Location: Exeter, EX2 9JD
Salary: £46148.00 to £52809.00
Date posted: 24th April 2025
Closing date: 23rd May 2025
This is an exciting opportunity for a Dramatherapist with experience of working with clients with mental health issues to add to their portfolio. They would be based at The Briars, a beautiful building in lovely grounds, alongside other arts therapists in a fully equipped therapy space. There is also scope to work therapeutically in the grounds.
Main duties of the job
This is maternity cover for 9 months from September. The role would involve a short induction period and then going straight into the provision of Dramatherapy to clients from the waiting list, so previous experience in mental health would be essential. Clinical and management supervision will be provided.
About us
We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.
We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do.
Job responsibilities
Job Purpose
The principal purpose of the job is to improve the psychological health & wellbeing of people within the post holder's specialist field of practice.
This will be achieved in this post through undertaking the following areas of responsibility:
1. Providing a Psychological Therapy service to people as a key component of services provided by Devon Partnership Trust.
2. Providing local clinical leadership, co-ordination and supervision for trainees and volunteers employed by or attached to the psychology and Psychological Therapies service, under the general direction and supervision of the Professional Lead.
3. Carrying a specialist caseload of clients, and providing advice and consultancy to patients, family members, carers and professionals.
4. The post holder will be supported by senior colleagues within their specialist field. The post holder will be expected to make good use of the expertise of others within the service to further develop their clinical skills with this client group.
5. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/local team.
6. The post holder will receive regular professional and clinical supervision in accordance to Trust policy and to Professional Practice Guidelines set out by their professional association. They will observe and abide by all relevant Professional Codes of Conduct and Practice including the British Psychological Society. The post holder will be fully registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as a condition of employment.
Duties and Responsibilities
Communication and Working Relationships
* Clients, family and carers: To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner with clients who may have specific difficulties in understanding and/or communicating and who may be hostile, antagonistic or highly emotionally disturbed.
* Multidisciplinary team colleagues: To work closely with colleagues in the multi-professional integrated mental health and wellbeing service on a day-to-day basis.
* Health & social care staff: To communicate with a wide range of health & social care staff in hospital and in community settings in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, complex and sensitive information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under the services care. To provide support & guidance in the application of psychological principles and techniques, and to foster reflective practice.
* Senior managers & professional staff: To maintain and build good working relationships with senior professional staff and managers across the Psychology and Therapy service and in DPT to foster a positive approach to the integrated mental health and wellbeing service and to enable effective negotiation.
Planning and Organisation
* The service: To plan and prioritise own workload, balancing the demands of patient care, support and guidance of carers and professionals and service research and development activities.
* To contribute to the planning and organising of the psychology and therapy services within the locality area and to contribute to the development and improvement of provision of psychological services within services to best meet the organisation's strategy and priorities.
* The multidisciplinary service: To provide psychology/therapy knowledge to the multi-professional planning, development and marketing of mental health and wellbeing services.
Responsibility for Patient/Client Care, Treatment and Therapy
* Assessment & intervention: To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about assessment, treatment and discharge, including the management of risk. To formulate plans for psychological treatment and implementing specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups and to demonstrate awareness of diversity issues.
* Consultation & guidance: To provide advice, guidance and consultation on psychological aspects of patient care to colleagues, other service providers, patients, supporters and families.
Person Specification
Experience
* Experience, and/or training in diversity awareness and social inequality.
* Experience of working under supervision in secondary care adult mental health services.
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a wide range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
Qualifications
* Professional, masters level qualification in Dramatherapy and current HCPC arts therapies registration.
* Further training or experience in clinical specialism.
* IT Skills.
* Further training in related area.
Knowledge and Skills
* Knowledge and familiarity of specialist services; and of the services in the NHS where psychology and psychological therapies is commonly applied.
* An understanding of providing psychological therapy for service users presenting with Severe and Complex mental health problems.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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