Arts & Culture Officer (Creative Health) - London Borough of Culture

at  Richmond and Wandsworth Councils

ARE YOU AN ADAPTABLE PROFESSIONAL WITH EXPERIENCE OF COMMISSIONING, DELIVERING OR EVALUATING CREATIVE HEALTH PROGRAMMES?

We are so excited that Wandsworth has been chosen by the Mayor of London to be London Borough of Culture 2025. By sharing experiences and connecting, we believe culture has the power to make us all feel better. We want to start a movement across the Capital where everyone recognises that culture has the power to heal - a place where better health outcomes are achieved through the healing, inspirational power of culture and the arts.

ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Excellent project management and organisational skills (project management qualification is not required but experience is essential).
• Understanding of the health system and social determinants of health in the UK.
• Experience of delivering cultural projects led by practitioners from the Global Majority (i.e. African, Arab, Asian, Caribbean, Chinese), including disabled practitioners.
• Strong communications skills, particularly in partnership working with artists and participants from diverse cultures and organisations from different sectors.
• Computer literacy, with working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams.
• Fundraising experience would be a bonus.

WE ARE PROUD TO BE A DISABILITY CONFIDENT EMPLOYER. IF YOU REQUIRE ANY REASONABLE ADJUSTMENTS THROUGHOUT THE RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION PROCESS, PLEASE LET US KNOW.

We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Some posts may be exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to these posts will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
We offer a wide range of benefits designed to attract, develop, and reward our employees such as 40 days annual leave (including Bank Holidays), flexible working and a generous pension plan.
If you have any accessibility requirements, require any other reasonable adjustments, or require the role information in a different format, please contact us on Recruitment@richmondandwandsworth.gov.uk.
Applications will be anonymised.

As a Creative Health Officer, you will work with the award-winning Arts & Culture Service to develop, deliver and monitor a range of ambitious creative health programmes as part of our London Borough of Culture year.
You will work on creative health projects ranging from sector development and training opportunities to programme commissioning, grants support and advocacy work to place Wandsworth at the forefront of London as a Creative Health capital city. You will be working with artists, community groups, health professionals and an array of Council departments towards one common goal: reduce health inequalities through innovative and targeted creative health programmes, whether as part of the social prescribing framework, in schools or in the community.
One of your main programmes of activity will be Culturally Mindful, a sector development programme that looks to address the lack of diverse culturally appropriate social prescribing offer and representation within Wandsworth’s creative health sector, with a large majority of practitioners, leaders and beneficiaries being white British despite Wandsworth’s Black, Asian and ethnically diverse communities representing 32.2% of the population (Census 2021).