Creative Writer to run Workshops: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals

This is an exciting opportunity for a Creative Writer to work with Sheffield Teaching Hospitals staff.

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals are looking to commission a Creative Writer to deliver a series of 8 workshop sessions for their staff. Although they anticipate these workshops to be of therapeutic benefit, they are not 'therapy'. Rather, they are aiming to provide a creative outlet for their staff and for it to be a positive, joyful, restorative, energising, hopeful, imaginative and social experience.

The sessions can be delivered via the MS Teams platform, widely used in their hospitals.

They'd like to produce a booklet of texts written by staff to include in their Arts Activities Packs that they provide for patients recovering in their hospitals (possibly with an option for patients to add their own poetry or prose). They also hope to distribute this booklet to all Sheffield Teaching Hospitals staff. Staff who are happy to have their work published can decide to have their name printed or remain anonymous.

Fees: The total budget for this project is £1,440.00 to provide 8 workshop sessions. The fee is inclusive of VAT, preparation time, and some support with evaluation.

How to apply: Please submit a short proposal (500 words max.) including the following:

how you would approach this project
what experience you will bring to the project
why you believe you have the right personal and professional skills to work sensitively with people who have been directly or indirectly exposed to the traumatic experiences of colleagues, patients (and their relatives) affected by Covid-19.

Please note that the opportunity to take part in the Creative Writing Workshop will be advertised to all staff at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals (around 17,000 employees) – some of whom have been redeployed during the pandemic, shielding, and/or working from home.

Please email your proposal to mir.jansen@nhs.net with ‘Creative Writing Project Proposal’ in the subject box.

More information can be found on the website below.

Deadline for applications: Thursday 26 August, 5pm. Start date: Tuesday 5 October 2021 (completion by January 2022).

For more information visit https://arts.sth.nhs.uk/work-with-us.html