Arts Psychotherapist - Inpatient Psychology

Job description

Job responsibilities

We are looking for someone with experience of working with a range of presenting needs, and who is committed to supporting the development of Art Psychotherapies provision on the wards at the Derwent Centre, to increase choice and access for service users to evidence-based psychological therapies.

As part of this role, the successful candidate would be supported to provide clinical placements to Art Psychotherapies trainees. They will also be supported in their own continuing professional development, building links with universities and professional bodies as appropriate.

The post is 0.4 WTE and is based at the Derwent Centre in Harlow, comprising two acute inpatient wards (male and female). The Derwent Centre also houses a number of community services, and the post holder would be encouraged to make links with community colleagues to ease transition of our service users in and out of hospital.

We, the Adult Inpatient Psychological Services team aim to understand the impact of trauma and adverse experiences on an individuals crisis presentation within the hospital setting. We work together with our MDT colleagues to ensure our Service Users experience purposeful inpatient admissions and timely discharges.

The successful candidate will need to demonstrate their ability to be client focused, understand what is meant by trauma informed care, use this and their psychotherapeutic thinking in all clinical work interactions with colleagues, service users and other stakeholders.

EPUTs AdUlt Inpatient Psychological Services team cover 6 inpatient sites across Essex. Each site has a Principal Lead overseeing the area. Our team is comprised of Principal/Senior Practitioners, Arts Psychotherapists, trainees and CAPS. We acknowledge the excellent day-to-day work of our staff team and pride ourselves on new creative practice as evidenced by recent innovations; such as our nationally recognised staff training packages.

The successful candidate will deliver Art Psychotherapies, assessing for the appropriate provision of each. You will be responsible for clinical administration of your caseload including maintaining notes, outcome measures and communication with all involved colleagues. You will work closely with the multidisciplinary team in supporting colleagues with supervision, learning opportunities, and reflective practice as appropriate. You will work with colleagues to develop and manage a clinical data and outcome measure process.

As well as applicants from the UK, we encourage overseas candidates to apply for this role. We welcome diversity within our organisation.

For more infoRmation please see attached Job Description and Person specification.

Person Specification

Education, Training and Qualifications

Essential

• Recognised qualification in one of the core mental health professions e.g. psychiatric nursing, social work and occupational therapy or other relevant experience and demonstrable competence to work in the mental health field.
• Post graduate qualification in one of the Arts Psychotherapies as approved by HCPC.
• HCPC Registered.
• Accreditation/Registration with relevant and appropriate professional body relevant to the arts modality.
• High standard of education

Desirable

• Further qualifications in other forms of psychological therapy with an evidence base to be delivered in NHS mental health services

Experience

Essential

• Experience in providing arts psychotherapy interventions at post graduate level
• Experience or willingness to develop skills in leading, facilitating and supporting therapy in group setting
• Experience of managing and carrying a clinical caseload and working as an autonomous and independent practitioner.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, presenting with a range of clinical severity, across care settings (e.g. community, outpatient, inpatient) with the capacity to maintain professionalism while being presented with highly emotive and distressing problems.

Desirable

• Experience in providing specialised arts psychotherapy within an NHS secondary care Mental Health Service for clients with complex presentations including clients with psychosis and personality disorder in accordance with Trust clinical pathways, NICE guidance and evidence-based psychological practice.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Derwent Centre

Harlow

CM20 1QX

Employer's website

https://eput.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)