Community Arts Engagement Manager - #2107850

Community Arts Engagement Manager

London, W2 (with hybrid working and travel between hospital sites in West London)

About Us

We’re Imperial Health Charity, an organisation that helps our hospitals do more through grants, arts, volunteering, and fundraising. We support the five hospitals of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust: Charing Cross, Hammersmith, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea, St Mary’s, and the Western Eye.

We are now looking for a Community Arts Engagement Manager to join us on a full-time, permanent basis, working 35 hours per week.

The Benefits

- Salary of £41,680 - £46,068 per annum (the starting salary for this role is £41,680, with the potential to progress based on annually reviewed performance)

- 25 days’ holiday per year plus bank holidays

- An extra day’s holiday to be taken one week either side of your birthday

- Pension (with employer contributions of 10%)

- Sick pay

- Support towards healthcare costs, including eye tests and dental, and access to mental health support through counselling

- Additional access to gym discounts

- Interest-free season ticket loan

- Life assurance

- Staff arts club, including free entry to London galleries

- Access to a range of high street and online discounts

This is a meaningful opportunity for an experienced community arts professional with strong partnership-building skills and an understanding of arts and health initiatives to join our compassionate organisation.

You’ll have the chance to use creativity as a powerful tool for connection, confidence and wellbeing, developing programmes that support patients, NHS staff and local communities through some of life’s most challenging moments.

From helping people reconnect after discharge to reducing isolation and bringing communities together, your work will create experiences that can have a lasting impact.

What’s more, with hybrid working, strong support for your wellbeing and access to London’s cultural landscape through the Staff Arts Club, this is a role where your creativity can flourish while improving lives.

So, if you’re ready to bring people together through the arts and help make healthcare experiences more human, hopeful and connected, read on and apply today.

The Role

As a Community Arts Engagement Manager, you will develop and deliver creative community programmes that improve health and wellbeing for patients, NHS staff and local communities.

You will lead the development and delivery of innovative arts projects that address key population health priorities, working closely with clinical teams, service users and community partners.

Alongside managing the Beyond Our Walls programme, which curates innovative creative activities for patients at discharge, patients living with chronic conditions, and the wider north-west London community, you will build strategic partnerships with arts, cultural and community organisations and support the Staff Arts Club.

Additionally, you will:

- Develop funding bids and contribute to funding reports

- Support and mentor freelance artist facilitators

- Work with colleagues to evaluate programme impact and implement best practice

- Contribute to website content and wider print and digital communications

- Assist with the preparation and delivery of public events

About You

To be considered as our Community Arts Engagement Manager, you will need:

- Experience developing arts projects within a community setting

- Proven experience working in an inclusive, community-centred role

- Experience developing partnerships

- An understanding of arts and health initiatives

- Knowledge of contemporary socially engaged arts practice

- An understanding of the NHS and issues around healthcare

- An understanding of key issues affecting communities, particularly social isolation, unemployment, and discrimination

- The ability to use technology in all aspects of work, including designing resources

- High standards of literacy

- Empathy for working within a hospital environment

- A BA degree or equivalent in a relevant subject or equivalent working experience

All job offers with Imperial Health Charity are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks and references. The DBS check level required for this role is standard (with adult and child workforce).

Applications for this position will close on Sunday 2nd August at 11:30pm.

The first round of interviews is scheduled to take place on Friday 14th August.

Other organisations may call this role Arts Engagement Manager, Community Engagement Manager, Arts Programme Manager, Community Arts Manager, Community Programme Manager, Community Partnerships Manager, or Creative Programme Manager.

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