Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 354-CS-21593
- Employer
- Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Highmore
- Town
- Hailsham
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 pro rata for part time
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/11/2024 08:00
Employer heading
Senior Arts Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Welcome from our Chief Executive
Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships.
So what can we offer you in return?
We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.
You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.
As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.
If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for an Arts/CAPT or Play Therapist Band 8a to join our generic CAMHS team based at Highmore, Hailsham.
We are looking for an experienced Therapist with either Arts or CAPT training (with appropriate registration to practice in NHS Child Mental Health services) to take a prominent role in the development of our local service provision as well as the arts and play therapy provision within the Trust in the delivery of high quality care to children and adolescents with mental health difficulties.
We are a multi-disciplinary team which includes psychiatry, nursing, family systemic therapies, psychology, CAPT and arts therapies as well as a supportive Management and Administration Team.
We share our base with the Local Early Intervention Service (EIS) and Family Intensive Support Service (LD FISS) and Looked After Children Services (LACMHS).
The building provides clinical rooms for direct work and includes a dedicated arts therapies room. Flexible and hybrid working is considered but clinicians are expected to undertake therapy face to face.
You will be joining a highly innovative and supportive team of therapists which include CAPT. drama, art, play and music therapists across East Sussex and connections within wider Sussex. You will also be supported in your career development within the Trust in terms of developing Leadership skills and attending relevant courses as well as CPD.
Main duties of the job
- Leading on projects as discussed with CAPT and Arts Therapy Leads.
-Contributing to the Strategic development of the Arts Therapy Service Provision.
-Contributing to the development of the Stepped Care Model.
-Undertaking Leadership tasks in partnership with the Arts Therapy Lead.
-Contribute to the development of Arts Therapies groupwork within the Trust.
-Attend regular MDT meetings and other relevant leadership meetings as requested.
-Drawing up complex assessment and treatment Care Plans and Risk Assessments.
-Undertaking direct clinical work with complex cases.
- Providing Clinical and Professional supervision and Reflective Practice for relevant staff.
-Providing placement for trainees.
-Developing Diversity thinking and action with Minoritised communities.
-Maintaining and promoting Experts By Experience (EBE) involvement in all levels of service delivery.
-Contributing to Care Pathway development.
Working for our organisation
We are a large NHS Mental Health Trust in South East England and are looking for people to help us provide high quality services for the patients, carers and local communities that we serve.
We want patients and staff to recommend our organisation as a place where they would be happy for their friends and family to be treated. You can help us to do this by bringing your skills, experience and commitment to Sussex Partnership.
What colleagues say about working for SPFT as a therapist …
…. a team of stimulating, supportive, warm, reflexive practitioners that appreciate psychoanalytic thinking …
… SPFT is a really friendly working environment, colleagues are welcoming, down-to-earth and dedicated …
… lovely supportive team; lots of opportunity for creativity and innovation with young people from a diverse range of backgrounds …
… I really enjoy being able to work with such interesting children and young people - families who wouldn't access this kind of work anywhere else …
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are looking for an experienced Therapist with an Arts, Play or CAPT professional qualification and with the necessary professional registration, such as PSA, HCPC or ACP (with appropriate registration to practice in NHS Child Mental Health services) to take a prominent role in the development of our local service provision as well as the arts and play therapy provision within the Trust in the delivery of high quality care to children and adolescents with mental health difficulties.
The successful applicant will be fully supported by our 'New to CAMHS training', local leadership and our team of child and adolescent psychotherapists. We value and protect our time to think together, to share learning experiences, theoretical practice and work together on new models of care and development.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- A minimum two-year post-graduate (or equivalent) qualification in Art Therapy, Play Therapy, Dramatherapy or Music Therapy
- Registration with the Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC) as an arts therapist. Or with the appropriate register of Play Therapists (see BAPT or PTUK websites for details)
- Evidence of relevant continuing professional development
- Evidence of post qualification training in clinical supervision
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial experience post qualification in care group including experience of individual and group arts or play therapy with people with complex needs.
- Experience of planning and delivering teaching on arts or play therapy practice
Desirable criteria
- Experience of supervising others
- Experience of working with arts and health practitioners/volunteers or in an art setting
Skills
Essential criteria
- Developed skills in chosen Art or Play form
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
- Sue Storey
- Job title
- Principal Lead, Arts Psychotherapies
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
This post is for 0.6WTE with East Sussex LACMHS
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