Creative Therapist

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

Are you a creative therapist who is interested in taking on a new challenge? The role will be working across Leigh House General Adolescent Inpatient Unit and a brand-new, innovative day programme for young people with eating disorders. At the core of this programme is a systemic approach, clinically led by a systemic family therapist.

Working with a comprehensive multidisciplinary team of clinicians, you will help to develop and deliver an inpatient and day programme for young people. Creative therapy is a key intervention and highly valued in the inpatient service, not only helping to support young people but positively contributing to the therapeutic milieu.

Creative therapy interventions will be central to the day programme, alongside a range of family therapy, occupational therapy, nursing and psychologically led groups. The service will deliver evidence-based interventions to prevent the need for admission to hospital. The day programme will have strong links with community eating disorders services in CAMHS and adult services, the Closer2Home intensive home treatment service and the inpatient service.

The 10-bed inpatient service will accept referrals according to need, so as well as bringing your experience to the role, you will have opportunities for further training and development across a range of different contexts and presenting problems.

For more information, please contact Dr Matt Burdock, Principal Clinical Psychologist, Leigh House (matthew.burdock@southernhealth.nhs.uk)

Main duties of the job

This post provides an exciting opportunity to contribute to the development of a comprehensive and high-quality day programme and inpatient service for young people aged 12-18 years experiencing a range of complex presenting problems. Leigh House sits alongside well-established low and medium secure units, Austen House, and Bluebird House, and works closely with other Tier 4 services, such as the Closer 2 Home team. The role will involve flexible working across both parts of the service at Leigh House, to provide a creative therapies service that is offered according to clinical need.

This post offers close multi-agency and multi-disciplinary working within a team comprising of Psychology, Family Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Social Work and Nursing. The role will involve the use of specialist assessment and intervention skills to provide a creative therapies service to young people and their caregivers. In addition to the delivery of individual and group therapeutic work, the role will involve the promotion of a psychologically-informed environment. There will also be opportunities to consult and promote models of care informed by a recovery-based ethos, as well as attachment theory and developmental perspectives.

About us

Are you committed to providing remarkable care and service?

Are you passionate about helping people and want to make a difference every day?

We want to meet you!

Southern Health is one of the largest Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health, adult and child community health and learning disabilities. We are committed to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse and neglect through our 6,500 strong workforce.

Southern Health has over 300 sites across the county and we serve 1.5 million people throughout all stages of their lives. Our aim is to work alongside the people we support (and our health and care partners) to deliver the best possible care and constantly improve.

Here at SHFT we have so much to be proud of:

Working as a team and supporting each other, we put patients and our staff at the heart of everything we do.
We have a skilled and diverse workforce and are committed to our staff development, offering bespoke training packages, leadership pathways and career opportunities.
We offer a variety of benefits such as an amazing pension scheme, generous annual leave, Childcare Choices scheme, many discounts (Blue Light card, The Company Shop, NHS Staff Discounts, cycle to work scheme) and much more.

Come to work with us, together we will provide outstanding treatment and care to improve lives.

Date posted

10 August 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£43,742 to £50,056 a year Based on full time hours

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

348-SS-I-935A

Job locations

Leigh House

Alresford Road

Winchester

Hampshire

SO21 1HD

Job description

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

MA/MSc or equivalent in Drama Therapy, Music Therapy or Art Psychotherapy.
Met conditions of full membership Professional Association (British Association for Music Therapy (BAMT), British Association of Dramatherapists (BADth), British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT).
Post-holder must be HCPC registered.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

MA/MSc or equivalent in Drama Therapy, Music Therapy or Art Psychotherapy.
Met conditions of full membership Professional Association (British Association for Music Therapy (BAMT), British Association of Dramatherapists (BADth), British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT).
Post-holder must be HCPC registered.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.