Art Therapist

**Job overview**

**Trainee High Intensity Psychological Therapist**

**Band 6**

**Full Time Hours**

**Fixed Term - 12 Months**

**Main duties of the job**

Sandwell Healthy Minds within the Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) service to the local population of Sandwell.

The service offers a number of evidence-based psychological interventions both at step 2 and step 3 as proposed by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance. The service endeavours to offer the local population a full range of evidence-based psychological interventions, within a stepped care approach.

**Essential criteria**
- A recorded/registered qualification in one of the following at graduate level in nursing, social work, occupational therapy, arts therapy or within a psychological therapy.
- Evidence of meeting the Knowledge Skills and Attitude (KSA) requirements of BABCP

**Essential criteria**
- Demonstrable experience of working in mental health services
- Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets
- Ability to manage own caseload and time
- Demonstrates high standards in written communication
- Able to write clear reports and letters to referrers
- Worked in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes

**Desirable criteria**
- Experience of working in Primary Care Services

**Knowledge**

**Essential criteria**
- Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety and depression and how it may present in Primary Care
- Demonstrates a knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health
- Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months

**Salary**: £33,706.00-£40,588.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Childcare
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Flexitime
- Free or subsidised travel
- Gym membership
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Store discount
- Wellness programme
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Oldbury, West Midlands: reliably commute or be willing to relocate with an employer-provided relocation package (required)

Licence/Certification:

- NMC/OT/Soc Work/Art Therapy/Psych Prof Reg? (required)
- willing to undertake the uni training? (required)
- Demonstrable experience of working in mental health services (required)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Willingness to travel:

- 25% (preferred)

Work Location: One location

Application deadline: 22/02/2023
Reference ID: 285-6392-MH