Community Assistant Rosehill: closing date rolling

Rate of Pay:

£1200 for the period (total of 96 hours at £12.50 per hour)

Freelance

10th September 2025 (for training and orientation) to 25th March 2026, with potential for contract renewal.

Rosehill has been running a creative family after-school session in Woodhouse since September 2024. It has become a community where the people who attend play, create and connect with each other. Families can expect a warm welcome, a wide variety of stimulating creative activities, food and warm drinks. To watch our video, clickhere .

We need an assistant to:

• Help the artists to set up the room
• Lay out food for attendees (food hygiene instruction will be given)
• Monitor and welcome arrivals, sign them in, check whether they consent to be in photographs and offer them a hot drink
• Help keep the space safe
• Engage with participants and join in activities
• Take the lead on cleaning up and leaving the venue as we found it at the end of the session
• Doing the food shopping before the session

As this is a dynamic environment, a degree of flexibility is to be expected. This can be a physically demanding role, please ask if you have questions around the level of mobility required.

• Personal and professional development opportunities and access to mentorship
• You will be trained in loose parts play, our play schema methodology, safeguarding and food handling.
• Opportunity to be part of a UCLan research project on family wellbeing, led by Dr Suzanne Wilson.
• Be part of a supportive and friendly team
• Relaxed but professional working environment with supportive colleagues
• Be creative in a rewarding and fun environment
• Be part of a cultural organisation working to improve our area

• Friendly and positive, people skills
• Interest in creative and community projects
• Understanding of/interest in issues faced by families in Whitehaven
• Can-do attitude and willingness to get stuck into jobs that need doing
• Sense of humour
• Current DBS holder, or willing to have a check carried out
• Access to own transport
• Comfortable working with people of a variety of ages and backgrounds

Send a CV or video application introducing yourself and outlining your experience and interest in the role tore . If you have no CV, please send a short, written statement which outlines your experience (professional or voluntary) that you feel is relevant.