Open Book is looking for two Lead Readers to join their Prison Programme to facilitate weekly shared reading sessions in HMP Barlinnie and HMP Shotts.
Since March 2013, Open Book has run shared reading and creative writing sessions for adults. We work in a number of sectors – libraries, health care settings, with the elderly, refugees and migrants, community groups, prisons, libraries and other public settings and on Scottish islands. The majority of our groups read material written in English but we also have sessions run in Arabic, Gaelic and Scots.
The successful candidates will be contracted to deliver weekly shared reading workshops in the Open Book model at HMP Barlinnie and HMP Shotts. This is currently a rolling contract – sessions run while the prisons are open, up to a maximum of 40 sessions per project year.
The fee in respect of each session (including preparation, delivery and post session feedback) is £100. In addition a travel allowance of £25 per session delivered is payable.
Any time spent undertaking training for the role – including initial training in the model delivered by Open Book, and attendance at prison training – will be funded at £25 per hour.
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The deadline is Friday 27 August 2021 at 17:00.