Creative & Wellbeing Facilitator

**Creative & Wellbeing Facilitator**

**Job Description and Person Specification**

**Job Title**:Creative & Wellbeing Facilitator

**Hours**: 22.5 hours per week

**Grading and Salary**:NJC Scale 5 Spine Point fte £23,953 (£14,372 pro rata based on 22.5 hours per week) + 5% employers pension contribution

**Accountable to**: Creative and Wellbeing Projects Manager and Strategic Director

**Work days**:Agreed with successful applicant and will include Mondays & Thursdays

**Location**: Various locations including Skipton, Glusburn, Settle, Grassington and Bentham. Flexible working is possible with discussion.

**Key relationships**: Creative & Wellbeing Projects Manager, Operations Manager, Strategic Director Keyworker

(North Craven), Keyworker (South Craven), staff team, freelance artists, volunteers, service users, partner organisations

**Background to Pioneer**

Pioneer Projects (Celebratory Arts) is a wellbeing focused creative arts organisation based in Bentham but operating across the Craven District with over 25 years’ experience supporting those at risk from poor mental health. Our aim is to promote positive mental health and provide better life chances for these individuals by using the power of creative engagement to improve wellbeing, foster inclusion, empower choice, build confidence, increase skills, and promote progression into volunteering, education, employment, or meaningful community activity. We currently run three principal delivery programmes for Mental Health, Dementia, and Community Arts.

**Key Responsibilities**

This is a new creative and wellbeing focused role at Pioneer. It sits underneath the Creative & Wellbeing Projects

Manager who has overall responsibility for managing our delivery programme. It will sit alongside an established permanent team of two Keyworkers (who facilitate participant engagement and provide wellbeing and skills assessments, goal setting, and progression support) and a sessional team of Creative Leads (who deliver wellbeing focused creative activity).

The Creative Facilitator position expands on the sessional Creative Lead roles by introducing a permanent position with increased **creative** responsibilities for project co-ordination across a number of groups, design and delivery of activities. This role will support the Creative and Wellbeing Manager in the organisation of related exhibitions and celebration events and also provides holiday and sickness cover when needed for other Creative Leads. As such it will require some co-ordination of the sessional Creative Lead team under the guidance of the Creative & Wellbeing

Projects Manager. The role will also support the Keyworker team by providing additional **facilitation** support around caseload management, engagement, assessments, and goal setting for those participating in activity but not requiring progression support. As a member of the permanent staff team, the Creative Facilitator will, under guidance from the Creative & Wellbeing Projects Manager, also provide a crucial link between the Creative and Keyworker teams.

The role will be split between delivery locations in both North and South Craven and will initially involve activity in Bentham, Settle, Skipton and Glusburn.

**Main Duties**

**Creative Lead**
- Delivering an inspiring range of creative group sessions in line with the requirements of Pioneer’s delivery programmes.
- Co-ordinating the delivery of groups of sessions within individual programmes (in the first instance this is likely to be the Mental Health Programme).
- Supporting the Creative & Wellbeing Projects Manager in the co-ordination of a regular annual cycle of exhibitions and events related celebrating participant and group activity.
- Providing participant and groups materials to the Operations and Creative & Wellbeing Projects Managers for use in Pioneer’s promotional channels including social media.
- Providing cover to sessional Creative Leads and leading groups in their absence.
- Supporting cultural and learning visits to other creative and wellbeing focused organisations.
- Supporting the Creative and Wellbeing Projects Manager in the development of Pioneer’s Creative Delivery

Programmes through contributing innovative ideas for new activities and creative partnerships.
- Line managing community volunteers and student work placements to help deliver creative groups.

**Facilitation**
- Supporting a case load of participants to design, implement and understand a simple personal engagement and wellbeing plan through initial assessment, goal setting, twice yearly reviews, and ongoing pastoral support.
- Supporting participants to engage with the Creative Programmes and groups.
- Supporting participants to volunteer in the delivery of the Creative Programme and groups.
- Supporting participants on their caseload to connect with other appropriate support (including from Keyworkers and the other Creative and Wellbeing Facilitators) and opportunities (such a