Opportunity: Freelance Filmmaker

Opportunity: Freelance Filmmaker  

Fee: £6,000  

April 2024 –  March 2025 [24 sessions at £250 per session]  

Art in Healthcare  

Art in Healthcare is a Scottish charity. We work to improve health and wellbeing for individuals and communities by providing opportunities to experience and engage with high quality visual art, artists and creativity, particularly within community, health and social care settings. Further information can be found at:  https://www.artinhealthcare.org.uk

Taking Art Home 

This role will support the Taking Art Home project. Taking Art Home is a participatory visual arts programme to support the health and wellbeing, and provide quality creative opportunities, for around 80 adults for a year in Scotland living with long term physical and mental health conditions who find it very difficult to leave the house. https://www.artinhealthcare.org.uk/art-workshops/taking-art-home/ 

Our Taking Art Home workshops are run online and encourage exploration, play and experimentation with a range of different materials and techniques, sometimes influenced by our collection of art. We start from the skills and ideas within each group; participants share their interests, and we shape workshops accordingly.  We often ‘sketch’ outside via google maps, live webcams and pre-recorded video content.  

Artist Remit  

We are looking for a Filmmaker to work with the Art in Healthcare team, and the Taking Art Home artist in particular, to develop filmed sessions for our online groups from April 2024 – March 2025.  The filmmaker would be required to have their own equipment.  

We are looking for someone who has experience of using filmmaking as a participatory tool. This role will require you to work in collaboration with the Taking Art Home artist, as well as independently. 

We will ask you to:  

• Work with the Art in Healthcare team to ensure that your approach is in line with our ethos and policies.  
• Work with the artist to devise, film and edit workshops and footage for use in our online Taking Art Home programme. This will include travel with the artist to film on location.  
• Work with the Administrator and Finance and Office Manager to co-ordinate logistics, process payments etc.  
• Support the evaluation of the project.  

Duration of work:  

Total duration of work from April 2024 – March 2025 including planning, filming, and editing: approx. 24 sessions at £250 per 5 hour session (to be worked flexibly).  

Specific days and times are flexible around the needs of the programme and availability of filmmaker and artist.  It is anticipated that a few days work will be required in early/ mid April 2024.   

Person Specification   

We encourage applications from all backgrounds and communities, and we are committed to having a team that is made up of diverse skills, experiences, and abilities. We are looking for someone who has:  

• Extensive experience [5+ years] of working as a filmmaker filming and editing moving image.  
• Experience of collaborating with artists or other creatives.  
• An interest in the broader work of Art in Healthcare and an understanding of how art can be used to improve health and wellbeing.  
• An interest in working with, and inspired by, our collection.  
• Strong administration and co-ordination skills.  
• Great communication and listening skills.  
• Experience of documentation and evaluation.   

Terms and Conditions  

The opportunity is for approximately twenty four sessions to be worked flexibly, to meet the needs of the project between April 2024 and March 2025.   

We will pay a rate of £250 per 5 hour session.  As a temporary, freelance member of the team you will be responsible for your tax and national insurance contributions. Payment will be made within 30 calendar days of an invoice. Additional funding is available to support travel.   

We will require the successful applicant to evidence their right to work in the UK. We will also require a PVG Certificate and will work with you to secure this from Disclosure Scotland.  

Interested?   

To apply please send a short CV and a note of interest [no more than one side of A4], or a short video or voice recording, telling us how your knowledge, skills and experience align with the opportunity. We would also like to see at least one example of past film work. Applications can be emailed to: recruitment@artinhealthcare.org.uk   

If you would prefer to apply by post, please send it to:  

Recruitment, Art in Healthcare, 18 York Place, Edinburgh EH1 3EP  

We have set a closing date for 9am on Monday 25th March 2024, and we are hoping to hold informal interviews on the Wednesday April 3rd. Interviews will be held online and questions will be shared in advance.  

If you have any questions please contact Jeni Allison, Artist (Taking Art Home)– jeni@artinhealthcare.org.uk.