Job summary
- Are you someone looking for a career in one of the UK's most respected mental health and learning disability trusts?
- Would you like to be part of a dedicated team committed to making a difference to peoples lives to enjoy a better future?
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the team at the new Regional Learning Disability and Autism Unit in Dawlish (The Brook).
The job offers a challenging yet rewarding environment with opportunities to consistently learn.
The Brook is a new regional service which will provide high quality care and treatment for people who have learning disabilities and complex mental health needs. You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team to support the assessment and treatment of adults with a learning disability or autism on the unit.
We are committed to the ongoing training and development of all our staff and offer a range of opportunities for career progression.
The building and environment will be state of the art and the service aims to become a centre of excellence.
Main duties of the job
The principal purpose of the job is to improve the psychological health & wellbeing of people with learning disabilities or autistic people as part of their inpatient journey.
You will work as part of a team of arts therapists and as part of the wider multidisiplinary team offering local clinical expertise and leadership.
About us
About Devon Partnership Trust
We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.
We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do
Our values
We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Communication and Working
Relationships
- Clients, family and carers: To communicate in a highly skilled
and sensitive manner with clients who may have specific difficulties in
understand and/or communicating and who may be hostile, antagonistic or
highly emotionally disturbed.
- Multidisciplinary team colleagues: To work closely with colleagues in
the multi-professional integrated mental health and wellbeing service on a
day to day basis.
- Health & social care staff: To communicate with a wide range of
health & social care staff in hospital and in community settings in a
highly skilled and sensitive manner, complex and sensitive information
concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under
the services care. To provide support & guidance in the application of
psychological principles and techniques, and to foster reflective practice.
- Senior managers & professional
staff: To
maintain and build good working relationships with senior professional staff
and managers across the service and in DPT to foster a positive approach to
the integrated mental health and wellbeing service and to enable effective
negotiation.
Planning and Organisation
- The service: To plan and prioritise own workload, balancing the
demands of patient care, support and guidance of carers and professionals and
service research and development activities.
- To contribute to the planning and organising of the
psychology and therapy services within the locality area and to contribute to
the development and improvement of provision of psychological services within
services to best meet the organisations strategy and priorities.
- The multidisciplinary service: To provide arts therapy knowledge to
the multiprofessional planning, development and marketing of mental health
and wellbeing services.
- Responsibility for Judgement and Analysis
- To
provide specialist therapy expertise and advice.
- To
provide Dramatherapy, developing specialist psychological formulations and
assessments of clients, formulating plans for their psychological treatment
and implementing specialist psychological interventions for individuals,
carers, families and groups.
- To support the Professional Head, General
Manager, Practice and Strategic Development Leads and Professional Leads by
undertaking service development and redesign projects and coordinating the
resulting work within the team.
Responsibility for Patient/Client
Care, Treatment and Therapy
- Assessment & intervention: To make highly skilled evaluations
and decisions about assessment, treatment and discharge, including the
management of risk. To formulate plans for psychological treatment and
implementing specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers,
families and groups and to demonstrate awareness of diversity issues.
- Consultation & guidance: To provide advice, guidance and
consultation on psychological aspects of patient care to colleagues, other
service providers, patients, supporters and families.
Policy, Service, Research, Innovation
and Improvement
- The post holder is accountable for their own professional
actions, acting within Trust policies and procedures and Professional
Practice Guidelines.
- Policy & service: To support proposed changes for
policy and for service development.
Responsibility for Finance, Equipment and
Other Resources
- Careful use of equipment.
Responsibility for
Supervision, Leadership and Management
- Leadership & supervision: To supervise the work of assistants
&/or trainees as required. To provide supervision & consultancy to
health and social care colleagues.
- To support placements for trainee staff in line with
professional guidelines
Information Resources and
Administrative Duties
- To maintain accurate records, compliant with Trust
Practice Standards.
- To be responsible for using an email account to generate,
monitor, and respond to the e-mail traffic by which the Trust conducts much
of its internal communication.
Responsibility for Research and Development
- To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research
to support evidence based practice in individual work within the PPT and
local mental health services.
- To support project work including specific areas of audit,
research or service evaluation
- As a
clinician to be responsible for collecting clinical practice and outcome data
that contributes to building practice based evidence and service evaluation.
Freedom to Act
- The
post holder is accountable for their own professional actions, acting within
Trust policies and procedures and Professional Practice Guidelines
- To work autonomously within
clinical professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the
governance of psychological practice within the locality/specialty. Interpretation
of professional and Trust guidelines,
and implementing policies in conjunction with peers, Head of Profession and
General Manager.
- To
provide specialist Psychological therapy expertise and advice
guidance and consultation on psychological aspects of patient care to
colleagues, other service providers, patients, supporters and families.
