Personal Assistant / Carer for Jamie Hale

Pay: £287 per shift

Hours: 24.5 hours (plus on-call) per week

Contract length: Permanent

Location: Lewisham

Application deadline: Ongoing

Usual working pattern: Working Sunday 07:00am to Monday 07:30am, on-call until Tuesday 07:30am

To apply: Email Jamie on applytobemycarer@gmail.com

About the role:

Are you:

• A driver
• A dog-lover
• Queer-friendly
• Fully vaccinated against COVID
• Interested in compressed hours and 24.5 hour shifts
• An adaptable and enthusiastic problem-solver
• Available to work from 07:00 on Sunday morning to 07:30 on Monday morning, then be on-call until 07:30 on Tuesday morning

If so, I have a great job for you. Perfect for people working in the freelance arts and cultural sector, and with no care experience required – come and work with me and provide the 1:1 care and support that keeps me alive and building my life and career.

I’m a profoundly disabled queer arts practitioner, leading organisations and developing solo work. I live with my wife and dog, and travel nationally and internationally. My life is great. I can do all this because I have fabulous support around me. For more than 11 years, I’ve been recruiting, training, and managing the team that enable me to live the life I want.

You’ll work alongside me as a creative leader, being my arms and legs, and enabling my successful, independent life. You’ll provide the personal and medical care I need, from ventilation to bowel management, secure in the knowledge that I’ll give you all the training you need to provide the care I require to the level I need.

Work one 24.5-hour shift per week, with one on-call day, earning £335/week plus up to £287 extra for working on-call shifts, with additional overtime available.

Embrace this opportunity to impact an exciting life, support me in high-profile projects, and travel across the UK and Europe. Be part of a fabulous team. Be one of the reasons I can succeed.

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Care, Access and Support Worker*

Fee: £150 per day

Locations: London, Manchester, Bristol (though we are open to hearing from anyone in the UK)

*Please note we do not have any active opportunities – we are creating a database of individuals we can call on for opportunities as they arise.

CRIPtic Arts is looking to build a database of UK-based Care, Access and Support Workers to work with our Artistic Director Jamie Hale, and any other disabled creatives on our creative projects. Your role would be to enable the team member to perform to their maximum potential by reducing and eliminating the barriers they face and helping them manage their support needs in a flexible manner – whether they’re in a writers room, performing on stage, or directing a show.

As CRIPtic puts on work nationally, we often need additional care, access and support work both in London and while based at other theatres. This role may encompass a range of tasks to include creative access support but also manual handling and the provision of personal and medical care.

This is a great opportunity for you to be in exciting artistic spaces, supporting people whether they’re performing, directing, or scriptwriting, including at major artistic venues and with high-level contacts.

We are currently prioritising searching for London, Manchester and Bristol-based individuals but will expand this as work comes up in other locations.

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