Main area: Psychological Professions in Mental Health & Wellness Teams
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 22.5 hours per week
Job ref: 395-HV013-25
Employer: NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: The Petersfield Centre
Town: Romford
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 21/03/2025 23:59
Art Psychotherapist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award-winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients.
Job overview
To provide assessment and evidence-based interventions for clients presenting with complex secondary care needs, including group and individual work to the Havering Psychological Professions within MHWTs.
Main duties of the job
1. Provide specialist psychological assessments for service-users referred to psychological services in Havering based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of highly complex, sensitive data.
2. Lead on providing group-based and individual art psychotherapy interventions to service users referred to the PPs in MHWTs in Havering.
3. Provide interventions in a manner that is consistent with evidence-based practice.
4. Implement a range of highly specialist psychological interventions for individuals and groups.
5. Adhere to Trust protocols and procedures.
6. Provide accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.
Working for our organisation
Our Values 2025 - 2030
Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT:
* We are kind.
* We are respectful.
* We work together with our communities.
These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period.
NELFT places great importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks, including mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Art Therapist, band 7 O.6 to assess and provide suitable art therapy interventions for complex secondary care presentations. HCPC membership and MA qualification required.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Post-graduate qualification in group psychotherapy accredited by UKCP.
* NVQ level 2 or equivalent standard of literacy and numeracy.
* Training in quality improvement.
Experience
* Working with people with complex mental health needs to include psychosis.
* Experience of ensuring equality of access and acceptable intervention to diverse populations.
* Experience of providing other specialist therapies to patients with diverse clinical presentations.
* Knowledge and experience with working with safeguarding issues and highly complex mental health problems.
Knowledge
* Thorough knowledge of the theory and practice of evidence-based interventions for people presenting with complex Mood, Anxiety and Personality difficulties.
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of group psychotherapy.
* Theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for a broad range of complex Mood, Anxiety and Personality difficulties.
* Well-developed knowledge and skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
Skills
* Capacity to work psychotherapeutically on a group basis with individuals with severe and enduring mental health problems.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
* Ability to resolve difficulties affecting working relationships and to offer support to staff, service users and carers on an ongoing basis.
* Capacity to cope with frequent exposure to highly distressing or emotional circumstances.
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically.
* A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long-term/chronic conditions, and LGBT staff.
* A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work-life balance through flexible working opportunities.
* Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
Equal opportunities employer
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.
We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities.
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