Drama Facilitator

As a Drama Facilitator with The Twisting Ducks Theatre Company, you will plan and deliver weekly drama sessions for adults with a learning disability and autistic adults. You will provide person-centred support to help participants build skills, achieve individual goals, and devise and perform their own original theatre productions.,

• Plan and facilitate weekly drama sessions with adults with learning disabilities and autistic adults
• Support people with learning disabilities and autistic people to contribute their ideas and develop their skills
• Support groups to explore a range of performance mediums
• Identify individual goals that participants want to achieve, and provide effective, person-centred support to help them achieve these goals
• Prepare appropriate resources to meet group members participation and development needs
• Provide a structured framework to enable groups to devise and rehearse their own original performances
• Communicate effectively with Drama Workers (staff supporting group sessions), and delegate tasks to ensure outcomes-focussed session delivery.
• Plan and coordinate performance events to showcase the groups' work
• Develop and maintain accurate records and supporting documents (e.g., group risk assessments, participant evaluation)
• Communicate effectively with team members, clients and partner organisations to enable smooth running of projects
• Develop positive relationships with key stakeholders and other arts/culture organisations.
  
  The Twisting Ducks Theatre Company is looking for a Part-Time Drama Facilitator to support people with a learning disability and autistic people to develop their drama skills, confidence, and creativity. This role is ideal for someone passionate about performing arts, inclusion, and person-centred practice, who wants to make a meaningful impact through weekly sessions and original live performance opportunities., Experience facilitating drama sessions with learning disability and/or autistic groups.
• Excellent organisation and time-management skills, with ability to work to project deadlines.
• Demonstrable experience of performing arts project management.
• Creative problem solver.
• Ability to support individuals to achieve outcomes through using person-centred approaches.
• Excellent communicator, able to adapt their approach to meet different communication needs.
• A commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.
• Strong IT skills.