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Freelance Play / Programme Facilitators, Unique Voice CIC

  •  South West
  •  Â£25k-30k (pro rata)
  •  Part time
  •  Closes August 31, 2025
  •  Megan Taylor
  •  meg@uniquevoice.org
  • #Charity

Description

Job Summary

We are looking for candidates to join our team of creative, enthusiastic, professional and caring freelance workers with an interest in facilitation and who are available to work at various levels of responsibility throughout term and holiday time.

Job Description

BE PART OF A PASSIONATE TEAM TO CREATE AND FOSTER A NURTURING AND CREATIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR YOUNG PEOPLE TO THRIVE.

We welcome applications from candidates who have:

  • Experience of working with children or young people
  • Ability to build an authentic rapport with children and young people
  • Ability to empathise with the different needs and concerns of children and young people
  • Are engaging, fun and imaginative
  • Are flexible, reliable, punctual and are able to work effectively within a team
  • A passion for using the creative arts
  • Have an Enhanced DBS certificate registered on the Update Service or willing to undertake a new Enhanced DBS Check and register with the Update Service. Unique Voice is approved to process this on your behalf (charges will apply)
  • Awareness of safeguarding
  • Willingness to carry out company policies, in particular with regard to safeguarding and child protection
  • Willing to regularly travel to locations within Bristol / South Glos (we occasionally travel to venues in other parts of the country and you will have the option whether or not to accept)
  • Are willing to work as a self-employed facilitator and be responsible for your own declaration to HMRC

Unique Voice are ACE Ambassadors and we would be particularly interested in hearing from people who have experience using trauma informed approaches. We also encourage applications from people with lived experience of the subject matters we explore within our programmes.

We want to focus on building a diverse team of freelancers to be representative of the communities we work within; in order to do this, we are particularly keen to hear from male applicants (or applicants identifying as male) as well as applicants from Black and Minority Ethnic backgrounds.

Job Requirements

Essential

  • Experience of working with children or young people

Desirable

  • Paediatric First Aid
  • Safeguarding / Trauma Informed Training
  • Food Hygiene Certificate (holiday programmes & after school clubs)

Job Responsibilities

Please review our Freelance Facilitator Job Overview for full details on our Freelance opportunities and responsibilities for different roles available.

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How to Apply

Please apply online using the APPLY NOW link.

All areas of the form should be completed in full in order to comply with our safer recruitment policy. If you are shortlisted for interview, you will be required to complete a declaration with regard to criminal convictions.

Recruitment Process

Recruitment into our freelance team in ongoing, and we review applications as we received them. If you have made a successful application we will invite you to join our next interview session with available spaces.

We host in-person interviews on the First Thursday of every month, which include a group session where we ask all applicants to come prepared with an workshop activity or game to be shared, alongside a short interview with one of the development team.

If you wish to receive this information in an alternative format or discuss this vacancy in more detail, please get in touch.

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