Rate of Pay:
£1200 for the period (total of 96 hours at £12.50 per hour)
Contract type:
Freelance
Start date
10th September 2025 (for training and orientation) to 25th March 2026, with potential for contract renewal.
Description of Role
Rosehill has been running a creative family after-school session in Woodhouse since September 2024. It has become a community where the people who attend play, create and connect with each other. Families can expect a warm welcome, a wide variety of stimulating creative activities, food and warm drinks. To watch our video, clickhere .
We need an assistant to:
- Help the artists to set up the room
- Lay out food for attendees (food hygiene instruction will be given)
- Monitor and welcome arrivals, sign them in, check whether they consent to be in photographs and offer them a hot drink
- Help keep the space safe
- Engage with participants and join in activities
- Take the lead on cleaning up and leaving the venue as we found it at the end of the session
- Doing the food shopping before the session
As this is a dynamic environment, a degree of flexibility is to be expected. This can be a physically demanding role, please ask if you have questions around the level of mobility required.
Benefits of working with us
- Personal and professional development opportunities and access to mentorship
- You will be trained in loose parts play, our play schema methodology, safeguarding and food handling.
- Opportunity to be part of a UCLan research project on family wellbeing, led by Dr Suzanne Wilson.
- Be part of a supportive and friendly team
- Relaxed but professional working environment with supportive colleagues
- Be creative in a rewarding and fun environment
- Be part of a cultural organisation working to improve our area
Person Specification
- Friendly and positive, people skills
- Interest in creative and community projects
- Understanding of/interest in issues faced by families in Whitehaven
- Can-do attitude and willingness to get stuck into jobs that need doing
- Sense of humour
- Current DBS holder, or willing to have a check carried out
- Access to own transport
- Comfortable working with people of a variety of ages and backgrounds
To Apply
Send a CV or video application introducing yourself and outlining your experience and interest in the role torecruitment@rosehilltheatre.co.uk . If you have no CV, please send a short, written statement which outlines your experience (professional or voluntary) that you feel is relevant.
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