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We are seeking to recruit an Arts Psychotherapist (art, drama, dance or music) to work 2 day across two of our cnwl inpatient wards, Colham Green (Hillingdon) and Rosedale (Harrow). The role is a permanent post.

The candidate will be responsible for planning and delivering group arts therapy interventions for adults with complex and enduring mental health needs across two mental health wards. Regular linking in with the MDT on the wards and the wider arts psychotherapies service will be expected. The candidate will be joining a diverse team of arts therapists (music, art, drama and dance-movement) who work across the boroughs of Brent, Harrow and Hillingdon. This means that the staff member will be well supported with supervision, training and staff support, including team reflective practice.

Please refer to the JD/PS for further information.

Main duties of the job

Job description: Dance Movement Psychotherapist/ Music therapist/ Dramatherapist

Hours: 0.4 WTE (2... days a week across two sites), PERMANENT

Base: Colham Green and Rosedale Court

Report to: North West London Arts Psychotherapies Acute clinical lead.

NWL Arts Psychotherapies Operational and Clinical Lead CNWL.

Accountable to: Head of Arts Psychotherapies, Central and North West NHS Foundation Trust

Job Purpose

To plan, provide and develop an art psychotherapy service for acute in-patients including systematic assessment, treatment and evaluation of individual and group work using an arts therapy approach (dance-movement, music or drama). There will be an expectation that the clinician will evaluate work on an ongoing basis with an emphasis on using appropriate outcome measures to measure and demonstrate clinical effectiveness.

To manage and clinically supervise allocated staff (trainees) and regularly undertake arts psychotherapies research/audit as part of the Trust Arts Therapies research strategy.

Working for our organisation

CNWL is one of the largest NHS employers in the UK of Arts Psychotherapists, working in a vast range of services and has an increasing trainee placement programme continually broadening the reach of the profession.

In joining CNWL you’ll have access to first class national and international Arts psychotherapy CPD training through our International Centre for Arts Psychotherapy (ICAPT); as well as through our strong links with Brunel University, supporting and developing their international PHD and Masters course in Art Psychotherapy training.

CNWL Arts Psychotherapies is linked nationally with research programmes and has strong QI support; and keen to expand the knowledge and evidence base of the Arts Psychotherapies.

We are committed to supporting our staff to achieve their potential, whilst also ensuring they are also putting their health and wellbeing as a priority. We have a vast range of support networks and benefits to offer all staff working for us.

We also have a thriving Arts in health service, Arts for staff initiatives and staff support projects such as our CaRE project, as we want to ensure that our passion and knowledge of the benefits of the arts reaches patients and staff across the board.

We are keen to ensure that we’re meeting all the needs of our diverse patient population and especially welcome applications from those local to the communities we serve and who may have lived experience.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
• To plan and develop a specialist arts therapy inpatient service for adults with severe mental health problems with a focus on individual and group work.
• To assess referred (self-referred) patients with respect to planning arts therapy treatment including inpatient/outpatient follow-up if appropriate, taking into account risk factors, and complexity of presentation, patient’s need, and service priorities.
• To contribute specialist knowledge from your assessment and treatment to the overall care plan for each patient through contribution to clinical meetings (ward rounds, tribunals) via written reports, as well as verbal feedback to the ward teams.
• To refer on to other appropriate services after assessment or on discharge.
• To work as an integrated team member of the multidisciplinary team, respecting others’ ways of working and having these others in mind when providing arts therapy.
• To adapt your clinical practice to suit particular challenges of the environment without comprising therapeutic goals.
• To use your clinical skills to contribute to the overall treatment and personal recovery goals for the client beyond arts therapy treatment where necessary and if appropriate and needed by the team, e.g. facilitation of reflective practice group, joint assessments and so on.
• To assess risk and adopt appropriate measures to maintain a safe and therapeutically sensitive environment for all.
• To maintain a high degree of professionalism at all times and to maintain proper boundaries particularly as the clinical work will frequently involve working alone with individuals for substantial periods in emotionally intense therapy sessions.
• To undertake ongoing evaluations of patient’s progress to manage time limited therapy including therapy endings and follow up.
• To educate other professionals about arts therapy (through regular workshops/presentations, etc).
• To make full and appropriate use of regular arts psychotherapies clinical supervision.

