Arts Therapist Principal Lead
| Posting date: | 09 October 2025 |
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| Salary: | £64,455.00 to £74,896.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £64455.00 - £74896.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 November 2025 |
| Location: | Exeter, EX2 9JD |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9369-25-0796 |
Summary
Job Purpose The principal purpose of the job is to provide leadership, clinical governance and management support to the Creative Therapies service for the adult community services. To improve the psychological health & wellbeing of people across the range of ability through the use of creative therapies in any one or more area of specialism such as in Art, Music, Drama, Dance or Movement) This will be achieved in this post by: 1. To ensure the systematic provision of high quality creative therapies using a range of modalities and media 2. To ensure equitable access to populations with diverse mental health needs, including people with varied learning needs. 3. Providing clinical leadership, managerial responsibility, co-ordination and supervision for staff, trainees and volunteers employed by or attached to the creative therapy service. 4. Carrying a specialist caseload of clients, and providing advice and consultancy to patients and professionals. 5. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the creative therapies 6. The post holder with receive regular professional and clinical supervision in accordance to Trust policy and to Professional Practice Guidelines set out by Health Professions Council and appropriate designated Professional Body. 7. Observe, and abide by all relevant Professional Codes of Conduct and Practise. The post holder will be fully registered with the Health Professions Council as a condition of employment. 8. Contributing to the management of the Psychology and Psychological Therapies Unit. 9. Providing Clinical and professional leadership, advice to other managers and ensuring appropriate supervision of arts therapists across the whole trust. 10. Involvement nationally with other arts therapies leads to raise profile of DPT and move arts therapies progress in line with other NHS trusts