Job summary
- Main area
- Art Therapist Band 7
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent: Planned
- Hours
- Part time - 15 hours per week (You will be expected to work on a Tuesday)
- Job ref
- 367-PLAN-8268
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Colne House Watford
- Town
- Watford
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum, pro rata + 5% of basic salary (min £1,192 max £2,011)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Part Time Art Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Values Based Screener
At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.
http://hpft.recruitforvalues.com/
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to take up a part time position as an Art Therapist in a Community Healthcare Team.
You will be working with different professions within the team, & in close partnership with Drama therapists.
Colne House has a well equipped and spacious art room from which you will provide Art Therapy intervention.
You will be part of a Trust wide Team of Arts Therapists, meeting regularly & providing both in house and external CPD. We welcome innovation and encourage research opportunities.
Main duties of the job
Provide clinical assessment and intervention to service users with complex mental health issues including those with psychoses
Provide assessment and intervention across teams within the SBU
Work in a variety of venues across the SBU
To provide Clinical Supervision to other arts therapists Trust wide
To supervise arts therapies students on placements and/or Apprenticeships
Working for our organisation
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Then please read on…”
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Provide assessment and intervention to service users with complex mental health needs, including those with psychoses
Provide assessment and intervention for groups and individuals. The expectation is for 2 groups, with limited space for individual work.
Provide clinical supervision to Art Therapists
Lead on service innovation as delegated by the Head of Arts Therapies
For a more in-depth Job and Person Specification please read attached document before applying
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Good Honours degree in relevant subject
- M.A. (or equivalent) Art Psychotherapy
- Registered with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as an art therapist/art psychotherapist
- Evidence of continued professional development.
Desirable criteria
- Member of The British Association of Art Therapists
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant post qualifying professional experience and a demonstrable knowledge of and commitment to best practice and evidence based practice.
- Experience of providing a range of therapeutic interventions including: assessment, inpatient and outpatient work, individual and group work, exploratory and supportive.
- Experience of working with people with a range of mental health problems including: personality disorder, psychosis
- Experience of working within MDTs.
- Experience of supervising arts psychotherapists and of liaison with university training courses, in own specialty and other specialist areas
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Jessica Hall
- Job title
- Principal Lead Art Therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07786688228
- Additional information
99 Waverley Rd
St Albans
Herts AL3 5TL
working days Monday- Thursday
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