Working at FTM Dance

FTM Dance is a Performing Arts respite service for children and adults with additional needs, disabilities and medical conditions, aged 3 years old and above.

FTM Dance provides performing arts and creative art related activities, sessions and workshops for individuals with a range of needs and abilities, including those with Autism, ADHD, Cerebral Palsy, epilepsy and behaviours that challenge.

We have services in Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire and offer weekend children and adult short break service, weekday adult service, creative therapies and school holiday clubs.

Our Aims:

To provide an accessible and inclusive environment to support children, young people and adults with additional needs, disabilities and medical conditions to access and engage in high quality performing art opportunities.

To provide meaningful high quality regular performing arts sessions, activities and workshops using a person centered approach.  To provide social inclusion through community events in the local community and on a national and global platform.

Our Families Objectives:

To offer quality and meaningful respite that responds to and is flexible to the changing needs of complex situations to offer a supportive and understanding listening ear, including signposting to appropriate agencies to our families.

Our Service Users Objectives:

To enable our service users to engage and access in performing arts activities alongside contributing towards the creative process to enable and develop their creative and developmental stages.

To provide excellent care and support to meet the assessed needs of each service user in an individualised approach, which is safe, compassionate and responsive.  To support our services users to develop their social, communication and emotional development, including transferable life skills within the performing arts.

Always going the extra mile.

Creative - Person Centred - Caring

Our Staff Objective:

To offer our staff high quality training to ensure they have the knowledge and practical skills to support service users to access the sessions, activities and workshops.

To offer our staff regular CPD opportunities to meet our service users creative needs in an innovative approach.