Specialist Art Therapist

Job description

Job summary

Job Summary:

o Provide clinical assessment and intervention to service users with complex mental health issues including those with psychoses

o Provide assessment and intervention across teams within the SBU

o Work in a variety of venues across the SBU

All staff should comply with the Trust's Anti-Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct and Equality and Diversity.

Main duties of the job

Duties and Responsibilities:

Organisational chart: Adult Community Mental Health Services

Duties and Responsibilities:

o Provide assessment and intervention to service users with complex mental health needs, including those with psychoses

o Provide assessment and intervention for individuals and groups

o Provide clinical supervision to Art Psychotherapists

o Lead on service innovation as delegated by the Head of Arts Therapies

About us

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from theCare Quality Commission.

Our family of over 4,500 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key Relationships:

Working relationships

Works with other arts therapists within the trust, sometimes leading specific delegated projects

Represents arts therapists within the SBU at the request of the head arts therapist so has working relationship across and within teams

Post holder is expected to build relationships with arts therapists in other trusts and within their professional bo

Job description
Job responsibilities

Key Relationships:

Working relationships

Works with other arts therapists within the trust, sometimes leading specific delegated projects

Represents arts therapists within the SBU at the request of the head arts therapist so has working relationship across and within teams

Post holder is expected to build relationships with arts therapists in other trusts and within their professional bo

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Substantial post-qualification experience in an NHS adult mental health care setting
• Good Honours degree in relevant subject
• M.A. (or equivalent) Art Psychotherapy
• Registered with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as an art therapist/art psychotherapist
• Member of The British Association of Art Therapists

Experience

Essential

• demonstrable knowledge of and commitment to best practice and evidence based practice.
• Experience of providing a range of therapeutic interventions including: assessment, inpatient and outpatient work, individual and group work, exploratory and supportive.
• Experience of working with people with a range of mental health problems including: personality disorder, psychosis
• Experience of working within MDTs.
• Experience of supervising arts psychotherapists and of liaison with university training courses, in own speciality and other specialist areas

Person Specification
Qualifications

Essential

• Substantial post-qualification experience in an NHS adult mental health care setting
• Good Honours degree in relevant subject
• M.A. (or equivalent) Art Psychotherapy
• Registered with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as an art therapist/art psychotherapist
• Member of The British Association of Art Therapists

Experience

Essential

• demonstrable knowledge of and commitment to best practice and evidence based practice.
• Experience of providing a range of therapeutic interventions including: assessment, inpatient and outpatient work, individual and group work, exploratory and supportive.
• Experience of working with people with a range of mental health problems including: personality disorder, psychosis
• Experience of working within MDTs.
• Experience of supervising arts psychotherapists and of liaison with university training courses, in own speciality and other specialist areas

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.
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Additional information
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.
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Employer details

Employer name

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Address

The Marlowes Health & wellbeing Centre, Hemel Hempstead

39-41 The Marlowes

Hemel Hempstead

HP1 1LF

United Kingdom

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