Creative Therapist

**Creative Therapist**:
**Band 7**:
**Main area**
- Creative Therapist
- **Grade**
- Band 7
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Job ref**
- 201-23-196**Site**
- Sowenna Unit
- **Town**
- Bodmin
- **Salary**
- £41,659 - £47,672 Per Annum
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- 09/02/2023 23:59Thank you for your interest in joining us at **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.**

**We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.**

**_ Strategic Themes_**

**_ Great Care_**:

- We will deliver safe, high quality, consistent and personalised care based on best practice. We are working to be a responsive organisation that listens and learns._

**_ Great Organisation_**_ _**:

- We work to be a green organisation, and our sustainability plan will deliver NHS net zero targets. We will support quality care, research and innovation. All our work will be underpinned by clear and transparent principles and systems._

**_ Great People _**:

- We will work together with our staff to create an organisation that supports our collective health and wellbeing. We will attract, retain and develop great people, and embed a caring, open, inclusive and restorative just culture that supports us to deliver quality care._

**_ Great Partner_**:

- With our partners we will deliver health care that improves people’s quality of life, prevents ill health and reduces inequalities. We will spend our money wisely to achieve high quality outcomes that matter to local people._
- _At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. 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 whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

**_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._**

**Job overview**:
We have an exciting and new opportunity for a Creative Therapist to join our CAMHS mental health inpatient team based at Sowenna, working with young people with severe and enduring mental health presentations.

This is a great time to be joining an expanding therapy team and the post will provide the opportunity to contribute to the development of therapeutic approaches at Sowenna, working within a creative and innovative multi-disciplinary team.

supporting clinical staff and providing interventions on the ward. We are looking for someone with qualifications and experience in a creative therapy (could be art, music, play, drama etc.) preferably within children’s mental health services, although this is not essential. The successful clinician will be required to draw upon the developing evidence base to support assessment, formulation, intervention, and evaluation processes at Sowenna. This will include contributing to the development of individual and group patient treatment programmes and supporting the development and implementation of training packages and reflective ward-based practices.

**Main duties of the job**:
To contribute to the provision of a Psychology and Psychological Therapies Service at Sowenna, our children and adolescent in-patient unit in Cornwall. To support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients, their families and carers within the service, across all sectors of care. To provide psychological assessment and psychological interventions (individual and group) in line with clear guidelines and with the support of regular clinical supervision. To contribute to the effectiveness of the assessment and treatment of our inpatient service delivery and to assist in clinically related
administration, conduct of audits, teaching, consultation processes and project work.

**Working for our organisation**:
We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and