Job summary
Employer heading
Art Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Art Therapist/Art Psychotherapist to join our medium secure forensic service. We are looking for a motivated and compassionate Art Therapist with excellent communication skills, who can work within an emotionally demanding environment to deliver high quality and effective Arts Therapy provision. It is important that the applicant can work with a high degree of autonomy and who is keen to work as part of the wider MDT working alongside our Psychology and Allied Health Professional colleagues.
The trust has an established wider group of Arts and Creative Therapists across its services lead by a Creative Therapy Professional lead. There will be an expectation that the successful applicant will participate in further professional development as an Art’s therapist and to develop research projects relating to the role and the forensic service. Humber TFT is a trauma informed organisation. There will be opportunities to develop your trauma informed practice and to contribute towards its development in the service.
As this is a teaching trust you will be supported to provide opportunities to facilitate Art Therapy Student placements as part of our rolling program with Sheffield Hallam University
Main duties of the job
· The post-holder will be responsible for providing appropriate creative therapies within the forensic inpatient units to individuals experiencing complex mental health problems and learning disabilities.
· To plan, provide and develop specialist patient-centred Arts Therapies including assessment, treatment and evaluation of individual and group work using own Arts Therapies modality.
· The post holder will directly contribute to the positive working environment within the multi-disciplinary team. The post will have alignment with both the Allied Health Professional and Psychology team in the forensic division to manage referrals and delivery.
· The post holder will require a high degree of professional autonomy and self-management and will be required to account for their professional practice through appraisal and audit.
· Provide clinical supervision for other therapists in relevant art form including trainees.
· The postholder will engage in specialist clinical and professional supervision relevant to the role and practice.
· Undertake Quality Improvement and research work relevant to their clinical area and specialism.
Working for our organisation
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website
We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
From city to countryside, market towns to moors you’ll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
See attached job description and person specification for the full details of this post and the opportunities it presents.
Person specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service area
- Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area
- Advanced/expert understanding of relevant clinical practice, standards and protocols within identified clinical area.
- Current HCPC registration and British Association of Art Therapists registered
- Educated to Masters Level (or Masters level/Post Graduate modules plus relevant knowledge/ experience
Desirable criteria
- Member of specialist interest group/network, regionally or nationally
- Advanced/expert clinical qualification Prepared to undertake or hold an accredited leadership qualification
- Teaching qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of sound post-registration professional practice
- Demonstrable experience of working in the specific field where the post is held
- Evidence of advanced practice skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development
- Professional networking regionally and nationally
- Evidence of promoting/supporting active user/carer involvement/participation
Desirable criteria
- A breadth of clinical practice including clinically specialising in the field where the post is held
- Ability to work across team/organisational boundaries developing and maintaining multi-professional and multi-agency partnerships • Experience of developing others through education, mentorship, coaching, teaching, assessing, presentations, publishing
Skills and competencies
Essential criteria
- Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising and mentoring and teaching
- Able to demonstrate effective communication skills
Desirable criteria
- Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally
- Be able to demonstrate leadership/management skills at an advanced level
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Helen Courtney
- Job title
- Divisional Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01482 478711
- Additional information
James Wear, Professional Lead Creative Therapist
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