Art Psychotherapist

4 months ago


London, United Kingdom Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust Full time

ART PSYCHOTHERAPY (MT) - BAND 7 POST

0.2 WTE

POST DESCRIPTION

Qualified and registered Art therapist

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Art Therapist with experience working with adults living with complex and enduring mental health needs to join our Arts Psychotherapies Community Team in South Kensington and Chelsea.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

We are looking for an experienced Art therapist who is able to work as an independent clinician and as part of a multidisciplinary team. The post holder will be required to work autonomously and have a strong collaborative approach to clinical practice. The post holder will also need to demonstrate a strong ability to work sensitively and flexibly with adults with enduring mental health illnesses and to use the arts modality to support and foster creative expression.

CNWL is one of the largest NHS employers in the UK of Arts Psychotherapists, working in a vast range of services and has an increasing trainee placement programme continually broadening the reach of the profession.

In joining CNWL you’ll have access to first class national and international Arts psychotherapy CPD training through our International Centre for Arts Psychotherapy (ICAPT); as well as through our strong links with Brunel University, supporting and developing their international PHD and masters course in Art Psychotherapy training.

CNWL Arts Psychotherapies is linked nationally with research programmes and has strong QI support; and keen to expand the knowledge and evidence base of the Arts Psychotherapies.

We are committed to supporting our staff to achieve their potential whilst also ensuring they are also putting their health and wellbeing as a priority and have a vast range of support networks and benefits to offer all staff working for us.

We also have a thriving Arts in health service, Arts for staff initiatives and staff support projects such as our CARE project, as we want to ensure that our passion and knowledge of the benefits of the arts reaches patients and staff across the board.

**Job Purpose**:
To provide ArtTherapy including assessment, treatment and evaluation of group and individual work for service users within a specialist personality disorder programme and focused treatment programme for people with psychosis.

Undertake the supervision of students and/or honoraries.

Undertake arts therapy/psychotherapy research/audit as per the Trust research strategy for the arts therapies/psychotherapies and participate in research and audit.

**Overview of Main Responsibilities**:
To plan and develop ArtTherapy for service users who are referred to the psychological therapies service/ arts psychotherapies.

To assess referred service users in an adequate timeframe with respect to formulating and planning treatment taking into account risk factors, complexity of presentation, service user need, and service priorities.

To develop a high level of specialist clinical skill relevant to the fields of personality disorder and psychosis.

To contribute specialist knowledge from Art Therapy assessment and treatment to the overall treatment of each service user through contribution to clinical meetings.

To work in conjunction with the Community Arts Psychotherapies service, accepting and forwarding referrals as necessary.

To contribute to the development of the arts therapies within the Trust by facilitating placements for arts therapy students/honoraries, offering opportunities for participant observation. And participating and developing research.

Clinical supervision of students.

To be responsible for clinical input to the Trust’s research strategy for the arts therapies supervising allocated staff.

To be responsible for the completion of accurate and appropriate clinical notes and recording these appropriately and in a timely manner on electronic patient databases.

To contribute to MDT in responding to service users’ crises, answering enquiries, making presentations or attending meetings as required.

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