Self-employed Children’s and Youth Theatre Tutor

Self-Employed Children’s and Youth Theatre Tutor

£25 - £55 per workshop (90 minutes). Total compensation per year for full time works out to be approximately £13,000, further details below. Full-time position to start in September with paid training shifts provided from February - July.

Do you want to use your artistic and creative talents to enrich the lives of young people and share the love of Jesus with them? We are looking for someone who is as passionate about performing arts, as they are about growing and nurturing young people’s development.

Bloom Tuition and Education is hiring an experienced Drama Practitioner to run:

- 5 Drama after-school clubs 3:30pm - 5pm weekdays for ages 7-11
- 1 Youth Theatre Academy class 5:30pm -7:30pm for ages 11-18
- 4 Holiday clubs per year as needed

Key roles and responsibilities:

- Working as part of a team committed to providing high quality performing arts training
- Delivering engaging, high-quality performing arts classes
- Interpreting themed lesson plans provided by Bloom and tailoring these to the needs and ability of students in each class
- Engaging students through interactive and creative drama activities
- Assessing pupils' levels and ability to help them develop
- Ensuring the company’s Christian ethos, values, and policies are being implemented
- Delivering assemblies to promote new projects
- Liaising with schools, charities and other interested parties
- Participating in and sometimes leading staff prayer meetings
- Praying with students within sessions
- Undertaking regular CPD in production and pedagogy (including regular observations)
- Work according to the Department for Education Teacher Standards
- Adhere to Bloom and individual school safeguarding policies

Essential qualifications and experience:

- Experience working with children
- Qualifications in Drama/Theatre Studies (A Level or equivalent minimum)
- Evidence of facilitation skills
- Received Safeguarding training within the last 3 years
- Must have an Enhanced DBS check on the update service

Essential Skills:

- Excellent communication
- The ability to reflect and improve on your own work
- Good organisational skills
- Calm under pressure
- Compassion and kindness when helping students with their learning
- The ability to set boundaries and discipline students when necessary
- Valid, clean UK drivers license

Desirable:

- QTS
- Experience working as part of a children’s team in Church
- Completed courses in FGM and Child Protection

Compensation:
Bloom’s sessional rates are based on the number of students in each class: each workshop leader receives a base rate of £25, plus a weekly bonus that reflects the attendance of their lessons. For example, a workshop leader with thirty children on their register earns £55 each time they teach them. Base rates and weekly bonuses are reviewed as part of the yearly appraisal process. Please note that Holiday Club projects are compensated differently using a flat hourly rate of £10-£15 for 45-50 hours of work.

As a self-employed contractor, each team member is responsible for their own tax obligations and should complete a self-assessment for HMRC each year.

Interviews:
About Bloom:
Bloom is a faith-based extra-curricular provider based primarily in church schools, delivering high quality performing arts content in the form of after-school clubs and day-time visits. All of our work is designed to boost the social, emotional and mental health of our young members while engaging in topics found in the DfE’s statutory personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education guidance, as well as its citizenship and relationships education guidance. In this way, we aim to use performing arts as a vehicle to support schools as they develop the whole child in their spiritual, moral, social and cultural character. We call this building children into ‘people of substance.’

At all times our aim is to provide a safe space for kids to be kids based on mutual respect. In a world full of questions, we provide a process filled with learning, laughter, and love, concluding with the product of a fulfilling performance and confident students.

If this sounds like you, please get in touch

**Job Types**: Freelance, Part-time, Full-time

**Salary**: £35.00-£55.00 per hour

Expected hours: 1.5 - 45 per week

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Free parking
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Holidays
- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability

Supplemental pay types:

- Performance bonus

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Trafford, Greater Manchester: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- working with students: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- reference from a Senior Pastor/leader from your Church (preferred)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person