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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.

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