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**Please note we anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the vacancy early once a sufficient amount of applications are received. Therefore, please make sure you complete and submit your application at an early stage**
This post requires the post holder to have a PVG Scheme membership/ record. If the post holder is not a current PVG member for the required regulatory group (i.e. child and/or adult) then an application will need to be made to Disclosure Scotland and deemed satisfactory before they can begin in post.
2 posts:
14.8 hours in Acute Mental Health at Royal Edinburgh Hospital (Music Therapy only)
7.4 hours in the Mother & Baby Unit (Inpatient) St John’s Hospital (Music Therapy, Art Psychotherapy or Dramatherapy)
You can apply for either of the vacancies or both, please specify on the application
Please note: As this post is part-time the salary will be pro-rata.
An exciting opportunity to join the NHS Lothian Arts Psychotherapies Service – a team comprising of over 30 Arts Psychotherapists working across all age groups and all localities served by NHS Lothian. What staff say about our team:- • ‘It’s been a wonderful rich experience I’ll always greatly value’ • ‘My time working within the NHS Lothian Arts Therapies team has been incredibly rich and I have learnt so much.’ • ‘I would like to thank you .. for the incredible opportunities you have provided me within the NHS, I have learnt so much during my time as a student and as an employee and feel very lucky to have worked alongside such an inspiring team.’
To work with clinical teams and as an autonomous clinical practitioner planning and providing an arts psychotherapies service within own modality, including treatment and ongoing evaluation, drawing on evidence base specific to clinical area.
To support and engage in research and audits for ongoing service improvement.
If you would like an informal discussion, please contact:
Kate Pestell: Kate.Pestell@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk (Mon-Thurs)
Jenni Johnston: Jenni.Johnston@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk (Mon & Wed)
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Please advise in your application which post you are interested in applying for