Job Title: Art Psychotherapist Location: Compton Care – all sites and community Hours: 15 hours per week Salary: £37,310 (Pro-Rota) What we do Compton Care is committed to providing accessible, innovative and influential care to patients with complex and incurable conditions. We also support the carers and families of patient within our local communities and work closely with health and social care colleagues from other organisations. Our workforce is critically important to this mission. What will you do? As part of the Counselling and Support services team, you will provide and continue to develop Art Psychotherapy consistent with the principles of specialist palliative care to patients who have complex and incurable conditions and, if appropriate, their children, relatives and carers. You will be there to offer specialist knowledge, expertise and support providing appropriate art psychotherapy for clients based clinical assessments. What we want you to bring. You will need to be a registered HCPC Art Therapist. An enthusiastic and motivated individual to deliver creative and compassionate therapeutic work, with the principles of specialist palliative care to our patients, their children, relatives and carers. Reflective thinking and creative approaches are highly valued. There is an emphasis on close multi-disciplinary team working within a supportive and psychologically minded context. Staff support and family/carers involvement play an important part of the role What’s in it for you? We offer 27 days annual leave (excluding bank holidays), increasing with long service. The ability to transfer an NHS pension for those who are working in patient facing roles. If you don’t have an NHS pension, we offer a salary exchange pension scheme with a 5% employer contribution from day one of employment increasing to 7% after 3 years and a death in service benefit at 2x salary. In addition, you will receive a staff discount across our Compton coffee shops Access to our employee assistance program including unlimited telephone counselling support, 24/7 GP access and a staff discount platform. We are also a Blue Light Card accredited organisation. Compton offers in house training through our learning and Development and HR teams that will equip you with all the skills you need for this role and beyond. If you feel that you have the clinical skills, we are looking for then we look forward to hearing from you. About our recruitment process: Please note that we reserve the right to close a vacancy before the published closing date where applicant volume is high. Compton Care is committed to safe and fair recruitment, safeguarding and protecting those we care for and serve. We make sure that all our staff are selected and vetted fairly so that they can provide safe, effective and compassionate care. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for Enhanced submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions. It is also subject to satisfactory references and occupational health clearance.