Arts Psychotherapies Integrated Education

6 months ago


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

Role Summary

This is an autonomous partnership role working with an arts psychotherapies service within a large NHS Trust in partnership with Brunel University London. You will be required to organise and coordinate placements for arts therapies students as well as support and coordinate arts therapists to be able to teach effectively, and provide regular liaison with Brunel academic staff, ultimately helping to build and stronger relationship with the tertiary sector and physical care, promoting good practices and excellent patient care.

This role will be divided between teacher support and placement coordination with administrative support.

We are looking for a Registered Arts Therapist with a passion for helping students with their placement needs as well as supporting practice educators and academic staff. This role will be divided between coordinating and developing new placements and academic support. You need to be able to be flexible, approachable, and to wILL able to work independetly.

Job sharing will be considered.

CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.

Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We’re proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.

Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.

Key Responsibilities

Education and Training

**Multi-Disciplinary Learning Needs Analysis**: you will be expected to work across the CNWL - Brunel partnership to conduct a multi-disciplinary learning needs analysis with CNWL arts and health educators. You will also be expected to build relationships with service users and service user forums and facilitate their input into the learning needs analysis.

You will be responsible for developing, implementing, evaluating placements in the NHS and third sector.

You will also be responsible for maintaining awareness of regional and national professional education programmes and up to date best practice guidance and disseminating suitable up-to-date reference material to educators and professionals involved in arts and health clinical education.

You will develop an evidence based, high quality multi-disciplinary education plan for the staff working in the post-Covid pathway informed by best practice, service user feedback and the learning needs analysis. The plan will include:

- Coordinating education and training for the partnership
- Coordinating trainee assessments
- Identifying gaps in trainee education provision and developing or commissioning education opportunities to fill them
- Development and facilitation of whole-system education and training through webinars, group sessions, for trainees and practice educators
- Developing, implementation of placement sites

**You will be responsible for**:

- Developing and implementing high standard placements across all sectors
- liasing with CNWL Arts Psychotherapies Partnership Education programmes to ensure consistency of guidance and messaging across professional educators and our trainees
- curating education material and regularly reviewing this material in line with emerging evidence.
- Providing timely assessment support and formative and summative assessments
- ensuring practice educators feel confident and competent to champion health equalities for arts therapies treatment and access, with particular reference to the social inequalities that may result from treatment options offers and to ensure trainees are sufficiently skilled to address these.
- Working with the Brunel Educators to set up a knowledge and skills development programme for all relevant professionals and trainnes

Managerial and Personal Responsibilities
- Act as an educator role model and Clinical Lead
- Develop a project plan aimed at delivering effective education:

- Key milestones and outputs to be achieved by when
- Clear governance and reporting structure
- Consideration of sustainability of all education, placement and development opportunities beyond the lifespan of the project
- Build and maintain a stron



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