Arts Therapist for children with Learning Disabilities - Band 7

Job summary

Learning Disability and Autism Directorate - Band 7 Arts Therapist working into the Children's Learning Disability Team. This is for a part time post 26 hours per week,permanent

• Are you looking for a job that can give you a diverse range of opportunities to learn and develop?
• Would you like to work in a service where Psychological Professionals are highly valued?
• Would you like to be offered excellent support and supervision?
• Do you want more opportunities to develop professionally?

The post is based at paybody building in Coventry but as a team we cover the whole of Coventry & Warwickshire.

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Main duties of the job

For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.

We are looking to employ an Art or Music Therapist to join our well-established Children's Learning Disability Team already inputting into the CLDT. The Psychological Professionals team includes 2 Clinical Psychologists. We have Arts Therapists in four of our other teams, but this is the first time for this team so a great opportunity to develop the role. There is strong multi-disciplinary working within the service and the contribution of psychological services staff is highly valued. Successful applicants will receive excellent support and regular, good quality supervision by a senior Arts Therapist. There will be CPD opportunities and the postholder will be supported to develop and build professional links with relevant university courses and professional bodies.

The Arts Therapist will provide input to this Learning Disability service in the form of specialist assessments and interventions, team formulation, consultation, and training. You will also lead on and contribute to service development, audit and research.

About us

A job with Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust can provide all these things. As an organisation we provide comprehensive mental health and learning disability services to the population of Coventry and Warwickshire. This includes Brooklands which is a national and regional provider of Learning Disability Forensic Inpatient Services. We also provide community services for the people of Coventry and IAPT and learning disability services in Solihull. There are four Community Teams for adults with a Learning Disability throughout the organisation and an Intensive Support Team.

The service received an overall rating of Good by the CQC and an Outstanding for care and compassion of which we are rightly proud. We have also been recognised both locally and nationally by receiving awards for the services we provide.

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.

Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services, we see on average around 5,000 patients every day.