Assist the Mentally Healthy Productions Programme team with engaging with production companies, ancillary organisations, and other Industry stakeholders

The film, TV and cinema sectors are widely admired and crucial to the UK economy, both in terms of our exceptional creative talent and the sector's growing economic importance. But a culture of long hours, challenging conditions, and sometimes harmful cultures and behaviours can also make it a tough sector to work in, with the retention of talent an ongoing problem as a result. In 2019, the charity found that 9 in 10 working behind the scenes had experienced poor mental health in what was described as a ?'mental health crisis'.

More recently, with a host of factors challenging job security in the sector, the charity has also uncovered a startling lack of financial resilience across the workforce, with financial pressures only contributing to pressure on mental health and wellbeing.

The Film and TV Charity exists to support the 200,000 people who work in TV, film and cinema. Since the introduction of the Film and TV Support Line in 2018, the Charity has been on an exciting journey of change and has joined Industry partners, at the forefront of the movement, to make work better for everyone in the industry.

We are pursuing a strategy to improve the wellbeing of everyone working in the Industry - mental, financial and physical - in order to help build a fairer and happier Industry for all. We are doing this through a combination of the direct support we provide to individuals and what we call our work to ?'make change' at a structural level in the industry. We are mainly funded by donations from both corporates and individuals, and successful fundraising is critical to the delivery of our work.

We have committed to ensuring our services are relevant to and engaging with everyone in the industry, at every stage of their career, no matter what their background. This means applying equity, diversion and inclusion lens to everything we do.

About the Mentally Healthy Productions Programme
The Mentally Healthy Productions programme aims to embed mental health best practice and process into the heart of the UK Film and TV production industry. Working closely with broadcasters, studios, streamers, super indies, production companies, and ancillary organisations, the Film and TV Charity's mental health framework, supported by a suite of digital tools, including the Whole Picture Toolkit, will put mental health at the forefront of the commissioning and production process, create better, and more supportive working environments and transform production culture.

Purpose
To assist the Mentally Healthy Productions Programme team in the process of engaging with production companies, ancillary organisations, and other Industry stakeholders, to enable the delivery of mentally healthy productions.

The ideal applicant for this role, will have a passion for the film and TV Industry and a keen interest in mental health.