Pyramid of Arts Making It Happen Arts Worker Training

Pyramid of Arts is an arts organisation which promotes individual well-being and social inclusion through active engagement in the arts.

Pyramid of Arts workers draw on over nineteen years' experience of facilitating collaborative arts projects. Projects bring together professional artists, people with severe learning disabilities and associated physical and sensory impairments alongside those in the community who have, or wish to develop, an active involvement in the arts.

Making It Happen is a practical course for arts practitioners working in community settings and is an exciting opportunity for artists from all mediums to explore ways of:

• facilitating creative choices
• communicating ideas
• involving people of all abilities in arts projects
• developing and sustaining long term projects

This part-time modular course is aimed at arts practitioners working with people with learning disabilities in arts projects or college courses in the arts. It is a required training for core arts workers with Pyramid of Arts.

Places are by application and interview. Places are limited to 12 per course.

The next modular course starts in January and will be completed by the end of July 2009.

LOCATION: Leeds city centre.

COURSE FEES: £400. Concessions available for low income/unwaged. Grants may be available for suitably qualified external employees. POA free.

If you are interested then please request an application form by calling 0113 2346040 or email

 

Volunteer and community groups based in Leeds can apply for a grant of up to £900.00

Any small group, community organisation, school or individual can apply for a share of the money, whether it's to pay for a new football kit for your junior football team, to fund extra staffing and training or even to cover the costs of a minibus for your group's annual summer outing!

Please follow this link for further information.

 

Keyring Vacancy

There will soon be a vacancy for a member in the Morley Network and over the next few months there could potentially be 2 vacancies in the Chapeltown Network.

As Keyring strives to have a balance in their networks - priority will be given to female applicants as females are under represented across the networks - this does not mean that we are excluding males from applying.

For more details call 0113 2707775

 

Puberty and Sexuality for Young People with Learning Disabilities

FREE Conference

Wednesday February 11th 2009

Leeds City Centre Venue

Closing Date: Friday 28th November 2008

NHS Leeds is delighted to be hosting this unique event: Puberty and Sexuality for Young People with Learning Disabilities. The conference is open to everyone working with young people with learning disabilities in England.

The conference will see the launch of a new resource developed by NHS Leeds Children’s Learning Disability Nursing Team, which was presented with the Nursing Times Innovation Practice in Sexual Health Award in 2006. All participants will receive a FREE copy of the pack.

Keynote speakers include Andrea Duncan, Programme Manager, Sexual Health and HIV (DH), and the Chair Steve Slack, Director of the Centre for HIV and Sexual Health. Key speakers will provide an overview of the importance of developing more work in this field. Delegates will have the opportunity to hear from young people with learning disabilities about their perspectives on issues of puberty and sexuality and will also be able to attend workshops focussing on the application of the new resource.

This event is being held with support from the Department of Health, which has funded the resource, and the Centre for HIV and Sexual Health.

For more details please contact:

Training Course Administrator, Centre for HIV & Sexual Health, 22 Collegiate Crescent, Sheffield, S10 2BA

Tel: 0114 226 1900 Fax: 0114 226 1901

E-mail: admin@chiv.nhs.uk

 

Vacancy at WORKING MINDS PROJECT - Working in Partnership

Position: 2 X Mental Health Employment Outreach Workers (Ref: WM)

(1 post contracted to Leeds Mind & 1 post contracted to Community Links)

Grade: SO1 - Fixed Spinal Column point 29 - £23,749 p.a. - 37 hrs per week.

Fixed term contract - 1st January 2009 - 31ST March 2010.

The Working Minds Project is an Access to Employment funded employment support initiative, supported jointly by a number of voluntary/public mental health agencies in Leeds. It commenced on 1st April 2008 and is currently funded until 31st March 2010.

The aim of the project is to support people, who have mental health difficulties and have been on incapacity benefit for two years or more, to access employment opportunities.

The 2 Posts will be based within the Project at Leeds Mind Head Office, LS6 3BJ.

Leeds Mind and Community Links offer excellent packages, including generous annual leave, excellent training and development, final salary pension scheme and work-life balance policies.

Leeds Mind and Community Links are diverse organisations and wish to continue to reflect this in their recruitment process.

The successful applicant will be required to undergo an enhanced CRB check.

For an informal discussion about the posts please contact Fiona Devenney or Vanessa Lendzionowski on 0113 274 5165

Closing date for applications is: 12 noon Friday 14th November 2008. Interviews will take place on Wednesday 26th November 2008.

For details of how to apply please visit www.leedsmind.org.uk . If you are unable to access the website please write quoting the reference WM, enclosing a large A4 s.a.e. to: Leeds Mind, 82 Cardigan Road, Leeds LS6 3BJ