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Community Arts Psychotherapist | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 09 September 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £51,488 - £57,802 pro rata per annum including HCAS |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 09 October 2024 |
| Location: | London, W9 2BA |
| Company: | CNWL NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6616687/333-G-RB-0278-A |
Summary
Community Arts Psychotherapies Post (Band 7)
CNWL is a specialist in mental health and addictions services, as well as eating disorders, learning disabilities, offender care and physical community health care.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a 2 day a week post in the NKCW Community Arts Psychotherapies team. The post holder will be required to conduct assessments and deliver evidenced based interventions for complex trauma and psychosis
The role involves close liaison with the North Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea mental health hubs, and inpatient unit; identifying referrals and conducting psychological assessments , and liaison with other professionals involved in service users' care. The post holder will be required work autonomously and manage a complex caseload.
Significant interest and experience of working with personality disorder is desirable, as is experience, of, and an interest, in research. Substantial experience and training in evidence-based models of treatment, particularly as is experience of delivering care as a lead professional.
If you have any queries or would like to discuss the post further, please contact Mary Oley, Principal Arts Psychotherapist, maryoley@nhs.net, North Westminster; Laura Knight, Clinical Lead.laura.knight@nhs.net
The Westminster Arts Psychotherapies Service consists of a large and diverse team of therapists, providing music, art, drama and dance-movement therapy for adults with mental health needs in Westminster across a variety of inpatient, outpatient and community services. Monthly team meetings including CPD provision take place on a Thursday morning. Specialist clinical supervision is provided within the Trust.
We are looking for applicants with registration with the Health Professions Council (HCPC) or if a DMP- ADMP / UKCP registration.
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.
• Experience of lead professional work.
• Substantial experience and training of delivering MBT interventions for complex trauma
• Substantial experience of conducting assessments and formulation.
Evidence of Continued Professional Development since qualifyin
• To provide evidence-based arts psychotherapies including assessment, formulation treatment and evaluation of group and individual work for patients within specialist local community mental health hubs for a range of diagnoses including complex trauma and psychosis. To develop skill in, and facilitate mentalization based group/individual art psychotherapy for service users who have been assessed within the CEN pathway, and considered appropriate for this approach.
• Undertake the supervision of students.
• Undertake arts therapy/psychotherapy research/audit as per the Trust research strategy for the arts therapies/psychotherapies and participate in research and audit at the Waterview Centre.
• To undertake delegated management responsibilities when needed
This advert closes on Monday 23 Sep 2024
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