Art Therapist

NHS; Coventry; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job description

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust

To provide a qualified specialist therapeutic service to clients across child & adolescent mental health services; providing psychological assessment and therapy.

Main duties of the job

Main responsibilities include offering:

• Consultations to professionals, Social Workers and foster carers.
• Assessments - Mental health, carer's and therapeutic.
• Delivery of therapeutic interventions.
• Consultation and training for residential staff.
• Nurturing Attachment Group training for foster carers.
• Virtual foster carer drop-in sessions fortnightly.
• Telephone advice and guidance for carers and professionals.
• Care leaver Consultations for Personal Advisers/Social Workers.

Other responsibilities include:

• Providing a specialist psychology/psychological therapy service to children and young people, their parents and carers.
• Providing specialist advice and consultancy regarding child psychology to other professionals working with children and young people.
• Implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups.
• Evaluating and making decisions about treatment options.

About us

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

• Generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us.
• Excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more.
• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more.
• Discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes.
• Wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more.
• Staff networks and support group.

We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity, and respect.

Job responsibilities

For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registration with the HCPC as an Art/ Music Therapist.
• Evidence of Continued Professional Development.

Knowledge and Skills

• Skills in the use of complex methods of assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Doctoral level or equivalent knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychological therapy.

Experience

• Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
• Experience of the application of psychological therapy/art therapy in different cultural contexts.

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.