Job summary
- Main area
- Admin
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 249-6300235
- Employer
- Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Great Western Hospital
- Town
- Swindon
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
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Arts Co-ordinator
NHS AfC: Band 7
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a unique organisation, serving as the sole integrated provider in the Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon, and Wiltshire system. Our scope extends beyond boundaries as we oversee adult community services in Swindon and provide acute care from the Great Western Hospital.
Our 5,500 staff have 1.2m patient contacts a year, with 13,000 operations carried out in our Theatres, around 4,000 babies born, and our emergency attendances are now well over 100,000 per year. Those numbers only tell part of our story about what an exciting time it is to join Great Western Hospitals.
We are cultivating a culture that fosters our ambitions, prioritising equality, diversion, inclusion, wellbeing, and leadership. We aim to create an environment where every member of our team can truly thrive.
The Trust is a Disability Confident Employer; all applicants who have a disability can opt to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme, which means that, providing they meet the minimum essential criteria for the post, they will be offered an interview. We are also proudly accredited as a Veteran Aware organisation and have signed The Armed Forces Covenant.
If we receive a high volume of applications, we may close adverts prior to the published closing date. Therefore, we advise you to complete and submit your application as soon as possible.
Job overview
The Great Western Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is looking for someone to lead on the development of an Arts Strategy that will engage and assist staff and patients.
The hospital and other Trust properties have some great spaces that could be used creatively to benefit all service users, and this role will assist the Trust with unlocking this potential.
Main duties of the job
The role will be responsible for developing a strategy for promoting and engaging with ‘the arts’ throughout Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The strategy will be for the benefit of patients and staff welfare.
The successful post holder will be able to work with all staff and patients across the organisation to develop the strategy. They will have experience and knowledge of delivering an Arts programme including securing funding from internal and external sources.
Working for our organisation
Our STAR values are at the heart of everything we do. You can expect to see them in the way we act and the way we treat each other. Our values make us who we are. We will expect your values and behaviours to reflect the STAR Values of the organisation:
Service We will put our patients first
Teamwork We will work together
Ambition We will aspire to provide the best service
Respect We will act with integrity
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. The post holder will develop a Trust wide arts strategy including evaluation tools that will form a framework for supporting patients and staff wellbeing and bidding for external funding.
2. The post holder will write the necessary policies and procedures to allow art to flourish and become more relevant to all Trust stakeholders.
3. The post holder will ensure that hospital’s own artwork, and loan collections are maintained and funding is identified.
4. To work with the Charity’s fundraising team to develop approaches to attract funds for participatory programmes for children, young people and adult patients Trust wide.
5. To manage the arts schedule and movement of art work across the site, liaise with artists, ensure that external contractors comply with Trust standards.
6. Working with our PFI providers to ensure that art is displayed appropriately.
7. To deliver, manage and champion the integration of art into the Trust Capital Projects, to help achieve environments that incorporate art works and new design where appropriate.
8. To manage the auditing of the art collection.
9. To manage, edit and produce content for the intra and internet to ensure it is up-to-date and relevant to patients, staff and external partners.
10. To liaise with the Charity’s fund raising team to assist with securing charitable funds for participatory arts programmes.
11. To work independently to gather and manipulate complex data to provide monthly reports as required.
12. To convene and Chair regular meetings of the Hospitals Arts Committee, ensuring members receive project updates.
13. To ensure the Hospital Arts Committee is working collaboratively with all hospital users and fully engaging the local communities.
14. To maintain an external focus, networking with leading arts organisations and potential donors of artworks.
15. To work with other Trusts in the AHA to determine and share best practices.
16. To work alongside the lifecycle replacement team and the EfM teams to ensure that opportunities to install art are considered across the Trust – especially when easy no cost options are available.
17. To keep abreast of developments in the health and wellbeing sector and the arts.
18. This job description is not an exhaustive document but reflects the current position. Details and emphasis may change in line with service needs after consultation with the post holder.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Art/design, History of Art, Curatorial subject or design to degree level
Desirable criteria
- Management post-graduate qualification or equivalent level of experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- Collection care and management
- Experience of installation of artworks within a busy clinical environment
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Project Management experience
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with vulnerable audiences
- Experience of creative participatory programming within the clinical sector
- Curating projects within the public sector
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Management of budgets and quarterly reporting
- Ability to work proactively with a wide range of partners and representatives internally and externally
- Ability to manage and supervise freelance staff and volunteers
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working alongside Capital Projects teams/Estates and Faciltities teams to deliver art and design to complement the clinical environment
- Experience of presenting and reporting to committees and Trustees
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rachel Rablen
- Job title
- Project Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01793 604190
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