Heritage Learning Facilitator | Casual | Museum Service | Lancashire in Burnley

Are you dynamic, enthusiastic, and engaging, with a passion for helping children and adults connect with culture, heritage, education, and learning? We are currently recruiting Heritage Learning Facilitators to work across museums, archives, cultural spaces, schools, and other learning environments. We are looking for creative, confident, and dynamic people with experience of working with children.

The role is casual, paid on an hourly basis, and depends on the number of bookings we receive, your availability, and level of training. All relevant training will be provided.

About us: Heritage Learning Lancashire (of Lancashire County Council) are a nationally acclaimed multi-award-winning learning provider, delivering a range of exciting education and learning programmes across Lancashire, that explain, engage, and explore local, national, and international culture and heritage. We deliver school sessions at multiple sites across Lancashire, as well as offering an ever-expanding outreach offer into schools. We lead on a range of projects and special events through the year and run a successful and growing youth engagement programme. We work with a range of artists, musicians, dancers, actors, storytellers, and magicians to bring learning to life and inspire learners across the age ranges. We have a huge loans box service to help support and deepen learning and understanding in schools and libraries. We offer innovative and diverse free teacher CPD sessions. We are critical education partners and offer consultancy to other organisations nationally and internationally. Our mission is to provide outstanding, relevant, and sustainable learning provision that meets the needs of a diverse audience.

Your new role: You will have excellent communication and critical thinking skills, with the confidence to be able to work with a range of learners, colleagues, partners, and stakeholders. You will deliver engaging workshops to children on a range of topics across our heritage sites and Lancashire schools, sometimes in character and in costume. You may be asked to assist where needed on projects, special events, CPD, and youth engagement sessions and events. Your work will mainly be with primary aged children and usually be during term time and weekdays. However, we also deliver within the Secondary, Further Education, Higher Education and public programme arenas.

Why join us: By joining Lancashire County Council, you can shape the career path that is right for you, with opportunities to gain personal and professional qualifications, coaching, and mentoring. Lancashire County Council truly is the place where you can have the career you've always wanted.

How to apply: Before submitting your application, please make sure you have given good examples of how you meet the criteria detailed on the job description and person specification. We reserve the right to close a vacancy early and before the closing date if we receive sufficient applications. The post you are applying for is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013). If successful you will be required to apply to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) for a "disclosure". Further information can be found on the Our Recruitment Process tab.