Pastoral Support Officer

We're Hiring: Pastoral Support Officer for the National Open Youth Orchestra

About the role

As our Pastoral Support Officer for the National Open Youth Orchestra you will play a vital role in ensuring that young people participating in NOYO are supported, safe and cared for, and have the opportunity to meet their full potential. You will work alongside the NOYO team and partner organisations in the planning and delivery of NOYO activities, ensuring best-practice pastoral and welfare support for all NOYO musicians. The role will also enable and encourage participants to have a voice in the development of the orchestra.

You will use your positive and calm personality to build strong relationships with our musicians, their families and our partners, to ensure we deliver activities where young people are safe and supported. You will be a great communicator, understanding different ways of communicating with a diverse range of people, with the ability to listen, talk to and  nurture young people. And you will use your creativity to find ways to overcome barriers to participation and deliver fun and engaging activities to support the personal and social development of our musicians.​

Diversity, equity and inclusion

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the heart of who we are. We take our responsibility to acknowledge, challenge and dismantle barriers within music and our organisation extremely seriously. To that end, we are especially interested in receiving applications from Disabled people.

We also recognise that systems of privilege, structural disadvantage and barriers to participation often intersect with one another. For this reason, we particularly welcome applications from people from other structurally disadvantaged backgrounds and underrepresented groups. This may include people from the Global Majority, migrants, refugees, LGBTQIA+ people and/or people from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.

Please download the Recruitment Pack for further information.

Please submit your application by 10:00 on Monday 19th August 2024. Interviews will take place in Bristol on Tuesday 27 August 2024.