Drama Facilitator at The Twisting Ducks Theatre Company
Contract Type: Permanent
Role Type: Employment
Hours: Part time
Application deadline:
Based: Northumberland
Salary: £ Per Hour
Salary Type: Fixed Salary
Location: Regionwide
Role description: Manager
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.
The Role
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.
Hours
Mondays and Wednesdays, 6.5 hours per day (Flexible applications are considered, you can apply to work one or both days please specify in your application).
Locations
Mondays - Alnwick Playhouse, Alnwick
Wednesdays - Theatre Royal, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Rate: £19.82 per hour
Term: Permanent
Annual Leave: 7 weeks pro rata (inclusive of bank holidays)
Start Date: 19th October 2026
Key responsibilities:
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Plan and facilitate weekly drama sessions with adults with learning disabilities and autistic adults
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Support people with learning disabilities and autistic people to contribute their ideas and develop their skills
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Support groups to explore a range of performance mediums
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Identify individual goals that participants want to achieve, and provide effective, person-centred support to help them achieve these goals
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Prepare appropriate resources to meet group members participation and development needs
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Provide a structured framework to enable groups to devise and rehearse their own original performances
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Communicate effectively with Drama Workers (staff supporting group sessions), and delegate tasks to ensure outcomes-focussed session delivery.
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Plan and coordinate performance events to showcase the groups’ work
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Develop and maintain accurate records and supporting documents (e.g., group risk assessments, participant evaluation)
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Communicate effectively with team members, clients and partner organisations to enable smooth running of projects
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Develop positive relationships with key stakeholders and other arts/culture organisations.
Please Note: This role requires satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) clearance prior to appointment.
Essential skills/experience
- 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.
Deadline: 3rd September 2026
How to Apply
Email your CV and a covering letter to jobs@thetwistingducks.co.uk. If you prefer to apply for just one of the available days, please specify this in your covering letter.
We particularly welcome applications from ethnically minoritised communities.
For full job description/person specification, visit our website: https://www.thetwistingducks.co.uk/jobs
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