Join a world-class hospital arts team that's using creativity to shape the future of hospital care and transform the daily experience of staff and patients.

This is a 5-month fixed term position, whilst the Head of Arts is on maternity leave. The successful candidate will work with the interim joint Head of Arts to deliver a variety of Creative Health projects.

CUH Arts

Shaping Care through Creativity

CUH Arts is Cambridge University Hospitals' arts-in-health programme, dedicated to shaping care through creativity.

We strive to humanise health, inspire hope and promote wellbeing by providing excellent creative and cultural opportunities for its patients, staff, visitors and wider community.

Embedded within one of the world's leading hospital trusts our diverse, person-centred, multi-disciplinary programme of live, participatory and visual arts is facilitated and managed by a specialist team of arts professionals in collaboration with artists and cultural partners.

Main duties of the job

Join a world-class hospital arts team that's using creativity to shape the future of hospital care and transform the daily experience of staff and patients.

The Arts Producer is a key operational role within the CUH Arts team and will work closely with the interim joint Head of Arts to drive the planning, communications, implementation and evaluation of creative activity that runs through all programming strands. We expect this to include producing creative engagement activity on Major Projects, a variety of Creative Health projects, and activity related to our Year of Dance - a range of programming that celebrates 10 years of our successful Dance for Health programme.

About us

Our Trust

Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke's Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people - patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing 'outstanding' care to our patients and rated 'Good' overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH's values - Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent - are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.

CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people's age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

Please note:- Internal applicants on permanent contracts can only apply for this post as a secondment and must have the approval of your current line manager before applying.

This vacancy will close at midnight on 18th September 2024

Interviews are due to be held on 26th September 2024

Benefits to you

At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.

On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only caf, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.

CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.

Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Arts / Humanities Degree or equivalent
• Evidence of continuous professional development

Desirable

• Project management qualification
• Mental Health Awareness Training

Experience

Essential

• Experience in producing arts projects within community settings
• Experience of managing professional artists
• Demonstrable experience of financial administration and monitoring budgets
• Experience in collecting, monitoring and analysing data to help evaluate and measure impact

Desirable

• Experience delivering expressive arts projects online
• Experience of working on arts projects within healthcare settings
• Experience of delivering creative activities to support co-production.
• Exploration of creative practice/s in relation to your own wellbeing

Knowledge

Essential

• A strong passion for and knowledge of the arts
• A strong understanding of Hospital Arts within the wider field of Arts & Health
• A working understanding of professional support (both clinical and non-clinical) available to NHS staff

Desirable

• Knowledge of professional artists with a practice in expressive arts facilitation, locally and nationally
• Knowledge of other leading examples of creative wellbeing staff programmes in the NHS

Skills

Essential

• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills (including social media)
• A team worker with creative energy, initiative and flexibility
• Able to influence and engage with a diverse range of stakeholders

Desirable

• Media creation & editing skills (audio, film, photo), with experience using both using Mac and PC
• Creative facilitation skills

Additionl Requirements

Essential

• The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent.
• A willingness to work occasional evenings and weekends
• An enthusiasm to advocate for the role of arts within healthcare, both internally and externally

Desirable

• Ability to drive and access to car.

Employer details

Employer name

Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Addenbrookes Hospital-Division Corporate

Hills Road

Cambridge

CB2 0QQ

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