Creative Therapist

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

This post provides an exciting opportunity to contribute to the psychological care of multiple service users with a range of physical health conditions. We work to a rehabilitation-based ethos, putting the individual patient at the centre of all we do with the aim of helping them return to community living. This role will require working across different teams and will require an experienced therapist to manage the different pressures and ensure the best care for patient. This is an exciting new post enabling the creation of the provision of Creative Therapy.

This post offers close multi-agency and multi-disciplinary working within a team. The role will involve the use of assessment and intervention skills to design and provide Creative Therapy service to patients. In addition to the delivery of individual and group therapeutic work, the role will involve the promotion of a psychologically informed environment. There will also be opportunities to consult and promote models of care informed by a recovery-based ethos. Part of this role will be to manage a Creative Therapy Assistant. You will receive regular clinical supervision.

An active engagement with activities of continuing professional development and research to support audit.

The successful candidate will join a supportive team of clinicians, committed to developing high quality care. There is a strong Creative Therapy team working across the trust who meet regularly to provide peer support.

Main duties of the job

To ensure the development and maintenance of the highest personal standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the post-holder's manager.

To contribute to the development and articulation of best practice within the service areas, by exercising the skills of a reflexive and reflective practitioner. The post-holder will participate in regular professional supervision and appraisal and will maintain an active engagement with current developments in the field of Creative therapy and related disciplines.

To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and professional self-governance in accordance with service and Trust policies and procedures.

To maintain an up-to-date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues of relevance to the service and client group.

To undertake such other duties and responsibilities, appropriate to the grade of the post, as may be agreed with the respective service manager

About us

Are you committed to providing remarkable care and service?

Are you passionate about helping people and want to make a difference every day?

We want to meet you!

Southern Health is one of the largest Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health, adult and child community health and learning disabilities. We are committed to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse and neglect through our 6,500 strong workforce.

Southern Health has over 300 sites across the county and we serve 1.5 million people throughout all stages of their lives. Our aim is to work alongside the people we support (and our health and care partners) to deliver the best possible care and constantly improve.

Here at SHFT we have so much to be proud of:

Working as a team and supporting each other, we put patients and our staff at the heart of everything we do.
We have a skilled and diverse workforce and are committed to our staff development, offering bespoke training packages, leadership pathways and career opportunities.
We offer a variety of benefits such as an amazing pension scheme, generous annual leave, Childcare Choices scheme, many discounts (Blue Light card, The Company Shop, NHS Staff Discounts, cycle to work scheme) and much more.

Come to work with us, together we will provide outstanding treatment and care to improve lives.

Date posted

20 December 2022

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£41,659 to £47,672 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

348-MNH-937A

Job locations

Alton Community Hospital

Chawton Park Road

Alton

Hampshire

GU34 1RJ

Job description

Job responsibilities

We are currently recruiting for a Band 7 Creative Therapist for our Physical Rehabilitation Inpatient Wards.

Alton Community Hospital is expanding services to meet the needs of the local community and are looking for a Creative Therapist to be part of shaping the care for the community for the future. We have recently opened Inwood Ward to complement the existing Anstey Ward and provide exciting new opportunities and forward-thinking models of rehabilitation and reablement

Both wards consist of multi-disciplinary teams including; doctors, a consultant practitioner, nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, and healthcare support workers. We are looking for nurses to join our highly skilled multi-disciplinary team to deliver the best services possible to the community of Alton.

The hospital has close links with the community, and we take direct admissions from home, step down admissions from acute hospitals and provide end of life care to the locality.

In addition to rehabilitation, Alton Community Hospital is looking to expand provision of services to prevent acute hospital admissions.

We are committed to support the development of your career and have a competency-based approach to clinical training and development which will ensure you are able to apply your newly developed skills in a safe and effective way.

The successful applicants will be proficient, knowledgeable and competent and preferably educated to degree level, or equivalent.

Job description

Job responsibilities

We are currently recruiting for a Band 7 Creative Therapist for our Physical Rehabilitation Inpatient Wards.

The hospital has close links with the community, and we take direct admissions from home, step down admissions from acute hospitals and provide end of life care to the locality.

In addition to rehabilitation, Alton Community Hospital is looking to expand provision of services to prevent acute hospital admissions.

The successful applicants will be proficient, knowledgeable and competent and preferably educated to degree level, or equivalent.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

MA/MSc or equivalent in Drama Therapy, Music Therapy or Art Psychotherapy.
Met conditions of full membership Professional Association (British Association for Music Therapy (BAMT), British Association of Dramatherapists (BADth), British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT).
Post-holder must be HCPC registered.

Experience

Essential

Supervised clinical experience of providing psychological support to patients with physical health needs.
Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
Experience of line management

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

MA/MSc or equivalent in Drama Therapy, Music Therapy or Art Psychotherapy.
Met conditions of full membership Professional Association (British Association for Music Therapy (BAMT), British Association of Dramatherapists (BADth), British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT).
Post-holder must be HCPC registered.

Experience

Essential

Supervised clinical experience of providing psychological support to patients with physical health needs.
Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
Experience of line management

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.