Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown (dlr) County Council is looking for Artists, Creative and Wellbeing Facilitators/Practitioners to work with residents in residential care settings and older people attending local day services in dlr on our Cuairt agus Cultúr Programme 2024-25.
Cuairt agus Cultúr is a collaboration between dlr Age Friendly Programme, dlr Arts Office and dlr Library Service. The programme supports creative and wellbeing activities in residential and day service centres in the County. The main purpose of this call out is to facilitate an artist/practitioner or group of artists/practitioners to explore creativity and/or wellbeing with older people in either a residential or day service in the County. This can include but is not limited to visual art practice, music, storytelling, gardening, movement/dance, creative writing, photography, craftwork and wellbeing therapies.
This programme aims to nurture a meaningful and sustained creative engagement between an artist/practitioner or group of artists/practitioners and residents, day care centre attendees, families and staff of care settings within the County. Successful applicants will be matched to one local care setting. This call out aims to support artists working in care settings, as well as to deepen the value of the arts and wellbeing in these settings.
Fees and Timeline:
- The timeline for engagement of the creative and wellbeing practitioners is late October 2024–March 2025, subject to any prevailing public health guidelines. Upon agreement between all parties, this may be extended for further engagement in 2025/26.
- Each project will consist of between 6-8 sessions in the care setting, between October 2024 to the end of March 2025, subject to any prevailing public health guidelines.
- The fees are set to a maximum of €2,500 (this will include materials and any other expenses).
- There will be a maximum of 2 scheduled meetings with all the participating practitioners during the project timeline. This is to facilitate feedback and future planning for the partnership, these meetings will be paid for separately.
Please apply with the following:
- Curriculum Vitae detailing relevant experience working with older people.
- On A4 page statement outlining your interest in working with older people and relevance of this opportunity to your work to date.
- Overview of proposed project and outline budget involved.
- Two referees (name and job title of referees and must be related to your professional practice. Referees will be contacted after shortlisting).
If you have any access requirements or need help making an application please let us know.
Deadline for applications: 2pm, Monday 16 September 2024
We will use these criteria and marks to select:
- Demonstrated experience and interest of engaging with older people through creative and / or wellbeing practice.
This will be marked by assessing your statement of interest.
(Marks will be awarded out of 50)
- Relevant expertise in the practice identified (this may be a creative or wellbeing practice).
This will be marked by assessing your C.V.
(Marks will be awarded out of 30)
- Feasibility - This will be based on proposed project and budget.
This will be marked by assessing your project overview and proposed budget.
(Marks will be awarded out of 20)
Late applications will not be assessed.
Please note that the pass mark required for this opportunity is 70%. If none or not enough of the proposals submitted reach the minimum marks required, we may decide to look at a different way to use this funding.
Freedom of Information
The Freedom of Information Act 2014 applies to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. This Act gives people the right to request information held by public authorities and the right to have personal information held about them corrected or updated where the information is incomplete, incorrect or misleading.
If you feel that any of the information you submit as part of your application is confidential or sensitive, you should let dlr Arts Office know. You must clearly state why you think the information is confidential or commercially sensitive, and why it should not be released as part of a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2014.
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Data protection laws mean that your personal data should generally only be stored where there is a lawful basis, such as your consent, or where there is a legal obligation. Any information you provide for this application will be held for one year from the date you submit it and will only remain in the ownership of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Arts Office. We will only use the information you give in your application to administer and manage this process, including the selection process (this may include external panel members who will read your application). You may withdraw your consent to the retention of the information relating to your application at any point by sending an email to arts@dlrcoco.ie.