Job summary
- Main area
- Specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service - Psychological professions
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 444-6346464-CG
- Employer
- Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Art Therapist
- Town
- Coventry
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Art Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
You will be working within Core Coventry RISE Specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health services as an Art Therapist. In this role you will be working will providing specialist Art Therapy assessment and interventions as part of the psychological services provision. You will be working closely with the Art and Drama Therapists across the Trust to support the delivery of this service.
The provision of consultation and formulation is an essential part of the role and will be delivered to the multi-disciplinary child and adolescent mental health teams/professionals and partner agencies.
The post holder will be required to input into evidence-based practice and participate in audit policy and service developments within the area served by Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder carries responsibility for own work and interventions and for the interpretation of agreed guidelines and policies acting as an autonomous independent practitioner in relation to:
Providing a qualified specialist Art Therapy service to clients referred to Specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services within RISE
Offering and supporting specialist advice to other professionals within the MDT and other agencies working with children and young people
To be responsible for implementing formulated psychological interventions which may include individuals, carers, families and group provision.
To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
Supporting and attending identified meetings within the service to ensure a unified clinical model of delivery.
Working for our organisation
We are a part of an exciting expansion of Rise specialist services and the transformation of local service provisions for children and young people across Coventry and Warwickshire.
We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.
These include:
- generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
- flexible working opportunities
- excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
- salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle.
- wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
- staff networks and support group
We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- A degree in art/music or other relevant training such as psychology, nursing, social work
- MA/MSc or equivalent in music therapy training as a Music Therapist or MA in Art Therapy
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of complex methods of assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Doctoral level or equivalent knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychological therapy
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Experience of the application of psychological therapy/art therapy in different cultural contexts.
- Experiences of specialist psychological/psychological therapy assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
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
- Gillian Eccles
- Job title
- Psychotherapies Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07469378386
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