Band 7 Arts Psychotherapist/Psychotherapist Green Lane Hospital

Id Job: 3172354

🏢 On-site

💼 Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

📍 Devizes, England

🕒 Today

💰 43742 – 50056 GBP ANNUAL

Job Description

This post is available full-time (5 days a week), and part-time.
Applications are invited from appropriately accredited (HCPC, UKCP), qualified and experienced Arts Psychotherapists or Psychotherapists for a permanent community Arts Psychotherapy/Psychotherapy post based with the North East Wiltshire Community Mental Health Team.
You will be joining a supportive and experienced team of Arts Psychotherapists, a Studio Assistant, Psychologists, CBT Therapists, and Assistant Psychologists working across Wiltshire, embedded within the Wiltshire Psychological Therapies Service. We bring additional experience in CAT, CFT, MBT, CBT and EMDR. The team offers a range of group and individual creative psychological treatments across the Wiltshire Community Health Teams, the Inpatient Service at Green Lane Hospital, Devizes and Fountain Way, Salisbury. We are a creative team who work hard to actively support psychologically informed environments, and offer reflective practice groups and clinical supervision for staff.
The role will be supported by the Lead for Arts Psychotherapies, the consultant psychiatrist in psychotherapy or the adult psychology lead for community services in Wiltshire, and there will be quality clinical supervision and opportunities for CPD and career development.

We would welcome applications from arts psychotherapists, and psychotherapists with appropriate accreditation. The successful applicant will be a resourceful, confident and flexible therapist with clearly demonstrable skills and knowledge in working with people throughout the adult age range. You will be able to demonstrate knowledge of working with a number of different client groups in secondary mental health settings, and of having been responsible for providing assessments and focused psychological interventions. You will work as an autonomous clinical practitioner and with clinical teams, planning and providing a psychological therapies service within your own area of practice, providing highly specialist arts psychotherapy/psychotherapy treatment and ongoing evaluation. A broad range of psychological models are used within the team and we would particularly value further training in additional specific therapies such as EMDR, MBT, CFT, or other therapeutic approaches in the treatment of relational trauma. You will have experience in working with complex trauma and severe mental health issues. Driving licence essential as you will need to be flexible and able to travel between bases over a wide rural area including Chippenham, Savernake and Devizes. Candidates must be innovative, dynamic and enthusiastic to be a part of both the community multidisciplinary team, and the Wiltshire Psychological Therapies Service.

The role will be based within the NEW Community Mental Health Team, providing a specialist arts psychotherapy service including assessment and treatment for individuals and groups, as well as offering consultation to the wider MDT in relation to service users’ complex needs and the range of interventions available. The role includes training about psychological therapies to other MDT colleagues within the service as well as developing Reflective Practice and clinical supervision for staff. The setting requires a confident and experienced practitioner prepared to assess and propose treatment plans, organise groups and individual interventions which develop engagement with the service, and liaise with a wide range of professionals.

Clinical Services

To offer highly specialist psychotherapy assessments and consultations to patients with complex mental health difficulties
To provide psychodynamic psychotherapy/arts psychotherapy to individual patients
To provide clinical supervision to psychiatry trainees, therapists working under clinical license and possibly other clinical staff, if appropriately qualified and if there is such a service need
To liaise with Recovery teams and identify appropriate care pathways for patients with complex needs within secondary services
To participate in clinical supervision
To work jointly with colleagues within secondary services offering consultations, case management and case-based discussion and providing expert advice.
To maintain records as required AWP
To provide a detailed formulation of the service users’ difficulties following each assessment / consultation and a written summary of the assessment with suggested recommendations

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