Jobs

Art Facilitator

Salary: £31,000 per year (1 day a week, pro rata)

Hours: One day per week (Saturdays 9.30-5.30pm) with the possibility of more hours.

Location: Islington, London

Application deadline: 25th March 2025

Start Date: 1st May 2025

About this role:

We have an exciting opportunity for an Arts Facilitator to join our studio team from May 2025. Working with learning disabled and autistic artists, you’ll be supporting them to create artwork in the studio, go on trips and sell their work through exhibitions and our online shop.

You will hold a relevant degree in the arts and have experience working with learning disabled and autistic people.

Duties will include:

• Facilitating art workshops for learning disabled and autistic people.

• Preparing individual plans for artists

• Mentoring and supporting artists to develop their creative skills with the support of volunteers

• Supporting artists to develop positive relationships within the studio

• Monitoring artist development

• Ensuring the health and safety policies and procedures are followed by artists, volunteers and visitors to the studio

• Working with the Artbox team to curate and run exhibitions

• Preparing artwork for the online shop

Person Specification:

• Experience of working with people with learning disabilities and autism

• Relevant degree in the arts

• Experience of working in an education setting

• Ability to support, encourage and develop artists with learning disabilities and autism

• Excellent IT skills

• An understanding of the needs of people with learning disabilities and autism

• An ability to create a calm, friendly and welcoming environment

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a small staff team.

• An understanding of safeguarding

• The right to work in the UK

About the organisation:

Artbox London is a charity and social enterprise, based in Islington, that aims to improve the wellbeing and inclusion of people with learning disabilities and autism by engaging them in art. Our objectives are to develop their creative and life skills, provide opportunities to make and meet friends and reduce isolation and loneliness, improve their confidence and self-esteem, and give them the chance to earn some money from their skills and creativity.

We also aim to raise the visibility of learning disabled and autistic people in the community, and to raise the profile of their artwork in the wider art world. We achieve these goals by providing a range of art workshops from our studio in Islington, and by providing trips to galleries and museums in the local area and in central London. We also hold regular exhibitions at our studio and at least one per year. Artwork is sold at exhibitions and throughout the year via our online shop, and profits are split with the artists so they receive some income.

All our posts are subject to an Enhanced DBS disclosure as well as a full employment history and employment references. We are committed to equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Interviews to be held on the 1st and 2nd April either via video call or in person.