Creative Arts Practitioner

**Vacancy type**
- Paid Vacancy

**Function**
- Family Wellbeing & Outreach Services

**Location**
- Hospice - Sully

**Salary**
- £23,067.20 - £28,079.20 per annum (FTE £28,834 -£35,099) (Depending on experience)

**Contract type**
- Fixed term

**Contract hours**
- Part time

**Weekly hours**
- 30 hours

**Closing Date**
- 09/03/2025

**Ref No**
- 977

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Tŷ Hafan is a beautiful children's hospice located on the picturesque Vale of Glamorgan coastline. Covering South, East and West of Wales Tŷ Hafan offers a beautiful, newly refurbished working environment set in idyllic ground a short distance from the metropolitan area of Cardiff.

We have an exciting opportunity to join our established Family Wellbeing and Outreach Services team as a Creative Arts Practitioner. This new role is part time at 30 hours per week.

**About the Role**

We are looking for a passionate and driven qualified Creative Arts Practitioner to join our Psychological Therapies Service, which forms part of our bereavement service offer. The Creative Arts Practitioner role will assess the holistic needs of individual children and plan and facilitate meaningful and appropriate 1-1 Therapeutic Art interventions, and deliver creative arts led group interventions alongside other Therapists. The role holder will be pivotal in the delivery of memory work for children and families using a number of creative methods. This post will be working with children and families to create long lasting memories and often in extremely emotive situations. The role will be based at the hospice and in the community.

Hours for the role are 30 hours. Applicants will be required to work flexibly, occasional weekend and evenings as and when required. Driving licence and use of car with ability to travel across the South, West and East areas of Wales is essential.

**About You**

We are seeking a creatively qualified individual with experience in delivering adaptable therapeutic interventions for children with a wide range of disabilities. You will have a strong understanding of child development and assessment, including the specific needs of children with complex medical conditions and abilities.

You will be IT competent, with organisational skills and the ability to plan, prioritise, and manage your workload effectively.

As a personable and approachable individual, you will work well in a challenging environment, with the ability to work under pressure in a high-emotional-intensity setting. Throughout your role, you will demonstrate our values in everything you do.

**About Us**

Tŷ Hafan's ambition is that when a child's life will be short, no family should have to live it on their own. Sadly, we know that thousands of families in Wales are struggling alone through fear, exhaustion and uncertainty that comes with caring for a child whose life will be short. We believe that no family should have to live this on their own and we are determined to walk alongside every family through life, death and beyond.

At Tŷ Hafan we are experts at caring for children with life-shortening conditions and our services support families in our Hospice, in community settings, local hospitals and in families' homes. We understand that the needs of each child and their family are unique and we know that caring for a child with a life-shortening condition is often extremely demanding. Our aim is to make sure that no one doing this alone. Our colleagues, volunteers and supporters are crucial in the delivery of our ambition - we know that everyone plays a huge part in making sure that no family faces their child's short life alone.

Our Vision: A Wales where every child with life-shortening condition lives a fulfilling life, supported with the compassion and specialist care and their family need.

Oure Purpose: No family should have to face the unimaginable loss of their child alone. With children and families at the heart of all we do, we provide free care and support in our hospice and in community, offering a lifeline throughout the child's short life, at end of life, through bereavement and beyond.

Our Values: At Tŷ Hafan we make a difference by living our values which are Demonstrating Compassion, Providing Excellent Service, Working Together and Taking Ownership.

**The benefits of working for Tŷ Hafan include**:

- Investment in you and your professional career with allocated time for professional development and training opportunities.
- Holiday entitlement of 30 days (rising to 32 days with service) plus Bank Holidays (pro rata for part time roles).
- The ability to continue with your NHS pension or to enter a Group Personal Pension Scheme with an employer contribution of 5%.
- Life assurance (death in service benefit).
- Wellbeing support and clinical supervision available both on site and through external providers.
- Employee assistance program, which provides a range of free services including counselling, financial and legal support.
- Unlimited access t