Creative Access Consultant, Blueprint

About Concrete Youth
Concrete Youth is a charity dedicated to enriching the lives of people labelled with profound and multiple learning disabilities through high-quality cultural provision. Our work spans award-winning sensory theatre productions, education and engagement programmes, and international outreach. Since 2019, our live sensory work has reached over 10,500 audience members across five continents.

About Blueprint
Blueprint is a ground-breaking, multi-phase sensory theatre project from Concrete Youth, created in collaboration with people labelled with profound and multiple learning disabilities. Developed alongside our Chief Executive & Artistic Director Daniel Swift’s doctoral research, the project will establish a pioneering new model for multi-version sensory theatre—one that is flexible, co-created, and tailored to the unique ways our audience engage with theatre.

Blueprint sets out to transform the sector’s understanding of inclusive practice. Blueprint is a bold step forward in how sensory theatre is made, shared, and experienced. Blueprint is supported by public funding from Arts Council England.

About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Creative Access Consultant to support the development of Blueprint, ensuring that creative access is embedded into the artistic concept and delivery of the project. The successful candidate will work with the core creative team to ensure the project's access design is bespoke, artistically integrated, and responsive to the needs of audiences labelled with profound and multiple learning disabilities. They will also provide key advice on accessible working practice across the entire project to ensure inclusivity is reflected both on and off stage.

Responsibilities

• Lead on the creative integration of access across the project’s design and delivery.

• Provide key advice on accessible working practices throughout the development process.

• Offer specialist guidance on embedding creative access tools such as captioning, sound design, physical storytelling, sensory materials, and visual communication.

• Ensure access design reflects and responds to the creative decisions being made, enhancing the sensory and narrative experience for our audience.

• Collaborate closely with the director, composer, and sensory artists throughout the project.

• Provide input and feedback during creative review sessions.

• Offer practical recommendations for adapting the work based on the audience’s varied needs.

Person Specification

• Extensive experience in sensory theatre and in making work with and for audiences labelled with profound and multiple learning disabilities.

• A deep understanding of creative access principles and how they can enhance—not compromise—the artistic vision.

• Experience collaborating with artistic teams at early development stages.

• Knowledge of a broad range of access tools and strategies in live performance.

• A confident communicator, able to advocate for creative access and accessible working practices as integral parts of the theatre-making process.

• A collaborative and responsive approach.

Fee
£700 per week for 3 weeks, plus travel, accommodation, per diems, and holiday pay. Concrete Youth operates a 4-day working week.

Key Dates

• Interviews: 5th & 6th June via Zoom (candidates will be invited to book an appointment that suits their schedule).

• Phase 1: 16th – 27th June 2025 in Hull (dates of the 4 day working week pattern are TBC)

• Phase 2: 14th – 17th July 2025 (dates of the 4 day working week pattern are TBC)

Please note, these dates are subject to change slightly.

Following this contact, the R&D shall take place in autumn 2025 and ultimate production in spring 2026, with potential for contract extension based on performance and availability.

How to Apply
To apply, please submit your CV and cover letter in the application form to the right by 10am on Monday 2nd June. If you would prefer to apply via a format that is more accessible to you, please do so by emailing it to jobs@concreteyouth.co.uk. You are kindly asked to only email this address with accessible applications and apply using the form on this page in all other events.

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Our audience comes from all walks of life, and so do we. We work with great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for inclusive theatre, you will find a home at Concrete Youth.