Job summary
The Role
We are offering an exciting and rewarding opportunity for a Fixed Term Art Psychotherapist role based in Exeter. This is a 2-year contract offering 15 hours per week.
You will be working with individuals experiencing severe and complex mental health issues, providing them with creative and therapeutic support in a beautiful setting. The role comes with a fully equipped art therapy space, where you will have the resources to deliver high-quality care and therapy.
About Devon Partnership NHS Trust
Devon Partnership NHS Trust is a leading provider of mental health services, delivering care to individuals with severe and complex mental health needs across Devon. Our team of professionals is dedicated to supporting recovery and promoting well-being, and we are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Art Psychotherapist to join our supportive and dynamic Arts Therapies Team.
Main duties of the job
- Assess and provide Art Therapy to individuals with complex and severe mental health needs.
- Working collaboratively with the Community Mental Health Team within which the client is held.
About us
About Devon Partnership Trust
We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.
We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do
Our values
We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Art
Therapist: Band 7
Job Purpose
The principal purpose of the job is to improve the
psychological health & wellbeing of people within the post holders
specialist field of practice.
This will be achieved in this post through undertaking the
following areas of responsibility:
1.
Providing a Psychological Therapy
service to people as a key component
of services provided by Devon
Partnership Trust
2.
Providing local clinical leadership,
co-ordination and supervision for
trainees and volunteers employed by or attached to the psychology and
Psychological Therapies service, under the general direction and supervision of
the Professional Lead
Carrying a specialist caseload of clients, and
providing advice and consultancy to patients, family members, carers and
professionals.
3.
The post holder will be supported by
senior colleagues within their specialist field. The post holder will be
expected to make good use of the expertise of others within the service to
further develop their clinical skills with this client group.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines
and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological
practice within the service / local team.
4. The post holder
will receive regular professional and clinical supervision in accordance to
Trust policy and to Professional Practice Guidelines set out by their
professional association. They will observe
and abide by all relevant Professional Codes of Conduct and Practice including
the British Psychological Society. The post holder will be fully
registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as a condition of
employment.
Duties and Responsibilities
Communication
and Working Relationships
- Clients, family and carers: To communicate in a highly skilled
and sensitive manner with clients who may have specific difficulties in
understand and/or communicating and who may be hostile, antagonistic or
highly emotionally disturbed.
- Multidisciplinary team colleagues: To work closely with colleagues in
the multi-professional integrated mental health and wellbeing service on a
day to day basis.
- Senior managers & professional
staff: To
maintain and build good working relationships with senior professional staff
and managers across the Psychology and Therapy service and in DPT to foster a
positive approach to the integrated mental health and wellbeing service and
to enable effective negotiation.
Planning
and Organisation
- The service: To plan and prioritise own workload, balancing the
demands of patient care, support and guidance of carers and professionals and
service research and development activities.
- To contribute to the planning and organising of the
psychology and therapy services within the locality area and to contribute to
the development and improvement of provision of psychological services within
services to best meet the organisations strategy and priorities.
- The multidisciplinary service: To provide psychology/therapy
knowledge to the multi-professional planning, development and marketing of
mental health and wellbeing services.
- Responsibility
for Judgement and Analysis
- To
provide specialist Psychological therapy expertise and advice.
- To
provide psychological therapies/other therapies, developing specialist
psychological formulations and assessments of clients, formulating plans for
their psychological treatment and implementing specialist psychological
interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups.
- To support the Professional Head, General
Manager, Practice and Strategic Development Leads and Professional Leads by
undertaking service development and redesign projects and coordinating the
resulting work within the team.
Responsibility for Patient/Client Care, Treatment
and Therapy
- Assessment & intervention: To make highly skilled evaluations
and decisions about assessment, treatment and discharge, including the
management of risk. To formulate plans for psychological treatment and
implementing specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers,
families and groups and to demonstrate awareness of diversity issues.
- Consultation & guidance: To provide advice, guidance and
consultation on psychological aspects of patient care to colleagues, other
service providers, patients, supporters and families.
