Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for two Arts Psychotherapists to join and develop a new and innovative forensic arts psychotherapies team and service: working with adult men and women in one of three high secure hospitals in the UK in the Psychology Department at Rampton Hospital, within Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
The post holders will work across all directorates in the hospital and lead into a service relevant to their forensic specialism and experience, e.g. Mental Health, Personality Disorder, Women, Deaf, Learning Disabilities.
The posts will be paid special High Secure Allowance and will be supported with specialist supervision, and research opportunities.
Professional links with other arts psychotherapists and AHPs within Rampton Hospital and the wider Trust are in place, and you will have opportunities to engage with these groups for networking and CPD.
Rampton Hospital provides high secure care for patients with MH/LD/PD who are a grave and immediate danger within the Forensic Division of the Trust. Please note that these two posts are part-time and will be required to work mainly, Thursdays and Fridays.
Please note that the interviews for these two posts will take place at Rampton Hospital on the 3rd and 4th November 2022.
Main duties of the job
To provide a high quality, specialist Arts Psychotherapies service predominantly as the main clinician into one clinical directorate, (e.g. Mental Health, Personality Disorder) or into one National High Secure Service (e.g. The National High Secure Deaf Service, Women's, Learning Disability) also working cross-directorate in Rampton Hospital. Encompassing both a creative and psychotherapeutic approach including assessment and formulation and delivery of arts psychotherapies interventions and prioritising aspects of practice.
Role Context:
To assess and formulate an appropriate Arts Psychotherapies treatment based on specialised experience of analysing complex patient needs and interpreting professional guidelines. This may require the psychotherapist to negotiate the individual's Arts Psychotherapies treatment with Multi-Disciplinary Teams in order to maintain continuity of psychotherapeutic process.
Works to a high level of accountability appropriate to a high secure setting.
Responsible for networking with Trust Arts Therapists/Psychotherapists and assisting, advising, supervising and offering training and consultation to Arts Psychotherapists and other professionals on a Trust-wide and national level.
About us
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Required to have a first degree in a related field and an MA in Art/Music/Dramatherapy.
Current registration with HCPC and professional body BAAT, BADTH, BAMT.
Substantial experience of own personal psychotherapy to inform clinical practice and to provide further understanding of the impact of the therapy process.
Extensive post-qualification experience, including working within Adult Mental Health. Experience of working with patients with severely challenging behaviour, forensic history, personality disorder, substance misuse or psychotic symptoms who present physical risk and in a forensic setting is desirable.
Demonstrate a level of clinical practice, theoretical awareness and understanding greater than acquired in basic training, a forensic setting would be desirable.
Specialist knowledge across a range of procedures/ interventions that are underpinned by a sound understanding of associated psycho-analytic theory and high levels of understanding of visual and non-verbal communication.
Has highly developed analytical and judgmental skills in selecting the most appropriate model from a variety of theoretical frameworks in making assessments, diagnoses and clinical interventions, according to the individual patient formulation.
Has a detailed awareness of current forensic/mental health/Learning Disability /Personality Disorder/Womens service issues.
Is skilled in receiving, evaluating and managing highly complex, emotive and sensitive information or situations and to demonstrate advanced awareness of clinical risk.
Has experience of multi-disciplinary team working.
Demonstrates awareness of the impact of the forensic setting on self and others, thereby gaining insight into the institutional dynamics and an ability to manage this.
Demonstrates ability to plan and deliver Arts Psychotherapies assessment, formulation and therapeutic interventions and prioritise aspects of practice relating to own caseload.
Continually maintains and develops own musical standards and skills and understanding of musical structures both of ones own work or performance and that of other exhibitors or performers.
Has IT skills necessary for report writing and communication, good organisational and administration skills.
Has developed clinical supervision skills. This involves building up relationships in which trust is essential to make it possible to explore transference and countertransference in work with patients.
To be willing to learn British Sign Language (BSL) for the purposes of leading Art Psychotherapy work into the National High Secure Deaf Service, or to engage in specialist training for their leading directorate.
Provides and receives highly complex and sensitive information where there are significant barriers to acceptance which need to be overcome using excellent interpersonal and communication skills such as would be required in a hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive atmosphere.
Able to effectively communicate highly complex, sensitive concepts and information to patients, internal professionals and external agencies in an understandable manner. To include sharing significant developments within the therapeutic process from an Arts Psychotherapies perspective.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Required to have a first degree in a related field and an MA in Art/Music/Dramatherapy.
Current registration with HCPC and professional body BAAT, BADTH, BAMT.
Substantial experience of own personal psychotherapy to inform clinical practice and to provide further understanding of the impact of the therapy process.
Extensive post-qualification experience, including working within Adult Mental Health. Experience of working with patients with severely challenging behaviour, forensic history, personality disorder, substance misuse or psychotic symptoms who present physical risk and in a forensic setting is desirable.
Demonstrate a level of clinical practice, theoretical awareness and understanding greater than acquired in basic training, a forensic setting would be desirable.
Specialist knowledge across a range of procedures/ interventions that are underpinned by a sound understanding of associated psycho-analytic theory and high levels of understanding of visual and non-verbal communication.
Has highly developed analytical and judgmental skills in selecting the most appropriate model from a variety of theoretical frameworks in making assessments, diagnoses and clinical interventions, according to the individual patient formulation.
Has a detailed awareness of current forensic/mental health/Learning Disability /Personality Disorder/Womens service issues.
Is skilled in receiving, evaluating and managing highly complex, emotive and sensitive information or situations and to demonstrate advanced awareness of clinical risk.
Has experience of multi-disciplinary team working.
Demonstrates awareness of the impact of the forensic setting on self and others, thereby gaining insight into the institutional dynamics and an ability to manage this.
Demonstrates ability to plan and deliver Arts Psychotherapies assessment, formulation and therapeutic interventions and prioritise aspects of practice relating to own caseload.
Continually maintains and develops own musical standards and skills and understanding of musical structures both of ones own work or performance and that of other exhibitors or performers.
Has IT skills necessary for report writing and communication, good organisational and administration skills.
Has developed clinical supervision skills. This involves building up relationships in which trust is essential to make it possible to explore transference and countertransference in work with patients.
To be willing to learn British Sign Language (BSL) for the purposes of leading Art Psychotherapy work into the National High Secure Deaf Service, or to engage in specialist training for their leading directorate.
Provides and receives highly complex and sensitive information where there are significant barriers to acceptance which need to be overcome using excellent interpersonal and communication skills such as would be required in a hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive atmosphere.
Able to effectively communicate highly complex, sensitive concepts and information to patients, internal professionals and external agencies in an understandable manner. To include sharing significant developments within the therapeutic process from an Arts Psychotherapies perspective.
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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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
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Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
