Band 8a Art Psychotherapist - Community Team

Job summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated full time Senior Art Psychotherapist to join us for one year (maternity cover) working across Community Services. The successful applicant will join a dynamic team providing art psychotherapy in community mental health services.

The Community Art Psychotherapy team works within the five community Hubs across BSMHFT. This is a newly developed post working across two of our Community Hubs. The successful applicant will work across our North Hub in Erdington and our Solihull Hub in Marston Green. The community art psychotherapy team are part of the wider Arts Psychotherapies Service, a friendly, well-established team of therapists.

This senior role will have a mix of clinical responsibilities and supporting the Head of Arts Psychotherapies and Principal Art Psychotherapist in delivering the requirements and expectations of the Community Transformation of Mental Health Services. There will be opportunities for line management of Band 7 and 6 arts psychotherapists and supporting and clinically supervising trainees and qualified arts psychotherapists.

If you share our passion for people and the dedication to excel, we would love to hear from you. We encourage interested applicants to contact us for more information - please email Dr Jed Jerwood, Principal Art Psychotherapist for Community Services atj.jerwood@nhs.net for more information.

Main duties of the job

Developing and informing referral pathways, facilitating a range of art psychotherapy interventions to individuals and groups, providing consultation to other clinical staff and working as part of the MDT within the CMHT setting. You will receive clinical supervision from an experienced art psychotherapist, line management support from within the community art psychotherapy team, access to training and development opportunities and have the chance to develop your career within a dynamic team in a busy setting. You will have opportunities to develop your leadership, management, clinical supervision and training skills and take part in audit, research and innovation projects.

We welcome candidates who are motivated, dynamic and forward thinking. We are a diverse team who thrive on developing new opportunities and offering high quality, creative art psychotherapy interventions to people experiencing complex and persistent mental health difficulties, many of whom have experienced trauma, abuse and adverse childhood experiences.

About us

Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.

Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people's lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.