Policy,
Service, Research, Innovation and Improvement
- The post holder is accountable for their own professional
actions, acting within Trust policies and procedures and Professional
Practice Guidelines.
- Policy & service: To support proposed changes for
policy and for service development.
Responsibility for Supervision, Leadership and
Management
- Leadership & supervision: To supervise the work of assistants
&/or trainees as required. To provide supervision & consultancy to
health and social care colleagues.
- To support placements for trainee staff in line with
professional guidelines
Information
Resources and Administrative Duties
- To maintain accurate records, compliant with Trust
Practice Standards.
- To be responsible for using an email account to generate,
monitor, and respond to the e-mail traffic by which the Trust conducts much
of its internal communication.
Responsibility
for Research and Development
- To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research
to support evidence based practice in individual work within the PPT and
local mental health services.
- To support project work including specific areas of audit,
research or service evaluation
- As a
clinician to be responsible for collecting clinical practice and outcome data
that contributes to building practice based evidence and service evaluation.
Freedom
to Act
- The post holder is accountable for
their own professional actions, acting within Trust policies and procedures
and Professional Practice Guidelines
- To work autonomously within
clinical professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the
governance of psychological practice within the locality/specialty. Interpretation
of professional and Trust guidelines,
and implementing policies in conjunction with peers, Head of Profession and
General Manager.
- To provide specialist Psychological
therapy expertise and advice
guidance and consultation on psychological aspects of patient care to
colleagues, other service providers, patients, supporters and families.
Any
Other Specific Tasks Required
- To ensure all clinical care and treatment provided by
psychologists/therapists is carried out under appropriate supervision and
leadership.
- To ensure that all relevant staff groups continuously
update the skills and techniques relevant to their clinical work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Art
Therapist: Band 7
Job Purpose
The principal purpose of the job is to improve the
psychological health & wellbeing of people within the post holders
specialist field of practice.
This will be achieved in this post through undertaking the
following areas of responsibility:
1.
Providing a Psychological Therapy
service to people as a key component
of services provided by Devon
Partnership Trust
2.
Providing local clinical leadership,
co-ordination and supervision for
trainees and volunteers employed by or attached to the psychology and
Psychological Therapies service, under the general direction and supervision of
the Professional Lead
Carrying a specialist caseload of clients, and
providing advice and consultancy to patients, family members, carers and
professionals.
3.
The post holder will be supported by
senior colleagues within their specialist field. The post holder will be
expected to make good use of the expertise of others within the service to
further develop their clinical skills with this client group.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines
and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological
practice within the service / local team.
4. The post holder
will receive regular professional and clinical supervision in accordance to
Trust policy and to Professional Practice Guidelines set out by their
professional association. They will observe
and abide by all relevant Professional Codes of Conduct and Practice including
the British Psychological Society. The post holder will be fully
registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as a condition of
employment.
Duties and Responsibilities
Communication
and Working Relationships
- Clients, family and carers: To communicate in a highly skilled
and sensitive manner with clients who may have specific difficulties in
understand and/or communicating and who may be hostile, antagonistic or
highly emotionally disturbed.
- Multidisciplinary team colleagues: To work closely with colleagues in
the multi-professional integrated mental health and wellbeing service on a
day to day basis.
- Senior managers & professional
staff: To
maintain and build good working relationships with senior professional staff
and managers across the Psychology and Therapy service and in DPT to foster a
positive approach to the integrated mental health and wellbeing service and
to enable effective negotiation.
Planning
and Organisation
- The service: To plan and prioritise own workload, balancing the
demands of patient care, support and guidance of carers and professionals and
service research and development activities.
- To contribute to the planning and organising of the
psychology and therapy services within the locality area and to contribute to
the development and improvement of provision of psychological services within
services to best meet the organisations strategy and priorities.
- The multidisciplinary service: To provide psychology/therapy
knowledge to the multi-professional planning, development and marketing of
mental health and wellbeing services.
- Responsibility
for Judgement and Analysis
- To
provide specialist Psychological therapy expertise and advice.
- To
provide psychological therapies/other therapies, developing specialist
psychological formulations and assessments of clients, formulating plans for
their psychological treatment and implementing specialist psychological
interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups.
