**Mulberry Bush Project Archivist**

Location: The Mulberry Bush Third Space, Gloucestershire, GL54 5DQ

**Salary**: £30,233 pa

**Holiday**: 25 days plus Bank Holidays

**Job type**: Fixed term contract for 18 months

**Hours of work**: 40 hrs per week (including paid lunch break)

**Reports to**: Senior Archivist

**Benefits**:
Employer contribution pension

High level of support and supervision

Staff Wellbeing Scheme

Discounted Better Leisure Membership

**Background**:
The Mulberry Bush is a therapeutic community, registered as a children’s home and a non-maintained residential special school. It was founded more than seventy years ago and, since then, we have established an outstanding reputation for transforming the lives of all those affected by childhood trauma. Our belief is that we offer something special and we hope that you will want to become an integral part of it.

In December 2018 The Mulberry Bush took over the running of The Planned Environment Therapy Archives and Special Collections; over 500 collections, alongside the School’s own archive, focussing on the history of therapeutic communities and progressive education. We would love to make the most of our archive and learn from it to inform current practice within the School.

As the Mulberry Bush Project Archivist, you will use your excellent attention to detail to catalogue The Mulberry Bush Archive to international standards of archival description. You will be a valued member of the team based at the Planned Environment Therapy Archives and Special Collections at the charity’s Gloucestershire site.

**Project**:
The Mulberry Bush Archive(c.1945 - c.2019) is a partially catalogued, hybrid collection comprising over 400 boxes of physical material (paper, audio-visual, photographic). The project aims to complete the catalogue and improve the storage of children’s care files dating back to 1945, artwork, log books, incident books, marketing material, financial records, photographs, committee minutes and many other different record types. In addition to this there is a large collection of digital photographs. Working in collaboration with the children's key workers and teachers you will use your passion for the School’s history to engage them with the project.

Put simply, we are looking for an archivist who has the energy for physically demanding work, a willingness to understand therapeutic communityprinciples, works accurately within deadlines and is willing to occasionally work in a school setting. We are also looking for someone with the patience and understanding needed to work in a trauma-informed approach to archives. We take the viewpoint that the cataloguing experience required for the role is secondary to personal qualities, as training will be given at every stage of the project. At present we regret that we are unable to offer a fully accessible workspace owing to the building in which the collection is housed; the role requires the use of stairs and heavy lifting.

**Application Process**:
**Interview date: Mon 17th April 2023**

**Open days: Wed 8th and Thu 9th March 2023, by appointment only**

The Mulberry Bush School is an equal opportunities employer and committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Applicants must be able to provide evidence of having the right to live and work in the UK and be prepared to undertake a criminal background check by the DBS.

**Job Types**: Part-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 18 months
Part-time hours: 40 per week

**Salary**: £30,233.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Free parking
- Gym membership
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
- Wellness programme

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: One location

Application deadline: 26/03/2023
Expected start date: 01/06/2023