Job summary
- Main area
- Older Adult Lead Arts Therapist
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Present on Tuesdays)
- Job ref
- 040-AHP160-1025
- Employer
- Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ty Siriol
- Town
- Pontypool
- Salary
- £56,514 - £63,623 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Older Adult Lead Arts Therapist
Band 8a
We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.
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If you are successful at interview for this post you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.
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Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Older Adult service as a Lead Arts Therapist. The postholder will lead our fantastic Arts Therapies colleagues within the team, providing them with a supportive and compassionate environment in which they can work at their best.
We strive to create and maintain high standards of care, and you would bring your passion, creative thinking and strong clinical governance skills and experience to ensure this. You will work closely with the Head of Service for Psychology and all members of the team to develop and showcase the value of Arts Therapists and their work with older adults.
Our team comprises Psychologists, Arts Therapists and Administrators, and we provide therapeutic interventions to older adults across all five boroughs of Gwent. We do this together with our multi-disciplinary colleagues in the wider CMHT's and Memory Assessment Services, and other departments in the Older Adult Directorate.
Main duties of the job
You would be responsible for the leadership and management of Arts Therapists, Trainees and Assistants within the team. Through service development, research and audit you will continue to develop and improve the services we provide. You will provide compassionate leadership that ensures the wellbeing of our colleagues, and creates a culture of flexibility, teamwork and innovation.
Working for our organisation
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Working closely with your colleagues and the Head of Service in Older Adult Psychology, you will be the key representative for Arts Therapies in the Service, focusing on delivering evidence based and value based interventions which improve the lives of our clients.
Full details of duties are in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Honours Degree in relevant subject
- Training in Clinical Supervision
- MA in a relevant Arts Therapy, accredited by the HCPC
Desirable criteria
- Further academic qualifications / postgraduate study
- Management or leadership training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial clinical experience and expertise within older adult mental health and dementia services
- Management or leadership experience
- Experience of supervising Arts Therapists and other professionals
- Experience of teaching, training or presenting in specialism
Desirable criteria
- Contributing to Arts Therapy in a wider arena e.g. WAT, HCPC, WTAC
- Research and statistical experience
Skills and attributes
Essential criteria
- Ability to provide leadership and direction to develop the service
- Ability to communicate warmly and with empathy
- Ability to assess, interpret, formulate and intervene appropriately in complex clinical situations
- Ability to consider and initiate service developments
Desirable criteria
- Passion, motivation and energetic
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Jayne Williams
- Job title
- Head of Service, Older Adult Psychology
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07581061942
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