- To support the Professional Head, General
Manager, Practice and Strategic Development Leads and Professional Leads by
undertaking service development and redesign projects and coordinating the
resulting work within the team.
Responsibility for Patient/Client Care, Treatment
and Therapy
- Assessment & intervention: To make highly skilled evaluations
and decisions about assessment, treatment and discharge, including the
management of risk. To formulate plans for psychological treatment and
implementing specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers,
families and groups and to demonstrate awareness of diversity issues.
- Consultation & guidance: To provide advice, guidance and
consultation on psychological aspects of patient care to colleagues, other
service providers, patients, supporters and families.
Policy,
Service, Research, Innovation and Improvement
- The post holder is accountable for their own professional
actions, acting within Trust policies and procedures and Professional
Practice Guidelines.
- Policy & service: To support proposed changes for
policy and for service development.
Responsibility for Supervision, Leadership and
Management
- Leadership & supervision: To supervise the work of assistants
&/or trainees as required. To provide supervision & consultancy to
health and social care colleagues.
- To support placements for trainee staff in line with
professional guidelines
Information
Resources and Administrative Duties
- To maintain accurate records, compliant with Trust
Practice Standards.
- To be responsible for using an email account to generate,
monitor, and respond to the e-mail traffic by which the Trust conducts much
of its internal communication.
Responsibility
for Research and Development
- To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research
to support evidence based practice in individual work within the PPT and
local mental health services.
- To support project work including specific areas of audit,
research or service evaluation
- As a
clinician to be responsible for collecting clinical practice and outcome data
that contributes to building practice based evidence and service evaluation.
Freedom
to Act
- The post holder is accountable for
their own professional actions, acting within Trust policies and procedures
and Professional Practice Guidelines
- To work autonomously within
clinical professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the
governance of psychological practice within the locality/specialty. Interpretation
of professional and Trust guidelines,
and implementing policies in conjunction with peers, Head of Profession and
General Manager.
- To provide specialist Psychological
therapy expertise and advice
guidance and consultation on psychological aspects of patient care to
colleagues, other service providers, patients, supporters and families.
Any
Other Specific Tasks Required
- To ensure all clinical care and treatment provided by
psychologists/therapists is carried out under appropriate supervision and
leadership.
- To ensure that all relevant staff groups continuously
update the skills and techniques relevant to their clinical work.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional Masters level qualification in Art Psychotherapy
- Current HCPC registration as an Arts Therapist
Desirable
- Further training in related area
- Further training in at least one (other) psychological therapy
- IT Skills
Experience
Essential
- Experience, and/or training in diversity awareness and social inequality
- Experience of working under supervision in secondary care adult mental health services
Desirable
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a wide range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Knowledge and familiarity of specialist services; and of the services in the NHS where psychology and psychological therapies is commonly applied.
- An understanding of providing psychological therapy for service users presenting with Severe and Complex mental health problems
Other
Essential
- Ability to work independently and use initiative within a service consisting of a network of teams.
- Ability to work as a member of a clinical team.
- Ability to tolerate ambiguity, and maintain own morale and motivation in challenging service delivery contexts.
- Proven organisational, planning and time management skills
- Good IT skills
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional Masters level qualification in Art Psychotherapy
- Current HCPC registration as an Arts Therapist
Desirable
- Further training in related area
- Further training in at least one (other) psychological therapy
- IT Skills
Experience
Essential
- Experience, and/or training in diversity awareness and social inequality
- Experience of working under supervision in secondary care adult mental health services
Desirable
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a wide range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Knowledge and familiarity of specialist services; and of the services in the NHS where psychology and psychological therapies is commonly applied.
- An understanding of providing psychological therapy for service users presenting with Severe and Complex mental health problems
Other
Essential
- Ability to work independently and use initiative within a service consisting of a network of teams.
- Ability to work as a member of a clinical team.
- Ability to tolerate ambiguity, and maintain own morale and motivation in challenging service delivery contexts.
- Proven organisational, planning and time management skills
- Good IT skills
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
