Creative Practitioner X 2 - Aberdeen, United Kingdom - AVENUE

AVENUE
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Aberdeen, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Description

Creative Practitioner x 2

Location:
Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire (ability to travel across Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire as required)


Hours:
Part-time, hours per week - negotiable


Contract:
Fixed term, 3 years


Salary:
£25,143 - £26,711 per annum, pro rata (dependant on experience)


Job Description and Person Specification

JOB DESCRIPTION

AVENUE:


Avenue is a charity, based in Aberdeen, that provides support to families and individuals across the North East of Scotland, with a focus on relationships, wellbeing and children.

We offer a range of services to encourage personal growth, strengthen relationships, promote family wellbeing, support children and enable healthy environments for all.

We are working towards a world in which happy, healthy people enjoy harmonious and respectful interactions in all aspects of their lives.


We are thrilled to have received funding for a new 3-year project delivering creative engagements to young people (aged 10 to 25) that will enable them to explore positive frameworks for relationships in their personal lives.

We are looking for Creative Practitioners with an understanding of therapy
- and trauma
- informed delivery, and experience of working with groups and individuals to take this exciting project forward.


VALUES:


  • Effectiveness
  • Integrity
  • Respect
  • Credibility
  • Innovation
  • Independence

AIMS:


To develop and deliver group and individual creative engagements to young people and parents/ carers to enable the exploration of positive frameworks for relationships in their personal lives.


To act as part of Avenue's team, supporting service development in response to the changing environment and the needs of the people who use our services.


MAIN DUTIES:


  • To share your creative expertise with groups and individuals.
  • To deliver enjoyable, trauma
- and therapy-informed creative engagements that enable young people to explore positive frameworks for relationships.

  • To support young people to deliver creative workshops to their families, sharing their learning.
  • To support young people to celebrate their creative activities (eg through exhibitions, events, publications).
  • To deliver engagements to young people's parents/ carers to increase their understanding of positive relationships.
  • To work collaboratively with the project team, developing the project in order to achieve required outcomes within budgetary and timescale restraints.
  • To provide leadership and support as necessary to young people involved in project delivery.
  • To build positive and productive working relationships with colleagues within Avenue, and in partner agencies and organisations, acting as an ambassador for the aims and objectives of this project and Avenue.
  • To deliver personcentred, rightsrespecting responses that build a relationship of trust and respect with individuals and support positive mental health and wellbeing. Avenue is committed to being an active participant in delivering the transformational work of the Promise.
  • To maintain a focus on positive outcomes, remaining responsive to the needs of the people using our service throughout their engagement with Avenue. This might involve (eg) using a range of techniques, liaising with colleagues and exploring other options where necessary.
  • To be available for inperson working, in Avenue's base and across community venues, and willing to travel to engage with young people and their families
  • To maintain accurate and uptodate records on Avenue systems in a timely manner according to the standards laid out by Avenue.
  • To work within Avenue's risk assessment frameworks, taking personal responsibility to ensure that all people who use the service do so safely.
  • To manage a wide and varied caseload, prioritising appropriately and responding to the individual needs of the people who use Avenue's services.
  • To ensure compliance with Avenue's processes, policies and procedures, in particular Data Protection, Confidentiality, Safeguarding and Child Protection, Equality and Diversity, and Professional Boundaries.
  • To undertake any other reasonable duties, as requested by your line manager.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

ESSENTIAL

  • Demonstrably skilled Creative Practitioner.
  • Have completed, or be willing to complete, an ARTiculate training course (or similar).
  • Experience in delivering group creative engagements to young people (aged 10 to 25) and adults, particularly with vulnerable people.
  • Experience in delivering individual creative engagements to young people (aged 10 to 25) and adults, particularly with vulnerable people.
  • Demonstrable understanding of mental health, and the power of creativity in maintaining positive wellbeing.
  • Demonstrable understanding of relational practice, and the importance of positive relationships in personal development and wellbeing.
  • Demonstrable strong communication skills

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