Person specification

Education And Qualifications

Essential criteria
• MA in one of the Arts Psychotherapies/Arts Therapies(art, dance-movement, drama or music only)
• Eligibility for State Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)or UKCP/ ADMP
• Membership of relevant professional body (ADMP, BAAT, BAMT, BADth)

Desirable criteria
• Other related academic qualifications
• Clinical supervision training Training in breakaway/ de escalation techniques
• Knowledge of and training in Mentalization Based Approaches
• Recruitment and selection

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Paid/unpaid Relevant To Job

Essential criteria
• Post-qualification experience of autonomous working in a mental health inpatient rehabilitation or acute setting: both in groups and individually.
• Experience of working with people with endure mental health difficulties, disturbed and challenging behaviour and forensic background.
• Experience of supervising arts therapists and/or of liaising with the university training courses in own speciality and other specialist areas.
• Substantial experience of personal therapy.
• Experience of assessing clients for Arts Psychotheraies/ psychotherapy and making recommendations to a MDT.

Desirable criteria
• Experience of working as an Arts Therapists in ward round multidisciplinary Team (MDT).
• Experience of negotiating space/ therapeutic boundaries in a difficult context
• Evidence of participation in research

Skills, Knowledge, Abilities

Essential criteria
• High standard of arts making and commitment to maintaining skills.
• Skills in planning, organising and prioritising own workload and in working autonomously when needed.
• Knowledge of and skills in assessing clients for arts psychotherapy, balancing risk with client needs and service priorities.
• Knowledge of evidence-based practice, clinical governance and related knowledge for research and audit.
• Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to relevant field/s and the full range of client groups.
• Evidence of continuing professional development as required by Arts Therapies/psychotherapies Professional Bodies.
• Skills in applying psychotherapy theories to work with individuals, groups and organisation
• Ability to work with people with complex needs e.g.aggressive/unstable/suicidal patients, including those with personality disorder or a mixed diagnosis.
• Ability to work with non-verbal clients or clients for whom using English is a major difficulty which could be for cultural reasons, or due to their mental state.
• High standard of verbal communication skills including the ability to provide concise, clear and relevant feedback to a ward round/team meeting
• Computer literacy and high standard of written communication skills including the ability to produce clear reports detailing progress of therapy, selecting relevant information from sessions and expressing analytical detail without bias.
• Ability to treat service users with respect and dignity at all times, adopting a culturally sensitive approach, which considers the needs of the whole person.
• Ability to build constructive relationships with warmth and empathy, using good communication skills.

Desirable criteria
• Experience of working with multidisciplinary teams
• Commitment to and enthusiasm for further training opportunities and CPD

ATTITUDES, APTITUDES PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS

Essential criteria
• High degree of self-awareness, further arts psychotherapy training, especially working with psychotic states of mind, and forensic psychotherapy, Mentalisation based treatment, and postqualifying supervision/personal psychotherapy.
• Ability to observe and think of the nature of concrete and thinking
• Ability to work with trauma and contain emotional impact through clinical supervision and team support systems.
• Ability to assess risk and be able to work face to face with acutely unwell patients without other staff nearby.
• Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to ‘hold’ the stress of others.
• Ability to adapt to physical environment when dedicated therapy rooms are not available e.g. transporting materials etc and willingness to manipulate furniture to set up room (within Health and Safety parameters).

Desirable criteria
• Ability to learn from experience
• Able to provide services in a variety of environments as meets the needs of clients

Other

Essential criteria
• Ability to work to professional guidelines.
• Must be capable of working autonomously with traumatised, severely disturbed, aggressive and/or distressed people for prolonged periods individually and in groups.

Desirable criteria
• Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic professional journals and/or books.
• Must demonstrate ability to support the development of the profession through participation in professional bodies and activities

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