Any Other Specific Tasks Required
- To ensure all clinical care and treatment provided by
psychologists/therapists is carried out under appropriate supervision and
leadership.
- To ensure that all relevant staff groups continuously
update the skills and techniques relevant to their clinical work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Communication and Working
Relationships
- Clients, family and carers: To communicate in a highly skilled
and sensitive manner with clients who may have specific difficulties in
understand and/or communicating and who may be hostile, antagonistic or
highly emotionally disturbed.
- Multidisciplinary team colleagues: To work closely with colleagues in
the multi-professional integrated mental health and wellbeing service on a
day to day basis.
- Health & social care staff: To communicate with a wide range of
health & social care staff in hospital and in community settings in a
highly skilled and sensitive manner, complex and sensitive information
concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under
the services care. To provide support & guidance in the application of
psychological principles and techniques, and to foster reflective practice.
- Senior managers & professional
staff: To
maintain and build good working relationships with senior professional staff
and managers across the service and in DPT to foster a positive approach to
the integrated mental health and wellbeing service and to enable effective
negotiation.
Planning and Organisation
- The service: To plan and prioritise own workload, balancing the
demands of patient care, support and guidance of carers and professionals and
service research and development activities.
- To contribute to the planning and organising of the
psychology and therapy services within the locality area and to contribute to
the development and improvement of provision of psychological services within
services to best meet the organisations strategy and priorities.
- The multidisciplinary service: To provide arts therapy knowledge to
the multiprofessional planning, development and marketing of mental health
and wellbeing services.
- Responsibility for Judgement and Analysis
- To
provide specialist therapy expertise and advice.
- To
provide Dramatherapy, developing specialist psychological formulations and
assessments of clients, formulating plans for their psychological treatment
and implementing specialist psychological interventions for individuals,
carers, families and groups.
- To support the Professional Head, General
Manager, Practice and Strategic Development Leads and Professional Leads by
undertaking service development and redesign projects and coordinating the
resulting work within the team.
Responsibility for Patient/Client
Care, Treatment and Therapy
- Assessment & intervention: To make highly skilled evaluations
and decisions about assessment, treatment and discharge, including the
management of risk. To formulate plans for psychological treatment and
implementing specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers,
families and groups and to demonstrate awareness of diversity issues.
- Consultation & guidance: To provide advice, guidance and
consultation on psychological aspects of patient care to colleagues, other
service providers, patients, supporters and families.
Policy, Service, Research, Innovation
and Improvement
- The post holder is accountable for their own professional
actions, acting within Trust policies and procedures and Professional
Practice Guidelines.
- Policy & service: To support proposed changes for
policy and for service development.
Responsibility for Finance, Equipment and
Other Resources
- Careful use of equipment.
Responsibility for
Supervision, Leadership and Management
- Leadership & supervision: To supervise the work of assistants
&/or trainees as required. To provide supervision & consultancy to
health and social care colleagues.
- To support placements for trainee staff in line with
professional guidelines
Information Resources and
Administrative Duties
- To maintain accurate records, compliant with Trust
Practice Standards.
- To be responsible for using an email account to generate,
monitor, and respond to the e-mail traffic by which the Trust conducts much
of its internal communication.
Responsibility for Research and Development
- To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research
to support evidence based practice in individual work within the PPT and
local mental health services.
- To support project work including specific areas of audit,
research or service evaluation
- As a
clinician to be responsible for collecting clinical practice and outcome data
that contributes to building practice based evidence and service evaluation.
Freedom to Act
- The
post holder is accountable for their own professional actions, acting within
Trust policies and procedures and Professional Practice Guidelines
- To work autonomously within
clinical professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the
governance of psychological practice within the locality/specialty. Interpretation
of professional and Trust guidelines,
and implementing policies in conjunction with peers, Head of Profession and
General Manager.
- To
provide specialist Psychological therapy expertise and advice
guidance and consultation on psychological aspects of patient care to
colleagues, other service providers, patients, supporters and families.
Any Other Specific Tasks Required
- To ensure all clinical care and treatment provided by
psychologists/therapists is carried out under appropriate supervision and
leadership.
- To ensure that all relevant staff groups continuously
update the skills and techniques relevant to their clinical work.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Recognised qualification in Arts Therapy
- Registration with HCPC
- IT skills
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist therapeutic assessment and treatment of mental health clients across a wide range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
- Experience in working with learning disabled clients
- Experience, and/or training in diversity awareness and social inequality
Desirable
- Experience gained during supervised training of working (in specialist area)
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Recognised qualification in Arts Therapy
- Registration with HCPC
- IT skills
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist therapeutic assessment and treatment of mental health clients across a wide range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
- Experience in working with learning disabled clients
- Experience, and/or training in diversity awareness and social inequality
Desirable
- Experience gained during supervised training of working (in specialist area)
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
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).
