Band 7, Arts Psychotherapist, Bristol
| Posting date: | 14 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £47,810.00 to £54,710.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £47810.00 - £54710.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 August 2025 |
| Location: | Bristol, BS16 2EW |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9342-25-0776 |
Summary
To provide a specialist arts psychotherapy service including assessment and treatment, using advanced levels of skill, for individual and group shorter and longer-term art psychotherapy and to advise teams in relation to service users complex needs and the range of interventionsavailable. To carry out assessments and consultation to inform and enable comprehensive information gathering to establish diagnosis, re service users who present with unclear symptoms and complex mental health difficulties. Regularly review and evaluate the therapy including levels of risk as part of the CPA process. Communicate with empathy and sensitivity with service users and carers with an awareness and understanding of their problems and often complex issues. To be responsible for own specialist caseload working within Trust policies, protocols and guidelines. To record service users progress in RIO patient records, write reports and input statistical date. To engage in reflective practice and clinical supervision and to offer clinical supervision to arts psychotherapy staff and other colleagues, as required. To arrange and attend professional, team and specialist clinical supervision as appropriate to caseload. Please see attached detailed job description and key local information regarding this post.