Job Summary
Qualified therapist with artistic practice needed for a weekly project from January 21st to March 8th.
Job Description
We are currently recruiting for an artist-therapist to work on our new East London Youth Troupe project from 21st January to 29th March 2025.
This unique role within Theatre Troupe's practice involves being an artist and arts practitioner first, leading our art-based activities, including our art drop-in, and providing guidance and supervision for volunteers. The artist-therapist will also offer expertise should a child find themselves in crisis, enabling us to work with the most vulnerable and dysregulated children.
We are looking for an inspirational, compassionate UKCP, BACP, or HCPC qualified therapist who is also a visual artist and ideally has experience in delivering community arts workshops. This role is not suitable for drama therapists.
Workshops will be based at Queen Mary University London's Mile End campus.
Job Requirements
You will need to be available for ten Wednesday workshops from 3.30-6pm and for online supervision for volunteers once a week, likely on Wednesday evenings.
Training in our research-focused Theatre Troupe Model will be provided as part of your contract.
The fee for the contract is £1000 inclusive.
Please read our recruitment pack on our website and download and return the application form if you'd like to apply.
Theatre Troupe is a theatre-arts organisation that works with young people who have experienced trauma and have complex mental health problems as a result. We demonstrate the power of theatre in changing lives. Through mentoring and artistic work, children can heal and move on to brighter futures. Our work is research-based and trauma-informed, grounded in attachment theory and theories of attunement.
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