Senior Art Therapist
| Posting date: | 23 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £61,631.00 to £68,623.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £61631.00 - £68623.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 October 2025 |
| Location: | Erith, DA8 3EE |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9277-25-1210 |
Summary
To provide a specialist art psychotherapy assessment for referrals that are of a significant and complex nature in order to formulate and implement plans for the treatment and/or management of a childs or adolescents mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and employing methods based upon evidence. To assess children, adolescents and their families as part of a risk assessment. To consult to parents/carers (including foster parents) as part of a treatment plan. To act as care coordinator, carrying an identified numbers of Care Coordination caseload of CYP.as required, taking responsibility for initiating, planning and review of care plans and giving consideration to the views of patients, their family, carers, referring agents and other professionals involved in the network of care. This includes organising complex professional network meetings. To work in ways which are sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds. This includes abilities to understand and offer therapeutic interventions to a variety of family forms including single parents, same sex couples and their wider family networks, accommodated children and their network of care, children with learning difficulties, and children who are on the Child Protection Register, and parents with mental health difficulties. Competence is required in undertaking systemic therapy with families through the use of an interpreter where families do not yet have sufficient understanding of the English language. To provide evidence-based art psychotherapy with clinical autonomy drawing on a range of models and interventions. To practice in a way which is inclusive and considerate of the needs of the individual in the context of their developmental stage and current emotional state. To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options taking into account highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the child, family or group, and their difficulties. To be responsible for implementing a range of art psychotherapeutic interventions for children and adolescents, drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses in reaching a formulation and treatment plan.