Deadline for applications: 5pm, Monday 20th April
Fee: £350 (inclusive of VAT and all expenses); 3 opportunities below
The Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance (CHWA) is looking for creative practitioners to run 3 sessions to support our work in Barnsley:
- 2 practitioners to run a workshop working with local freelancers, staff and volunteers to connect with their creativity and wellbeing (Monday 18th May).
- 1 practitioner to run a workshop to work with local young people, using creativity to explore where else creative health could play a role in their lives and support their ongoing wellbeing (Friday 29th May).
You’re welcome to apply to run both workshops, or just one.
Background
CHWA is the national membership organisation for creative heath for England. (We use ‘creative health’ to mean any creative or cultural activity that supports health and/or wellbeing.) We have facilitated the Barnsley Creative Health Partnership (a strategic working group) for the past 3 years and launched an Action Group this January, aimed at on-the-ground, frontline creative health workers.
On Monday 18th May 12-3pm at the Events Room at the Light Box in Barnsley, we are running an event bringing the Partnership and Action Group together for the first time. We’re aiming for around 30-40 attendees: a combination of staff in leadership roles, freelancers, project coordinators, artists, and volunteers from the local authority, arts organisations, voluntary sector and health organisations. This will be the first time some of these people will be working together and so we want to support everyone to feel comfortable and connected. Some may deliver creative health workshops as their profession; others may not have done anything creative since school. We will be providing lunch, networking opportunities and a facilitated session later in the afternoon looking at our year ahead and the priorities for creative health in the Borough. The day will be led by Luisa Golob, Barnsley Creative Health Lead, who facilitates both the Partnership and the Action Group.
On Friday 29th May 1-3pm at HOME, Chilypep, 43 Market Street, Barnsley, S70 1AW, we will be working with 15 young people aged who engage with Chilypep on a weekly basis. This workshop will use creative health techniques to connect the young people (who will all know each other already) to their own creativity and sense of wellbeing – ultimately inviting them to look at where creativity could play a role or have more of an impact on their day to day wellbeing now and in the future.
Deliverables
Monday 18th May (event times are 12-3pm with delivery of this creative health session between 12.15- 1.15pm).
We want the 2 facilitators to run a 30-minute workshop each with around 15- 20 participants. They will then repeat this workshop to a new cohort of 15-20 participants.
This needs to fun, engaging, high-quality, and use creative health techniques to connect the participants with one another and their own health and wellbeing. We want this to be an interesting experience with creativity at its heart, to remind us as adults that we need creativity to feel well and grounded.
£350 per facilitator (this includes planning and preparation with a one-hour planning meeting online with Luisa), plus £100 materials.
Friday 29th May 1-3pm (you can apply for this role as well as the 18 May opportunity).
We want one facilitator to use creative health techniques to bring fun, connectivity and space for reflection. To guide the young people into discovering where creativity can support them in different areas of their lives to be and stay well, now and in the future. We will use their feedback in our planning for creative health work in the area.
£350 (this includes planning and preparation with a one-hour planning meeting online with Luisa), plus £100 materials.
Person specification
We are looking for creative health practitioners with the following skills and attributes:
- Ability to plan and deliver an engaging creative health workshop, with an eye on connectivity, variety, creativity and inclusivity
- Good experience of facilitating creative workshops with groups of adults and/or young people (depending on which date you are applying for)
- Flexibility to change and adapt the delivery depending on who is in the room and what might come up emotionally during the workshop
- Based in Barnsley or surrounding areas, or with sound work experience in the borough
- For the young person workshop only: experience of using creativity as a consultation tool to reflect and create space to explore new possibilities.
It’s important that applicants work to the principles outlined in the Creative Health Quality Framework.
How to apply
- Please tell us how your skills and experience match each point in the Person Specification section above (no more than 1 side of a4).
- Plus a short description of the type of activity/ies you would deliver on the day (no more than 150 words).
You are welcome to apply for both the 18th May and the 29th May. Please ensure you send in a short description of the potential activity for each day you are applying for. Plus address ALL the relevant points in the person specification.
Complete your application in one of the following ways:
- Via email
- Via video- no more than 5 minutes
- Via audio (zoom recording for example)- no more than 5 minutes
Send completed applications to us by emailing [email protected]
Application Deadline: please submit your application by 5pm, Monday 20th April.
You will receive notice within the week of receiving your application if you have been successful in your application. There is no interview process for this role. We will assess applications based on what you send to us and will contact you as soon as we can.
We know that there are barriers in the traditional application process; if you’re comfortable to do so please contact us and we can make sure you are fully supported to make an application. We’d also appreciate it if you could click on this link and fill out this Equality, Diversity & Representation form when you apply. This is anonymous and we won’t be able to connect it with your application, but it helps us assess whether we are reaching a wide pool of candidates. If the link doesn’t work for you let us know and we will find an alternative.
We are committed to ensuring our organisation is as diverse and representative as possible and are using the IncArts Unlock tool to support this process. We particularly want to encourage applications from people identifying with any of the protected characteristics as defined in the 2010 Equality Act, or who are from less affluent socioeconomic backgrounds.
Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.
For more information or for an informal discussion about your application, please email [email protected]