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Art Therapist

Job details
Posting date: 04 June 2025
Salary: £42,939.00 to £50,697.00 per year
Additional salary information: £42939.00 - £50697.00 a year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 12 June 2025
Location: Haringey, N15 3TH
Company: NHS Jobs
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: C9455-25-0258

Summary

To work autonomously within professional guidelines for Arts Therapists. To have day to day contact with clients who attend Art Therapy sessions for assessment and intervention. Following assessment, formulate and identify the most suitable mode of art psychotherapy. To conduct individual or group sessions where emotionally highly complex psychotherapeutic relationships are formed and experienced. To recognise that service users have a number of levels of need and to exercise professional judgement as to if and when an art psychotherapy intervention can meet some of those needs. To participate in staff development training programmes as and when necessary. To undertake mandatory in-service training as required by the Trust. To keep informed of the most recent developments in Art Therapy practice, as applicable to this patient group. To provide written evidence of continuing professional development through submission of annual CPD log sheets. To work safely and under guidance in relation to aggression and violence. To maintain breakaway skills for the prevention and management of aggression, as taught by the Trust. Risks of physical violence should be minimised using appropriate planning and taking precautionary measures.