Art Psychotherapist

Are you a Psychological Therapist with a passion for working with young people and their families? Do you believe in keeping young people and their families at the heart of everything you do? Would you like to work in a committed and psychologically-minded multidisciplinary team and service line?

We have exciting opportunities for a band 7Arts Psychotherapist in the East Suffolk Children and Families teams (CAMHS), based at Mariner House with the clinical base at Walker Close, Ipswich (East). The post is permanent and for 30 hours a week.

Our team prides itself on highly skilled practitioners. We learn, develop and work together to ensure the young person and their family/carers receive a tailored package of care based on good assessment and formulation. Our team currently works with young people aged 0-16 years (changing to 0-18 years in the future). We are a secondary mental health service.

You will be a trained Arts Psychotherapist registered with the HCPC, with clinical experience of working with young people and in a mental health setting.

The team works with young people with moderate to severe mental health difficulties and their families and carers, formulated with biopsychosocial models. We will be looking for someone who can offer a strong creative and psychotherapeutic perspective to engagement, formulation and intervention. You’ll get experience of working with varied presentations and there will opportunities to develop special interests within the CAMHS offer

NSFT is engaged in a process of significant and exciting change with a new Suffolk-wide care group for Children, Young People and Families. Recent CQC inspection has shown improvements in the services which we plan to build on as we transform the Suffolk CFYP Services.

We have a new leadership structure and are engaged with internal and external transformation, and psychology is represented at the highest level within this. NSFT in collaboration with alliance partners are striving to deliver a truly biopsychosocial approach within the ‘Thrive’ framework. This will require significant system changes across Suffolk to move towards a whole system approach and to improve care for our young people and their experience of services.

We believe in our Trust values of together, positively and respectfully with regards to our service users, as well our colleagues

The Child and Family Team East is a core secondary community mental health team. The team works alongside other teams such as Connect (Looked after children), Wellbeing, Schools, ADHD, LD CAMHS, Eating Disorders, Youth and Crisis.

There is a lot of development within the service line, with a focus on outcome measures, people participation, improving assessment, formulation and care planning, building better links with voluntary agencies and other stakeholders, for example.

Contribute to the provision of the Psychological Therapy Services within NSFT

Work as part of the multidisciplinary team, carrying a caseload of clients

Receive regular supervision in line with the Trust Policies and responsible for management of own caseload and ensuring high standards of care are maintained in line with Trust policies and professional codes of practice

Supervision and consultancy to other mental health professionals and involved in the development of Psychological Therapy provision within the locality as appropriate

Accountable for accurate mental health clustering of all patients in caseload on admission, discharge and at review meetings.

Ensure all mental health clustering information is passed onto other Trust teams or services on transfer of patients.

Responsible for maintaining the accuracy and quality of mental health clustering activity within the team.

Work as a high level clinician providing Specialist Arts Psychotherapy assessments and treatment to adults and children with a range of psychological and emotional disorders.

Provide expertise in all aspects of Arts Psychotherapy to clients, carers and significant others.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Clinical

Manage a highly specialised caseload consisting of severe and complex psychological disorders.

Advise other professionals on appropriate referrals for Arts Psychotherapy.

Utilise specialist assessment skills to determine a potential client’s suitability for Arts Psychotherapy, and make informed recommendations for other treatment modalities where indicated.

Provide consultation to and communicate as appropriate with external agencies (including housing, police, local authority, employers, employment support workers etc.)

Carry oot specialised comprehensive assessments, collecting, interpreting and integrating clinical data from a range of sources, including direct observation, interviews with service users, carers and other professionals involved with the client’s care.

Be sensitive to differences in culture and languages, working with interpreters as required.

Contribute to risk assessments and management