Job summary
We are looking for a creative arts psychotherapist ( Music Therapist ) to work within the Specialist Learning Disability Community Team across East and North Herts. You will have developed a strong and compassionate alliance with adults with a learning disability, additional emotional and mental health difficulties and their paid and unpaid carers. You will enjoy and value close team- working to enable creative and meaningful opportunities for people who have a learning disability to express their needs.
Main duties of the job
This is a 5 day permanent post , in a well-managed resourceful MDT . You will be part of a arts therapies team and have good opportunities to work alongside other professionals within the service and wider trust.
You will understand how to provide innovative evidenced-based group and individual arts therapies assessment and treatment programs, within various community settings working closely with the MDT adult care services, community nursing and other providers. You will be a highly motivated communicator, with the team's shared passion for achieving the best outcomes for our service users. You will provide support to other therapists and maintain Trust and local team protocols that measure and record your clinical processes and decision making.
You will receive lots of support to develop your professional knowledge and skills through CPD opportunities. You will have excellent support with a range of ongoing supervisions including operational, professional and clinical.
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Then please read on...
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details regarding the role and responsibilities please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification documents attached.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details regarding the role and responsibilities please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification documents attached.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Good Honours degree in relevant subject and relevant work experience
- M.A. Art psychotherapy Dramatherapy Music Therapy
- Some postqualifying professional experience and a demonstrable knowledge of and commitment to best practice and evidence based practice
- Registered with Health and Care Professions council (HCPC)
- Experience of working as a therapist with service users with complex a learning disability including those with autism, mental health problems and/or personality disorders,
- Experience of working as a therapist with services users with profound and severe learning disabilities who may have limited communication skills and challenging behaviours
- Experience of working as a therapist or trainee with services users with profound and severe learning disabilities who may have limited communication skills and challenging behaviours
- Experience of working extensively with carers and families
- Experience of working consistently within a multidisciplinary team especially in community settings as therapist / trainee
- Experience of working with carers and families as therapist/ trainee or other role
- Substantial experience of own personal therapy
Desirable
- Experience of keyworking and care co-ordination of clients
- Evidence of continued professional development
SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITY
Essential
- Demonstrates skills required of providing individual and group therapeutic interventions in own field including: assessment and treatment and discharge planning
- Knowledge and skills in how to improve learning through work based and evidence based approach
- Demonstrates how to adapt skills in own field from work based learning to support people with a complex Learning disability and challenging behaviour, and or autism and/ or range of mental health problems including: a degree of personality disorder, a history of psychosis
- Demonstrates understanding of organisational and self management skills including management of complex systems and personnel
- Demonstrates clear use of different types of supervision and how it has benefitted work role
Desirable
- Ability to work in various settings inpatient and outpatient work in community settings with a range of complex cases
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Essential
- Ability to communicate effectively in own field in a highly emotive atmosphere, ie with patients' psychological resistance to personal disclosure and potentially threatening information, e.g. child protection and self harm
- Good communication skills: verbal & written, including presentations.
- Computer competency, including knowledge of electronic care records, email, word processing and audit tools.
ANALYTICAL SKILLS
Essential
- Highly developed knowledge of and skills in assessing clients for own specific field (art music or dramatherapy)
- Highly developed skills in own field for the application of psychodynamic formulations and theory to work for individuals, groups in caseload.
- Able to describe clearly the clinical process to other professionals service users and carers
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Good Honours degree in relevant subject and relevant work experience
- M.A. Art psychotherapy Dramatherapy Music Therapy
- Some postqualifying professional experience and a demonstrable knowledge of and commitment to best practice and evidence based practice
- Registered with Health and Care Professions council (HCPC)
- Experience of working as a therapist with service users with complex a learning disability including those with autism, mental health problems and/or personality disorders,
- Experience of working as a therapist with services users with profound and severe learning disabilities who may have limited communication skills and challenging behaviours
- Experience of working as a therapist or trainee with services users with profound and severe learning disabilities who may have limited communication skills and challenging behaviours
- Experience of working extensively with carers and families
- Experience of working consistently within a multidisciplinary team especially in community settings as therapist / trainee
- Experience of working with carers and families as therapist/ trainee or other role
- Substantial experience of own personal therapy
Desirable
- Experience of keyworking and care co-ordination of clients
- Evidence of continued professional development
SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITY
Essential
- Demonstrates skills required of providing individual and group therapeutic interventions in own field including: assessment and treatment and discharge planning
- Knowledge and skills in how to improve learning through work based and evidence based approach
- Demonstrates how to adapt skills in own field from work based learning to support people with a complex Learning disability and challenging behaviour, and or autism and/ or range of mental health problems including: a degree of personality disorder, a history of psychosis
- Demonstrates understanding of organisational and self management skills including management of complex systems and personnel
- Demonstrates clear use of different types of supervision and how it has benefitted work role
Desirable
- Ability to work in various settings inpatient and outpatient work in community settings with a range of complex cases
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Essential
- Ability to communicate effectively in own field in a highly emotive atmosphere, ie with patients' psychological resistance to personal disclosure and potentially threatening information, e.g. child protection and self harm
- Good communication skills: verbal & written, including presentations.
- Computer competency, including knowledge of electronic care records, email, word processing and audit tools.
ANALYTICAL SKILLS
Essential
- Highly developed knowledge of and skills in assessing clients for own specific field (art music or dramatherapy)
- Highly developed skills in own field for the application of psychodynamic formulations and theory to work for individuals, groups in caseload.
- Able to describe clearly the clinical process to other professionals service users and carers
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).
Employer details
Employer name
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Saffron Ground, Ditchmore Lane, Stevenage,Hertfordshire, SG1 3LJ
Ditchmore Lane,
Stevenage,Hertfordshire,
SG1 3LJ
Employer's website
https://www.hpft.nhs.uk/careers/ (Opens in a new tab)
