Mortal Fools is recruiting Young People’s Artistic Practitioners (theatre, drama and related artforms)
This is an exciting chance to join our skilled team at a moment of big growth and opportunity.
Application Deadline: Monday 13th Oct, 9am
Note: if this opportunity isn’t for you, but you know a practitioner who may be interested – click here to download and share our one-page summary with them.
Join our team as a Young People’s Artistic Practitioner!
We are looking for practitioners to run weekly sessions for young people in Ashington, contributing to artistic projects such as performances.
We have fixed-term projects and roles starting from Jan 2026.
Our weekly sessions offer a safe, consistent creative space where children and young people with no/limited access to the arts, can build trusting relationships with practitioners and receive long-term support for their development.
Many of our beneficiaries are neurodivergent, LGBTQIA+, have social, emotional & mental health (SEMH) needs, and/or have experience of socio-economic deprivation. Some of our beneficiaries are also care-experienced, young carers, and/or from the global majority.
Our practitioners work collaboratively amongst a skilled team of fellow Artist Practitioners, Producers, a Production Manager and freelance artists & technicians. We also involve our practitioners in our wider company development work and provide training, DBS checks and other benefits.
We invite applications from people who are:
We have fixed-term projects and roles starting from Jan 2026.
Our weekly sessions offer a safe, consistent creative space where children and young people with no/limited access to the arts, can build trusting relationships with practitioners and receive long-term support for their development.
Many of our beneficiaries are neurodivergent, LGBTQIA+, have social, emotional & mental health (SEMH) needs, and/or have experience of socio-economic deprivation. Some of our beneficiaries are also care-experienced, young carers, and/or from the global majority.
Our practitioners work collaboratively amongst a skilled team of fellow Artist Practitioners, Producers, a Production Manager and freelance artists & technicians. We also involve our practitioners in our wider company development work and provide training, DBS checks and other benefits.
We invite applications from people who are:
- Skilled in leading drama workshops and a drama-based devising / co-creation process with children and young people
- Passionate about providing children and young people with equitable access to theatre, drama and the arts.
- Confident supporting young people’s wellbeing, building rapport and responding to their needs.
Key Information
- Role: Young People’s Artistic Sessional Practitioner (theatre, drama and related artforms)
- Rate of Pay: £17.85 per hour paid monthly (plus holiday pay). Monthly pay is calculated as an average of the total hours to be worked across the project duration.
- Contract: Employed, fixed-term contracts, 6-16 hours per week to be agreed.
- Start Date: January 2026 onwards
- Meet Mortal Fools Taster Session - A practical taster session in our facilitation and artistic practice (this is optional): Monday 22nd Sept, 6-8pm - Dance City – Click here to sign up for the meet Mortal Fools taster session
- Application deadline: Monday 13th Oct, 9am
To Apply
Download our Practitioner Recruitment Pack. Read this pack thoroughly, it is designed to help with your application.
You can download a plain text version of the Practitioner Recruitment Pack by clicking here.
When you’re ready to pull an application together, download and complete the following documents: Send the completed documents in Word document format (not PDF), as separate attachments with the email subject 'Application: Young People’s Artistic Sessional Practitioner’ to [email protected]
We work with children and young people that have a range of needs and/or lived experiences, and we welcome applications from people who fulfil the job description and whose needs and/or lived experiences reflect those of our beneficiaries.
Additional Application Information:
You can download a plain text version of the Practitioner Recruitment Pack by clicking here.
When you’re ready to pull an application together, download and complete the following documents: Send the completed documents in Word document format (not PDF), as separate attachments with the email subject 'Application: Young People’s Artistic Sessional Practitioner’ to [email protected]
We work with children and young people that have a range of needs and/or lived experiences, and we welcome applications from people who fulfil the job description and whose needs and/or lived experiences reflect those of our beneficiaries.
Additional Application Information:
- If you prefer, you can complete Section G of your application form via video submission instead.
- If you’d like to request the application pack in a different format, please email [email protected]
- If you have any general questions, queries, or feedback (including anything connected to accessibility or inclusion), please email [email protected] or call 0191 580 1250.
- If you’d like an informal conversation about this role with our Creative Producer Helen Ferguson, you can request this by emailing [email protected]
