Trainee Creative Musicians

Yorkshire Youth & Music


  • Job Title: Trainee Creative Musicians
  • Salary: Under £10K
  • Hours:
    Part time
  • Artform: Music
  • Role: Creative
  • Contract: Temporary
  • Closing date: Sat, 31 May 2025

  • Location:

    Yorkshire

Job Summary

Yorkshire Youth and Music is looking for musicians to learn how to work with children and young people in challenging circumstances creatively.

Job Description

Our work is with young people who experience multiple disadvantages; they may be looked after, be in contact with Youth Justice services, be connected to a Pupil Referral Unit, have a social worker, have a disability, have an unstable family and personal background, and suffer economic disadvantage. In some cases, they are in secure care.

Why do this?

There has been a large increase in the number of young people in challenging circumstances in recent years. Our expertise working with the most vulnerable & challenging young people has increased demand, but there is a limited supply of multi-skilled music leaders. This project is designed as a development model for musicians, combining shadowing & mentoring alongside specialist training like Youth Mental Health First Aid. The scheme is funded by Arts Council England via National Lottery Project Grants.

Fee & Hours

Fee is the National Living Wage and 3-10 hours per week dependant on placement.

Job Requirements

What are we looking for?

Good musicians who are willing to be flexible and adaptable to turn their hand to anything. You can be an instrumentalist, singer or tech producer, but you have to be willing to pick up a bass guitar and help a young person learn to use it, if that’s what they want. You can be working in any genre of music, but you have to be prepared to try your hand at others with young people.

You don’t have to be able to read music, but you have to understand it and be able to explain how musical structures work.

How to Apply

Please send your CV with a cover letter explaining why you would like to be a Trainee Creative
with Yorkshire Youth and Music to [email protected] . We’d like to hear about your music skills
(instruments, voice, songwriting, digital kit you work with) and about the styles you prefer in your
own practice.

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