Breakthrough – Creative Learning and Take Part Events Assistant, Salisbury
About Breakthrough
Breakthrough is a 6‑month employability programme designed as a stepping stone to get you workplace experience and all-important employment skills. This short placement gives you insight into a future career in the Creative Industry, supporting your confidence and professionalism in the workplace, and helping you to break through into a career that matters to you!
Read more about Breakthrough here:
The role
This placement will sit within the busy and vibrant Take Part team, supporting the delivery of a range of creative activities. You will be working with the support of creative practitioners, arts producers and arts engagement specialists. The role will include some work across our Front of House and Box Office teams, to build a broad understanding of the skills required to manage some of our events.
This role will include assisting with:
- Stage 65 weekly drama sessions, shows and sharings – working to support the creative practitioner leading the session, preparing resources and helping us make sure that all the young people in the room feel included.
- Community events – supporting team members at fundays, community events and on community projects – such as our groups’ involvement in the St Thomas’s Christmas tree festival
- Evaluation of Take Part activities – to include working with participants to complete surveys, compiling the data from surveys, gathering photo evidence of activity
- Planning and delivery of our Under 5’s programme and supporting creative sessions in the room
- Regular creative sessions – providing set up and welcome for sessions and supporting lead artists. Sessions will include Momentum (Theatre Arts for Adults of All Ages), visual arts workshops and Young Ambassadors
- Youth music events – working front of house, and in artist liaison, for Youth Band and Jam Nights at Salisbury Arts Centre
- Registration Administration for Take Part activities
As part of this placement we also offer training on our box office system and doing some supported shifts with our Box Office Team
We aim to break down barriers to accessing creative careers and this is a paid opportunity aimed at people who may face barriers
We welcome applications from those who face financial barriers to working in the arts, especially those who would be unable to access experience through unpaid placements or volunteering due to the need to earn. We are particularly keen to hear from those in parts of our local community such as Bemerton Heath and The Friary, while encouraging applications from anyone who has experienced these or similar barriers.
Location & Travel
The role will be based at the offices in Salisbury Arts Centre (Bedwin Street Salisbury, SP1 3UT) with activities split across the Arts Centre and Salisbury Playhouse (SP2 7RA), which are walking distance apart. Any activity in community settings will be within walking distance of our venues, or a travel plan (inc. travel expenses) will be put in place to support your attendance.
We will not be able to offer working from home in this role, due to the public facing nature of much of this work.
Who we are:
Wiltshire Creative brings people together for joyful life-enhancing experiences. Our venues – Salisbury Playhouse and Salisbury Arts Centre – deliver surprise, delight and wonder with a diverse year-round programme. Salisbury Playhouse produces performances that bring pride and joy to our region, touring nationally and beyond. Once a year, we burst out beyond our walls to invigorate city spaces with Salisbury International Arts Festival.
We nurture talent and spark imagination, inviting more people in our region to live creative lives.
An integral part of the organisation’s work is provided by the Take Part team, producing work that connects the wider artistic programme with the community we serve. The team engages with schools and communities to provide high-quality opportunities for people of all ages to engage with the arts, gain new skills and build social networks. The team works closely, and strategically, with partners to develop inclusive offers and pathways into our programmes delivered in our venues and out in the community.
Deadline for applications
The deadline is 11:45pm, on 27 July 2026
You will need to download the job description below and read it carefully, and review the eligibility criteria below to ensure you are able to apply.
You then need to fill out the form below to submit your application.
All of the job descriptions include an “Employers advice” section and we strongly recommend that you tailor your answers to ensure they cover that advice given for the specific role you are applying for.
You can apply for more than one role if you wish to, but you will need to submit separate applications using the same process.
We strongly suggest that you research travel options for the role before applying to ensure travel is feasible.
To be eligible to apply for a Breakthrough training programme role, applicants must:
- Be aged 18-25 on the 28 September 2026
- Have the right to work and be usually resident in the UK
- Available to start work on the 28 September 2026 and available for the duration of the placement (until 28 March 2027)
- Have no or little (less than one month) previous experience of working in an arts, creative or voluntary sector organisation
We particularly welcome applications from applicants who:
- Are currently not in employment, education or training
- Are disabled and/or neurodivergent
- Have experienced barriers to employment due to current or prior mental health issues
- Have experienced barriers because of racism, homophobic or transgender discrimination
- Are recent school or sixth form college leavers
- Are struggling to find work due to lack of training or employment experience
Please note that this programme is not suitable for those on a degree placement year or an MA programme.
Download the full job description
This contains more information about the role, including advice from the employer.
Breakthrough 2026 Application Form
Contact us
If you are unsure if you are eligible, have any other questions, or need information in a different format, please email our Careers team:
FAQs
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If you have applied for a Breakthrough placement in a previous year and been unsuccessful, then yes you are very welcome to apply again if you meet this years eligibility criteria!
If you have already successfully undertaken a Breakthrough placement before, you won't be eligible to apply again.
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Please do. You will need to submit an application for each role you are interested in and should check that the travel to the workplace is realistic for you before applying.