Job summary
- Main area
- Arts Therapies
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 18.75 hours per week
- Job ref
- 363-FOR6481054
- Employer
- East London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- John Howard Centre
- Town
- Homerton London
- Salary
- £51,488 - £57,802 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Arts Therapist (Art,Music, Drama, Dance Movement)
NHS AfC: Band 7
ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job overview
As an HCPC registered Allied Health professional, reporting to the Lead Arts therapist in your directorate, you will develop and provide specialist Arts Therapy individually and in groups using your own arts therapy modality (Art, Music, Drama or Dance Movement) and line manage and clinically supervise junior members of staff.
As part of the ELFT Trust wide Arts Therapies you will work as an integrated and collaborative team member upholding the Trust values, ‘We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive’ and maintaining a holistic approach to promote effective functioning of the team and patient-centered care of service users.
As part of improving population health, improving access to therapies, preventative engagement and meeting service user needs, this post will be embedded onto Bow (Women’s service) ward and not only deliver trauma informed specialist arts therapy but also support Psychology, OT and the wider MDT with co- produced and collaborative work and build community connections to women’s therapy networks. This would link to the SCFT components of Therapeutic Interventions, Care Pathway Management, Systems Relationships, Psychological Interventions and Addressing Inequalities. This would enable specific in-reach and care pathway support for the women in our Forensic Directorate who, as a minority, may not have their needs met by the general service wide ELCFS provision.
Main duties of the job
- To plan, provide and develop specialist patient-centered Arts Therapies including assessment, treatment and evaluation of individual and group work using own Arts Therapies modality.
- Evaluate work on an ongoing basis with an emphasis on using appropriate service user reported experience and outcome measures to measure and demonstrate effectiveness.
- Manage and supervise allocated staff, including trainees
- Regularly undertake Quality Improvement, Research and Audit
- Provide a range of teaching and training to multi-professional staff, service users and carers as required
- Take a designated role in local service leadership and development
- Maintain registration with HCPC and relevant professional bodies (eg BAAT,Badth)
- Maintain own self-care and ability to practice.
Working for our organisation
East London Foundation Trust is one of the largest employers nationally of Art, Music Drama and Dance Movement Psychotherapists covering City and Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets , Bedford and Luton and Forensic Directorates both inpatient and wider community services. We are one of the largest providers of arts therapies placements with a commitment to provide bespoke CPD opportunities and training for our arts therapists, opportunities for research and development and partnerships with community arts, the voluntary sector and other NHS Trusts
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information relating to this vacancy please see attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential criteria
- Degree in relevant area
- MA ( or equivalent) in post title Arts Therapies modality
- For Art Therapist/Psychotherapist, Music Therapist and Dramatherapist : registration with HCPC
Desirable criteria
- For Dance Movement Psychotherapists registration with UKCP
- Membership of Arts Therapies professional Body
- Clinical Supervision Training
- Further training in an area of psychological practice relevant to the post’s clinical area
Experience
Essential criteria
- Post qualification experience as an Arts Therapist working with this client group in both group and individual work.
- Working with service users with challenging and/or unpredictable behavior.
- Clinical supervision of a trainee Arts Therapist
- Assessing Service Users and making recommendations to a Multi-disciplinary team
Desirable criteria
- Providing Arts Therapy teaching/training to a variety of audiences.
- Working as an Arts Therapist in a Multi-Disciplinary team
- Providing Arts therapies as part of research or clinical trial
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Developed interpersonal skills enabling therapeutic alliances to be developed and maintained.
- Ability to adapt and use a range of specialist skills in skills in individual and group based arts therapies assessments and interventions
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
- Lorna Downing
- Job title
- Professional Lead of Adult Arts Therapies
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02085102129
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