Job summary
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Creative Therapist to work as part of Psychological Services across at Parklands Hospital (Basingstoke). This post will work across inpatient acute wards which include an 18 bed female acute mental health ward, a newly refurbished 18 bed male acute mental health ward and a male psychiatric intensive care ward.
This post provides an exciting opportunity to contribute to the care of multiple service users with a range of complex presenting problems. We work to a recovery-based ethos, putting the individual service user at the centre of all we do. 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 each setting. This is an exciting new post enabling the creation of the provision of Creative Therapy.
You will join a dynamic, supportive, skilled and psychologically minded multidisciplinary team. The team are dedicated to the recovery of people in crisis and committed to delivering high quality, evidence-based interventions including CBT and DBT-informed approaches both individually and in groups.
You will also be embedded within a friendly and welcoming North Hampshire Acute Psychology Team consisting of Band 8C Principal Clinical Psychologist, Band 8A Psychologists, Band 7 Psychological Therapist and Assistant Psychologists.
Main duties of the job
To work as an autonomous, independent practitioner responsible for own work and intervention and for the interpretation of agreed guidelines and policies in providing a highly specialist Psychology service. To undertake complex assessments and consultancy, providing expert advice to acute care colleagues and the wider clinical multi-professional team. To provide specialist treatment for complex cases and plan and prioritise own clinical workload. To comment and propose change to policy or service development within the area psychological service. To provide psychological guidance and supervision for multidisciplinary clinical colleagues. To undertake a personal research and development programme and develop and encourage a research culture within the wider clinical team.
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide specialist and generic assessments of referred clients using a range of assessment methods, as appropriate.
To formulate, devise and evaluate treatment and management plans for a highly complex client group and to provide Creative therapy, using a range of individual and group interventions appropriate to the service.
To provide specialist advice, guidance and consultation to other NHS professionals and to external agencies. To assist in the formulation and treatment of clients with complex and changing needs.
To participate in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency team meetings.
To provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation, treatment plans and needs of the client.
To liaise with other multi-disciplinary professionals regarding patient care.
The post-holder will be required to tolerate and manage potential verbal abuse and occasional physical aggression.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the Trust's policies and procedures.
The post-holder will also utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development within the service.
To take responsibility for ensuring that rooms and equipment used for Creative therapy are kept in good order and in accordance with health, safety and security standards.
To recommend, maintain, order and allocate equipment for use in the service, as appropriate.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide specialist and generic assessments of referred clients using a range of assessment methods, as appropriate.
To formulate, devise and evaluate treatment and management plans for a highly complex client group and to provide Creative therapy, using a range of individual and group interventions appropriate to the service.
To provide specialist advice, guidance and consultation to other NHS professionals and to external agencies. To assist in the formulation and treatment of clients with complex and changing needs.
To participate in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency team meetings.
To provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation, treatment plans and needs of the client.
To liaise with other multi-disciplinary professionals regarding patient care.
The post-holder will be required to tolerate and manage potential verbal abuse and occasional physical aggression.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the Trust's policies and procedures.
The post-holder will also utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development within the service.
To take responsibility for ensuring that rooms and equipment used for Creative therapy are kept in good order and in accordance with health, safety and security standards.
To recommend, maintain, order and allocate equipment for use in the service, as appropriate.
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 Drama therapists (BADth), British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT).
- Post-holder must be HCPC registered.
Desirable
- Post-graduate training in one or more additional specialised areas of practice.
- Membership of a relevant professional association.
Experience
Essential
- Supervised clinical experience with those with complex presentations, including risk to self and others, and their families.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
Desirable
- Experience of the application of Creative therapy in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of delivering group programmes.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
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 Drama therapists (BADth), British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT).
- Post-holder must be HCPC registered.
Desirable
- Post-graduate training in one or more additional specialised areas of practice.
- Membership of a relevant professional association.
Experience
Essential
- Supervised clinical experience with those with complex presentations, including risk to self and others, and their families.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
Desirable
- Experience of the application of Creative therapy in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of delivering group programmes.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
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).
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
