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Main area Art Psychotherapist Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent: 2 day Inpatient and 1 day Community Split Post Hours Part time - 22.5 hours per week (2 Days on PICU wards and 1 Day in the Community) Job ref 333-G-RB-0292
Site St Charles Hospital Town London Salary £54,320 - £60,981 per annum (pro rata P/T) incl HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 28/01/2025 23:59
Job overview
* To provide Arts Psychotherapy including assessment, treatment and evaluation of group and individual work for patients within specialist local community mental health teams for a range of diagnoses.
* Working as an autonomous practitioner, to plan, provide and develop an Art Psychotherapy treatment for inpatients which includes systematic assessment, treatment and evaluation of individual and group Art Psychotherapy work.
* Undertake arts psychotherapy research/audit as per the Trust research strategy for the arts therapies/psychotherapies and participate in research and audit.
* To undertake delegated management responsibilities when needed.
* Responsibility for managing your caseload.
* To manage and clinically supervise allocated staff, trainees or honoraries and participate in the Trust’s Arts Psychotherapies research strategy and audit.
Main duties of the job
This is dual role, covering both Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit and Community Arts Psychotherapies Service.
* To plan, provide and develop Art Psychotherapy treatment for patients on a psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU) which includes systematic assessment, treatment and evaluation of individual and group Art Psychotherapy work.
* To provide Arts Psychotherapy including assessment, treatment and evaluation of group and individual work for patients within specialist local community mental health teams.
* To manage and clinically supervise allocated staff, trainees or honoraries and participate in the Trust’s Arts Psychotherapies research strategy and audit.
* Undertake arts psychotherapy research/audit as per the Trust research strategy for the arts therapies/psychotherapies and participate in research and audit.
* To undertake delegated management responsibilities when needed.
* Responsibility for managing your caseload.
Person specification
Education and qualifications
* Good honours degree in Art or equivalent performing/work experience.
* MA/MSc or equivalent in Art therapy.
* Eligibility for State Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
* Training in risk assessment, breakaway, health and safety, child protection or willingness to complete this in the first year of employment.
* Evidence of CPD since qualifying.
* Further training in Personality Disorder/Psychosis/Trauma.
* Experience of offering autonomously group and individual art psychotherapy with these client groups.
* Experience of working with adults within a complex and severe/enduring mental health in community and inpatient settings.
* Experience of working with people with disturbed and challenging behaviour.
* Experience of working with people with a diagnosis of personality disorder(s).
* Experience of being sole arts therapist/psychotherapist in a MDT.
Skills, knowledge, abilities
* Skills in planning, organising and prioritising own workload.
* Knowledge of and skills in assessing clients for arts therapy/psychotherapy.
* Knowledge of and skills in assessing risk and contributing to diagnosis.
* Ability to work autonomously with people with complex needs.
* Ability to engage and maintain a working therapeutic relationship with non-verbal clients.
* Knowledge and understanding of a broad range of mental illnesses.
* Evidence of Continuing Professional Development as required by arts therapies professional bodies.
* Computer literacy and high standard of written communication skills including the ability to produce reports detailing progress of therapy.
CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.
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