Job summary
This
is a rare and exciting opportunity to join the North Devon Psychology and
Psychological Therapies service as an Arts Therapist. We are a dynamic and
friendly multi-disciplinary team who are passionate about our work and will encourage and celebrate your creative contributions. We are looking for an enthusiastic and
creative practitioner, who is committed to advancing the health and quality of life of
people with mental health and complex emotional needs within North Devon.
Main duties of the job
In a dedicated therapeutic space, the postholder will undertake the following tasks and areas of responsibility:
1. Provide an Arts Therapy service to people with Secondary Care mental health needs, from across North Devon.
2. Provide local clinical leadership, co-ordination and supervision for trainees and volunteers employed by or attached to the psychological therapies service, under the general direction and supervision of the Professional Lead.
3. Carry a specialist caseload of clients, including some with a learning disability, and provide advice and consultancy to patients, family members, carers and professionals.
4. The post holder will be supported by senior colleagues within their specialist field and will be encouraged and enabled to further develop their clinical skills with this client group.
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
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.
- Health & social care staff: To communicate with a wide range of
health & social care staff in hospital and in community settings in a
highly skilled and sensitive manner, complex and sensitive information
concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under
the services care. To provide support & guidance in the application of
psychological principles and techniques, and to foster reflective practice.
- Senior managers & professional
staff: To
maintain and build good working relationships with senior professional staff
and managers across the Psychology and Psychological Therapies 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 multiprofessional 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 Finance, Equipment and Other Resources
- Careful use of equipment.
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
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.
- Health & social care staff: To communicate with a wide range of
health & social care staff in hospital and in community settings in a
highly skilled and sensitive manner, complex and sensitive information
concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under
the services care. To provide support & guidance in the application of
psychological principles and techniques, and to foster reflective practice.
- Senior managers & professional
staff: To
maintain and build good working relationships with senior professional staff
and managers across the Psychology and Psychological Therapies 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 multiprofessional 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 Finance, Equipment and Other Resources
- Careful use of equipment.
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
Other skills and abilities
Essential
- Excellent verbal, nonverbal and written communication skills
- Ability to integrate complex data, make highly skilled evaluations and decisions and take a long term perspective.
- Proven organisational, planning and time management skills.
- Calm, methodical approach, friendly but concise.
- Good communication skills when presenting / facilitating to varying groups of people.
- 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.
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional, masters level qualification in Art Therapy and current HCPC Arts Therapies registration.
- Further training or experience in clinical specialism.
Desirable
- Further training in at least one (other) psychological therapy.
- IT skills.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist therapeutic assessment and treatment of mental clients across a wide range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
- 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 teaching, training and/or supervision.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist therapeutic assessment and treatment of mental clients across a wide range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
- 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 teaching, training and/or supervision.
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and familiarity of the services in the NHS where psychology and psychological therapies are commonly applied.
- An understanding of providing psychological therapy for service users presenting with severe and complex mental health problems.
Person Specification
Other skills and abilities
Essential
- Excellent verbal, nonverbal and written communication skills
- Ability to integrate complex data, make highly skilled evaluations and decisions and take a long term perspective.
- Proven organisational, planning and time management skills.
- Calm, methodical approach, friendly but concise.
- Good communication skills when presenting / facilitating to varying groups of people.
- 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.
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional, masters level qualification in Art Therapy and current HCPC Arts Therapies registration.
- Further training or experience in clinical specialism.
Desirable
- Further training in at least one (other) psychological therapy.
- IT skills.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist therapeutic assessment and treatment of mental clients across a wide range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
- 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 teaching, training and/or supervision.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist therapeutic assessment and treatment of mental clients across a wide range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
- 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 teaching, training and/or supervision.
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and familiarity of the services in the NHS where psychology and psychological therapies are commonly applied.
- An understanding of providing psychological therapy for service users presenting with severe and complex mental health problems.
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).
