Art Psychotherapist | South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 04 Gorffennaf 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £56,276 - £63,176 pro rata per annum inclusive of Inner London HCAS |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 03 Awst 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | London, SW17 0YF |
| Cwmni: | South West London and St Georges Mental Health Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7326630/294-COMM-7326630-JB |
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We are recruiting an Art Psychotherapist for the North East Wandsworth Integrated Recovery Hub (NEW IRH). This is one of four multidisciplinary Integrated Recovery Hubs in Wandsworth and provides specialist assessment, treatment and recovery work for adults with a wide variety of severe and enduring mental health difficulties.
The Wandsworth Arts Psychotherapies Service is a specialist psychotherapies service that provides nonverbal psychotherapies (Art, Music and Dance and movement) to service users under the care of the four IRHs and the Early Intervention Service (EIS) in Wandsworth.
The post is for a qualified art psychotherapist registered with the Health & Care Professions Council and who has at least three years post qualification experience. We will accept applications from applicants who may not have the required length of experience but may have significant relevant experience for a band 7 role.
Although the post is hosted by the NEW IRH, you will be responsible for the provision of a systematic art psychotherapy service for service users under the IRHs and EIS in Wandsworth focussing on:
• Specialist psychological assessments
• Evidence based art psychotherapy interventions
• Group work
• Teaching, training and consultation to MDT
• Service evaluation, audit and development
• Provide a training placement to a trainee art psychotherapist.
The Trust has a strong commitment to the development of psychological work, and you will be part of a team of arts psychotherapists and the multidisciplinary team. You will receive regular supervision from a senior art psychotherapist and the borough psychology and psychotherapies professional lead. There are good CPD opportunities within the Trust.
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services as we invest a further £120m to upgrade and modernise our estate by 2027.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.
About our locations:
Springfield University Hospital, Tooting
Our largest, 19-ward site is in Springfield Village, created following our £150m investment into two new world class mental health facilities.
1. To take responsibility for managing own personal caseload (and that of art psychotherapy trainees), with a high level of experience and clinical expertise. Processing referrals, conducting assessments and providing time-limited group/individual art psychotherapy treatment. To recommend alternative therapies where deemed necessary.
2. To exercise full responsibility and autonomy for clinical decisions regarding appropriate assessment, diagnosis, treatment, discharge and follow-up of patients with a range of complex mental illness, communicating effectively and sensitively with the referral agent and others involved in the case on a regular basis.
3. To provide contemporary evidence-based treatment with advanced theoretical and practical knowledge.
4. To understand and implement different models of art psychotherapy practice to suit a range of patient need including those with histories of trauma (adult and childhood), personality disorders, psychosis and complex mental illness
5. Ability to understand complex range of feelings and motivations that service users may present and to judge the most therapeutic level of intervention e.g. judging from verbal and non-verbal cues where probing or challenging may lead to positive development and where they would lead client to withdraw from the therapeutic work.
6. Judging from verbal and non-verbal cues what degree of support or direction it would be therapeutic to offer the service user with regard to their artwork
7. Ability to judge the best form of intervention for a specific service user e.g. group or individual, interactive/analytic or studio model, taking into account the service user’s attachment, relationship and interpersonal issues.
8. Risk assessment, including on the spot assessment of risk in inpatients who may be previously unknown, taking into account patient, therapist, family, child and public safety and formulate plans to minimise risk, distinguishing between the expression of distress and genuine risk of self-injury, suicide or harm to others.
9. To exercise sensitivity in the application of Art Psychotherapy in different cultural and ethnic contexts (e.g. with refugees and asylum seekers).
10. To actively participate in clinical meetings and case conferences in line with multi-disciplinary team approach
11. Input will focus on patients’ needs and may involve working with relatives and carers and other professionals.
12. To maintain accurate clinical records, paper and electronic, in line with multi-disciplinary teams, Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) and BAAT professional standards
13. To take responsibility for risk assessment and management (e.g. patients with suicidal and self-harming behaviours, including those with aggressive behaviours; and in relation to child protection and vulnerable adults’ issues) as specified by Safeguarding policy and guidelines. Know when to consult and take action alongside other professionals if there is an immediate risk.
14. To communicate with other members of the multi-disciplinary teams and other statutory and non-statutory agencies as appropriate, playing an active role in encouraging good relations and joint working.
15. To periodically review the evidence base for art psychotherapy practice, to provide the most effective treatment.
This advert closes on Sunday 20 Jul 2025