Casual Worker - Arts and Wellbeing

Casual work - £15.23 per hour
Cover for 1-2 days per week due to staff absence until end of June 2025.
Shifts are 7 hours per day Monday to Thursday, with Wednesdays requiring the most frequent cover.
Edinburgh based.

Are you passionate about the Arts, and understand the benefits they can have for young people’s wellbeing? 

Are you looking for a role where each day is different and you work with a team of creative people to make a real difference to other people’s lives? 

If so, this role may be the perfect opportunity for you!

About the service

Creative Natives is an art-based project that uses creativity to promote positive mental health and wellbeing with young people aged 12-24 in a safe, support creative studio.  This includes those who have disengaged from school and need additional support, and those who have left school with no positive destination. Many of our attendees have experienced poor mental health due to a number of factors including neurodiversity, gender identity, social anxiety and exclusion, often aggravated by social isolation caused by the pandemic. 

About the post

Our Arts and Wellbeing Keyworkers support young people, and their families, by creating, planning and facilitating a programme of arts/creativity-based activity. They directly support young people to improve their wellbeing and explore their next steps in life, through the medium of creativity in all its forms including art, music, fashion, animation, photography, graphics and web design.
We require casual workers to support our Keyworkers.

About you

You will be experienced in working with young people and have experience or understanding of mental health issues. 

You’ll be interested in art and creativity, and keen to use your excellent relationship-building and communication skills to make ‘small differences’ to improve the wellbeing of others.

While knowledge/experience of working with young people with common issues is beneficial, being passionate about helping young people reach their potential is more important. 

About Us

At Cyrenians we tackle the causes and consequences of homelessness by taking a values-led and relationships-based approach to delivering our services. You can find out more about our organisation and our impact online.

Application Notes

Recruitment for this role is open.
We will review applications as we receive them and get in touch with candidates within 10 working days of receiving an application.
This vacancy opened on 4th April 2025 and will close once we have filled the role.