Senior Art Therpaist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Based at our hub in England South, Tyrwhitt House, Oaklawn Road, Leatherhead, KT22 0BX Status: Permanent Salary: Band 7, 45,942 - £52,573, per annum, dependent on experience, plus 5% Outer London Fringe Allowance Hours: Part-time, 18.75 hours per week ________________________________________________________________________________ About Us: Combat Stress is the UK's leading mental health charity for veterans. For over a century we've been helping former servicemen and women deal with issues like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety and depression. Today we provide specialist treatment and support for veterans from every service and conflict, focusing on those with complex mental health issues related to their military service. We provide a range of community, outpatient and residential mental health services to veterans with complex mental health problems. We provide services in-person, and via phone and online. About the role: An exciting and rare opportunity has arisen for a Senior Art Therapist to clinically lead our small team of art therapists in our innovative, trauma-informed work with veterans. We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated practitioner who will also be responsible for developing the service as new insights emerge within our groundbreaking work. To be successful, you will need to demonstrate proven ability to deliver a high quality, client-centred service. A key aspect of the role will involve working with veterans on the Veterans' Intensive Complex Trauma Organised Recovery (VICTOR) programme. Here you will introduce veterans to the use of creativity for self-expression, self-awareness, and promoting change, with the aim of supporting graded exposure to increased emotional awareness, affectively charged material, safe emotional expression, and regulation of affect. Working within the Psychological Therapies service, you will report to the Principal Clinical Psychologist. You will be part of an upbeat and dynamic interdisciplinary team, working together to treat and support veterans along individual treatment pathways. There will be the opportunity to use your skills, knowledge, and abilities to help veterans reclaim their lives after military trauma. This role is subject to a DBS check. As a healthcare environment, and for the health and wellbeing of our staff, veterans and visitors, we encourage everyone at Combat Stress especially professionals that are veteran facing to take up the offer to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 What we offer: You will work within a reputable charity that is constantly evolving to meet the needs of our veterans, that has a fantastic cause and a committed follower base. Benefits: * 27 days paid holiday plus bank holidays. After 5 years continuous service, this will increase to 30 days paid holiday plus bank holidays and after 10 years continuous service, this will increase to 33 days paid holiday plus bank holidays * Competitive stakeholder pension scheme - contributions matched up to 11% of salary * Discount shopping vouchers * Cycle to work scheme * Access to the Employee Assistance Programme * Flexible working * Access to Blue Light Card scheme * Death in Service Scheme Plus many more. ________________________________________________________________________________ Closing date: 29 May 2024 Interview date: TBC Please note, we reserve the right to close this advert early, should we receive a sufficient amount of applicants ________________________________________________________________________________

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• * MA/MSc in Art Therapy/Art Psychotherapy or Postgraduate Diploma (MA/MSc equivalent) in Art Therapy/Art Psychotherapy.
• * Professional registration with the Health and Care Professions Council

Desirable

• * Full membership of BAAT.

Experience

Essential

• * Experience of working as an art therapist in adult mental health settings with a wide variety of client groups presenting with problems that reflect the full range of mental health disorders experienced by veterans (e.g., trauma, anxiety disorders, depression, substance misuse) of varying clinical severity.
• * Experience of generic psychological therapist responsibilities, such as clinical screening, risk assessments, clinical assessment, or support network assessment.

Desirable

• * Experience of working with mental health services with British Veterans.
• * Experience of the application of art therapy in different cultural contexts.
• * Delivery of a manualised art therapy model.
• * Experience of audit & evaluation.
• * Research & service development experience.
• * Experience of supporting funding bids and writing outcome reports.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Combat Stress

Address

Oaklawn Road

Leatherhead

KT22 0BX

Employer's website

https://www.combatstress.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)