, creative role with purpose!
Minstead, Near Lyndhurst, New Forest.
Full-Time 37.5 hours per week
8:30am – 4:30pm Monday to Friday
Salary £24,180 per annum
As a Floating Instructor, you’ll bring energy, enthusiasm, and craft skills to a role where no two days are the same!
One day, you’ll be getting your hands dirty in the vegetable patch, helping individuals grow their own produce or you could be guiding gardening sessions, showing the joy of planting, pruning, and creating beautiful outdoor spaces. The next, you’ll be working alongside animals, teaching responsibility and care. Another day, you’ll be leading craft sessions in the studio, sharing skills like weaving, pottery, or woodwork.
Don’t worry if you don’t have all these skills-you can learn them!
Your role isn’t just about delivering activities—it’s about inspiring confidence, unlocking creativity, and empowering individuals to learn new skills in a supportive and engaging environment. If you’re adaptable, hands-on, and love seeing people thrive, this is the perfect opportunity to make a real impact every single day.
The role:
- Plan, deliver and develop the training, activities, care and support to the people we support according to their wishes and requests
- Report to the senior Instructors for daily allocation of cover either for instructors or -1-1 support workers or any other tasks required in day opportunities
- Assess, record and recognise the progress and achievements of the people we support on Nourish
- Assess the support needs of the people we support throughout the day and ensure these are met, including personal care, effective communication, healthy eating and administering medication if required
- Provide a safe working environment for all and follow safe working practise to a high standard in compliance with organisational and regulatory policies and best practise ensuring delivery of a quality service
- Share skills, experience and feedback with the Day Opportunities team in a way that helps to improve and develop the service.
What are we looking for?
- Experience of working alongside adults with a learning disability and or autism and leading activities in a day opportunities setting
- Experience and /or skills in arts/ crafts and being able to pass on these skills to others
- Driving the minibus as part of a rota
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with a patient and empathetic approach
- Confidence in delivering structured activities to individuals or groups.
What benefits can we offer you?
- 25 days, plus Bank Holidays
- Refer-a-Friend scheme worth £750!
- A Celebration Day’s Leave for Your Birthday
- Death in Service Insurance
- Company Pension
- An easy to access Health Care Scheme
- Cycle to Work
- Free Parking on-site
- Blue Light Card Eligibility
- Furzey Gardens Membership
- Hanger Farm Membership
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay
- Company Sick Pay
If you would like to apply for this role download the application form and return the completed form to careers@minsteadtrust.org.uk or fill out the Online Application Form
We are not licenced to sponsor employees for visas; therefore, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role. You need to have, or be able to obtain, right to work in the UK in order to take up this position.
All staff working for, or on behalf of Minstead Trust, understand their responsibilities in relation to safeguarding adults at risk and know who to escalate concerns to within Minstead Trust.
Due to the nature of this employment, your application is subject to a successful Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS).
No terminology in the advert you have seen is intended to discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we will gladly accept applications from all sections of the community.
As a trust, our mission is to support people with learning disabilities to fully develop their individual potential by providing opportunities, enhancing life skills, ensuring informed choice, and influencing society.
- We appreciate each person. Everyone is different – we respect and celebrate this.
- We’re always learning. We all have something to offer and more to learn.
- We’re always improving. Striving to give our best and to have more impact.
- We push for change. We will challenge society to be fully inclusive.
- We find the joy in everyday life. We have the freedom to be ourselves and enjoy what we do.
Minstead Trust is a values-driven charity focused on supporting adults with learning disabilities across Dorset and Hampshire. As a Trust we put the people we support at the heart of everything we do. We support them to achieve greater independence and live happier and healthier lives. This can be done through support to live in their own homes, learning new skills at day opportunities or receiving work training to move towards employment.
We celebrate people by working to provide excellent support to those with wide-ranging care needs. Without our incredible team of staff and volunteers, we simply wouldn’t be where we are today!