LB RICHMOND UPON THAMES & LB WANDSWORTH
Arts & Culture Officer (Creative Health)
£32,955 – £39,933 per annum pro-rata
Fixed Term until end of June 2026
Part Time (18 hours)
Wandsworth
Hybrid, with Wednesdays working from Wandsworth Town Hall
Immediate Start
Are you an adaptable professional with experience of commissioning, delivering or evaluating creative health programmes?
We are so excited that Wandsworth has been chosen by the Mayor of London to be London Borough of Culture 2025. By sharing experiences and connecting, we believe culture has the power to make us all feel better.We want to start a movement across the Capital where everyone recognises that culture has the power to heal – a place where better health outcomes are achieved through the healing, inspirational power of culture and the arts.
About the role
As a Creative Health Officer, you will work with the award-winning Arts & Culture Service to develop, deliver and monitor a range of ambitious creative health programmes as part of our London Borough of Culture year.
You will work on creative health projects ranging from sector development and training opportunities to programme commissioning, grants support and advocacy work to place Wandsworth at the forefront of London as a Creative Health capital city.You will be working with artists, community groups, health professionals and an array of Council departments towards one common goal: reduce health inequalities through innovative and targeted creative health programmes, whether as part of the social prescribing framework, in schools or in the community.
One of your main programmes of activity will be Culturally Mindful, a sector development programme that looks to address the lack of diverse culturally appropriate social prescribing offer and representation within Wandsworth’s creative health sector, with a large majority of practitioners, leaders and beneficiaries being white British despite Wandsworth’s Black, Asian and ethnically diverse communities representing 32.2% of the population (Census 2021).
Essential Qualifications, Skills and Experience
- Excellent project management
and organisational skills (project management qualification is not required but experience is essential). - Understanding of the health system and social determinants of health in the UK.
- Experience of delivering cultural projects led by practitioners from the Global Majority (i.e. African, Arab, Asian, Caribbean, Chinese), including disabled practitioners.
- Strong communications skills, particularly in partnership working with artists and participants from diverse cultures and organisations from different sectors.
- Computer literacy, with working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams.
- Fundraising experience would be a bonus.
Working conditions
Depending on service needs, office working will be required to meet project demands, and this may vary week to week.Typically, the successful candidate will be able to choose their working hours, with a minimum of 1 day office based (every Wednesday) and the remaining hours home or office working at their convenience. This might include working in project spaces across the borough.Some evening and weekend work will be required, for which you will accrue Time Off in Lieu (TOIL).
Timeline
25 Oct 2024, 12pm-1pm Q&A session about the vacancy .
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A recording of the Q&A session (with captions) will be available on our website from 29 Oct 2024.
Closing Date: 3 Nov 2024.
Shortlisting Date
:w/c 4 Nov 2024.
Interview Date:
13-15 Nov 2024 (preferably in person, but online is possible too)
Richmond & Wandsworth Better Service Partnership are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone.We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences, recognising that employees from a variety of backgrounds bring important and positive contributions to the Councils and can improve the way we deliver services.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer. If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, please let us know.
We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.Some posts may be exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to these posts will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
We offer a wide range of benefits designed to attract, develop, and reward our employees such as 40 days annual leave (including Bank Holidays), flexible working and a generous pension plan.
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Applications will be anonymised.
Help us to deliver a year to remember, using the power of culture to transform lives, spark joy, connect people and improve wellbeing – let’s do this together!
