Job summary
- Main area
- Art/Drama Therapy
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 10 months (End date in Dec 2026)
- Hours
- Part time - 7.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 310-ASMH-7761783
- Employer
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Fulbourn Hospital
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Drama Therapist/Art Therapist
Band 6
Job overview
The Arts Therapies Service take referrals for patients where a clear clinical need is identified across all localities within CPFT. Referrals are taken from Children’s, Adults and Older Peoples Directorates both in Acute and Community settings. The Arts Therapies Service delivers groups and individual sessions on Wards for inpatients and delivers sessions for community patients within the Arts Therapies department main base and where relevant in Community bases for patients in the community.
The postholder will provide specialist Drama/Art Therapy assessment and intervention, both individual and group, and to review the effectiveness of interventions using outcome measures as required by the Arts Therapies Professional Lead.
Main duties of the job
• To work collaboratively with people, their carers and families, and multidisciplinary teams and to plan Drama/Art Therapy interventions.
• To manage a specialist case load, providing assessment, diagnoses, treatment and monitoring of individuals identified needs across the Arts Therapies Service.
• To participate in multi-disciplinary/ multi agency working within the Arts Therapies. and with key partners.
Working for our organisation
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
- To participate in the delivery of Drama/Art Therapy under the guidance of a specialist band 7 Arts Therapist and the Lead Arts Therapist by managing a caseload of clients.
- To maintain professional standards in accordance with the relevant professional body BADTH/BAAT and the professional regulator (Health and Care Professions Council)
- To participate in audit, service evaluation and research activities when required
- To participate in the delivery of Drama/Art Therapy under the guidance of specialist band 7 Arts Therapist and the Lead Arts Therapist by managing a caseload of clients.
- The post holder will demonstrate specialist knowledge and skills and have undertaken appropriate post registration training.
- To be proficient in the assessment, identification, treatment and management of the emotional and psychological needs of the population requiring prolonged, in-depth concentration. This includes risk assessment, assessment of complex conditions.
- To frequently communicate and receive highly complex sensitive information with people; who have experienced trauma/abuse /highly complex needs; their relatives/carers and other professionals.
- To have the specialist knowledge / skill to apply psychodynamic formulations and theory to work with individuals, groups and organizations
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- Degree or equivalent in Art or Drama
- Professional Qualification in Art Therapy/Dramatherapy at Master’s level or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of relevant post registration training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in Mental Health.
- Experience of working collaboratively with people and teams.
- Experience of managing own caseload and prioritising effectively
- Experience of Drama/Art Therapy individual assessment and intervention relevant to Mental Health
- Experience of using clinical supervision effectively
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to assess patients’ suitability for arts therapies interventions and to make decisions and recommendations based on strong theoretical knowledge and an understanding of the evidence base
- Ability to support and engage in shared decision making with patients, including with patients who experience communication challenges
- Ability to identify, monitor and evaluate Arts Therapies goals with patients to support recovery and wellbeing
- Ability to offer Dramatherapy/ Art Therapy interventions to meet the needs of individual and groups with complex needs, including those with complex communication needs
- Ability to contribute to safety planning using professional theoretical knowledge and skills in risk assessment, which includes maintaining a safe therapy environment and supports a patient understanding and involvement in their own care
- Good communication skills, capable of conveying and receiving complex and sensitive information within emotive contexts
- Ability to provide detailed and complex psychological reports and information to inform and support care planning processes
- Ability to liaise effectively with a range of professionals, and external services or organisations, regarding sensitive and complex issues relating to clinical work, including issues relating to risk
- Ability to provide services in a variety of environments to meet the needs of the patient
Desirable criteria
- Skills in providing group work
- Abilities in providing arts therapies across all ages
Knowledge & Understanding
Essential criteria
- A strong understanding of Arts Therapies theory in relation to clinical area and modality, informed by research and practice based evidence
- Understanding of a range of contemporary professional approaches, including the role of education and self-management in recovery, and the ability to integrate this into professional perspective
- Knowledge and understanding of research methodology and outcome measurement
Physical Requirements
Essential criteria
- May be required to handle and transport arts therapies equipment at times
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
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
- Kimberley Iyemere
- Job title
- Arts Therapies Professional Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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