Job summary
This substantive post is available part-time for 15 hours per week.
Applications are invited from appropriately accredited (HCPC, UKCP), qualified and experienced Arts Psychotherapists for a permanent community Arts Psychotherapy post based with the West Wiltshire Community Mental Health Team.
You will be joining a supportive and experienced team of Arts Psychotherapists, an Art Therapy Assistant, Psychologists, CBT Therapists, and Assistant Psychologists working across Wiltshire, embedded within the Wiltshire Psychological Therapies Service. We bring additional experience in CAT, CFT, MBT, DBT, CBT and EMDR. The team offers a range of group and individual creative psychological treatments across the Wiltshire Community Health Teams, the Inpatient Service at Green Lane Hospital, Devizes and Fountain Way, Salisbury. We are a creative team who work hard to actively support psychologically informed environments, and offer reflective practice groups and clinical supervision for staff.
Main duties of the job
We would welcome applications from arts psychotherapists with appropriate accreditation. The successful applicant will be a resourceful, confident and flexible therapist with clearly demonstrable skills and knowledge in working with people throughout the adult age range. You will be able to demonstrate knowledge of working with a number of different client groups in secondary mental health settings, and of having been responsible for providing assessments and focused psychological interventions.
You will work as an autonomous clinical practitioner and with clinical teams, planning and providing a psychological therapies service within your own area of practice, providing highly specialist arts psychotherapy treatment and ongoing evaluation.
A broad range of psychological models are used within the team and we would particularly value further training in additional specific therapies such as EMDR, MBT, CFT, or other therapeutic approaches in the treatment of relational trauma. You will have experience in working with complex trauma and severe mental health issues.
About us
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
AWP is committed to support and create a positive research and evidence-based environment and culture, which can have a beneficial impact on everyone who works for the organisation and the care we provide to those who use our services.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical Services
To provide a specialist arts psychotherapy service including assessment and treatment, using advanced levels of skill, for individual and group therapy and to advise teams in relation to service users complex needs and the range of interventions available.
To carry out assessments and consultation to inform and enable comprehensive information gathering, helping to establish formulations, regarding service users who present with unclear symptoms and complex mental health difficulties.
Regularly review and evaluate the therapy including levels of risk on line with the CMHTs processes.
Communicate with empathy and sensitivity with service users and carers with an awareness and understanding of their problems and often complex issues.
To be responsible for own specialist caseload working within Trust policies, protocols and guidelines.
To record service users progress in RIO patient records, write reports and input statistical data.
To engage in reflective practice and clinical supervision and to offer clinical supervision to arts psychotherapy staff and other colleagues, as required. To arrange and attend professional, team and specialist clinical supervision as appropriate to caseload.
Professional:
To work within professional codes of practice and to Health and Care Professions Councils(HCPC) standards. To work using best and evidence based practice.
To communicate effectively with members of clinical teams, managers and other professional colleagues both representing and providing an arts psychotherapy perspective.
Work with Managers and Locality Leads to ensure that all new, current or adapted arts psychotherapy spaces/rooms conform to professional Associations standards and Standards for Better Health, and provide an adequate, appropriate and safe therapeutic environment in which to practice.
To be responsible for ensuring that all arts works and digital images and recordings are appropriately stored in line with HCPC, professional associations guidelines and Trust policy.
Clinical Governance:
To support the AWP and other health colleagues in the development of the psychological therapies service through the implementation of effective Clinical Governance within the remit of the role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical Services
To provide a specialist arts psychotherapy service including assessment and treatment, using advanced levels of skill, for individual and group therapy and to advise teams in relation to service users complex needs and the range of interventions available.
To carry out assessments and consultation to inform and enable comprehensive information gathering, helping to establish formulations, regarding service users who present with unclear symptoms and complex mental health difficulties.
Regularly review and evaluate the therapy including levels of risk on line with the CMHTs processes.
Communicate with empathy and sensitivity with service users and carers with an awareness and understanding of their problems and often complex issues.
To be responsible for own specialist caseload working within Trust policies, protocols and guidelines.
To record service users progress in RIO patient records, write reports and input statistical data.
To engage in reflective practice and clinical supervision and to offer clinical supervision to arts psychotherapy staff and other colleagues, as required. To arrange and attend professional, team and specialist clinical supervision as appropriate to caseload.
Professional:
To work within professional codes of practice and to Health and Care Professions Councils(HCPC) standards. To work using best and evidence based practice.
To communicate effectively with members of clinical teams, managers and other professional colleagues both representing and providing an arts psychotherapy perspective.
Work with Managers and Locality Leads to ensure that all new, current or adapted arts psychotherapy spaces/rooms conform to professional Associations standards and Standards for Better Health, and provide an adequate, appropriate and safe therapeutic environment in which to practice.
To be responsible for ensuring that all arts works and digital images and recordings are appropriately stored in line with HCPC, professional associations guidelines and Trust policy.
Clinical Governance:
To support the AWP and other health colleagues in the development of the psychological therapies service through the implementation of effective Clinical Governance within the remit of the role.
Person Specification
Appropriate accreditation
Essential
- HCPC or UKCP registration
- NHS experience
- Experience of working with adults with complex presentations and trauma
- Experience of assessing and managing risk
Desirable
- Additional training in other therapeutic modalities
Person Specification
Appropriate accreditation
Essential
- HCPC or UKCP registration
- NHS experience
- Experience of working with adults with complex presentations and trauma
- Experience of assessing and managing risk
Desirable
- Additional training in other therapeutic modalities
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).
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).
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